CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: November 14, 1972
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LEBANON: Strikers and police clash. (Page 3)
SAUDI ARABIA - AFRICA: King Faysal begins African
tour. (Page 4)
ECUADOR-US: Tuna boats seized (Page 5)
UK: Trade balance improving markedly (Page 5)
MEXICO: Policy on air hijacking (Page 6)
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LEBANON: A clash between striking workers and
police has provided Prime Minister Salam's opponents
with an opportunity to attack the government.
Two persons were killed and several more wounded
in an incident between police and striking workers
at a Beirut chocolate factory over the weekend.
This incident triggered a call by union leaders for
a general strike today in Beirut. A general strike
yesterday in Tripoli was reported to be 50-percent
effective. The government, which already has its
hands full controlling the fedayeen, has placed the
army in charge of security and moved additional
troops and armor into the capital city.
Salam's opponents on both the right and left
are supporting the unions in the hope of embarrass-
ing the government and possibly forcing the prime
minister to resign. In recent months, public crit-
icism of the government has been increasing as a
result of its inability to cope with such major do-
mestic issues as education policy, unemployment,
and the development of backward regions. Salam may
survive the present crisis, but the number of Leba-
nese disenchanted with his government clearly is
growing? (CONFIDENTIAL)
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SAUDI ARABIA - AFRICA: King Faysal will begin
a two-week, five-nation tour of Africa today in an
effort to strengthen Saudi Arabia's ties with the
Muslim populations of the continent.
Faysal will, stop first for a three-day visit
in Uganda, which recently received a $15-million,
interest-free loan from the Saudis for use in de-
velopment projects. Although Muslims make up only
a small proportion of Uganda's population, Presi-
dent Idi Amin is among them, and Faysal has looked
favorably on Amin's expressions of Arab-African
solidarity, as well as his expulsion of the Israelis
last March.
Other stops on F,x-~ysal's itinerary, each of ap-
proximately three days' duration, include Chad,
Senegal, Mauritania, and Niger, which have large
Muslim populations. The Saudis have recently opened
or intend to open embassies in each of these coun-
tries and in Uganda. Faysal sees Saudi Arabia as
a bridge between the Arab nations and Muslim Afri-
cans, and he hopes to promote African support for
the Palestinian and other Arab causes. (CONFIDEN-
TIAL)
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ECUADOR-US: Several US tuna boats have been
seized since Sunday for fishing within Ecuador's
claimed 200-mile territorial sea. Some of the ves-
sels have valid Ecuadore fishing licenses and
have been released, but 11 unlicensed vessels prob-
ably will be detained unfil fines are paid 12 This
action follows by less than a week a stiffening of
Ecuador's tuna policy. The Ministry of Natural ]Re-
sources has informed the US Government that, in
the interest of conservation, the total annual
tuna catch is to be limited to 80,000 tons, with
a 60,000-ton limit for foreign boats. Last year,
US vessels alone caught more than twice that ton-
nage. Fees for fishing licenses are also to be
raised by 60 percent. Although it appears that
the migratory tuna are less plentiful off Ecuador
this season, the measures announced in Quito also
represent an effort by Ecuador to strengthen its
position in the continuing discussions with the US
toward reaching a fishing accord. (CONFIDENTIAL)
UK: Britain's trade balance continues to im-
prove markedly since the dock strike settlement in
August. Foreign trade figures for October show a
deficit of only $110 million, compared with $315
million in September and a record $443 million in
August. If Prime Minister Heath's wage-price freeze
can check the inroads of inflation on the competi-
tive advantage resulting from the downward float of
the pound, the trade account should continue to im-
prove. (CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM)
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MEXICO: The recent hijacking of a Mexican
airliner to Cuba could prompt the Echeverria gov-
ernment to adopt a more receptive attitude toward
international legal efforts to combat air piracy.
Mexico strongly upholds the right of individual
states to grant political asylum and objects to
any international conventions or treaties that do
not explicitly state this right. In this case,
however, the gover:?ment considers the hijackers
and prisoners freed as ransom to be common crimi-
nals and is seeking to extradite them from Cuba.
Mexican officials have indirectly criticized the
actions of the Castro regime, saying that countries
which p.cotect hijackers are responsible for plane
hijackings. Should Cuba refuse extradition and
grant the hijackers political asylum, as seems
likely,, the incident may help encourage Mexico to
moderate its position on the right of asylum in
cases where hijacking is involved. (CONFIDENTIAL)
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