THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 AUGUST 1975

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006014874
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 13, 1975

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The President's Daily Brief
August 13, 1975
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August 13, 1975
Table of Contents
Portugal: Dissident officers apparently have pre-
sented to President Costa Gomes their demands
for the removal from office of Prime Minister
Goncalves. (Page 1)
Saudi Arabia - North Yemen: North Yemen received a
promise from Saudi Arabia last week of a $600-
million loan for project aid and budget support.
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Note: Indonesia - Portuguese Timor (Page 3)
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PORTUGAL
Dissident officers in the Armed
Forces Movement apparently presented
to President Costa Gomes their demands
for the removal from office of Prime
Minister Goncalves at a meeting yester-
day of the Revolutionary Council.
Navy Commander Crespo--one of the nine dissi-
dent leaders and a rumored possible replacement for
Goncalves--told Western diplomats yesterday that
if the President did not respond to the dissidents'
demands, "just wait a week." This is the first in-
dication that the dissidents might be considering
the use of force--which their spokesmen have repeat-
edly said they are determined to avoid.
Crespo remarked that he resents being called
a "moderate," for he believes most enterprises
should be owned by the state and that it is inap-
propriate for Portugal to remain an active member
of NATO. He said his views on NATO did not extend
to bilateral military arrangements with individual
NATO members, such as the US presence at Lajes air
base in the Azores.
He also noted that security chief Otelo de
Carvalho, who will have a major voice in directing
the best disciplined troops in Portugal, supports
the dissidents. He claimed the group has the back-
ing of at least 80 percent of the military.
the armed forces is running heavily
dissidents' manifesto.
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Troops were placed on alert last night in the
southern town of Evora, where the Socialists and
the Communists staged simultaneous demonstrations.
Military police prevented the outbreak of violence.
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SAUDI ARABIA - NORTH YEMEN
The North Yemeni Prime Minister
received a promise from Saudi Arabia
last week of a $600-million loan for
project aid and budget support. As
much as $300 million in Saudi military
assistance may also materialise.
The aid to North Yemen may promote a further
decline in Soviet influence in Sana--a prime ob-
jective of the Saudis and the current Yemeni leader-
ship. Sana, however, is not above threatening to
accept a new Soviet military assistance package to
goad the Saudis to move on long-stalled negotiations
to modernize the North Yemeni armed forces. Sana's
deputy commander in chief is scheduled to visit
Saudi Arabia later this month for talks about mili-
tary aid to be financed by Riyadh.
The volume of the new Saudi commitments to
Sana reflects Riyadh's recognition of the role North
Yemen plays both in Saudi development and in regional
politics. Yemeni laborers are the major source of
unskilled manpower in labor-starved Saudi Arabia,
and treatment of these workers is a sore point be-
tween Riyadh and Sana. The promised Saudi assis-
tance may also increase internal Yemeni support for
the present regime's gradual shift to the Saudis
and the West in foreign policy.
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NOTE
President Suharto of Indonesia apparently has
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resisted demands
immediate invasion of Portuguese Timor.
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