THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 DECEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977863
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 22, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
22 December 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
22 December 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Moscow has made a strong show ?of support for Poland's
Gierek, who faces some continuing unrest in the
northern cities. (Page 1)
Sunday's riots on Okinawa have touched off demands
on the Japanese Government to secure redress of
Okinawan grievances. (Page 2)
Turkish Prime Minister Demirel's position has eroded
further. (Page 3)
Moscow has resumed relief flights to East Pakistan.
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POLAND
The Soviet party has 'rade a strong show of sup-
port for new Polish leader Gierek.r
The Soviets may well wish to head off
speculation that Moscow is unhappy with
the changes. Moscow clearly feels that
its interests lie in restoration of sta-
bility in Poland; in all likelihood the
new regime can be sure of Soviet support
as long as its policies work in this di-
rection.
In Poland itself, the people appear to have
accepted the party leadership changes calmly, but.
some unrest persists in the north. Yesterday Radio
Szczecin corrected its report of Sunday that ship-
yard workers had returned to work, and indicated
that negotiations were still going on at the yards
and at other local plants. Warsaw broadcasts yes-
terday stated that only 80 percent of the workers
in the Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot area had returned to
work, and this figure may be somewhat exaggerated.
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OKINAWA-JAPAN
Sunday's riots, touched,off by the injury of
an Okinawan pedestrian by a car driven by an-Ameri-
can serViceman, have sparked a wave of criticism in
both Japan and Okinawa against the Japanese Govern-
ment as well as againstthe US,. Tokyo is accused
of tolerating a "disregard for basic human rights"
on the island. Japanese opposition parties are de-
manding that judicial authority in Okinawa be trans-
ferred to Japan even before reversion in 1972.
Okinawan.emotions have been rising as a
result of a number of recent incidents,
including:the acquittal of a US. service-
man accused of the hit-and-run killing of
an Okinawan woman. Delay in the removal
of chemicalweapons.is another contrib-
uting factor. With racial overtones in-
creasingly evident in Okinawan reactions,
any additional incidents involving US
military personnel could well provoke
even.more serious disturbances and add
to pressure on Tokyo to redress Okinawan
grievances.
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NOTES
Turkey: Defections from Prime Minister Demirel's
Justice Party in the past few days have left him with
a majority of only one in the lower house, including
several who are unreliable. The US Embassy reports
that further defections are generally expected, and
Demirel could be forced to resign in the next two
weeks. The formation of a new Democratic Party on
Sunday by former Justice Party adherents appears to
be accelerating the trend.
USSR-Pakistan: Moscow has resumed relief flights
to East Pakistan after briefly suspending them when
an AN-22 transport aircraft crashed in India with
the loss of all 17 personnel aboard. This is the
second AN-22 to have crashed on a relief mission.
The first went down in July near Iceland while carry-
ing aid to survivors of last May's earthquake in
Peru. The AN-22, a turboprop plane, is the largest
Soviet cargo aircraft and has two thirds the pay-
load of the C-5A. Moscow now has about six of them
in military service.
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