THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 20 NOVEMBER 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006466903
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: November 20, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
November 20, 1976
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November 20, 1976
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West Germany:
Notes: Mexico; Philippines; Vietnam-EC (Pages 3 and 4)
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Philippine President
Marcos has begun a
crackdown on his crit-
ics in the Catholic
Church.
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On November 15 Marcos ordered the
arrest of religious and lay per-
sons suspected of subversive ac-
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Communist Party or former politi-
cians of the right. One US priest
has already been arrested and is
awaiting deportation
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Initial efforts by the
Socialist Republic of
Vietnam to secure trade
preferences and finan-
cial aid from the Euro-
pean Community have
met with only limited
success.
The current arrests are part of a
comprehensive plan to counter
church criticism by deporting for-
eign priests who have been in-
volved in political agitation,
placing activist leaders in pre-
ventive detention, and scaring
off their financial patrons. Mar-
cos apparently believes that the
church hierarchy will accept the
government crackdown.
The Community is presently unable
to offer major financial support
for Vietnam's new five-year plan,
but is willing to provide food as-
sistance and to facilitate Viet-
namese exports to the EC. An EC
spokesman has suggested that the
Vietnamese approach the individual
EC members directly to discuss fi-
nancial aid.
The EC foreign ministers this week
agreed to extend to Vietnam the
duty-free treatment it had previ-
ously granted South Vietnam. This
will allow almost all of Vietnam's
exports to the EC--amounting to
some $3 to $4 million annually--
to enter duty free.
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