CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: January 25, 1964
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2. Cyprus: The British have a compromise plan
for solving the dispute. (Page 2)
3, East Africa: Tanganyika follows Uganda and Kenya
in requesting British military intervention. (Page 3)
4. Libya: Police use of force against demonstrators
may cause further disorders. (Page 5)
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France-Cuba; Bulgaria; Laos -
South Vietnam; Latin America. (Page 11)
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6. South Vietnam: Labor agitation adds to govern-
ment's problems. (Page 7)
7. Guatemala - British Honduras: Guatemala's dis-
pute with the UK may flare up again. (Page 8)
8. Brazil-USSR: Brazil may still be considering
establishing regular air service to USSR. (Page 9)
9. Cuba: Castro reports on his trip to the USSR.
(Page 10)
10. Notes: Mexico - Communist China;
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have revealed the outlines of
a compromise plan for resolving the Cyprus dispute,
he plan, conceived in general terms, is an at-
temp9to find some common ground between the seem-
ingly irreconcilable demands put forward in London by
the two Cypriot delegations. Should. there be any sort
of informal agreement on the plan behind. the scenes,
the British intend to bring up their proposals in the
more formal joint working party sessions of the con-
ference. The British have indicated that there has
been virtually no progress so
LThe plan provides for a unitary state and an inter-
national peace-keeping force. It also calls for recon-
stitution of the police and reorganization of the govern-
ment and courts. It would permit movement of Turkish
Cypriots and Greek Cypriots so that mixed villages
might be eliminat~jd
LThe British plan apparently does not deal with the
futuf t!r of the Greek and Turkish army contingents on
Cyprus. Removal of these contingents has been one
of the basic demands of the Greek Cypriots. The Tur-
kish Cypriots and the Turkish Government, however,
refuse to even consider removal of the Turkish forces.
The Turkish counselor of embassy in Athens recently
told. an American official that his government insisted
on Turkish troops remaining on Cyprus because the
security of Turkey precludes running the risk that the
strat ically located island might fall into "unfriendly"
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)JEeports from Nicosia indicate the Greek Cypriot
leaders are continuing to prepare their case against
"Turkish intervention" for presentation to the UN if
and when the London conference collapses. A left-
wing associate of President Alakarios may soon be
Cyprus: QThe British
sent LO Ule nonaligned countrie of As
line up support for the Greek Cyprio s
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*East African ritish marines landed in Tangan-
yika early this mo ning as Tanganyika's President
Nyerere, following the example of Uganda and Kenya
requested British intervention to insure law and order
~Nyerere may realize that the government's fail-
ure {o discipline the army mutineers earlier this
week has increased the probability of an outbreak
of lawlessness. The army's newly appointed African
leaders are not in firm control of the troops. Ap-
parently egged on by unidentified agitators in civilian
clothes, the soldiers have become more vehement in
their demand
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he British High Commissioner told Nyerere that
the 116 ice were also becoming restive and would prob-
ably side with the army in any further violence, and
he pointed out that a rumored dockworkers' strike
this weekend could spread through the leftist influ-
enced labor unions. He persuaded Nyerere that, un-
less the British intervened to restore discipline the
situation would get completely out of hand. It is not
clear whether Defe a Minister Kambona concurred
in Nyerere's request
yerere seemed concerned that the impression
abrcFad was of his vacillation in comparison with the
decisive action of Uganda's President Obote. The
latter had immediately called in British troops when
a dispute over pay rates broke out briefly in the main
Ugandan army camp. Obote's earlier security pre-
cautions, including the locking of the camp armory,
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ring Zanzibar and Tanganyika and may crack down
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on the free-wheeling leftists in their governments.
Prime Minister Kenyatta is taking steps to improve
mill Kenya's internal security and is receiving British
military help in maintaining order. Last night an
attempted revolt by a battalion of the Ken a Rifles
was suppressed by British troops
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Libya: (King Idris' dismissal of Premier Fikini
and the appointment of the conservative Mahmud Mun-
tassir in his place has not calmed. popular passions in-
flamed, by the police shooting of several student demon-
strators last week
riot in a Tripolitanian town on 23 January was
reportedly directed not only against the new govern-
ment but also, for the first time in Libyan history,
against the King himself. The police used consider-
able force to disperse this latest demonstration, and
news of their actin ma well trigger further disorders
in the it of Trip
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South Vietnams Labor agitation is adding to the
problems of the new government.
Responsible labor leaders and. government officials
fear that the government may be forced to crack down
on labor, as it has on some newspapers and on student
demonstrators, unless the rash of strikes and labor
troubles subsides. The US Embassy believes much of
the trouble stems from a proliferation of new unions,
many of them inexperienced, and from an accumula-
tion of grievances under the Diem regime.
The most serious situation involves strikes by
about 2,000 workers in three textile plants. Troops
recently had to restore order after violence in one
plant where workers rejected mediation efforts by the
Labor Ministry and, by the General Confederation of
Vietnamese Labor (CVTC)--the country's leading union.
Workers in several other industries are threatening
strikes to demand new-year bonuses.
Several new Saigon newspapers are playing up
some union leaders' attacks on the new government
and. their accusations that the moderate CVTC was a
tool of the former regime.
inv lvement.
Although management personnel and some govern-
ment leaders claim the Viet Cong are behind. labor dis-
turbances, there is no firm evidence of Communist
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Guatemala - British Honduras: new flare-up in
Guatemala's dispute with the UK over 13ritish Honduras
could occur within the next few wee4l
US Ambassador Bell in Guatemala City thinks this
may be the case unless the British become more atten-
?tive to Guatemalan sensitivities. Guatemala last month
modified its insistence on annexing British Honduras,
suggestin nstead that some sort of "federation" be
worked of
LIn the ambassador's view, if the UK does not take
some steps toward a solution, the stage would be set
for some new Guatemalan initiative, Since diplomatic
relations with London have already been broken, this
might take the form of a suspension of economic rela-
tions with the UK or eventually even a military move
against the colony
Complicating the picture is an unresolved Mexican
leading up to a new crisis
claim to a part of British Honduras, and the anti-
Gua-temalan attitude of the local people who were given full
internal self-government on 1. January. The recent
publication in Guatemala, for example, of a strongly
anti- Guatemalan statement attributed to the British
Honduran premier prompted an angry official reply.
This incident could be thfirst of a series of exchanges
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Brazil-USSR. Brazil may still be considering the
establishment of regular air service with the Soviet
Union and perhaps other bloc countries.
Brazil's new civil aeronautics director reportedly
discussed the matter with Soviet officials during his
November visit to the USSR, and press reports have
stated that the Brazilian Air Ministry has requested
a feasibility study on air routes to the bloc.
Meanwhile, the president of one of Brazil's over-
seas airlines, who has made at least two trips to Mos-
cow on airline business, is attempting to persuade the
government to conclude a bilateral air agreement with
Moscow.
The US Embassy believes that the conclusion of a
US-USSR air agreement would not only provide added
impetus to the movement in Brazil for a similar agree-
ment, butwould render the Brazilian Government im-
ervious to ar ments against it.
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jg *Cuba-USSR: Castro, in his 24 January report on
his visit to the USSR, sought to create the impression
that the purpose of the trip was almost exclusively
economic.
He spent most of the speech describing the ad-
-term sugar agreement with the
vantages of the long
USSR guaranteeing Cuba against fluctuations in the
world market price. He challenged the US to do as
well for its suppliers of raw materials.
In an attempt to reap propaganda advantage from
the recent events in Panama, Castro offered to con-
tribute to a joint Latin American fund to supply that
country with as much economic support as it now
gets from the US.
Ambassador Kohler describes the Castro visit,
as reflected in the joint communique, as a noteworthy
Soviet success. He points out, however, that the
Soviets are probably keeping their fingers crossed,
recalling that Castro is much harder to handle in
Havana than in Moscow.
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Castro's specific endorsement of Soviet positions
on several key issues dividing Moscow and Peiping
represents a change in his earlier professed neu-
trality on the Sino-Soviet dispute.
Castro's support of Moscow was spelled out in
the joint communique issued at the end of his recent
visit in the Soviet Union. He endorsed the Soviet
interpretation of the pronouncements of the Moscow
Communist party conferences of 1957 and 1960, and
specifically approved Soviet measures to strengthen
the unity of the international Communist movement.
Castro further agreed that Moscow's "peaceful co-
existence" policy has brought about "a certain easing
of international tensions." Castro also sided with
the Soviets on the nuclear test ban treaty, character-
izing it as a step toward "peace and disarmament:'
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Mexico - Communist China: The Lopez Mateos
government is considering the possibility of recogniz-
ing Communist China, according to a Mexican news-
paper with good contacts in the administration. The
newspaper also reports that a Mexican parliamentary
delegation headed by Senate President Manuel Moreno,
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Mexico on I February for a three-week tour of the Chi-
nese mainland.
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France-Cuba. Paris has agreed to guarantee pri-
vate credits, amounting to $8 million repayable in three
years' time, to cover the sale of trucks and tractors
to Cuba. It will not, however, guarantee credit for
another pending deal involving 20 locomotives. Although
there has been considerable French speculation that an
upswing in French-Cuban commercial transactions is
in the making, a Foreign Ministry official claimed. again
on 23 January that no long-term change in the restrictive
French credit policy is intended, F
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Bulgaria: African students in Bulgaria appear to
be planning demonstrations which might lead to a rep-
etition of .the riot they staged in Sofia on 12 February
1963. A disillusioned. Kenyan student has told the US
Legation that news of African students' difficulties in
Moscow had encouraged him and his friends to take
action and. that "something big" was sure to happen in
Sofia soon. He said five Kenyans had left for home
this week and 20 others were refusing to attend classes.
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Laos - South Vietnam:AGGeneral Phoumi and Saigon
military leaders evidently e trying to develop co-
ordinated opposition to Communist operations in the
South Vietnam - Laos border area. Phoumi discussed
plans for joint action with South Vietnamese armed
forces chief General Don in Bangkok last week, and
planned to visit South Vietnam yesterday and today for
further talks. Communist pressure against the Laotian
garrison at Ban Houei Sane, east of Tchepone near the
South Vietnamese border, has given added urgency to
such moves
Latin America: The inaugural congress of the
Communist-dominated Single Center of Latin American
Workers (CUTAL) will not be held in Belo Horizonte,
Brazil, because of the local public's hostile attitude.
Some forty delegates have flown to Brasilia, presum-
ably in hopes of holding the congress there today if
they get permission to hold a public meet?n .
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