December 1975

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Events

  • Organization of the first conference on the economic cooperation, usually called North-South Conference, gathering sixteen industrialized countries and nineteen countries in the process of development. Four commissions must prepare the conference of February 1976.

Africa

  • the Congrès refuses to continue the airlift which feeds out of weapons the Angolan organizations supported by the United States.

Americas

  • the Uruguay, 3 million inhabitants, takes into account 6200 political prisoners.

December 1st, 1975

  • a popular Democratic republic lao is proclaimed with Souphanouvong with the presidency (end in 1986). After the interruption of the American assistance, the Soviet Union installs per hundreds of the troops and the advisers in the country.
  • the Council of Europe adopts in Rome the principle of the election by the direct suffrage of the members of the the European Parliament in 1978.

December 6th, 1975

  • the first great demonstration of women with place with Rome. The feminist movement acquires a national dimension. The MLD ( Movimento di liberazione delle gives ) is the most active movement.
  • In Lebanon, the Christian militia devote to massacres Moslems (“black Saturday”). The confrontations devote the rise of the militia to the detriment of the political officials.

December 7th, 1975

Regarding the Fretilin as a threat for the integrity of the country, the Indonesia invades the Eastern Timor. In spite of the judgments of the Portugal and the United Nations, Indonesia makes this area its 24e province. The defense organizations of the Human rights estimate that this bloody annexation cost the life more 100  000 Timoreses.

December 31st, 1975

  • the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique French repurchases 30% of the actions of Framatome held by American Westinghouse and holder of the technology of the nuclear reactors with pressurized water , for the price of 1  200 tons of uranium of a value of 25 million US dollars.
  • Reform of the statute of Paris, which will have from now on a mayor.
  • At the time of its short televised speech, the president Giscard d'Estaing evokes France like “ an average power ”, which makes scandal because it breaks with the myth gaullien symbolized by the famous formula: “ France is really itself only in the forefront ” (De Gaulle, Mémoires , T. 1, the Call, Plon, 1954).

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