THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 FEBRUARY 1974

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006007683
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: February 25, 1974

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The President's Daily Brief
February 25, 1974
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
February 25, 1974
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
President Sadat has reportedly urged Islamic Summit
delegates from oil-producing countries to help relax
the oil embargo on the US. (Page 1)
President Thieu has retired several general officers
and province chiefs as part of his effort to stream-
line his government and weed out poor performers.
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ISLAMIC SUMMIT
President Sadat has reportedly urged stmmit con-
ference delegates from oil-producing countries to help
relax the oil embargo on the US.
Al-Ahram editor Ali Amin told a US Embassy officer
in Lahore that Sadat has met individually with delega-
tions from the oil states. Amin indicated that the
delegates all had agreed to recommend that the US be
given "most favored nation" status at the next con-
ference in Geneva of the Organization of Arab Producing
and Exporting Countries. In a meeting later with re-
porters, Sadat announced the Arab ministers would meet
next month and expressed his hope for some relaxation
of the oil ban.
Amin also indicated that Sadat was confident
Secretary Kissinger would have a disengagement agree-
ment between Israel and Syria by the time of his
visit to Egypt later this week. Sadat told the re-
porters that progress on Syrian disengagement would
be a "good step toward easing everything."
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SOUTH VIETNAM
President Thieu has retired several general offi-
cers and province chiefs as part of his current effort
to streamline his government and weed out poor per-
formers. Greater efficiency and tighter centraliza-
tion of day-to-day administrative operations under
Prime Minister Khiem were among the major aims of the
cabinet reorganization that Thieu ordered last week.
The retirement order affected at least ten gen-
erals and a few province chiefs, most of whom are army
colonels. Thieu made his decision at a meeting on
February 21 attended by Prime Minister Khiem, Vice
President Huong, and Joint General Staff Chairman Vien.
At Vien's recommendation, 11122I_Es_Iha_a.q.a.tws
marked for retirement were without_current assignments,
lieTrareirlfer-prfsITIon8- in the bureaucracy-,- OF serving
abroad as ambassadors. TIIE:hama-bpen accused publicly
(2.5-r.,:cgatial. Although details are not yet available-
'on the province chiefs affected, the meeting discussed
the dismissal of as many as 12 deemed lacking either
competence or honesty.
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