THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 JULY 1975

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• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: July 11, 1975

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The President's Daily Brief
July 11, 1975
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July 11, 1975
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Portugal: The Socialist Party last night withdrew
from the four-party coalition government.
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USSR: Emigration during the first six months of
this year was over 40 percent below the com-
parable figure for 1974. (Page 3)
Malagasy Republic: President Ratsiraka told the
US charg?esterday that the NASA tracking
station will have to close next week. (Page 4)
Italy: The Socialist Party's preference for local
governmental alliances with the Communist
Party is putting further strains on the Moro
government. (Page 5)
Note: USSR-Somalia (Page 6)
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PORTUGAL
The Portuguese Socialist Party with-
drew from the four-party coalition gov-
ernment last night to protest the Revolu-
tionary Council's naming of a military
commission to run the Socialist newspaper
Republica.
The move came when Republica published an is-
sue under the control of a workers' coordination
committee with an army officer as editor.
The Socialists say their two ministers will
not return to the government until the Revolution-
ary Council carries out its promise to return the
paper to its legal owners. The Socialists put out
a communique saying that the alliance of Portuguese
political forces must be based on the observance of
pacts signed by them and upon "respect for the
pledged word."
The center-left Popular Democrats
are considering pulling their two ministers out
the coalition government as well.
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The Socialists have threatened to pull out of
the government over various controversies since
last January. They had been moving in the direc-
tion of open defiance of the Armed Forces Movement
since its general assembly announced on Wednesday a
decision to create a system of popular organizations.
The proposals were seen by the Socialists and other
moderates as a threat to bypass political parties
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accept popular councils or assemblies created out-
side the present party system. The party blamed
the general assembly's action on Communist influ-
ence and urged Socialists to prepare for nationwide
demonstrations.
The Socialists' anger was aroused further by
a demonstration held last night in front of the
presidential palace. It was sponsored by the Com-
munist-dominated labor confederation and attracted
an estimated 15,000 workers. Both Prime Minister
Goncalves and President Costa Gomes praised the
crowd for supporting discipline and order.
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The US embassy in Lisbon meanwhile has reported
that Major Canto e Castro--regarded as a supporter
of security forces commander Otelo de Carvalho and
the leftist nationalist faction--led an attempt to
remove Goncalves at a Revolutionary Council meeting
last Wednesday. The attempt reportedly was halted
by Costa Gomes in an effort to maintain cohesion
within the military leadership.
If the Socialists stick with their decision
to remain in open opposition to the military gov-
ernment and are supported by the Popular Democrats,
the government will be left in the hands of the
Movement, the Communists, and the Communist-domi-
nated Portuguese Democratic Movement.
Military leaders will have to reorganize the
cabinet, at least to replace the ministers who have
resigned. If a new coalition cannot be put together,
the Movement may be inclined to set up an all-mili-
tary government to avoid international criticism
of a government supported only by the Communists.
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USSR
During the first six months of this
year, 6,253 people ostensibly bound for
Israel received permission to emigrate
from the USSR, according to the Dutch
embassy in Moscow. This figure is more
than 40 percent below the comparable
figure for 1974 and nearly 60 percent
below the record high reached in the
first half of 1973. More than half of
those declaring for Israel have gone
elsewhere--mostly to the US.
The Dutch embassy, which handles Israeli in-
terests in the USSR, attributes the decline in
emigration this year to the increased success of
Soviet authorities in dissuading potential emi-
grants from filing exit applications. The Soviets
offer inducements not to file, such as promises of
advancement in employment and educational oppor-
tunities, coupled with negative pressures, such
as reproaches from colleagues and neighbors who
have been made aware that a family is considering
emigration. While the emigrants do not report
notable increases in outright harassment by Soviet
authorities, selective instances of imprisonment
and loss of employment have effectively intimidated
many would-be applicants.
Misinformation on living standards in the
West, as well as grapevine accounts of genuine dif-
ficulties in adjusting to life in Israel and the
US, have also affected the emigration rate. Even
some of the better-educated applicants appear
genuinely to believe that unemployment and other
economic woes have driven Western living standards
lower than those in the Soviet Union. The Dutch
embassy reports that the only identifiable group
still firmly committed to settling in Israel is
that of "Oriental" Jews from the Caucasus and Cen-
tral Asian regions.
Party chief Brezhnev strongly implied in a
recent meeting with a group of US Senators that
the tighter Soviet policy on Jewish emigration
will continue. His remarks were obviously intended
to make clear that no Soviet concessions could be
expected before the US Congress removes the link
between freer emigration and expanded trade.
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MALAGASY REPUBLIC
President Ratsiraka told the US
charge yesterday that the NASA tracking
station in the Malagasy Republic will
have to close next week because Washing-
ton has refused to make back rental pay-
ments. Ratsiraka indicated that the
facility will have to shut down before
the Apollo-Soyuz flight.
The agreement allowing NASA to operate the
station, concluded under a previous Malagasy regime,
formally expired at the end of 1973. Ratsiraka, who
was then foreign minister, demanded the payment of
$10 million in back rent for the period prior to
1973 as the price for renewing the agreement. He
pressed for this payment again after becoming pres-
ident last month.
The US refused to pay back rent on the grounds
that the original agreement did not provide for
rent, but agreed to pay an annual sum of $100,000
in the future.
The closing of the station on this island in
the Indian Ocean should have no effect on the joint
US-Soviet flight. Other systems are available for
checking the spacecraft as they pass over the area.
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ITALY
The Italian Socialist Party's ap-
parent preference for local governmental
alliances with the Communist Party is
putting additional strains on the Moro
government, which the Socialists are com-
mitted to support in parliament.
Yesterday the Socialists chose to join a
Communist-led government in Liguria rather than
participate in a center-left coalition there. This
will add a fourth region to the north-central "red
belt," where the Communists predominate but share
power with the Socialists.
The other center-left parties may not object
too strongly to this outcome in Liguria because
most politicians expected it. Liguria was the only
additional region in which the two parties captured
a clear majority in the elections, and they already
controlled Genoa, the local capital.
A more likely source of trouble is the Social-
ists' apparent preference for a minority government
with the Communists in the key northern region of
Piedmont./
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NOTE
Soviet Ambassador Samsonov admitted to the
US charge inSomalia on July 7 that there is a
missile-handling facility in Berbera.
This is the first time a Soviet official has
acknowledged that such a facility exists. He
said it was for short-range missiles for the
Somali navy, but did not use the NATO term Styx.
The lifting and handling equipment in the high
bay building at Berbera, however, is capable of
handling missiles far larger than the Styx, or
any other missile consistent with Somali needs or
capabilities. Samsonov's admission may be the
harbinger of a shift in Moscow's public line from
denials of Soviet bases to assertions that all
military facilities are there to serve the Somalis
It also seems to indicate that the Somalis will,
indeed, get patrol boats to put under the Styx.
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