CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: September 30, 1970
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30 September 1970
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JORDAN-EGYPT:. The Arab- mediating committee i,s mov-
ing' ~o keep-the lid on in Amman (Page 1)
CAMBODIA: The government apparently is considering
terminating the operation to reach Kompong Thom by
Route 6. (Page 5)
USSR - NORTH VIETNAM: Aeroflot is to begin scheduled
weekly air service to Hanoi. (Page 6)
NORTH KOREA: The postponement of the party congress
was probably caused by party differences. (Page 7)
LATIN AMERICA: The Conference of the Pacific is be-
ing used by Chileans as a forum for anti-US criti-
cism. (Page 8)
URUGUAY: The Tupamaros want their manifesto pub-
l~.s d-before they release the US hostage captured
in August . ( Page 9 )
CUBA: Castro avoided major issues in his speech on
Monday. (Page 10)
USSR-BERLIN: Air traffic restrictions (Page 11)
EAST GERMANYe UNESCO membership bid rejected (Page 11)
U5SR: New missile cruiser (Page 13)
LIBYA: Oil negotiations (Page 13)
IAEA: Italian proposal (Page 14)
NICARAGUA: Student protest defused (Page 14)
VENEZUELA: Desulfur.zation plant (Page 15)
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JORDAN~EGYPT: The Arab mediating committee
yesterday was moving to keep the lid on in Amman,
as demonstrations marking Nasir's death were held
in Israeli-occupied Jordan.
-Amman remains a divided city, with the feda-
yeen still in control of substantial-areas. Ac-
cording to press accounts, Wahdat refugee-camp is
thick with guerrillas carrying automatic weapons
and even manning positions. Cars of the five-na-
ton peacekeeping mission, flying green flags, are
conspicuous throughout the city. The US ambassador
believes that control of Amman now depends upon
the five-nation force, whose ability to dislodge
the dug-in fedayeen is doubtful. At the same time,
the government's freedom to maneuver is severely
limited by the presence of the Arab force, because
it would be a major political problem for the King
to flout it. The ambassador suspects that Husayn's
gains-have hardly been worth two weeks of bitter
fighting, substantial damage to the city, and wide-
spread deaths and suffering of the people.
Schedule for Withdrau;aZs
The follow-up committee chaired.by Tunisian
Premier Ladgham has announced that both the army
'and the .commandos are to pull out of Amman within
24 hours, beginning at 0800 Amman time today (0200
EDT). The army is to take up .temporary positions
five kilometers outside the city limits; the feda-
yeen are to return to their homes or join their
commands. After this first phase,- the army is to
return to its normal bases and the fedayeen are
to be stationed in locations."suiting fedayeen
action" outside Amman--presumably near-the frontier.
The curfew has been partially lifted, and Ladgham
hopes to end it entirely within three days.
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C De-spite the committee's optimism, neither
side seems disposed to withdraw until the other
has already .left. In a newspaper interview yes-
terday, Yasir Arafat said categorically that the
army is to pull out first and will be followed
by the commandos; he also said that the fedayeen
militia, which he put at 30,000 men, would remain
in Amman in their former positions. The commandos
would "definitely" remain in Irbid, he added, be-
cause it is the nearest town to the front lines.
It seems unlikely, however, that the army would
allow the King to grant such concessions to the
fedayeen, even were the King inclined to do so.
Several of the army headquarters staff have told
US military personnel in Amman that-the army will
not leave the city until all fedayeen--including
the fedayeen civil militia--have been identified
and disarmed.
Fighting seems to have died off outside of
the capital. Jordanian officers have said that
~:he Iraqis have concentrated four full brigades
and part of a fifth around Mafraq, and have with-
drawn their 14th Infantry Brigade from west of
Irbid. The Jordanians also claim that the Iraqis
control the Ramtha road and have cut the army off
from one of its largest ammunition dumps near
Ramtha.
Last Hostages Released
The last six hijack hostages were turned over
to Red Cross representatives yesterday, and are
scheduled to leave Amman this morning. Embassy
officials who have talked with them report that
they are all well and had been held near Irbid.
According to the Egyptians, who were instrumental
in arranging the release, the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine freed the hostages un-
conditionally but expects that the fedayeen being
held in Europe will be released. The front also
expects the UK to put pressure on Israel for the
release of 14 prisoners held there.
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Mozcrninq for Nasir
Widespread demonstrations of grief over the
loss of Nasir took place yesterday on the Israeli-
occupied West Bank of Jordan and the .Gaza strip.
Israeli security forces scuffled with demonstra-
tors in Jerusalem; in the Gaza Strip, one person
was wounded when Israeli soldiers attempted to
disperse unruly mourners.
Cairo, meanwhile, was generally quiet yester-
day in spite of the large emotional crowds that
gathered outside the Qubbah Palace where Nasir
lies in state. Extra police and small groups of
military were stationed at key points throughout
the,city to guard against any unseemly incidents,
particularly in view of the large numbers of vis-
iting dignitaries-who have come for the funeral
on Thursday. Premier Kosygin was one of the first
to arrive yesterday at the head of a delegation
which included First Deputy Defense Minister
Zakharov and Deputy Foreign Minister Vinogradov,
and was .met at the airport by War Minister Muham-
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CAMBODIA: The government apparently is con-
sidering terminating the operation to reach Kom-
pong Thom via Route 6. The commander of the task
force has told the press that because Kompong Thom
can be reached by boat, his troops now can concen-
trate on "fighting the enemy." In three weeks the
column, which has grown from eight to 20 battalions,
was only able to reach Tang Kouk village, 15 miles
north of its starting point at Skoun, and 35 miles
short of Kompong Thom city.
Traffic on Route 4, the main roadway between
Phnom Penh and the port of Kompong Som, has been
subjected to so much enemy harassment recently
that the Cambodian Army (FANK) officer responsible
for-that artery's security has recommended that it
be closed every evening. The officer also notes
that Communist forces are able to cross Route 4
frequently on logistic missions and that they have
established a number of base areas.in.the vicinity.
Government positions near the Kirirom dam just
north of Route 4 were hit by mortar and .rocket fire.
on 28 September as an enemy force moved into forti-
fications only about 400. meters away.
Military action elsewhere in Cambodia remained
light with only widely scattered enemy harassing at-
tacks reported. A government position at Sala Lek
Pram, on Route 5 south of Kompong Chhnang, was at-
tacked by an enemy force of unknown size early on
29 September. Telephone lines were cut and no com-
munications were possible with the belea uered FANK
unit which is not e ui ed with radios.
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USSR - NORTH VIETNAM: The Soviet commercial
airline Aeroflot will inaugurate scheduled weekly
air service to Hanoi on 15 October, according to
a recent Soviet announcement.
Unscheduled weekly flights to Hanoi via
Tashkent, Karachi, and Calcutta are already being
made, and the new service, with added stops at
Vientiane and Rangoon to pick up and discharge
passengers, will formalize this existing service.
Landing rights for the two new stops were included
in civil air agreements signed with Laos and Surma
in March and April, respectively. Heretofore, the
only flights between Vientiane and Hanoi have been
those operated weekly by the International Control
Commission.
Moscow began laying the groundwork for the
flights as early as December 1968 in order to gain
an alternate access route to Hanoi free of harass-
ment by the Chinese of aircraft and personnel trans-
iting China. The first flights be an in March 1969
using a Soviet IL-1$ transport.
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NORTH KOREA: Policy differences may be behind
Pyongyang's postponement of its Fifth Party Congress
until mid-November.
An alleged debate on whether to de-emphasize
the use of violence to achieve Korean unification
on Communist terms reportedly has not been resolved.
Other problems probably center on economic matters.
The congress was originally supposed to have been
held in 1967, but was postponed when the regime's
seven-year economic development plan had to be
extended to 1970. Recent shifts in the economic
hierarchy suggest that all problems connected with
finishing off the current plan and draftinc a new
five- ear lan have not, been solved.
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LATIN AMERICA: The Conference of the Pacific
that opened on 27 September is being used as a
forum for criticism of the US by its Chilean or-
ganizers.
Seventy academicians from many countries,
including Japan, Mexico, Australia, Peru, and Can-
ada, are meeting in Vina del Mar to discuss possi-
bilities for economic cooperation. In fact, how-
ever, the purpose of the conference, according to
the University of Chile professor who organized it,
is to lay the groundwork for relationships in the
Pacific area which would supplant US influence
there. The opening speech of Foreign Minister
Gabriel Valdes, the conference's patron, was im-
plicitly anti-US.
The closing speech by Felipe Herrera, the
controversial Chilean president of the Interamer-
ican Development Bank, may be even more critical
of the US. He has already shown his pro-Allende
bias by congratulating him as president-elect be-
fore the electoral process has been completed.
Herrera is a leading candidate for atop 'ob in
the cabinet Allende lans to name soon.
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URUGUAY: The Tupamaros have demanded that
their po itical manifesto be published before they
release Claude Fly, the U5 agricultural expert kid-
naped on 7 August.
Despite the government's refusal last week to
allow publication of the manifesto, Uruguayan news
media have offered to publish it if F1 and a Bra-
zilian hostage are released.
Uruguayan newsmen now believe that negotia-
tions for the release of Fly will be completed
"successfully or unsuccessfully" by the end of
this week.
The Tupamaros continued their terrorist cam=
paign yesterday by bombing a restaurant and bowling
alley in a suburb of Montevideo where many Ameri-
cans live. One terrorist was killed in the attacks
which left three b standers in ured.
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CUBA: By avoiding major issues in his speech
Monday, Fidel Castro did little to dispel the un-
certainty that has characterized his leadership
since the end of the sugar harvest:
He repeated his theme of 26 July that Cuba's
youth, women, and labor organizations have been
neglected during the past two years., and .promised
that they would be strengthened. He assumed full
responsibility for this neglect, and, in an im-
plicit criticism of his own decision to concentrate
on harvesting 10 million tons of sugar in 1970,
blamed it on "a certain idealism."
Castro again referred to a vague process by
which the people, especially through the mass organ-
izations, would exert greater control over problems
of production and services, but he failed to de-
scribe the specifics of how this control would be
achieved. He made it clear, however, that repres-
sive measures are being developed for use against
workers guilt of "va ranc arasitism, and absen-
teeism."
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USSR-BERLIN: An unusual Soviet effort to im-
pose limited restrictions on Allied air traffic has
been timed to coincide with the four-power ambas-
sadorial meeting on Berlin today. Yesterday the
Soviets informed the Western Allies that they were
closing an-area west of the city to traffic up to
about 10,000 feet for a two-hour period early this.
morning. Allied traffic to Berlin flies near or
below this altitude, and these restrictions would
in effect close the northern and central air cor-
ridors. Normally, however, there are no Allied
flights during the closure period set by the Soviets.
The Soviets also attempted to restrict air traffic
to Berlin in 1962 and 1965, but did not react when
Allied military flights deliberately violated them.
The current restrictions appear to be another test
of Western firmness on the issue of Allied access
to Berlin.
EAST GERMANY: The executive board of UNESCO
yester ay rejected the latest East German bid for
membership by a margin of only four votes. A seat
in-the UN or its specialized agencies has long been
a goal of the Pankow regime. Moreover, since early
this year Pankow's efforts, supported by Moscow and
most governments of Eastern Europe, have been inten-
sified-. With the exception of UNESCO, so far the
votes opposed to East German admission to interna-
tional or anizations have been substantial.
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USSR.: Anew Kresta II - class missile cruiser
sighted recently in the Mediterranean-has guns that
may use rocket-assisted projectiles or other new
ammunition. The guns are about 100 mm. in diameter
and have a short barrel. They probably have a high
rate of fire and are intended for close-in combat.
Other ships of the Soviet fleet, including the con-
verted Kanin-class missile destroyers and .possibly
the Nanuchka-class missile patrol boats ma also
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LIBYA: Efforts by the six major oil companies
to avoidaccepting a settlement based on precedents
set by Occidental Oil-Company and three of the four
members of the Oasis Group apparently have failed.
Two of the companies--Texaco and Standard Oil of
California--have agreed to Libyan demands for in-
creased prices and retroactive payments, thus in-
creasing pressure on the remaining companies to
reach settlements with the government. Bunker Hunt,
an independent company in partnership with British
Petroleum, reportedly also has settled on Libyan
terms. More than 50 percent of the oil roduced in
Lib a now is covered by new agreements. 25X1
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IAEA: The general conference of the Interna-
tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has approved an
Italian proposal to amend the IAEA .statute to give
Italy and West Germany permanent seats on the board
of govern-ors, the IAEA's executive entity. The
amendment will now be submitted to member .countries,
two thirds of whom must ratify before it enters
into effect. Although the general conference passed
the amendment handily, it fell 15 votes short of
two thirds of all members. Ratification will in
part depend on decisions in Rome and .Bonn, both
members of EURATOM, to ratif the Non roliferation
Treaty .
NICARAGUA: The latest student protest against
the Somoza regime was effectively defused yesterday
by agreement to establish an ad-hoc committee to
investigate alleged mistreatment of prisoners.
President Somaza, refusing to be stampeded into pre-
cipitous use of Force, worked out the compromise
agreement in a meeting with top church and univer-
sity officials. Although a confrontation was avoided
this time, students and liberal priests are suffi-
ciently impressed with the success of their joint
effort to welcome any other opportunity to tilt
against the government.
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VENEZUELA: The country's leading petroleum
producer has opened the world's largest desulfuriza-
tion facility, marking another step forward in main-
taining Venezuela's share of the US fuel oil market.
Representing a $125-million investment by a subsid-
iary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, the plant can
turn out 100,000 barrels per day of oil with no
moxe than one percent sulfur. Its output and that
of a smaller Shell Oil desulfurization facility
opened in 1969 are designed to meet air pollution
restrictions enacted in recent years by major cities
on the US Eastern Seaboard, the chief market for
Venezuelan fuel oil. Additional facilities will
have to be constructed, however, because these two
lants
p
can process only about one sixth of Vene-
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