WEEKLY SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000300020031-4
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• Document Page Count: 23
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: July 11, 1975
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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Secret
Weekly Summary
Secret
No. 0028/75
July 11, 1975
Copy N6 1387
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CONTENTS (July 11, 1975)
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MIDDLE EAST
AFRICA
I Spain: Government Responds
2
Cyprus: Relations Worsen
5 CSCE: Summit Delayed
6 USSR: Joint Mission Next Week
7 India: No Challen-!rs
8 Persian Gulf: Different Turres
9 Spanish Sahara: Possible Deal
10 Bahrain: Two-Year Grace
EAST ASIA
PACIFIC
13 Laos: Changing the Guard
13 Malaysia-China: Disenchantment
14 China: SAMs in Sinkiang
15 Thailand-China: Diplomatic Relations
16 OAS: Rio Treaty Conference
16 Argentina: Wage Settlement
18 Chile: Backtracking on Rights
19 Mexico: Campaigning Abroad
20 Venezuela: Nationalization Debated
WESTERN
HEMISPHERE
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SPAIN: THE GOVERNMENT RESPONDS
Madrid is moving to defuse tensions in
Spain's Basque provinces. At the same time, the
Arias government is likely to face new problems
with labor following the recent natio,iwide labor
elections, in which opposition candidates
soundly trounced the government-supported
incumbents.
In response to a "unanimous outcry" from
the press associations, the government has
announced its decision to lift restrictions on
news reporting of disturbances in the Basque
area. Madrid also hopes to improve its image
among the Basques by declaring disaster zones
of areas of Vizcaya Province recently hit by
torrential rains, thus making them eligible for
special aid.
Prime Minister Arias and his interior min-
ister have met with parliamentary and church
leaders from the Basque area to discuss a solu-
tion to Basque unrest. The information minister
told newsmen that in his personal view the
three-month state of emergency imposed on
April 25 would not be extended unless there are
new developments before it expires. Terrorist
incidents in the Basque area have decreased in
the past several weeks.
Meanwhile, the government suffered a
serious setback in the nationwide labor.. Iections
held last month. Nearly complete tabulations
reveal that more than 75 percent of the 360,000
incumbent shop stewards-the lowest echelon of
worker representation in the Spanish syndical
system-were voted out. Indications are that
most of the winners are members of illegal labor
organizations, including the Communist-
dominated Workers' Commissions.
Although the winners are opposed to the
government, it is by no means certain that the
majority of them are communists. In fact, the
government eliminated the most radical candi-
dates through strict eligibility rules and might
invalidate the election of known communists, as
it h,-is in the past.
The labor elections will resume in the fall
when posts are filled at the local, provincial, and
national levels in the Syndical Organization.
Labor representatives in the Cortes also will be
chosen at that time. The results of the first
round will make it more difficult for the ap-
pointed syndical hierarchy to manipulate these
elections.
Prime Minister Arias favors limited reform
of the syndical system to meet worker discon-
tent, but he has been blocked by the conserva?,
tive syndical bureaucracy, supported by
u l trarigh tists with ready access to Franco.
Failure to respond to demands for change at the
grass-roots lev3I will lead to heightened tensions
between the government and labor.
The government also moved on July 4 to
quell speculation that Franco will announce his
retirement this month. The information minister
told the press that there would be no excep-
tional political announcements on July 18-the
anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War.
The marked gains by the leftists in the
elections sets the stage for a battle over loosen-
ing the government's tight control of the
Syndical Organization. Many of the winners
favor ray ical changes in the system, which at
presen. pla.:es workers and management
togetf;;" in one organization dominated by
managen?, nt and governmecit.
Spain
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This is a date often used by Franco in the past
for important announcements. There have been
rumors that Franco would turn over some of his
power to Prince Juan Carlos or would
strengthen the Prince's position by making him
a captain general-Spain's highest military rank,
CYPRUS: RELATIONS WORSEN
Relations between the two ethnic com-
munities on ',yprus worsened last week follow-
ing the expulsion of some 800 Greek Cypriots
from the Turkish zone. The expulsions were in
retaliation for rough treatment received by some
of the 48 Turkish Cypriots apprehended by
Greek Cypriot police while trying to make their
way to the north. The Greek Cypriots' discovery
of a large-scale resettlement of mainland Turks
in northern Cyprus has also contributed to
increasing tensions.
The Makarios government has lodged
protests with UN Security Council members,
charging that the expulsions and the coloniza-
tion were part of a Turkish effort to achieve de
facto partition and modify the island's popula-
tion ratio in order to reinforce the Turks' claim
to the two fifths of the island they now control.
Fewer than 8,000 Turkish Cypriots remain in
the south, with an equal number of Greek
Cypriots in the north.
The Ti.i kish side wants complete separa.
tion of the' two communities in a biregional
federation. '1 he Greek side, on the other hand,
has called for a multiregional federation in
which the t,-f,,o communities would remain inter-
spersed in ?;. veral regions. Except for hardship
cases, the Makarios government has generally
discourage! Greek Cypriots in the north from
moving so~ath and has refused to permit Turkish
Cypriots n the Greek Cypriot zone to mov,3
north.
Tur