BRIEFS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000400370005-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 27, 1973
• Content Type: MISC

I. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/24: CIA-RDPO8001297R000400370005-5
NJ\ 1.1-Se; 7k2:r
VI, 27 Sep 73 D 2 BRAZIL ikV,A,t,A6
BRIEFS
MOBILE TRACKING STATION--The Comsat (Satellite Commission) tracking station left
yesterday for Tabatinge-on the border between Amazonas and Colombia aboard a
Brazilian Air Force C-47. The small station will begin to be set up today.
Tomorrow the first tests will be made directly with the Tangua station in Itaborai
in the state of Rio. [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 15 Sep 73 p 5 X]
AID'TO CHILE--In an operation coordinated by the Ministry. of Foreign Affairs, two
Hercules C-130/s left yesterday for the Chilean capital carrying food and medicine
for the victims of the armed conflict that shoe& that country after deposition of
President Salvador Allende by the armed forces last Tuesday. One of the planes
went from Rio directly to Santiago and the other made two stops: one at the Anapolis
air base in Goias to load 5 tons of sugar and rice, and the other in Brasilia where
it took on 15 tons of medical supplies, including a large amount of blood plasma,
according to the Air Ministry office. [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 15 Sep 73
p13 X]
TRADE MISSION TO AFRICA--A Brazilian trade mission made up of 50 businessmen and
headed by legislator-Ada].berto Camargo will arrive in Ghana on 4 October in an
attempt to find markets for Brazilian export products, according to an announcement
by the Brazilian Embassy in Accra last night. The Brazilian trade mission will go
to African countries to seek markets for textiles, clothing, cardboard, electrical
home appliances, shoes, paper, plastics, domestics, farm machinery and Brazilian
zebu cattle. [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 15 Sep 73 p 16 X]
HEAVY WATER PRODUCTIOB?Brasilia?Two military lecturers at the National Technology
Meeting being held in Brasilia yesterday announced the research being carried out
by the army and navy, including the production of heavy water. General Jose Alves
Martins, the armyos director of research, announced the construction in Brazil of a
pilot plant for the production of up to 5 tons of heavy water annually. With this
production, he added, Brazil will be able to operate atomic reactors se],f-sufficiently.
Today it depends on the imports of enriched uranium from the United States. [Text]
[Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 14 Sep 73 p 23 X]
PARAGUAYAN BORDER-7Brasilia?The Brazil-Paraguay Border Commission ended its 24th
meeting yesterday without taking any decision related to the -contested territories
in the frontier area inasmuch as a large part of the area will be covered by water
with the construction of the Itaipu hydroelectric project. The only decisions
taken related to the recovery of old markers installed at the border. Recovery work
will begin next April. The next meeting of the commission will be in the latter
Lip? half of 1974. [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 15 Sep 73 p 2 X]
AMBASSADOR TO SYRIA?Brasilia?President Medici sent a message to the Federal Senate
appointing Victor Jose Silveira ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic. [Rio de
Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 12 Sep 73 p 20 X]
-DAP-BLANT_TO BRAZIL?The Dutch Government has reached ?advancedstage in :its study,-
:of a Plan to instill A DAF-autoMObile plant in this country. DA 7 produces the only:.
small car in the world equipped with an automatic transmission. These cars would
be cheaper than the Volkswagen and would open up the prospect of the South American
consumer market to the Dutch, without competition for vehicles of that type. [From
Ibrahim Sued column] [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 18 Sep 73 p 2 X] -
PCB NEMBERS CHARGED--Brasilia--Twelve persons accused of attempting to reorganize
the Brazilian Communist Party in the city of Anapolis between the years 1966 and 1972
were charged yesterday in the 11th Military District Court, under provisions of
Article 43 of the National Security Law. [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese
12 Sep 73 p 20 X]
eacatan
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/24: CIA-RDPO8001297R000400370005-5
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/24: CIA-RDPO8001297R000400370005-5
VI. 27 Sep 73
BRAZIL Dl
ARENA NOMINATES GEISEL, PEREIRA DOS SANTOS BY ACCLAMATION
R o de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 15 Sep 73 p 3 X
[EkOppt] Brasilia?The candidacies of Generals Ernesto Geisel and Adalberto Pereira
dos S tos were unanimously approved yesterday by the national convention of ARENA which
was at nded by 624 delegates, representing a total of 808 votes, and various state governors.
The cony tion was held in the Chamber of Deputies chamber.
SENATOR PET NIO APPROVED AS UNCONTESTED ARENA LEADER
Rio de Janeiro GLOBO in Portuguese 15 Sep-73 p 4 X
[Excerpt] Brasili A motion signed by all the senators ad more than a hundred deputies
and convention deleg tes as approved by acciatation, rvognizing Senator Petronie Portela,
president of ARENA,aas uncontested leader of the officiAl party. The MOtion recognized the
"merits" of the senator rom Piaui, promised him "sup ort and trust" and ,described his '
leadership of the destini of ARENA as "effective -4id dedicated."
ARENA CONGRESSMEN TERM MDB CVENTION SPEECHES UNFAIR
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOM in Portu ese 24 Sep 73. p 2 X
[Excerpts] Brasilia--The speeches ade la& Saturday at the MDB convention by the
presidential and vice presidential c ndidates, Ulysses Gaimaraes and Barbosa Lima Sobrinho,
were received by Arena deputies and s ators:as typical expressions of opposittom_
candidates 'unrelated to the political econemic, and social-reality of the countal,"
and as "evidence that there is freedojif in the country to orItieige the government."
One detail, however, was Unanimous y recogn zed by all--the good literary .style of the
two speeches.
Chamber of Deputies leader Gera do Freire obser Rd that the speeches of the opposition
candidates "are very well wri ten, but unfair irOtontent." In his opinion, the picture
drawn by Ulysses Guimaraes s not true. -when he a7lluded to the question of freedom in
the countryeand the povert of the people. He neta that the revolutionary governments
have defended-the people gainst "real oppretsion--th one that comes from abroad" and
have promoted the improvgent, of the general living con itions.of the population.
"There is still poverty in Brazil,' but the condition of he people has improved, in the
most diverse fields. Mobral has been adding millions of razilians everyyearto the ranks
of the literate, t4 universities have five or six times more students than they did in
1963, and the wOr ers have all the protections, thrpugh-progNms such as-the Social
Integration Pro? am, the Service Time Guarantee FUnd, Prorural and other government
-initiatives. - ,
Gerald? Freie, hoWever, paid tribute to the qualities of the MDB andidates. He said
he Was an a mirer of both and described them-as two very talented -m, with, good civic
records, d very well educated.
The pr -:dent of the Chamber, Deputy Flavio Marcilio also pointed out th t the MDB
"rend red a great service to the Brazilian democratic process in selecting candidates
of the highest political caliber and respectability"
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/24: CIA-RDPO8001297R000400370005-5