MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2001
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• Publication Date: June 20, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA - SOUTH ASIA
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Middle East - Africa Division. Office of Current Intelligence,
with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
CONTENTS
Algeria: Boumediene Promises National
Elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Libya-South Yemen-Oman: Tripoli Talks. . . . . 4
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Algeria
Boumediene Promises National Elections
On June 19, on the tenth anniversary of his
seizure of power from Ahmed Ben Bella, President
Boumediene announced that elections for a new
national assembly--the first in 13 years--will be
held by mid-1976. Presidential elections are also
being contemplated, but he gave no date.
Boumediene added that preparations are under
way for holding a congress of the National Libera-
tion Front, Algeria's sole political. party. A
commission will soon begin drafting a new set of
governing principles to replace the old "Charter of
Algiers" promulgated at the last party congress in
1964.
After a decade in power, Boumediene has con-
solidated his power base and weeded out his major
rivals among the original leaders of the Algerian
revolution. He now presumably wants to legitimize
his government by the electoral process. He will
not share significant power with a reconstituted
national assembly, however, and all candidates for
this body, as well as for party posts, will be care-
fully screened.
Boumediene may also want to revive electoral
politics to divert attention from growing economic
problems. Export earnings have declined sharply
because of lower oil prices and falling production,
while an exceptionally poor harvest and Algeria's
development plan requirements have escalated imports.
The resulting balance-of-payments deficit may force
the postponement or cancellation of a number of
projects in the country's ambitious four-year develop-
ment plan. (CONFIDENTIAL)
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Libya-South Yemen-Oman
Tripoli Talks
The South Yemeni-backed guerrilla war in Oman's
Dhofar province may have been a major topic at high
level meetings held in Tripoli last week between
South Yemeni and Libyan officials. In addition,
Aden and Tripoli signed an economic, technical, and
cultural cooperation agreement, and Libya announced
that it will support a number of development projects
in South Yemen.
Libyan Prime Minister Jallud dwelt at some length
on the situation in Oman in his "Evacuation Day" speech
on June 11--delivered with the South Yemeni visitors
in attendance. Jallud demanded that Iranian and other
foreign troops be withdrawn from Oman and threatened
that, if they were not, Libya would ally itself with
all revolutionaries and nationalists in the Arabian
Peninsula and the Persian Gulf area as well as with
the rebels in Dhofar. (SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO
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