THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 JULY 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992775
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: July 28, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
28 July 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
28 July 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Ceylonese Government officials are concerned that
last spring's insurgency may soon be renewed.
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The party splintering evident in the Japanese Diet
session that just. ended will intensify- as specula-
tion-grows that "lame.duck" Prime Minister Sato
will step down early. (Page 2)
Moscow's criticism of the campaign of "bloody terror"
against the Sudanese Communist Party may be only the
first-step in efforts to.pressure General Numayri to
call off his reprisals.
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CEYLON
Government officials are increasingly concerned
over the possibility that this spring's insurgency
will soon be renewed.
--On 26 July, Hoge Minister Felix Bandaranaike
told the Australian High Commissioner that an
attack might take place within a day or.. two,
possibly against selected targets in Colombo.
He:thought.the group that attacked the US Em?
bassy last March would be responsible, estimat-
ing the group's strength at 2,500.
-The army commander, who also has reports of
imminent trouble, says that the goVernment-has
stopped releasing persons detained during the
earlier disorders. Many ofthe 1,200-already
set free are said to have returned to their
villages, threatened local headmen: for having
supported the government, and then disappeared
into the countryside.
--Other officials foresee a new wave of vio-
lence beginning in August, with the People's
Liberation Front, which was primarily respon-
sible for the spring disorders, directing the
effort. In north Colombo and outlying areas,
posters have begun to appear containing, in
addition to standard Front slogans, passages
in what seems to be a code. Security officials
fear these may contain instructions for future
attacks.
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JAPAN
Only strenuous, last-minute efforts by the
leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party succeeded
last week in blocking the introduction of a resolu-
tion in the Diet calling for the immediate normal-
ization of relations with Peking. The resolution
was supported by dissident elements in the ruling
party, as well as by the opposition parties./
similar joint effort by dissi ents an e opposi-
tion two weeks ago resulted in the defeat of the
Liberal Democrats' official candidate for speaker
of the Upper. House.
The breakdown in Sato 's party discipline
results in part from the growing view of
party members that Sato is a "lame duck,"
and that the succession struggle is under
way. Party splintering will intensify in
the next few months with growth of specu-
lation that Sato 's accumulating troubles
will cause him to step down early.
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USSR-SUDAN
TASS criticism of the campaign of "bloody ter-
ror" against the Communists may be only the first
step in a Soviet effort to instigate a public out-
cry against further persecution of the Sudanese Com-
munist.Party. The toughest statement to date was
issued by the USSR Central Trade Unions Council on
27 July which "condemned" the execution of the head
of the Sudanese Workers' Union and demanded an end
to the persecution of trade unionists. The Soviet
press has not been friendly to Numayri's sudden re-
turn to power, and Moscow--the predominant source of
Sudanese military assistance--has some leverage to
use in trying to press the General to call off his
reprisals. Inasmuch as the Secretary General of the
Sudanese Communist Party was executed last night,
we think Numayri is unlikely, to discontinue his
purge, which he doubtless regards as an internal mat-
ter.
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NOTES
Communist China:
South Vietnam: As part of a special antinar-
cotics program launched last month National Police
carried out a series of raids last weekend in Saigon
and the delta. Police confiscated about 345 pounds
of opium and 80 pounds of heroin, while arrestin
19 suspected drug smugg1ers.72
/ The antinarcotic program, scheduled
to last until mid-September, will be an interesting
test of the government's willingness to take meas-
ures against large drug traders,/
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