CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: September 12, 1970
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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12 September 1970
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No. 0219/70
12 September 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Arab States -- Israel: The airline hostages may be
returned to Amman, but kept under fedayeen guard.
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Japan: Sato appears to have decided on a fourth
term as prime minister. (Page 3)
Cambodia: Government troops moving toward Kompong
Thom have met significant resistance. (Page 5)
The Netherlands: Labor unrest poses problems for
the unions and the government. (Page 6)
Chile: The Communist Party is moving to extend its
power and intimidate opponents. (Page 7)
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Israel: Damaged tanker (Page 9)
Sierra Leone: Mining operations (Page 9)
Ecuador: University personnel discharged (Page 9)
Laos: Communist resistance stiffening (Page 11)
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I Arab States - Israel: The fedayeen may allow
the airline passengers being held at Dawson's Land-
ing to return to Amman, but presumably intend to
keep them as hostages.
The central committee of the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization (PLO), with which the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is loosely
associated, announced yesterday morning that all
passengers of the three hijacked planes held in the
Jordanian desert would be brought to Amman immedi-
ately and placed under the protection of the PLO.
According to the announcement, the decision had been
made for humanitarian reasons and also to stave off
foreign intervention in Jordan under pretext of
rescuing the hostages. Last evening, a spokesman
for the PFLP announced that his group would accept
the central committee decision to bring the passen-
gers to Amman and would issue a new ransom proposal.
According to unconfirmed press reports, Fatah--a
more moderate fedayeen group--has sent buses to the
landing strip to pick up the hostages, and the first
group has already arrived in Amman.
Meanwhile, 66 of the women and children allowed
off the planes earlier in the week--about 40 of them
Americans--were evacuated from Amman to Cyprus yes-
terday. According to Red Cross representative Rochat,
in charge of the negotiations for the release of the
hostages, the PFLP concurred in their evacuation with
no conditions attached. About 60 additional women
and children remain to be evacuated, presumably some
time today. A group of 22 passengers from the BOAC
plane brought into Amman on 10 September also de-
parted Jordan privately yesterday; a second BOAC
group of about the same size arrived in Amman on Fri-
day.
The Jordanian Government has told the PFLP that
once the hostages arrive in Amman they will be under
the jurisdiction and control of Jordanian authorities,
who will proceed with their evacuation. According
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to Zaid Rifai, the chief of the Jordanian royal
court, the government made it clear that if the feda-
yeen carried out their threat to blow Up the air-
craft and the passengers, Jordan would undertake a
"wholesale assault" upon the fedayeen movement. It
is not clear whether the government and the fedayeen
have succeeded in ironing out the problem of the
custody of the hostages, and disagreement over this
point could be responsible for the delay in return-
ing the passengers to Amman. Given the Jordanian
Government's lack of control over the fedayeen, how-
ever, it seems likely that the government would con-
sent to leave the hostages in the hands of the feda-
yeen central committee
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Japan: Prime Minister Sato appears to have de-
cided on a fourth term as prime minister.
Sato is under increasing pressure from leaders
of the ruling conservative party to confirm his can-
didacy for another term as party president, and
therefore as prime minister. The election may not
occur until early November, but party leaders want
Sato to announce his intentions before he leaves for
a trip to the United Nations next month.
During the last several weeks, a number of im-
portant faction leaders, including defense chief
Nakasone, have come out in favor of a fourth term
for Sato. For a time Sato, who can have the job for
the asking, appeared to be considering stepping down
in favor of Finance Minister Fukuda, but opposition
to Fukuda within the party apparently has been greater
than Sato anticipated. The anti-Fukuda leaders have
used the argument that Sato, because of his personal
contacts with President Nixon last November, is the
logical man to handle the growing US-Japan economic
differences, and that his strong domestic support
puts him in the best position to deal firmly with
growing domestic political problems like pollution
and inflation.
Sato is in his strongest position since becoming
prime minister in 1964, but he is said to be getting
"tired" of his job. He almost certainly, however,
would not want to bow out if it appeared that a divi-
sive succession fight would undermine party unity
as well as his role as dominant elder statesman when
he steps down.
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Current Situation
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Cambodia: Government troops now about 15 miles
from Skoun on the road to Kompong Thom reportedly
have encountered their first significant resistance.
A Cambodian Army spokesman in Phnom Penh told
the press yesterday that air strikes were called in
on a Communist force dug in near the government col-
umn. A US aerial observer reported yesterday that
the Cambodian troops were not taking standard secu-
rity measures to detect possible enemy forces in
their immediate area.
Army Morale Problems
A number of recent army recruits have complained
that the government is too
slow in paying them. Although some troops finally
received four months' back pay in August, others are
still unpaid. Some recruits also were bitter because
the government was not aiding the families of sol-
diers killed in action.
In addition to patriotic fervor, much of the
flocking to the banner after Sihanouk's ouster was
a consequence of the higher pay offered by the army
in comparison to civilian salaries. There probably
is some disillusionment among those who thought that
the army would be the vehicle for a better life, es-
pecially with the pros ect of increased fighting
once the rains end.
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The Netherlands: Strike calls, now spreading
throughout the country, place in question the author-
ity of organized labor and could affect the stability
of the government.
The spark for the current wave of labor unrest
was a late-August strike of port workers, over pay
for casual laborers. In a settlement on 1 September,
the unions got much of what they had asked, but mili-
tants blocked a general return to work. The disarray
in labor ranks was given an added dimension when a
struggle for leadership of the militants developed
between the Communists and a so-called Maoist group
aided by some radical students.
The pay raise won by the port workers served,
in turn, as a stimulus for wage-increase! demands in
other industries, particularly in the manufacturing
and building trades. Organized labor is demanding
across-the-board pay increases but, in view of its
performance in the harbor strike, its authority could
be further challenged.
Prime Minister De Jong's government., which has
been attempting to stem a serious inflation, has the
authority to veto any wage settlement not considered
in the national interest. The passage of this legis-
lation last year caused a government crisis, however,
and informed observers doubt De Jong will invoke it.
He is expected instead to attempt to get approval
for fiscal measures, such as tax increases, when
parliament reconvenes on Tuesday, even though there
are those in the governing coalition who oppose tax
hikes. Some politicians might prefer early national
elections to taking actions that might hurt them in
the elections otherwise due in May 1971.
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Chile: The Communist Party is moving swiftly
to extend its power in key areas and to intimidate
actual or potential opponents.
The Communists are using their control of most
of the 8,000 local Popular Unity committees organ-
ized to support Allende's campaign. They have al-
ready asserted their influence in many TV and radio
stations, communications facilities, and universities.
More or less specific threats have been made against
influential publishers whose newspapers already re-
flect the uncertain situation. A mass rally this
weekend to celebrate Allende's victory may be a part
of this intimidation process.
Allende himself, on the other hand, has now
adopted a more soothing line, probably aware that
reaction against such heavy-handed tactics could
jeopardize his progress toward the presidency.
In another nationwide address on Wednesday he praised
the armed forces and national police and their dedi-
cation to constitutional obligations.
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C Israel: The Israeli tanker Aquarius, which was
reported to have sunk after a collision with a So-
viet cargo ship, apparently was only damaged and is
to be towed to the Israeli port of Elat. Following
offloading of its cargo of crude oil, the ship re-
portedly is scheduled for repair in Japan.
Sierra Leone: Freetown has moved to extend its
control over mining operations, the largest single
source of Sierra Leone's export earnings. A new
concession agreement places an important British-
owned diamond mining company under the control of a
new corporation in which the government holds a 51-
percent ownership. The British company is to retain
day-to-day management of its mining operations, how-
ever. Sierra Leone is expected to seek similar con-
trol over three other foreign-owned mining companies,
Ecuador: The government is continuing its ef-
forts to remove politics from the educational system.
On 4 September, all university personnel were fired
by presidential decree in a drastic attempt to rid
the schools of extreme leftist elements who have
long dominated the campuses. It undoubtedly will
take some time to reconstitute the staff, and this
probably will delay the openin of the universities,
which were closed on 22 June.
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Laos: Communist resistance to Vang Pao's rainy
season operations west of the Plaine des Jarres is
stiffening. Two enemy battalions on 10 September
attacked and dislodged government guerrillas from
key terrain positions they had just occupied near
the Communist-controlled town of Muong Soui. A few
days earlier, two North Vietnamese companies drove
another group of guerrillas from San Luang, a vil-
lage southwest of Muong Soui that had been captured
by the government early this month.
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