NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A031200220002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 26, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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National Intelligence Daily
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26 March 1979
State Dept. review completed
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The Overnight Reports, printed on yellow paper as the
final section of the Daily, will often contain materials
that update the Situation Reports and Briefs and
Comments.
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The two Siberian pipelines include an oil line from
Surgut to Polotsk in Belorussia and a gas line between
Urgengoy and Chelyabinsk in the Urals. Construction of
the 3,300-kilometer oil pipeline, which will be one of
the longest in the world, is proceeding slowly. Work on
it was halted completely for 10 days in January due to
winter storms. In contrast, the 1,600-kilometer Urgengoy-
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but most of the compressor stations are yet to be in-
stalled, and a second and third line are to be laid on
this route b next year.
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OVERNIGHT REPORTS
(The items in the Overnight Reports section have not
been coordinated within the intelligence community.
They are prepared overnight by the Office of Current
Operations with analyst comment where possible from the
production offices of NFAC.)
Italy
Deputy Prime Minister Ugo La Malfa, the influential
leader of the small Republican Party, died today at age
75, following a severe stroke early Saturday. La Malfa
was a distinguished elder statesman of Italian politics,
and the Embassy reports his death will not affect the
likely short survival of the new three-party government.
Prime Minister Andreotti reportedly will not select a
new deputy prime minister or give a single individual
La Malfa's responsibility for the overall supervision of
economic affairs.
Saudi Arabia
The US Liaison Office in Riyadh reported yesterday
that the mood in Saudi Arabia on the eve of today's
OPEC meeting in Geneva is one of uncertainty. Saudi
leaders are preoccupied with the impact of the Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty on Saudi-US relations, realize they
have little influence on the other OPEC states given the
currently tight market conditions, and face a growing
internal debate over production and revenue needs. The
Liaison Office, noting both Oil Minister Yamani's bias
in favor of market forces and the current high level of
spot prices for oil, believes the Saudis will seek to
maintain OPEC's current price structure as a floor while
agreeing to legitimize "interim" price increases by in-
dividual OPEC states and to review the price structure
at the next regularly scheduled meeting in June.
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Egypt-Japan
According to a Western wire service report, Foreign
Ministry sources in Tokyo said today that Egyptian Presi-
dent Sadat will visit Japan in July. Sadat has stated
that he hopes to visit there and West Germany in seeking
a new, international "Marshall Plan" to assist his coun-
try.
Somalia
The nation's official news agency announced yester-
day that the ruling party of President Siad Barre has
granted an amnesty "to all Somalis who left their country
on political grounds or otherwise," adding that re- -
turnees "will not be persecuted" for any crimes they had
committed. The US Embassy comments that the amnesty may
have been timed to enhance Siad's image at the meeting
of the Arab League Council that began Saturday in Moga-
discio. The Embassy expects most Somalis abroad to react
with skepticism to the amnesty declaration.
Spain
The US Embassy in Madrid reports that the issue of
Basque autonomy is again at the top of the Spanish polit-
ical agenda for the upcoming parliamentary session. The
Suarez government wants to address each aspect of the
issue separately, but the increasingly militant Basques
are said to be pressing for quick action on a Basque
draft autonomy statute submitted to the lower house of
the Spanish Parliament in late December. The Embassy
comments that Suarez cannot address the issue in a vacuum;
the decision will affect Catalan regionalism and sprouting
autonomist sentiment particularly in And 1 ia, the Canary
Islands, and Galicia.
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Press reports indicate that the votes in yesterday's
runoff contests in the two-stage French department-level
elections approximated those of the preceding Sunday, the
parties of the left gaining the support of around 55 per-
cent of the electorate. They scored a net gain of about
160 seats and will control a majority of the 95 depart-
mental councils. The center-right coalition that governs
at the national level, while apparently running again at
around 44 percent of the overall vote, reportedly may
now have added problems stemming from bickering over the
failure to agree on a single candidate in Strasbourg and
elsewhere.
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Amman radio announced last night that King Hussein
will visit Syria and Iraq today and tomorrow on his tour
of those Arab states opposed to the Egyptian-Israeli peace
treaty. He went to Saudi Arabia last week.
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