Current Intelligence Weekly Summary
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY
buoyed by his party's December electoral sweep, is confident that he will be able to set his own terms for association with tho other islands. For the moment, bowover, bis government appears to bo planning to souk separate independenc
Tho leaders of tho small islands have not yet indicated whether they would agree to the centralized, Trinidad-dominated federation Williams envisages.
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for aid to make up for the loss of Jamaica's contribution.
In any case, Williams is attempting to use the US naval base and missile-trackingat Chaguaramasever to oxtract greater USaid thanromised last year. Ho hasegal argument to support bis contention that the demise of the West Indiesnullifiesyear Defense Areas Agreement signed in Should he gain control over Antigua and St. Lucia, demands for increased aid for facilities on those islands would also be in prospect.
is not yet "sci however. Growingin the civil service, measures which hit major PPP backers, and difficulties in the rice industry, whichthe PPP, offer thean opportunity forJagan apparently plans to visit the Soviet bloc this year
seems to be making
plansut pressure on the
US toefinite commitment
on an aid program.
ritisnurricaTie devastation precludes consideration of independence for some years-
| GiTa tcma Ian iresi-aen^Yd^goras has gone so far in his rocent claims on the colony that he may be compellod to break relations. Theclaim, which has its origin
in tho colonial era, has beeaR0VtjtoititliASi used periodically by
governments to divert public attention from domestic problems. Ydigoras is publicly committed to "regain" the territory and is likely to press the issue in the United Nations, perhaps later this year.
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