THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 FEBRUARY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968135
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: February 4, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
4 FEBRUARY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
4 FEBRUARY 1966
1. Soviet Union
2. Communist China
The Soviets apparently have delayed
publication of Izvestia to enable it to
carry the first public photographic re-
leases.
Government and scientific leaders
throughout the world are generally giv-
ing the Soviets full credit for a sig-
nificant space achievement.
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3. Vietnam
4. ComMuniSt:'China
The Soviets seem still disinclined
to take any initiative on Vietnam. In
fact, they seem quite content to follow
Hanoi's lead for the time being.
Premier Kosygin late last
month insisted, as he has before, that
Moscow has no authority to speak for
Hanoi. He refused to commit himself
on a suggestion that India try to bring
the US and North Vietnam together on
some neutral ground.
In a similar vein, Soviet diplo-
mats at the UN are taking a strict
hands off attitude toward current con-
sultations among Security Council mem-
bers on Vietnam. There are intimations
that they would veto any substantive
resolution.
Peking has delivered an extremely
sharp note to Djakarta protesting yes-
terday's "barbarous attack" on the Chi-
nese Embassy in Djakarta. This is the
fifth such protest to Djakarta since
last fall(
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5. Indonesia
6, Ethiopia
Announcement of Sukarno's "political
solution" is still being forecast for
tomorrow by sources in Djakarta.
Anti-Communist student groups are -
restive under the army's cautious "no
showdown" policy. .Sources in Djakarta
are reporting student plans to resume
demonstrations today or tomorrow. -These
demonstrations came very close last
month to being openly antiSukarno.
Serious violence .was narrowly averted on
one occasion only by prompt army inter-
vention.
The restiveness and coup rumors
that have increased in Addis.Ababa since
the Nigerian revolt have apparently
prompted the Emperor to shuffle some
key military, and civil government per-
sonnel. He recognizes a potential danger,
but seems to underestimate the depth and
extent of the pressures that have been
building up for basic reforms.
During a long conversation yester-
day with Ambassador Korry, the Emperor
did not appear overly concerned with
problems of internal security.: He did
recognize that governmental inefficiency
is adding to the undercurrent of unrest,
but blamed this on ineffective ministers.
He seems prepared to make scapegoats of
some of them.
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Panama
Ecuador
Arnulfo Arias has again served
notice that he is out to sabotage the
Canal treaty now under negotiation with
the US. In a press conference last
night he and other principal opposition
leaders blasted the government for car-
rying on the talks "behind the backs"
of the Panamanian people. Arias, re-
flecting his contention that he was
cheated out of the presidency by Robles
in the last elections, implied that any
treaty concluded by the "illegal" gov-
ernment would be unacceptable.
Arias, a veteran demagogue, who
now heads Panama's largest political
party, has a formidable capacity for
causing trouble. The treaty will not
be ready for ratification by the Pana-
manian Assembly until summer at the
earliest. President Robles, who can
count on only a very few Assembly votes,
plans some early political maneuvers,
including cabinet changes, in an effort
to strengthen his position.
Military leaders have been meeting
today to discuss replacement of the
present three-man military junta with a
single executive. There is as yet no
word on the outcome, nor on the precise
reasons this has come up now, It could
be the result of pressure by those of-
ficers anxious to maintain the military's
role in government after the national
elections that have been scheduled for
next June.
The student demonstrations of the
past several days seem unrelated to the
possible government change. The police
can handle the type of small-scale stu-
dent agitations that have occurred. If
restive labor and political elements
jump on the student bandwagon, however,
the situation could worsen quickly.
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9. Belgium
10. Italy
The government resigned today after
a vain effort of many weeks to head off
a new doctors' strike, now set to begin
on Sunday. A lengthy period of negotia-
tions on a new government is in prospect.
Some refurbished version of the old
Catholic-Socialist coalition may be the
end result. Meanwhile, however, other
serious problems will be pressing for
solution--organized labor's reaction
to the doctors' pressures, the problems
of the unemployed miners, and the worsen-
ing linguistic difficulties.
Aldo Moro is meeting the expected
difficulties in the long and complicated
task of trying to form a new government.
Ambassador Reinhardt still believes
Moro has a better than even chance of
success. If he fails, early national
elections would be the likely prospect.
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