Plea for Portugal bases
NZPA-Reuter Lisbon The United States has asked for military facilities in mainland Portugal for the first time in exchange for increased United States help in rearming the country’s military forces, said Portuguese officials. The officials, who asked not to be named, said that the United States had asked to build a satellite tracking station and also wanted access to a number of air bases on the mainland.
At present, the United States only has use of the strategic. Lajes air base in Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands. The United States and Portugal earlier this month began formal negotiations in Lisbon on renewing the Lajes agreement, which expires on February 4. American Embassy officials said that the United States was seeking a broader security relationship with Portugal. They said that the United states delegation at the Lajes talks had made a number of proposals for access to extra facilities, but they declined to give details.
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Press, 31 December 1982, Page 10
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