THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 OCTOBER 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993566
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 11, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
11 October 1972
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LATE ITEM
Pierre Susini, France's delegate-general in
Hanoi was reported buried in the wreckage of his
mission early this morning when it was said to have
been almost completely destroyed in an air raid.
According to an initial report of a French Press
Agency correspondent who was in the building at the
time, Susini survived, and was seen talking to his
?rescuers. A TASS report from Hanoi indicated that
Susini is presently in the hospital and that other
personnel of the mission were injured.
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
11 October 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
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On Page 2, we assess the Shah of Iran's current
visit to Moscow.
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The Torrijos government may wait until next year to
press its case on the canal treaty. (Page 5)
Soviet party boss Brezhnev appears to be playing
down his pre-eminence in foreign policy. (Page 6)
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IRAN-USSR
The Shah of Iran arrived in Moscow yesterday on ?a
visit he did not particularly wish to make. The So-
viets had been urging him to come, pressing him hard
after President Sadat forced the USSR's military ad-
visers out of Egypt. The Shah acquiesced, but only
after he pointedly sent Empress Farah on a visit to
China.
The Soviets will try to reassure the Shah again, but
will also no doubt let him know of their annoyance
over some aspects of Iran's foreign policy, espe-
cially the warming of ties with China. Moscow has
always been chary of Iran's close ties with the West,
but in recent times has been more realistic in its
approach to this relationship.
Just six weeks ago, the Soviets and Iranians signed
a protocol for utilization of $125 million in cred-
its to expand a steel mill and build a petrochemical
plant. We do not believe, therefore, that a major
economic pact is likely to result from this visit.
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PANAMA
The inauguration today of Demetrio Lakas as con-
stitutional president does not change the equation
of power in Panama. General Torrijos remains the
dominant political figure and clearly intends to re-
main so for the indefinite future.
Torrijos evidently intends to go slowly
for the next few months in his conduct of
relations with the VS. He is, however,
building toward a new campaign to extract
more concessions on the canal issue. We
expect that in 1973 the long-stalled canal
treaty negotiations may well become the
central focus of his attention.
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USSR: Party boss Brezhnev appear S to be trying
to down-play his personal identification with the
Soviet Union's foreign policy. The most recent is-
sue of Kommunist (the party's ideological journal),
for example, contains an authoritative exposition
of Soviet foreign policy which is interesting for
its comparison of Khrushchev's "reckless and will-
ful" approach to foreign affairs to today's "scien-
tific" and "collective" decision-making, a point
rarely made in recent years. The article's treat-
ment suggests a conscious effort to counter the im-
pression that Brezhnev makes foreign policy single-
handedly. The same tendency was evident in the re-
marks of a public party lecturer in Leningrad on 24
September. The lecturer, while talking of the con-
siderable importance of Dr. Kissinger's most recent
visit to Moscow and of Brezhnev's key role in the
talks, also noted that Foreign Minister Gromyko,
Ambassador Dobrynin, and "responsible central com-
mittee official" Aleksandrov were "always present"
during the discussions.
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