[SANITIZED]WEEKLY SUMMARY MAY 14, 1976 - 1976/05/14

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02987075
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 25
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: May 14, 1976

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Weekly Summary
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No. 0020/76
May 14, 1976
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CONTENTS
The WEEKLY. SUMMARY, issued every Friday rnrn.J by
Office of Current Intelligence, reports and analyzes i
developments of the week through noon on Thursday. It
ently includes material coordinated with or prepared
by the Office of Economic Research, Inc Office of Strategic
'es rd. the Office of Geographic and Cartographic
Research, and the Directorate of Science and Technology,
May 14, 1976
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Sensitive ri nee Sources and Methods nvolved
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NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
Unr thorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions
3.5(c)
8 Western Hemisphere
Argentina
Comments and queries on the contents of this
publication are welcome. They may be
directed to the editor of the Weekly
Summary,
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SFe4T
ARGENTINA
The trust and confidence engendered by
the military junta's politically neutral,
businesslike approach to governing are
beginning to give way to concern over ar-
bitrary security practices and over Presi-
dent Videla's seemingly unsteady grasp on
his authority.
Members of major unions and political
parties have expressed fear about the im-
plications of recent widespread arrests
and take-overs of unions the government
had pledged not to touch. Their impres-
sion that local military commanders are
operating without�or perhaps
despite�central direction is shared by
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journalists. Indications are that the three
services are working at cross purposes.
The navy, for example, has failed to honor
Videla's request for a comprehensive list
of prisoners it is holding. Videla has
reportedly encountered opposition from
navy chief Admiral Massera, a fellow jun-
ta member.
Videla has been preoccupied with
creating the impression of
evenhandedness toward business and
labor. To soften the impact of the junta's
pro-business economic policy, Videla
decreed across-the-board wage hikes and
arrested a number of businessmen ac-
cused of price gouging. He evidently sees
his immediate prime task as convincing
the country of the junta's good faith, so
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that the way will be cleared for implemen-
ting its broad range of policies.
Meanwhile, however, Videla's low-key
style and lack of aggressiveness have con-
tributed to independent behavior by local
commanders and to interservice competi-
tion. Proponents of harsher security
measures take the President's mild
manner as an invitation to do things their
own way. At some point soon, Videla will
be obliged to assert his authority by rein-
ing in officers operating counter to his
wishes. His failure to do so would cost the
junta the favorable image it has managed
to create abroad as well as the popular
support that gives the government
leverage against the terrorists and other
domestic problems.
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