CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 4, 1970
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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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4 December 1970
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No. 0290/70
4 December 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
NORTH VIETNAM: The regime appears to be attacking
corruption. (Page 1)
JAPAN: The Socialist Party is continuing its lem-
ming-like ways. (Page 2)
WARSAW PACT: The Pact states have renewed their
commitment to East-West negotiations. (Page 3)
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PAKISTAN: No party appears likely to gain a major-
ity in Monday's elections. (Page 5)
URUGUAY: A new wave of violence has struck Monte-
video. (Page 6)
INTERNATIONAL LABOR: Closer relations may be de-
veloping between two world labor organizations.
(Page 7)
CHILE: Relations with Communist China (Page 8)
UN: Palestinian rights resolution (Page 8)
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JORDAN:
Skirmish (Page 9)
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NORTH VIETNAM: The regime appears to be se-
riously attacking corruption.
A handful of officials have received rather
stiff prison terms for violating North Vietnam's
new law covering abuses of state-owned property.
According to recent Hanoi newspaper articles, three
of the officials, from middle echelons of the do-
mestic trade ministry, were charged with malfea-
sance and two others, a foreman and warehouse head
in the countryside, were charged with skimming
funds and profiteering.
Hanoi rarely publicizes the proceedings of
its various tribunals, but with these cases the
regime probably hopes to demonstrate that this
time it means business in curbing corruption. In-
deed, the crackdown probably is a good deal more
extensive than Hanoi has admitted to so far. It
seems almost certain that the authorities have
moved against others for similar "crimes," though
this has gone unreported. Since the law was an-
nounced early this fall, the press has been full
of articles that suggest a housecleaning of inept
and corrupt officials is under way in the party,
military, and government bureaucracies.
The regime also is leveling its guns on lack-
adaisical performance of North Vietnamese workers,
which may well be every bit as prevalent as cor-
ruption. One example that has been publicized in-
volves a workman who was sentenced for two years
for nqalectincr an electric generator that burned
out.
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JAPAN: The Japan Socialist Party (JSP) is con-
tinuing its lemming-like ways.
The extreme, doctrinaire wing of Japan's
largest opposition group tightened its grip on the
party's leadership at the national convention held
this week in Tokyo. As anticipated the challenge
of the moderate right fell far short, strengthening
the possibility of a future split in the party.
The JSP retained its increasingly unpopular
ideological rigidity, denouncing American "imperial-
ism, Japanese militarism, and monopoly capitalism."
The new policy line did place greater emphasis on
the issues of pollution and improving relations
with China, but the over-all tone was as stodgy as
ever. Moderates were excluded from leadership
posts and the position of those Socialists opposed
to a recently proposed realignment of the opposi-
tion parties was considerably strengthened.
The Socialists, apparently having learned
nothing from their devastating defeat in last Decem-
ber's Lower House elections, appear to have assured
themselves of another setback in next summer's Up-
per House elections. The right wing, freed from
all responsibility for the debacle, will then be
in a good position to demand basic reforms, and,
if ignored again, have a solid issue on which to
bolt the party.
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I WARSAW PACT: The Warsaw Pact states have re-
newed their commitment to East-West negotiations
and have put themselves on record in favor of a
"mutually acceptable" Berlin agreement.
The meeting produced four statements, released
a day after the session ended. The most interest-
ing dealt with European security. It announced Pact
support for a mutually acceptable agreement on West
Berlin, which it defined as one "meeting the inter-
ests of detente in the center of Europe, as well as
the requirements of the people of West Berlin and
the lawful interests and sovereign rights" of the
German Democratic Republic (GDR). The statement
adds "the interests of detente" to the definition
of an acceptable Berlin agreement made by Soviet
party chief Brezhnev in a 29 November speech in So-
viet Armenia. The phrase may be intended as an ob-
lique acknowledgement of the linkage that Bonn has
established between a Berlin settlement and final
ratification of its treaties with the USSR and Po-
land.
The statement also proclaimed that "peace in
this area cannot be built without the participation
of the GDR," thus promising a role for East Germany
in future talks. Nevertheless, the Pact countries
did not go beyond saying that the establishment of
"equal relations" between Bonn and Pankow would be
a "substantial contribution" to the cause of Euro-
pean security. This is in line with recent Pact
statements on this subject, but falls short of Pan-
kow's maximum demands and presumably will do little
to assuage East German unhappiness with its allies'
earlier responses to Ostpo.litik.
The statement also reaffirmed Pact support for
Czechoslovak negotiations with Bonn on the basis of
West German repudiation of the 1938 Munich agree-
ment. F _1
iIthis statement does little
more than signs y Pact awareness that Bonn will be
turning to Prague next.
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PAKISTAN: No party appears likely to gain a
majority n Monday's elections for a national con-
stituent assembly.
In the first nationwide direct elections since
independence in 1947, Pakistanis will select 291
members of a constituent assembly charged with
drafting a constitution within 120 days and submit-
ting it to President Yahya Khan for approval. Elec-
tions in nine constituencies stricken by the recent
cyclone will take place later.
An important issue in the campaign and the cen-
tral question for the assembly is the division of
power between the national government and the prov-
inces. Pakistan's political leadership has been
dominated by Punjabis from West Pakistan, although
the greater part of the population lives in East
Pakistan. Mounting demands for greater autonomy
by the Bengalis of East Pakistan, echoed by in-
habitants of the three non-Punjabi provinces in the
west, have evoked several public statements by po-
litical leaders affirming their support for in-
creased provincial autonomy. Translating abstract
consensus into a specific separation of powers,
however, will be difficult, especially as the
Punjabi-dominated military may refuse to accept any
significant weakening of the central government.
In East Pakistan, the center-left Awami League,
leading champion of greater Bengali autonomy, re-
mains the front runner but is unlikely to gain a
majority in the assembly. In the west a potpourri
of leftists, moderates, and religious conservatives
are contesting, and no party appears likely to
come close to winning a majority.
Some violence, which has already marred the
n could occur in the final days.
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URUGUAY: A new wave of violence has struck
Montevideo.
In the past week, the Tupamaros have bombed
the main communications center of the International
Telephone and Telegraph Company, fire-bombed the:
neighborhood headquarters of seven progovernment
political groups, and attacked several other tar-
gets. Montevideo also witnessed the first appear-
ance of counterterrorism in response to the Tupa-
maro movement. A group calling itself the National
Armed Defense carried out several bombing attacks
against the homes of relatives of known terrorists
and has pledged four deaths for every citizen killed
by the insurgents.
The rash of terrorist raids appears to be part
of the guerrillas' campaign to gain government con-
cessions for the release of US agronomist Claude
Fly and Brazilian consul Dias Gomide. Both have
been held captive for four months. President Pa-
checo still refuses to accede to the Tupamaros'
primary demand that their political manifesto be
published in exchAn e for Fly's release.
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INTERNATIONAL LABOR: The World Confederation
of Labor (WCL)--formerly the International Federa-
tion of Christian Trade Unions--may be moving toward
closer relations with the Communist-dominated World
Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).
Since at least early this year, WFTU Secretary
General Pierre Gensous has been proposing coopera-
tion between the two internationals. In a letter
to WCL Secretary General Jean Bruck in September,
Gensous suggested consultations between the secre-
tariats of the two organizations on all their prob-
lems and on the international labor movement in gen-
eral. He also proposed increased cooperation in
the work of the specialized agencies of the UN, in-
cluding an exchange of views on the effect of the
cutback of US funds on the ILO.
In early November, the council of the WCL over-
whelmingly approved a resolution calling for ex-
panded ties with all trade union organizations,,
whether or not they met the criterion of free trade
unionism. Under its new policy the WCL will seek
closer relations with the International Confedera-
tion of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). But it is the
establishment of ties with the WFTU, where the WCL
would be the mediator between the two major inter-
nationals, that is uppermost in the mind of some
WCL leaders, despite ICFTU opposition to Bruck's
attempts to involve it in joint approaches to WFTU.
Last week at their third meeting, Bruck and
Gensous went over various problems facing the two
organizations, and the WFTU leader requested "reg-
ularization" of meetings between his federation and
the WCL. Bruck now thinks the WCL confederal board,
which meets in April, may agree to "round tables,"
with agendas on such subjects as the violation of
trade union rights in Spain and Portugal, apartheid,
and the proliferation of multinational corporations.
The WCL, although smaller than the two major
internationals, claims a total membership of
14,1500,000. F_ 1
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NOTES
CHILE: Discussions on, opening relations with
Communist China are under way in Paris. The Allende
government has not indicated when it expects them to
be established, but a Chilean Socialist leader now
in Peking says the move may come by the end of the
year. This year, Chile became the first country in
Latin America, except for Cuba., to vote for the
Albanian resolution in the UN. A Chinese Communist
commercial delegation, which is particularly inter-
ested in acquiring copper, arrived in Santiago this
week. The small trade mission set up over five
years ago in Santiago is presently the only Chinese
Communist official representation in Lat' America
outside of Cuba.
UN: The modifications made in the Arab-spon-
sored "rPalestinian rights resolution," which was
tabled this week, seem to have significantly widened
its support. The proposed resolution recognizes
that the people of Palestine are entitled to "equal
rights and self-determination" and declares that
full recognition of their "inalienable rights" is
indispensable to establishing peace in the Middle
East. The US opposes the revised resolution on the
grounds that it will make a negotiated settlement
of the Arab-Israeli dispute much more difficult.
The US Mission believes that while the resolution
might pass in the special political committee,
there may be a chance of blocking it eneral
Assembly.
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C JORDAN: Fedayeen forces and Jordanian troops
clashed in Amman last night in a skirmish that lasted
about five hours.
The
fighting apparently began when armed security force
vehicles arrived at a new police station near the
Wahdat refugee camp south of Amman. When refugees
protested, security men began firing in the air
Palestinian militia
Y e camp en opened rand the shooting
spread. Although the incident apparently has been
contained, the danger is that with King Husayn out
of the county minor incidents be allowed to
escalate.
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