THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 8 NOVEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968619
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 8, 1966

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The President's Daily Brief
8 November 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
9 NOVEMBER 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. Soviet Union
The constituent assembly, with
election of its various committees
out of the way, has turned back to
the articles in its charter which
gives the present Military government
veto power over any draft constitution
passed by less than a two-thirds vote.
Today's session was primarily an
attack on this article, with demands
that it be either abolished or amended.
The assembly appeared fairly well united
in its opposition. Representatives of
all but one of the voting blocs spoke
against the article. At the moment, how-
ever, most deputies appear inclined to-
ward a compromise rather than a confron-
tation with the military directorate.
Even the assembly's discussion of
the article, however, will antagonize
the directorate, which is adamant (In
the issue. In the present atmosphere,
still heated from the regional rivalries
that underlay the recent cabinet crisis,
a disruptive exchange between assembly
and government could develop.
Soviet officials in LondOn are
busily denying that they invited British
Foreign Secretary Brown to Moscow. They
say the initiative came from the British
side.
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3. South Vietnam
4. Guinea
Consumer prices, which had risen
for two consecutive weeks, fell about
four percent between 31 October and
4 November. This drop resulted from
increased deliveries of foodstuffs--
especially live hogs--into Saigon follow-
ing the 1 November national holiday.
The embassy reports a gloomy rice
situation, however, with deliveries
from the delta for the first nine months
of the year 30 percent below those for
the same period last year: The embassy
estimates that at this rate South Vietnam--
a traditional rice exporter--will have to
import close to 500,000 tons this year.
Sekou Tour 6 delivered an inflam-
matory diatribe against the United
States at a public rally in Conakry
this afternoon. He laid full blame
on the US for Ghana's detention of
the Guinean Foreign Minister.
So far Tour e has ordered the US
to get Peace Corps people out of Guinea
within a week and has withdrawn Pan
American's landing rights. He says
Guinea can get along without US aid.
Ambassador McIlvaine expects more
trouble. He does not see how diplomatic
relations can be continued.
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5. France
6. West Germany
7, Latin America
There will be more trouble with
the French if an ailing French computer
firm controlled by General Electric
goes through with its plans to let go
a large number of workers.
The French government had agreed
to General Electric's purchase of this
firm only when it became clear that it
could not survive otherwise. Paris is
determined to be self-sufficient in com-
puters and would probably accuse General
Electric of placing its economic interests
above the French national interest.
The "race" to buy jet aircraft
which the press has been playing up
has little substance behind it.
Talk of an arms race apparently
began when Chile announced its purchase
of 21 British Hawker Hunter fighters
after learning that Argentina was buying
25,A-U's from the US. Both deals had in
fact been in the works for months.
Peru has also been shopping for
more modern aircraft. All three countries
have obsolescent jets and have been under
domestic political pressure to modernize.
In spite of further reports that
Brazil is looking for tanks and Vene-
zuela for ships, there has actually
been no unusual increase in Latin
American arms purchases this year.
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