CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: February 27, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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27 February 1968
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Egypt: Government shows uncertainty in dealing
with first hostile demonstrations it has ever faced.
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USSR: Nonproliferation treaty (Page 4)
Uruguay-Czechoslovakia: Arms deal (Page 4)
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Egypt: The Nasir regime appears uncertain how
to handle the first hostile demonstrations it has faced.
The first demonstration occurred on 21 February.
"Workers" from the southern suburbs of Cairo staged
a march ostensibly protesting the "light" sentences
given high-level military officers charged with negli-
gence during the war last June. The former chief of
the air force was given 15 years imprisonment, but
two other top officers were acquitted. The protesters
demanded death sentences, and police reportedly had
to use gunfire to halt them.
Agitation has evidently continued and, despite a
ban, students rioted in Cairo itself on Sunday. After
a Sunday night cabinet session, the government closed
the four major universities and all the high schools. in
the country. Demonstrations have been banned once
again, and the regime has announced that the accused
officers will be retried by another court.
The government moves may forestall further out-
breaks, but the seriousness of the incidents indicates
a popular mood the Nasir regime has never previously
had to face. The demonstrations underscore the ma-
laise and frustration arising from the humiliation of the
Egyptian defeat last June. The spontaneity of the dem-
onstrations is open to question, but the identity and mo-
tives of possible organizers are unknown.
Although stiffer sentences for the accused might
appease disaffected civilians, such sentences would at
the same time increase resentment among the military.
The military is already bitter over receiving the blame
for the defeat at the hands of the Israelis, and, in some
cases, restive under "retraining" by Soviet military
advisers.
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The regime's problem with hostile sentiment will
be compounded by the absence of any visible progress
in getting the Israelis to withdraw from occupied Eyyp-
tian territory.
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NOTES
USSR: Soviet diplomats recently have been lobby-
ing for the US-Soviet draft nonproliferation treaty.
The draft is still before the disarmament conference
in Geneva. Representations have been made in New
Delhi and Tokyo, and the Russian delegate at Geneva
privately made an impassioned defense of the treaty
against Rumanian criticism. In Moscow, the envoys
of Austria, Italy, India, Japan, Burma, Brazil, and
Chile have been approached for support. Brezhnev
and Kosygin have emphasized in major speeches the
importance Moscow attaches to acceptance to the treaty.
Uruguay-Czechoslovakia: The Uruguayan police
have proposed buying small
arms from Czechoslovakia. Military leaders have ex-
pressed concern with proposed reductions in US mili-
tary aid at a time when the government's planned aus-
terity program threatens to stir Communist-inspired
labor agitation and increased urban unrest. President
Pacheco Areco has yet to approve the purchase, which
is to include submachine guns and ammunition, and
there is still some possibility that the deal will not go
through.
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