CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1961/06/02

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CONTENTS
1. Situation in Dominican Republic and international
reaction. (Page t)
2. Laos. (Page tit)
3. Soviet Bloc: Comment on propaganda concerning
meeting between Khrushchev and President. (Page iv)
4. USSR-Albania:
itary attache.
Tirana renortedlv exnelq Soviet mil-
(Page iv)
5. Bolivia: President Paz Estenssoro planning fake
coup to strengthen own position and show need for
more US aid. (Page v)
6. Iran: Foreign Ministry official concerned over grow-
ing neutralist sentiment. (Page v)
7. Congo: Tribal opposition to Gizenga in Kivu Province.
(Page vi)
8. USSR-UAR: Soviet propaganda attack reveals con-
tinuing displeasure with current UAR policies. (Page vi)
9. UAR: Nasir cautions subordinate against insti atin
"political difficulties" in Jordan 'at present.
(Page vi)
10. South Africa: Failure of non-white general strike.
(Page vii)
11. African Labor Conference: Lack of unity among Af-
rican labor leaders confirmed by conference results.
(Page vit)
12. Mexico: Communist-led student group issues mani-
festo calling for a "26th of July Movement" in Mexico. "
(Page viii)
13. Signals recently received by Jodrell Bank may have
come from Soviet Venus probe. (page vi)
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*Dominican Republic: The appearance of unity and sta-
bility being maintained by President Balaguer and the diverse
elements that formed the government and the military and
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political machines of the late dictator is probably a facade. )-4 3 tP.5
The rivalries and jealousies among Trujillo's underlings,
which only occasionally came to the surface during his life-
time, are deepseated and almost certain to weaken the re-
gime in the near future. While members of the Trujillo
family and those high officers mast intimately associated
with the dead dictator now feel they have no recourse but to
stand or fall together, other high officials, military as well
as civilian, recognize the hostility to the Trujillo regime
that has been engendered among important segments of the
Dominican population. These officials may well become con-
vinced that their future would be better served by an alliance
with the anti-Trujillo dissident elements. The 31 years of
Trujillo rule, however, have left a legacy that severely ham-
pers any immediate transition toward democratic government.
The American Consulate reported on 1 June that the cap-
ital city is being patrolled by heavily armed military and po-
lice units and that the general attitude of the people there is
a compound of suppressed excitement, fearful apprehension,
and grim satisfaction that Trujillo is dead. The consul also
notes that there has been a wave of panic buying of food in the
capital. While reports of developments outside the capital are
scanty, the consulate reports some indications of violence in
the traditionally dissident interior region known as the Cibao.
International Reaction: Bloc comment on the Trujillo assassi-
nation has been limited. A Moscow English-language broadcast
on 1 June quoted the State Department announcement of the
event and described the Trujillo regime as "a fascist dictator-
ship based on military force and the assistance extended to the
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regime by the United States." The broadcast added that
Trujillo had recently heightened repression of his opposition
and had imprisoned thousands of persons.
Reaction in Latin America was generally one of satisfac-
tion. A representative comment was that of Chilean Foreign
Minister Ortuzar, who told newsmen that the assassination
was a "natural end that awaits all dictators... who make a
mockery of the rights and freedoms of man." In Haiti, the
reaction was one of alarm as the government reinforced its
border guards and mobilized the President's special militia.
In Cuba, comment in the Castro-controlled press stressed
the hope that the dictator's death would mean the "liberation"
of the Dominican people, who now have "a magnificent oppor-
tunity to recover their freedom."
In Venezuela, where President Betancourt was the target
of an almost successful assassination attempt mounted by
Trujillo last year, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously passed
a resolution of solidarity with the Dominican people. Presi-
dent Betancourt told the American ambassador on 31 May that
his government had set aside air and naval forces and is pre-
pared to send troops to the Dominican Republic if coordinated
hemisphere military action is requested to help in maintaining
internal order there. A high-ranking Venezuelan intelligence
officer confided to the American naval attache on 31 May that
he is working with the Venezuelan interior minister in an ef-
fort to prevent the return to the Dominican Republic of Commu-
nists and "radicals" among the Dominican exiles living in
Venezuela. He added that the Venezuelan Government is
prepared to give assistance in the form of money and trans-
portation to "desirable" Dominican exiles who want to re-
turn.
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has agreed to meet with Souvanna y
and Souphannouvong in Phnom Penh. The exact date for this f
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and is under the impression that Souvanna and
Souphannouvong are going to Geneva soon and want to talk
with Phoumi beforehanilaj
a, talks with the ICC at Xieng Khouang on 31 May, Sou-
vanna is reported to have agreed to consider permitting the
establishment of an ICC team at Pa Dong provided Vientiane
undertakes to send only non-munition items to Pa Dong and
the Lao Army withdraws all reinforcements sent in after the
truce. Phoumi has indicated to the ICC that he might agree
to the proviso on supplies if there is an ICC team supervising
the activities of the other side. He would consider withdraw-
ing the reinforcements, however, only after ICC enforcement
arraagements were put into effect and working wel9
Moderate artillery shelling of government Meo positions
1 in the Pa Done area continu7d during the night of 31 May - 1
June]
�Bloc airlift operations into Laos were scheduled through
2 June. (Backup, Page 1) (Map)
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*Sino-Soviet Bloc: Moscow and the East European satel-
lites continue to portray the Vienna meeting as a generally
favorable development which could serve as a point of depar-
ture for further negotiations. In tie nast week however a
note of caution has been injected.
East German propaganda directive, for example,
instructs East German editors to report on the meeting with-
out arousing "illusions of any kind about results or adjust-
ments't of positions. Soviet spokesmen
have taken an optimistic line in public and are apparently un-
der instructions to treat the meeting as an opportunity to lay
the groundwork for an accommodation of Soviet and American
positions on key East-West issues. Peiping's initial editorial
comment gives minimum endorsement to the meeting as "new
proof of the USSR's sincere desire" for peace, but maintains
its line of harsh denunciation of US policies. While implying
reservations regarding the advisability of such a meeting, the
editorial published in People's Daily on 1 June suggests that
Peiping is adhering to the apparent understanding, reached at
the November conference of Communist leaders, to refrain
from openly attacking another top-level meeting between
Khrushchev and the President.
*USSR-Albania:
Tirana has ex-
pelled the Soviet military attache and an unknown number of
Soviet military experts in retaliation for the USSR's expulsion
of the Albanian military attache and Albanian naval students
studying in the USSR.
This development, along with the
previously reported departure on 26 May of 8 W-class Soviet
submarines from the Vlone naval base, suggests that all Soviet
military forces may be leaving Albania0
the four sub-
marines and one tender remaining in Vlone were turned over
earlier to the Albanians. The Soviet action follows the Albanian
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show trial which began on 15 May and which resulted in the
execution on 31 May of Albanian Rear Admiral Sejko. The
proceedings at this trial were implicitly critical of Soviet
policies.
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officials were reported on 31 May
as being in agreement on staging a fake coup on or about z or �ett-I-t-----1-1
3 June. The fake coup is to be blamed on Communists, mem- /p
bers of the dissident wing of the government party, and the
rightist opposition. Arrests are to include key Communist
agitators in the largest tin mine, certain pro-Castro Bolivians,
and rightist leaders as well. Paz is reported to believe that
such decisive action is his only chance to survive and to re-
ceive adequate US aicrl
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Iran: n undersecretary of the Iranian Foreign Ministry
has expressed to the American ambassador his serious con-
cern over the growing neutralist sentiment and pressure for
withdrawal from CENTO among influential Iranians. Members
of Prime Minister Aminies government reportedly want the new
regime to withdraw its public support for CENTO, but Amini
and the Shah are holding firm.
CENTO has "become a
symbol of Iranian subservience to foreigners" and that public
opinion "from right to left was unanimous on this score." Ac-
cording to the Swedish ambassador in Tehran, Soviet Ambas-
sador Pegov recently said that the USSR would demand Iran's
withdrawal from CENTO and the abrogation of the 1959 bilateral
defense agreement with the US as a price for improving rela-
tions. Amini told ,the American ambassador, however, that
Pegov had made no such demand in a conversation on 29 Maii
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Congo: Gizenga's control over Kivu Province appears
threatened by tribal opposition to the provincial government
appointed by the Stanleyville regime. The American Embassx.
in Leopoldville reports that ten Kivu politicians, including
two provincial ministers, have been arrested for "anti-gov-
ernment" activities. Gizenga appears anxious to conciliate Cc the dissidents, dissidents, and has,
sent a special emissary. to Kivu. Nonethe-
less, the re-emergence of overt opposition is embarrassing
to Gizenga and could induce some undecided deputies to sup-
port Kasavubu on the issue of convening parliament in Leopold=
ville. (Backup, Page 4) (Map)
USSR-UAR: Moscow has followed up Khrushchev's reported 0 4
criticism of Nasir last month to a UAR parliamentary delega-
tion with a Pravda article on 31 May which attacks two UAR gov-9711-4Ze
ernment-coTirfoTred newspapers for "slanderous statements"
against the Soviet Union and socialism. Soviet leaders are ap-
parently displeased by Nasir's suppression of local Communists,
his recent moves toward improving relations with the US, and
his initiative, together with Tito, in arranging the projected neu-
tralist summit conference. Moscow has so far apparently con-
fined itself to propaganda pressures. Regular Soviet military
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UAR: Nasir, , told
his chief lieutenant in Damascus, Syrian Executive Council
Chairman Abd al-Hamid Sarraj, that the TJAR's policy at pres-
ent is "not to create political difficulties with our neighbors"
and that "any action taken must be according to plan." Sarraj
was specifically instructed to "give an opportunity to the
nationalists in Jordan who have not been allowed to act with
freedom since 1957."
Sarraj, whose tendency to act on his own in clandestine activ-
ities has troubled Nasir since formation of the UAR in 1958.
Sarraj, however, has been almost indispensable to Cairo in
controlling Syrian intelligence and security affairs.
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South Africa: The failure of the three-day non-white
general strike, called by the Communist-dominated National
Action Council (NAC) to protest South Africa's accession to
republic status on 31 May, is a further demonstration of the
difficulties facing any attempt to organize a mass protest move-
ment in the Union. In the view of the American Embassy, the
efforts to get the strike under way were plagued by a lack of C)k
non-European unity and by African indifference to abstract is-
sues such as the controversy over establishment of a republic.
Moreover, the NAC's propaganda build-up gave the government
ample time to build up its security forces and to arrest or re-
strict the activities of most of the strike leaders. In the near
future, outbreaks are likely to be the spontaneous result of lo=
cal grievances, aggravated by such factors as panic action on
the part of police, rfhr thn f.hA niiteome of nationwide calls
for demonstrations.
'Liman LaDo Conference: The pan-African labor confer-
ence held from 25 to 30 May in Casablanca confirmed the lack
of unity among African trade union leaders, while providing
fresh evidence of the determination of representatives from
Ghana and Guinea to exert leadership and curtail Western in-
fluence in Africa. Pressure by these elements and the unwill=
ingness of the conference chairman, Morocco's top labor leader,
to permit the conference to fail completely resulted in the for
mal creation of an Al1=African Trade Union Federation (AATUF),
whose member unions must disaffiliate from other international
labor federations within ten months. This action, however, fol-
lowed the withdrawal from the conference of nearly all affiliates
of the Western-sponsored International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions (ICFTU), which represents dominant labor groups
In East, Central, and North Africa. The permanent governing
board of the AATUF has a preponderance of members from the
radical "Casablanca group" of African states.
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Mexico: Communist-led student demonstrations, sim-
ilar to those which followed the April landings in Cuba and
led to violence in several Mexican cities, have broken out
again in Puebla, about 74 miles southeast of Mexico City.
A pro-Castro group, which has dominated the University
of Puebla for at least a month and aroused strong church
and other anti-Communist reaction, reportedly abandoned
the administration buildings on 27 May�probably under
pressure from the Lopez Mateos government. However,
on 29 May the group issued a manifesto proclaiming "the
Socialist Republic of Puebla" and announcing that this was
"the first step" toward establishment of a "26th of July
Movement" in Mexico. (Backup, Page 8)
The Soviets had earlier acknowledged that they lost con-
tact with the Venus probe vehicle about 21 February.
A scientist at the Moscow planetarium announced on
1 June that a communique will be issued on this matter "some
day soon."
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The Situation in Laos
at the Namone political talks, government tactics there
will be to listen to the proposals of the Souvanna Phouma
group and the Pathet Lao, to ask for explanations, and gen-
erally to take the posture of a "judge" willing to listen but
under no obligation to adopt the views of political "dissidents."
At the 31 May session, the government delegation held
that its own policies had been approved by the assembly and
the King and that proposals made by the other two groups
should be examined to determine whether they fit into this
constitutional framework. Earlier in the session the Pathet
Lao had made the following proposals: new general elections
under the 1957 electoral law; the gradual unification of the
armed forces of all political factions; the prohibition of all
foreign military bases with the exception of Seno, granted to
the French in the 1954 Geneva accords; disavowal of SEATO's
protective umbrella; the withdrawal of all foreign troops; and
the repeal of any international agreements contravening neu-
trality.
reports have
been received by the Meo garrison at Pa Dong that from 28 to
30 May about 100 enemy trucks carrying North Vietnamese
and Chinese Communist troops moved from Xieng Khouang to
Ban Ta Viang in preparation for an attack on Pa Dong. A
similar report of the movement of trucks along the Xieng
Khouang - Ban Ta Viang road was provided independently
Other reports indicate that North
Vietnamese and Chinese Communist troops were brought into
the Plaine des Jarres as replacements for those who had com-
pleted four months duty in Laos. Additional North Vietnamese
troops may have been brought in to bolster attacks against the
Meos, which thus far have been relatively unsuccessful, but
the involvement of Chinese Communist combat troops is less
likelg
Xuan Thuy, deputy leader
of the North Vietnamese delegation at Geneva, recently told_D.
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where in Laos "will end only when the Geneva conference
ends.'1
On 31 May there was a total of 25 airlift-associated
sorties, of which ten were into Laos. The Soviet AN-12 en
route to North Vietnam from the USSR arrived at Haiphong
on 31 May. A Soviet AN-10 transport�similar in most re-
spects to the AN-12--left Irkutsk for Peiping on 1 June.
The purpose of this flight is not known, and it cannot yet be
determined whether it is in connection with Laos.
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Bolivia
ci:be Bolivian Foreign Ministryl'informed US Embassy of-
ficia lin La Paz on 29 May that the government planned to
begin a nationwide crackdown on Communists on 30 May. The
Bolivians state that such a plan would facilitate compliance
with the International Monetary Fund's requirement that Boliv-
ia increase its domestic gasoline price. United States aid of
$650,000 monthly has been withheld since 1 April until Bolivia
meets this requirement, but Bolivian officials assert this step
would be politically explosive and subject to Communist ex-
ploitation. The American charge in La Paz reported early on
31 May that all evidence available to the embassy indicated
that the repression of Communists had not begun. The plans
for an anti-Communist crackdown may have evolved into the
projected fake couy3
At program for free world aid to the tin mines on which
Bolivia's economy depends is scheduled to get under way in
early July. The program is a cooperative effort by West Ger-
many, the United States, and the Inter-American Development
Bank. Paz has previously indicated an interest in keeping de-
lays in the program to a minimum. Soviet aid to Bolivia has
thus far been impeded by the Bolivian Government's repeated
postponements since January of the visit to the USSR of a Bo-
livian economic mission to work out plans for use of the So-
viet credit offer of $150,000,000 made in late. 19697
53az apparently believes that labor agitation and strikes
in the mines will decrease when progress in mine rehabilita-
tion is evident. Communist agitation in the tin mines re-
ceived a sharp setback in early May when Vice President
Lechin, who has been under Communist attack, was re-elected
executive secretary of the Miners' Federation after a strong
defense of the projected cooperative effort for free world aid
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Gizenga Facing Dissidence in Kivu Province
opposition
to the Kivu provincial government of Adrien Oman i is led by
the provincial ministers of agriculture, education, and health,
who are supported by a group of about 35 provincial deputies.
The extent to which their dissatisfaction stems from political
factors as well as tribal rivalries is unclear. According to
the American Embassy in Leopoldville, the ten dissident lead-
ers known to have been arrested by Omani include a leader of
the dominant Bashi tribe, two provincial deputies, and the
mayor of a commune as well as the three provincial ministers.
In late May, Gizenga sent a conciliation mission to Kivu in
an effort to placate restive Bashi tribesmen by replacing four
incumbent ministers with Bashis. In apparent contravention of
Gizenga's go-slow policy, however, Oman i continued efforts to
subdue his tribal opposition.
Gizenga strongly criticized Oman i for obstructing his et
forts to reach a settlement in Kivu. Press
reports from Bukavu indicated disillusionment on the part of
the dissidents at the failure of the Leopoldville government to
send aid or otherwise support their position.
In Leopoldville, unconfirmed reports that Kasavubu plans
to name the able Cyrille Adoula as premier probably reflect
discussion within the Leopoldville government of means of win-
ning over moderate deputies for the forthcoming session of par-
liament. The president of the chamber of deputies .�formerly a
supporter of Gizenga has indicated his willingness to accept
Leopoldville as the locale for a meeting of parliament, and has
characterized Adoula as an acceptable choice as premier in
place of Joseph Ileo.
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Nasir Instructs Sarraj on UAR Good-Neighbor Policy
Nasir's
is concerned over s-Sarraj's propensity for independent action.
The Lebanese civil war, the aftermath of the Iraqi revolution,
and the assassination of Jordan's Prime Minister Majalli last
August were situations in which Sarraj probably played an ac-
tive role.
Nasir's recent relatively cordial exchange of letters with
King Husayn and his abstention from comment on Husayn's
marriage reflect at least a temporary desire to avoid a revival
of the bitterness that had previously marked UAR-Jordanian
relations. In this context, a warning to Sarraj was probably
called for, specially inasmuch as Nasir has reportedly been
told by Jordanian exiles that the Syrian strongman has devel-
oped his own plans of action against Husaynq
'Sarraj's recent ar-
rest--for unstated reasons--of a Jordanian, whom Nasir sub-
sequently ordered released.
Nasir's preoccupation with affairs outside the Arab world,
such as the Congo, the proposed neutralist conference, and
East-West relations, has coincided with the relative lull in the
UAR's activities among its neighbors. As in the past, this
could change abruptly.
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Pan-African Labor Federation Established
Controversy both on and off the floor over the affiliation
issue was the dominant feature of the confused six-day meet-
ing. Contrary to earlier indications of what their strategy
would be, the representatives from Ghana and Guinea dis=
played no inclination as the conference progressed to mod-
erate their insistence on a non-affiliation clause �a demand
clearly aimed at the ICFTU. This stand was backed by Mali's
labor organization. Spokesmen for most of the ICFTU affil-
iates, led by Tunisia's Ahmed Tlili and Kenya's Tom Mboya,
fought for the right of "dual" affiliation.
In this situation, the leaders of the principal Algerian
and Moroccan unions, who share the neutralist outlook of the
Ghanaians and Guineans on most other issues but wish to pre=
serve their ICFTU ties, made strenuous efforts to develop a
compromise formula. When this proved impossible, Morocco's
Mahjoub Ben Seddik, the chairman and dominant personality of
the conference, allowed the Ghana-Guinea position, modified
only by the provision of the ten-month "grace" period, to be
written into the charter adopted "unanimously" by the rump
session. The Algerians likewise associated themselves with
the AATUF on this basis. Despite this decision, both Ben
Seddik, who has demonstrated his opportunism in the past,
and the leader of the Algerian union approached an ICFTU rep-
resentative after the conference to request a "more dynamic"
ICFTU program in Africa; Ben Seddik is also reported to have
told an African associate that he did not plan to disaffiliate his
union from the ICFTU.
Ben Seddik appears to have circumscribed somewhat the
ability of the Ghanaians and Guineans to use the new organiza-
tion to advance their pan=African ambitions by having Casablanca
accepted as both the headquarters of the AATUF and the site of
its next general conference. Moreover, he,managed to secure
for himself the key position of chairman of the AATUrs perma-
nent secretariat. Other members named to this group are
from Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Algeria, the UAR, Morocco,
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and Kenya--Mboya having been included without his knowledge
or permission at the insistence of Ben Seddik, who had en-
deavored earlier in the conference to associate himself with
the Kenyan leader. Except for still dependent Kenya, the
secretariat is thus made up exclusively of labor leaders from
the six "Casablanca group" countries.
For the present, Ben Seddik appears to be in a position
to exert paramount influence over the fledgling organization
--a situation which is reportedly already distressing the lead-
ers of Ghana and Guinea. Nevertheless, the mere existence
of the AATUF on the terms accepted at least in principle by
Ben Seddik represents a distinct gain for the Ghana-Guinea
approach to pan-Africanism. It will be difficult for any of the
approximately 20 African ICFTU affiliates, which are already
sensitive to charges of being "stooges of imperialism" and
saboteurs of African unity, to remain outside the AATUF.
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Pro-Castro Demonstrations by Mexican Students
Mexican public universities, like those in most of Latin
America, are "autonomous" or independent of direct govern-
ment control, and students take frequent advantage of this wide
latitude for irresponsible political activity. In this setting,
Communist-led minorities have become powerful in several
Mexican universities. Known Communists from the University
of Michoacan led a mob which on 17 April destroyed the cul-
tural institute in Morelia sponsored by the Mexican and United
States governments. The Mexican Government is investigating
reports that at least one of the students was with Soviet Embassy
officials in Morelia on 16 April. Demonstrations in Mexico City
in late April--at which fellow-traveling, former President
Lazaro Cardenas exhorted the crowd to active support of Cas-
tro--were organized by Communist and leftist students at the
National University.
� There has been little evidence of Communist influence at
the University of Puebla until recently, when radical students
capitalized on an internal struggle over the choice of a rector
and over university "reforms." After a long strike and destruc-
tive attacks by armed students on the more moderate colleges
within the university, the leftists succeeded on 9 May in elect-
ing a rector and in obtaining almost all their demands for other
changes. Local authorities evidently continued to recognize the
former rector, a moderate, and the leftists barricaded them-
selves in certain university buildings, declaring their candidate
to be the rector. Business and Catholic Action organizations
have staged counterdemonstrations against the agitators, and
one student group has charged that the Cuban Embassy in Mex-
ico City supports and controls the leftists. Several anti-Com-
munist groups have petitioned President Lopez Mateos for fed-
eral intervention.
The Mexican Government seldom acts against student dem-
onstrations unless serious violence threatens, and Lopez Mateos
is particularly averse to the use of force so close to congres-
sional elections scheduled for July. However, the earlier con-
cessions have evidently emboldened the Puebla agitators. Their
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reported withdrawal from the university and the governor of
Puebla's refusal to allow their demonstration on 29 May prob-
ably animated their propaganda attacks on the Catholic Church
and the army and their threats of a Castro-like revolt.
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