THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 MARCH 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993770
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: March 14, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
14 March 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
14 Match 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Buoyed by last week's election results, Chilean
President Allende plans to drop military officers
from his cabinet because they are no longer neces-
sary. (Page 2)
Argentina's president-elect, Hector Campora, is
taking an initially moderate stance and talking
about including non-Peronists in his government.
(Page 3)
Turkey's parliament will try again today to elect a
new president. (Page 4)
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CHILE
Encouraged by the strong showing of his Popular
Unity coalition in last week's elections, President
Allende plans to retain military officers in his
cabinet only until the final returns are officially
posted in late May. he
intends to keep officers in lower administrative
posts.
Allende evidently believes that he no
longer needs such visible military sup-
port. Reducing the officers' political
influence would also mollify the radical
Socialists, whose strong electoral show-
ing--ahead of the Communists--gives them
renewed influence.
Among his other plans, Allende intends to in-
crease government controls over the economy and will
start by issuing rationing cards to consumers. He
also plans to draft legislation to further the proc-
ess of socialization.
Allende presumably calculates that these
measures will steal some thunder from the
extremists. He also assumes that the
election-sobered Christian Democrats can-
not afford to oppose some further sociali-
zation in view of their renewed interest
in proselytizing among low-income groups.
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ARGENTINA
President-elect Hector Campora has adopted a
moderate approach. Although he claims he has no
specific cabinet members in mind, he has announced
that his government of "national conciliation" will
include political leaders from outside Peronist
ranks.
no changes
in the armed forces hierarchy are planned, and
efforts will be made ?to keep extremists within
Peronist ranks in line.
Campora's government will lean toward in-
creased state control over basic sectors
of .the economy and toward restrictions on
foreign investment. It will also try to
orient foreign policy further away from
the United States toward greater coopera-
tion with Western Europe. Argentina will
strive for leadership within Latin America
and will move to renew relations with Cuba.
President Lanusse and the army general staff ap-
pear to have accepted the Peronist victory. Lanusse
will stay on as president until Campora is inaugurated
on 25 May/
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NOTES
Turkey: Parliament will resume voting to
elect a new president this afternoon. In the four
ballots cast yesterday, Faruk Gurler, the candidate
of the military high command, lagged far behind
the Justice Party's Tekin Ariburun, although in the
last vote Gurler was picking up some additional
strength. The election is being held in an atmos-
phere of heavy military preparedness, with the
possibility of a move against parliament one of the
major considerations.
Laos: Chief Communist negotiator Phoumi Vong-
vichit claimed in a recent speech that US reconnais-
sance flights are in direct violation of the Vien-
tiane peace agreement. Phoumi's statement could
be the opening shot in a major propaganda campaign,
and the Communists could also be preparing to use
the issue as another excuse to delay implementation
of the Vientiane agreement. Communist news com-
mentators have accused the US of flying reconnais-
sance and bombing missions in violation of the
agreement, but this is the first authoritative state-
ment on recent US air activity.
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