WESTERN HEMISPHERE BRIEF 109-75.4

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CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7
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June 14, 2005
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July 15, 1975
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Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000 Secret Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 ARGENTINA: THE OPPONENTS OF LOPEZ REGA, THE CONTROVERSIAL ADVISER TO ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT PERON, ARE CONTINUING THEIR EFFORTS TO ASSURE THAT HIS REMOVAL FROM THE GOVERNMENT DURING WEEK OF JULY ?, 1975 IS COMPLETE-Y LOPEZ REGA WAS FORMALLY ACCUSED ON JULY 14, 1975 OF MASTERMINDING THE ARGENTINE ANTI-COMMUNIST ALLIANCE, A RIGHT-WING GROUP THAT REP^RTEDL.Y HAS ENGAGED IN POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS; THE CHARGE GROWS OUT OF AN ARMY INVESTIGATION. DURING WEEK OF JULY 7, L975, A MEMBER OF CONGRESS CALLED FOR LOPEZ REGA'S IMPEACHMENT ON SIMILAR GROUNDS-Y WHILE MANY ARGENTINES HAVE LONG THOUGHT LOPEZ REGA WAS BEHIND THE ALLIANCE; FEW HAVE DARED TO ACCUSE HIM, EVEN INDIIRECTLY, FOR FEAR OF RETALIATION- THE FORMAL CHARGE SEEMS DESIGNED TO MAKE IT AS DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO INFLUENCE THOSE REMAINING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IDENTIFIED WITH HIM- THE ACCUSATION WILL INCREASE PRESSURE ON THE PRESIDENT NOT TO RELY ON HIM ANY LONGER IN ANY CAPACITY. DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXT: CLASSIPICAIION Approv y@aq,Z}p?MXY4l&&r?p8WiWfiopRow3m0IOQ1t7 IMPDET CL BY: Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 MRS. PERON IS ALSO UNDER PRESSURE FROM THOSE MEMBERS OF HER PERONIST PARTY WHO HAVE LONG BEEN DISSATISFIED WITH HER FOR EXCLUDING THEM FROM DECISION-MAKING AND FOR ALLOWING THE PARTY HIERARCHY TO WITHER. SOME DISSIDENTS REPORTEDLY ARE SEEKING TO OUST MRS. PERON AS PARTY CHIEF. THEY APPARENTLY HAVE BEEN EMBOLDENED BY THE ACTION AGAINST LOPEZ REGA, TPE MAN INITIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXCLUSION OF PARTY LEADERS FROM THE PRESIDENT'S INNER CIRCLE. 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 Next 1 Page(s) In Document Exempt Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 INTRODUCED, AT THE ISLAMIC FOREIGN MINISTERS! CONFERENCE IiV JIDDA-, A DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE SUSPENSION OF ISRAEL FROM THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. CITING ISRAELI FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT UN RESOLUTIONS, THE DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLED FOR ISRAEL TO BE BARRED AS WELL FROM ALL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES UNDER UN AUSPICES.Y THE SAUDI CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE REPORTEDLY MANAGED TO KEEP THE RESOLUTION OFF THE AGENDA, BUT NO ARAB COUNTRY HILL OPENLY OPPOSE THE RESOLUTION IF IT COMES TO A VOTE.Y THIS LATEST MOVE BY DAMASCUS STEMS FROM SYRIAN FEARS THAT PROGRESS TOWARD A FURTHER SINAI DISENGAGEMENT WILL MAKE-ANY AGREEMENT ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT- AN EDITORIAL IN SHE DAMASCUS DAILY AL-THAWRA OF JULY ]2 0013153SAYS THAT THE ARABS HAVE GONE TOO FAR IN THEIR DESIRE FOR At POLITICAL SETTLEMENT AND HAVE SACRIFICED TINE NEEDLESSLY. TIT EDITORIAL, DESCRIBED BY THE EMBASSY AS HAVING OVERTONES OF OFFICIAL INSPIRATION, CALLS FOR THE RE-EVALUATION OF T::E RELE\,.,4p,pr, ..yed For Release 2005/Q6V,,gA;,,Ql&,.II~P86T00608R00030001 Qp?~1T;7AT:NG OFFICER CLASiI'ICATICN REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PP.OH13FTED F ' F. 2 174 7-1 L) = T i nv. 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 RESULTS OF THE POLICY PURSUING A SETTLEMEf`1T? THROUGH POLITICAL ACTIVITY AND CITES THE NEED FOR THE ARAIJS TO RELY MORE ON THEIR OWN EFFORTS. 25X1 2. SPANISH SAHARA: MADRID'S EFFORTS TO SETTLE THE DISPUTE OVER THE FUTURE OF SPANISH SAHARA ARE BEING FRUSTRATED BY THE DELAYING TACTICS OF f",OROCCO AND MAURITANIA OVER A FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE AND RENEWED VIOLENCE IN THE TERRITORY.Y SPAIN'S INABILITY TO PERSUADE MOROCCO, ALGERJ:P,, AND MAURITANIA TO ATTEND A CONFERENCE IN MADRID ON JULY `J HAS [.$J) THE SPANISH GOVEPNNENT TO INSTRUCT ITS UN REPRESENTATIVE. TO URGE SECRETARY GENERAL IWALDHEIM TO CONVOKE FOUR--POWER TALKS ON SPANISH SAHARA UNDER HIS AUSPICES. SPANISH OFFICIALS TOPE THAT DIRECT UN INVCLVEMENT IN THE DISPUTE DILL DETER THE THREE POWERS FROM ENGAGING IN AGGRESSIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE SA11ARA WHILE TALKS ARE IN PROGRE',S ? Ir THE THREE AFRICAN STATES flAY 3E 1.10 110;;E RESPONSIVE TO A REQUEST BY THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL THAN THEY IJr f\1E TO SPAIN' S EARLIER INVITATION TO MEET IN MADRID. RA'3AT IS l.a:;'E-_Y TO 4 E DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXT: .'LF,ApprQCved For Release 2005/06/,22.-~GFA>RDP86T00608R0003000100.9t4y17c^"~, can.rr..nrlrn FEPRODUCTI'DN BY 0T!1HR THAN TIh. I_;iA1; c, OFFICE IS P0.01H131M[l ]IAA ;~~j 'f 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 OPPOSED, PROBABLY CITING THE PENDING DECISION BY THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE EXPECTED IN OCTOBER. MAURITANIA [JILL PR03ADLY STRADDLE THE FENCE AND SIIiPLY NOT REPLY. THE ALGERIANS ARE LIKELY TO FAVOR THE CONFERENCE. IF ACTION IS NOT FORTHCOMING AND VIOLENCE CONTINUES, MADRID IS LIKELY AGAIN TO THREATEN UNILATERAL WITHDRAWAL FROM SPANISH SAHARA-Y MEANWHILE, THERE WAS RENEWED VIOLENCE IN SPANISH SAHARA OVER THE WEEKEND- THREE POLICEMEN IN EL AAIUN, THE SAHARAN CAPITAL-, WERE KILLED AND A FOURTH SERIOUSLY INJURED BY A BOMB ALLEGEDLY PLANTED BY FOLLOWERS OF THE PRO-INDEPENDENCE POLISARIC FRONT BACKED BY ALGIERS. IN ANOTHER INCIDENT, THE SON OF THE LEADER OF THE SPANISH-BACKED SAHARAN NATIONAL UNION PARTY WAS KILLED WHEN A BOMB DEMOLISHED A CAR. ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS, POLICE ARRESTED MORE THAN 150 PERSONS IN EL AAIUN SUSPECTED OF SUPPORTING THE POL:SARIO FR0NIT - 4' THESE BOMBINI,S, AND A STATEMENT ISSUED ON JULY 7 BY A POLISARIO FRONT REPRESENTATIVE IN PARIS DEiIANDIi'JG DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXT: PPLEaiIN6Approved For Release 2005IO8t22^'~ CI'AARDP86T00608R000300Q1OQ1'1'7? ?`1:1c'" Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 SELF-DETERMINATION, CAST FURTHER DOUBT ON-THE RECENT STATEMEM BY MOROCCO AND ALGERIA THAT THEY HAD REACHED AN UNDERSTANDING ON THE FUTURE OF SPANISH SAHARA- THIS UNDERSTANDING WOULD ENVISAGE PARTITION OF THE DISPUTED TERRITORY BETWEEN MOROCCO AND MAURITAN.CA UITHOUT RECOURSE TO A REFERENDUM. 25X1 3. ANGOLA: ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORS FROM ZAIRE, AGOSTINHO VETO, PRESIDENT OF THE POPULAR MOVEMENT FOR THE LIBERATION OF ANGOLA, HAS BEEN DEPOSED BY MITO ALVES, A TOP MILITARY COMMANDER OF THE MOVEMENT WHO HAS CONSISTENTLY PUSHED FOR A TOUGH MILITARY CAMPAIGN AGAINSHT THE NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF ANGOLA. THIS REPORT COMES ASD HEAVY FIGHTING RESUMED IN LUANDA BETWEEN THE TWO LIBERATION GROUPS. MONDAY NIGHT, HOWEVER, LISBON RADIO REPORTED THAT NETO LED A DELEGATION FROM THE POPULAR MOVEMENT TO A MEETING XIA WITH PORTUGUESE FOREIGN 11INISTER ANTUNES-Y WE CANNOT CONFIRM THAT NETO HAS BEEN DEPOSED, BUT THE INTENSITY OF THE POPULAR MOVEMENT'S CURRENT MILITARY! CAMPAIGN IS CONSISTENT UITh THE TOUGH LINE ADVOCATED 8U MAJOR ALVES- ALVES APPEARS TO BE IN FULL COMMAND OF THE CAMPAIGN. Y DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXT: Approved For Release 2005/06/22: CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7, / AUTNENTICAIIN(: f.'YFXL 1 {?_I FAAIN9 OFFICt:A COORDINATING OF let 'I..; CIASSIFICAT14R REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIAIT: 1) E 2 Ij IF'I'E T 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 THE i1OVEMENT APPEAR ALONG.1 ITN FO T TO DR VE OFFICIALS REPORTEDLY HAVE FLED TO ZAIRE.Y LISBON'S ALARM OVER THE DETERIORATING SITUATION IN ANGOLA WAS REFLECTED IN THE SUDDEN DEPARTURE OF ANTUNES FOR LUANDA ON SUNDAY. ANTUNES, A KEY MODERATE, HAS BEEN PLAYING A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE POWER STRUGGLE TAKING PLACE IN THE PORTUGUESE CAPITAL. THE PRESTIGE OF PORTUGAL'S MILITARY LEADERS RESTS HEAVILY UPON THE SUCCESS OF ITS DECOLONIALIZATION POLICY, NOIJ THREATENED BY THE RENEWED FIGHTING AND THE GROWING TIDE OF PORTUGUESE REFUGEES.Y ANTUNES SAID THAT LISBON HAD "REACHED ITS LIMIT" IN EFFORTS TO BRING.PEACE TO ANGOLA AND THAT IT MIGHT NOW SEEK INTERVENTION BY SOME INTERNATIONAL BODY. WHILE NOT BLAMING ANY ANGOLAN FACTION, ANTUNES PROMISED THAT PORTUGUESE FORCES WOULD PLAY A MORE ENERGETIC ROLE IN RESTORING ORDER. TWO COMPANIES OF PORTUGUESE COMMANDOS HAVE BEEN ORDERED INTO THE CENT ER OF LUANDA TO RESTORE ORDER?Y IF THE PORTUGUESE DO NOT STEP IN, THE POPULAR 110VEMENT' S DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXT: KE< Approved For Release 2005/0?JJg AT j47,JpV86T00608R000300010,Q1111P;1rAT11G (FFICE? GL:.S$IPICATION REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED E 2 1s1.> E D F -T i !cv . 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 OFFENSIVE MAY WELL DEFEAT THE NATIONAL FRONT. IT WOULD THEN PROBABLY BE ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE MOVEMENT PROCEEDED AGAINST THE NATIONAL UNION FOR THE TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA, THE THIRD OF THE TERRITORY'S LIBERATION GROUPS. REPORTS NO11 25X1 REACHING LUANDA, IN FACT, INDICATE THAT THE MOVEMENT DID ATTACK TWO SMALL GARRISONS OF THE NATIONAL UNION ON SUNDAY- 4. INDIA: THE INDIAN SUPREME COURT YESTERDAY SET AUGUST 13, AS THE DATE TO BEGIN HEARING ORAL ARGUMENTS ON PRIME MINISTER GANDHI'S APPEAL OF HER RECENT CONVICTION FOR CORRUPT ELECTION PRACTICES IN 1971-Y THE FINAL DECISION PROBABLY WILL NOT BE REACHED UNTIL LATE SUMMER OR EARLY FALL. IN THE INTERIM, MRS. GANDHI CAN CONTINUE TO FUNCTION AS PRIME MINISTER BUT NOT VOTE IN PARLIAMENT, WHICH IS TO RECONVENE NEXT MONDAY FOR A WEEK OR EVEN IF THE COURT RULES AGAINST MRS. GANDHI, SHE MAY UELL REMAIN IN OFFICE. SHE COULD, FOR INSTANCE, HAVE THE ELECTION COMMISSIONER, WHOM SHE APPOINTED, LIFT THE PENALTY DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXT: Approve44For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 RELFASING OFF ICF.R COORDINA'I`1G OFFIr. F:Nn AI:TNENTICAT!"; 0FFI:.FP CLA.;SIFICAr1ON REPRODUCTION BY OTH?R THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHI!31T::D E. 2 1 M?DE T Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 ATTACHED .TO HER CONVICTION, WHICH CALLS FOR HER EXCLUSION FROM PUBLIC OFFICE FOR SIX YEARS.Y INFORMATION ON BOTH 'THE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION AND THE COURT CASE WILL BE SCARCE IN COMING WEEKS. MEDIA COVERAGE OF BOTH EVENTS IS NOW PROSCRIBED, AS ARE STATEMENTS BY REPRESENTATIVES OF ANY OF THE 26 EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS BANNED ON JULY 4? THE GOVERNMENT HAS TIGHTENED CENSORSHIP REGULATIONS, AND THERE APPEARS TO BE INCREASING LIKELIHOOD THAT SEVERAL MORE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS WILL BE EXPELLED. e? 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 1. PORTUGAL: THE PORTUGUESE ARMED FORCES GENERAL ASSEMBLY 13331 SESSION SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY HAS BEEN PUT OFF UNTIL FRIDAY, POSSIBLY BECAUSE OF THE LIKELY DEPARTURE OF THE CENTER-LEFT POPULAR DEMOCRATS FROM THE COALITION GOVERNMENT ON WEDNESDAY.Y ACCORDING TO POPULAR DEMOCRATIC LEADER BALSEMAO, PARTY HEAD GUERREIRO WAS TOLD ON MONDAY BY PRIME MINISTER GONCALVES THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT ACCEPT THE CONDITIONS PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT COSTA GOMES LAST FRIDAY BY THE POPULAR IF' DEMOCRATS. THE CONDITIONS, WHICH GUERREIRO SAID WOULD DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE POPULAR DEMOCRATS WOULD WITHDRAW FROM THE GOVERNMENT, INCLUDED GUARANTEES FOR A FREE PRESS, MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, AND MOVEMENT SUPPORT FOR THE MODERATE-DOMINATED CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. BALSEMAO IS CONVINCED THAT COSTA GOMES-AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL-WILL REJECT THE PROPOSALS WHEN PARTY LEADERS MEET WITH HIM TOMORROW, LEAVING THE POPULAR DEMOCRATS NO CHOICE BUT TO PULL OUT OF TIME COVE RNMENT.Y DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXT: RELEASINAy5p .cj(Ved For Release 2005? T2IZTI"`tfA`-FZbP86T00608R0003000lVdIfIc-lING OQFICER CLASSIFICATION REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED E 2 IMPDET 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 A WITHDRAWAL BY THE POPULAR DEMOCRATS-LESS THAN ONE WEEK AFTER THE SOCIALISTS PULLED OUT-COULD PROMP MILITARY LEADERS TO DISSOLVE THE REMAINS OF THE COALITION GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN CONTINUE WITH,, ONLY COMMUNIST SUPPORT. ONE LEFT-WING SPLINTER PARTY USUALLY SYMPATHETIC TO THE COi1MUNISTS HAS CALLED FOR THE FORMATION OF A ^NONCOALZTION REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT" WITHOUT NONPARTISAN CIVILIAN PARTICIPATION. THIS CONCEPT MIGHT APPEAL TO THE MOVEMENT AS A COMPLEMENTARY STRUCTURE FOR THEIR PLANNED PYRAMID OF POPULAR ASSEMBLIES. ANOTHER OPTION UOULD BE SIMPLY TO APPOINT AN ALL-MILITARY GOVERNMENT.Y THE OUTSPOKEN OPPOSITION TO THESE "DIRECT LINKS" WITH THE PEOPLE THROUGH "POPULAR ASSEMBLIES" Ai-'EARS TO BE AGGRAVATING DIVISIONS WITHIN THE MILITARY AND HAS GENERATED EFFORTS TO REASSURE THE PEOPLE THAT THE MILITARY DOES NOT - INTEND TO ASSUME DICTATORIAL POWERS.Y IN A TELEVISED DISCUSSION ON SUNDAY THAT WAS CHARACTERIZED AS "DEFENSIVE" BY THE COMMUNIST-DOMINATED PRESS, FOUR CIASSIPICAT:ON ApproveAFFWD5 IRpgy2)QM,){RQ taIA4aMR$&Ti O6O O QO010 1127 iMPDET CL BY: 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 COUNCIL MEMBERS SAID THAT THJE PLAN IS NOT DEFINITIVE AND NEEDS FURTHER DISCUSSION. THEY SAID THE PLAN WAS DESIGNED TO INCREASE'POLITICAL PARTICIPATION BY THE PEOPLE 5X1 AND WOULD PROCEED AT A PACE DETERMINED BY POPULAR UILL. 2. PORTUGAL - USSR: THE SOVIET MEDIA ARE FIRMLY SUPPORTI.IG TFIE RECENT ACTIONS OF THE ARMED FORCES MOVEMENT, INCLUD- ING THE CREATION OF POPULAR COUNCILS AND THE DE FACTO SEIZURE OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY'S NEWSPAPER?Y THE SOVIETS HAVE FAITHFULLY REITERATED PORTU- GUESE COMMUNIST STATEMENTS ENDORSING THE ARMED FORCES MOVEMENT'S ACTIONS AS PROVIDING A NEW BASIS FOR UNITY BETUEEN THE "POPULAR MASSES" AND THE MFA, FACILITATING THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND COUNTER- ING THE "SU3VERSIVE" SCHEMES OF "COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY" FORCES SUPPORTED BY "FOREIGN IMPERIALISTS." THHE PORTUGUESE SOCIALISTS HAVE NOIJ BEEN OPENLY LABELED AS "COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY," AND THEE' ACTIONS BRANDED AS DATE: ORIG: UNIT: EXT: RELEASING O"IC,P% C -LEAS AUTIII;NTICATINO OFFICtN CLAS:,ILICA.!Ov Approve o% rcli O~qq / ff34Nec_?-IRPcj~PIjqQs6q iqRg001 t 0121-7 i:rlPD 7 CL BY: Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 "SABOTAGE" AIMED AT UNDERMINING THE REVOLUTION ? 8 3? YUGOSLAVIA: BELGRADE HAS AGAIN STATED ITS OBJECTIONS TO BALKAN COOPERATION SCHEMES THAT UOULD INVOLVE BUL- GARIA.Y A RECENT ARTICLE IN AN AUTHORITATIVE FOREIGN AFFAIRS JOURNAL ARGUES THAT THE REGIONAL INITIATIVES OF THE KARAMANLIS GOVERNMENT WILL MAKE NO SIGNIFI- CANT PROGRESS UNTIL ALL ISSUES DIVIDING INDIVIDUAL BALKAN COUNTRIES ARE RESOLVED. ANY ATTEMPT TO MOVE f' TOWARD MULTILATERALISM PREMATURELY WOULD RISK HARM THEREFORE COULD ACTUALLY DISCREDIT THE CAUSE OF BULGARIA IS STILL THE PROBLEM. THE ARTICLE CONTENDS THAT BULGARIA'S UNCOMPROMISING APPROACH TO THE MACEDONIAN MINORITY PR03LEM BURDENS NOT ONLY RELATIONS WITH BELGRADE, OUT ALSO THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE OF THE Ei; T IRE REGIO'J ? THE ARTICLE DATE: ORIG: UNIT: c`(T: 25X1 G Approved For Release 2005/06122 IA!!RDP86T00608R0003000'1't 0`I`?T7` "`a" WiPRODUCTION BY OTHERrHAN THE IS:;UING CUFFICG IS PROHIHIT=D E 2 If~i~~~;=T CL BY: 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/06/22 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000300010011-7 THE GREAT POWER INTERESTS OF THE USSR, AND OULGARIA CANNOT DE I I'1u L- I _uirL.LL.S I t1A I I IIL UULGAN.AN REGIME SERVES REGARDED AS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY PURSUING ITS OWN REGIONAL SELF-INTERESTS.M THE ASSERTIVE TONE MAY DELL BE BELGRADE'S RE- ACTION TO THE STRONG PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CLOSER REGIONAL COOPERATION THAT ACCOMPANIED PREMIER KARAMANLIS' RECENT VISIT TO BULGARIA. THE YUGOSLAV REGIME PRESUMABLY FEELS THE TIME FOR HOLDING ITS TONGUE IN DEFERENCE TO THE NEW GREEK GOVERNMENT IS Approved For Release 20a 25X1