THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 MARCH 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993191
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: March 14, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
14 March 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
14 March 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Moscow is increasingly concerned that the West German
parliament may reject Chancellor Brandt's Eastern
treaties. (Page 1)
Japan/
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North Vietnamese officials indicated a hardening of
their position on negotiations with Saigon in recent
conversations with the Norwegian ambassador. (Page 3)
/Somalia/
/Soviet
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The Israelis are building large patrol boats for use
in the Red Sea. (Page 5)
King Husayn plans to present his proposal for West
Bank autonomy after a peace settlement before Jor-
dan's parliament tomorrow. (Page 6)
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USSR - WEST GERMANY
Moscow is increasingly concerned that West
Germany's parliament may reject Brandt's Eastern
, treaties. The Soviet press has made stinging at-
tacks on the Christian Democrats who oppose the
treaties, and has warned of "serious" dama e to West
German if the treaties are defeated.
Brandt is seeking through the Soviets some
tangible concession from the East Germans
that will allow him to answer Christian
Democratic criticism that his policies
have failed to improve the lot of the East
German people.
/there is evidence that some Soviet
leaders, in particular politburo member
Shelest, have reservations concerning
detente with Bonn. Non-ratification is
not likely in itself to cost party chief
Brezhnev his job because some of those
individuals who might support Shelest on
this policy could be Brezhnev's most loyal
supporters on other issues. It would,
however, make him more cautious toward the
detente policies he has been pushing dur-
ing the last 18 months.
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JAPAN - NORTH VIETNAM
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NORTH VIETNAM
Premier Pham Van Dong took a tough stand on the
issue of negotiations with the Saigon regime when
Norwegian Ambassador P. G. Rayne came down from Pe-
king to present his credentials last week. Accord-
ing to Rayne, Dong said that before the Communists
would discuss any political deal with Saigon, the
South Vietnamese Government apparatus would have to
be "purified" and all "Quislings eliminated." He
flatly rejected the notion that Thieu's removal alone
might be sufficient to get talks going between the
two sides, and he added that this could be conveyed
to "Western governments so that they would know"
Hanoi's position.
Rayne said that a North Vietnamese Foreign Min-
istry official virtually acknowledged later that the
Premier's formulation represented a hardening of the
North Vietnamese demands on a political settlement.
The official hinted that there had been differences
within the Hanoi leadership on this issue.
Rayne claims he came away from his conversations
with the impression that relations between the North
Vietnamese and Chinese were "ice cold." He says he
got the impression from lower-ranking North Vietnam-
ese and Cambodian officials in Hanoi that the leader-
ship was particularly troubled by China's failure to
censure US bombing attacks on the North in the final
US-China summit communiqug.
The Premier's reported statements fit with
the unbending position he has consistently
taken since the US made public its eight-
point proposal in January, and his remark
that this word could be passed to other
Western governments gives his pronounce-
ment an unmistakably official ring.
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SOMALIA-USSR
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LEBANO
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ISRAEL
The Israelis are building six large patrol
boats for use in the Red Sea
Two are currently under
construction at the Haifa shipyard and are to be
commissioned this fall. The Israelis have copied
from Saar-class boats purchased from France, but
have extended the length to 180 feet and made other
modifications to permit them to conduct extended
patrols in a hot climate. The boats will be armed
with the 11-nm Gabriel anti-ship missile and with
76-mm. guns.
The new boats will enable Israel to chal-
lenge Egypt's current naval superiority
in the Red Sea. Israel now has in the
area only 12 coastal-size patrol boats
equipped with machine guns. Egypt cur-
rently maintains in the Red Sea two de-
stroyers, three Komar missile patrol
boats, and three PT boats.
The new patrol boats also will allow the
Israelis to police the mouth of the Red
Sea where Palestinian guerrillas, oper-
ating out of Yemen (Aden) attacked an
Elat-bound tanker last year.
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JORDAN-ISRAEL
King Husayn has informed Ambassador Brown that
he will present his proposal for post-settlement
West Bank autonomy to a joint session of the Jorda-
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King s formu a would create a two part Jordanian-
Palestinian kingdom. Each region would control its
own internal affairs while a national government,
under Husayn, would direct foreign policy, the mili-
tary establishments and other areas of national in-
terest. The new Palestinian state could also in-
clude the Gaza Strip.
Husayn has consulted senior army and intelli-
gence officials as well as Palestinian notables,
including West Bank representatives. According to
Husayn, the response from the West Bankers was over-
whelmingly favorable. He has also sought the en-
dorsement of other Arab governments. Kamal Adham,
a Saudi royal adviser and King Faysal's brother-in-
law, has informed US officials that while Saudi
Arabia did not object to the proposal, he personally
doubted that his government would go along. Adham
also said that President Sadat, during his visit to
Saudi Arabia last week, said he had come to favor
a West Bank Palestinian entity.
Husayn's public presentation of his pro-
posal, which he first raised with US of-
ficials in early February, demonstrates
his determination to retain at least nom-
inal control over the West Bank in any
final settlement. A major difficulty with
his plan is its location of the capital
of the Palestinian state in East Jerusalem.
Israel is unyielding in its insistence
that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and can
never again be divided.
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INDIA
The ruling Congress Party's sweep in state
elections last week has given Prime Minister Gandhi
power surpassing even that exercised by her father
in his heyday. The results in 16 of India's 21
stated indicate that the party has consolidated its
position nationwide, even in the few remaining
strongholds of opposition parties. It appears to
have solid majorities in nearly all the states. In
West Bengal, incomplete returns indicate that the
Congress will trounce its arch-rival in the state,
the Communist Party/Marxist.
The rival "Organization Congress" has lost its
credibility as an opposition force. The two chal-
lengers-on the right, the Jana Sangh and the
Swatantra have suffered setbacks in the several
states where they have cultivated a marginal follow-
ing over the years. At the other end of the politi-
cal spectrum, the pro-Moscow Communist Party of
India and the internationally independent Communist
Party/Marxist have won only minimal representation.
Since assuming the prime ministership in
January 1966, Mrs. Gandhi has steadily
maneuvered politicians and parties to her
advantage, and in the process has seem-
ingly been able to reverse a trend in the
1960s toward devolution of power from New
Delhi to the states. She has been aided
by a string of record crops produced by
ample monsoon rains and the "green revolu-
tion," a growing sense of Indian national-
ism, and, most recently, the military vic-
tory over Pakistan.
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