THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 12 SEPTEMBER 1975

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006014900
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: September 12, 1975

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The President's Daily Brief
September 12, 1975
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September 12, 1975
Table of Contents
Egypt: Cairo is demonstrating its unwillingness to
brook open opposition to the Sinai disengage-
ment agreement. (Page 1)
Lebanon: The majority of Muslims and Christians
appear to have welcomed army intervention in
civil unrest. (Page 3)
Portugal: Government leaders are working to over-
come the latest obstacle to the formation of
a new government--Communist refusal to cooper-
ate. (Page 4)
Notes: USSR-Egypt; USSR; USSR (Pages 5 and 6)
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EGYPT
Cairo is demonstrating its un-
willingness to brook open opposition
to the Sinai disengagement agreement.
Yesterday Egypt ordered the cessation
of Voice of Palestine broadcasts from
Cairo; earlier in the week Egypt
threatened to recall its ambassador
from Syria.
The Voice of Palestine is an autonomous Pal-
estinian program that uses Egyptian broadcast fa-
cilities and is one of several similar programs
broadcast at the sufferance of Arab governments.
Egypt, angered by a spate of attacks on the Sinai
accord included in the program, has replaced it
with one that is broadcast on behalf on the Pales-
tinians but with its content under Egyptian control.
The Egyptian minister who failed to muzzle the Pal-
estinians has been dismissed.
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Following President Sadat's lead, the Cairo
press has ended its usual restraint toward Syria
and is engaging in direct verbal battle. The media
have been less harsh on the Palestinians, probably
because Cairo is less surprised and less disturbed
by Palestinian attacks.
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LEBANON
Army units moved into position
between Tripoli and Zagharta yesterday,
effectively ending the fighting in north-
ern Lebanon. A few leftist and Muslim
politicians in Tripoli have criticized
the cabinet's decision to bring in the
army, but the majority of Muslims and
Christians appear to have welcomed it.
The country's principal Muslim political lead-
ers, who reside in Beirut and ordinarily oppose any
use of the army for internal security purposes,
have so far withheld comment. This is partly out
of deference to Prime Minister Karami, who heads
one important Sunni Muslim faction, but also re-
flects admiration for the concessions he has been
able to wring from Lebanon's conservative Christian
leaders.
According to press reports from Beirut, the
cabinet yesterday approved a bill reorganizing the
army to establish the "command council" proposed
by Karami in a policy speech last month. Although
no details have been made public, the council pre-
sumably would include representatives of Lebanon's
major religious sects and have the final word on
such matters as army deployments and promotions.
Loss of these prerogatives would reduce signifi-
cantly the power of the army commander, who by cus-
tom is always a Maronite Christian.
Proposals to reorganize the army have in the
past run into strong opposition from Christian
groups in parliament. Karami's position has been
strengthened considerably by his handling of the
current crisis, however, and his proposals now may
win greater backing from centrist Christian politi-
cians hoping to avoid another round of violence.
Lebanese and Palestinian radicals backed by
Iraq have called for a general strike on Monday to
protest deployment of the army. Their call is not
likely to be heeded unless the continuing cabinet
talks on army reform break down.
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PORTUGAL
President Costa Gomes and his
prospective prime minister, Admiral
Azevedo, are working to overcome the
latest obstacle to forming a new gov-
ernment--a Communist refusal to coop-
erate.
Military leaders want the Communist, Socialist,
and Popular Democratic parties to join in the forma-
tion of a "national unity" government. The Social-
ists and Popular Democrats have agreed with the
military on the terms under which they would partic-
ipate, but the Communists are balking in an apparent
effort to get better terms for themselves./
On the Atlantic island of Madeira, meanwhile,
a serious threat to Lisbon's authority seems to be
gathering steam. On Wednesday, the pro-independence
forces there threatened to expel all those opposed
to independence. The list of potential expellees
includes the chief of staff of the Portuguese forces
in Madeira, all continental officers stationed there,
and all members of the Communist Party.
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NOTES
Ambassador EiZts in Cairo has heard
the Soviet Snion
will be withdrawing its four MIG-25 aircraft from
Egypt in the next day or so.
In view of the new
strains in Soviet-Egyptian relations, Moscow may
have decided that this is the time to pull the
planes out.
The Soviets are searching for a new test site
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty, due to become
effective March 31, 1976, will require each side
to designate the test sites to be used after the
effective date and to give calibration yields and
geological data for each site selected. If the
Soviets were to continue testing at present sites,
they would be obligated to give calibration yields
and geological data for these sites.
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The Soviets are implying that our development
of new cruise missiles is an effort to circumvent
the spirit of the SALT I Interim Agreement.
Wednesday's issue of Red Star, the Soviet mili-
tary daily, described how US attack submarines
could be equipped with strategic cruise missiles,
in effect, circumventing the SALT I limitation re-
stricting the US submarine-launched ballistic mis-
siles to 41 submarines. The Interim Agreement says
nothing about cruise missiles. The Red Star article
is significant for its revelation of concern in
the Soviet military over how to monitor cruise mis-
siles on submarines. It may imply resistance within
the Soviet military to any SALT II agreement that
fails to limit US naval strategic cruise missiles.
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