NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A031400210001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 24, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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National Intelligence Daily
Thursday
24 May 1979
State Dept. review completed
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Nepal:
Student Riot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Overnight Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The Overnight Reports, printed on yellow paper as the
final section of the Daily, will often contain materials
that update the Situation Reports and Briefs and Comments.
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NEPAL: Student Riot
The security situation deteriorated further yesterday
when student rioting broke out in Kathmandu despite a
tacit agreement earlier this week between the government
and some student leaders. Agitators apparently convinced
a large student meeting that the government had bribed
student leaders to accept concessions. For the first
time in the capital, the Army may have assisted the po-
lice in restoring order--a development that would con-
stitute a significant departure from the policy of re-
straint the government has employed in meeting the stu-
dent challenge. Troops have also moved into areas along
the border with India to support police efforts there
against groups fomenting disorders, 177
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(The items in the Overnight Reports section have not
been coordinated within the intelligence community.
They are prepared overnight by the Office of Current
Operations with analyst comment where possible from the
production offices of NFAC.)
The US Embassy in Beirut reported that Israeli air-
craft bombed two towns about 15 kilometers south of Beirut
yesterday evening. Lebanese press reports say 10 persons
were killed and 50 wounded, the majority women and child-
ren. The attacks apparently were made in retaliation for
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Israeli bus stop on Tuesday. Early this morning an
Israeli village near the Lebanese border was hit by artil-
lery shells from Lebanon, according to Israeli radio. 1
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El Salvador
The government of El Salvador last night imposed a
30-day state of siege. The action came following the
assassination of the country's Education Minister by
guerrillas who said they were retaliating for the deaths
of 14 students killed in a clash with police on Tuesday.
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Turkey-USSR
Turkey and the USSR yesterday signed a protocol that
would enable cooperation in oil exploration and drilling
in Turkey, according to an announcement by Turkish Energy
and National Resource Minister Baykal. He told reporters
the protocol would form the basis for contracts on joint
ventures to be signed within the next three months, under
which the USSR would provide machinery, spare parts, and
technical expertise. The signing of the document came at
the end of a visit to Turkey by Soviet Geology Minister
Kozlovskiy.
President Morales Bermudez yesterday ruled out a
general election this year but said the ruling military
government would probably hand over power to an elected
government in July 1980, according to a Western press
report. He specified no date for general and presiden-
tial elections but said they could be held in the first
quarter of next year and a new president inaugurated on
Peru's national day, 28 July. Morales Bermudez also
said that additional civilians would soon join the two
already in his 15-member cabinet.
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Nepal
King Birendra announced this morning that he would
name an election commission within a week to set up a
referendum on whether the country should retain its pres-
ent non-party system of government with suitable reforms,
or whether a multiparty form of government should be
established. According to a press report, the referendum
would be held by secret ballot and be open to all adults.
(See page 13 for a report on Nepal's current security
situation.) F I
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West Germany
As expected, a special West German assembly yester-
day elected Karl Carstens as the Federal Republic's next
president. He won on the first ballot, defeating the
first woman candidate ever nominated for the largely
ceremonial post. Carstens' victory marked the first
major electoral victory in 10 years for the conservative
Christian Democrats and their Bavarian allies, the Chris-
tian Social Union.
Eastern Europe
The US Embassy in Prague reported that Czechoslo-
vakia's Cardinal Tomasek told the West German Ambassador
on 9 May that he doubted Czechoslovak authorities would
allow him to travel to Poland for the Papal visit, but it
was not clear whether he had asked permission or had
based his feelings on past experience with the regime.
The Embassy noted it had no indication that the govern-
ment's eventual decision would be based on other than
local church-state considerations. The US Embassy in
Budapest, however, reported that the Italian and French
Ambassadors said on 21 May that Hungarian Cardinal Lekai
had told them he was planning to go to Poland during the
Pope's visit, and that he planned to go to Czestochowa
but not to Krakow. F7 I
Lesotho
According to a Western press report, more than 50
people were killed in fighting early today between po-
lice and guerrillas in the southern part of Lesotho,
where 15 armed men were killed in a skirmish with police
last weekend. Police said the guerrillas were supporters
of the Congress Party that reportedly went underground
in 1974 followin its unsuccessful coup attempt against
the government.
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