THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 JUNE 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006015128
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 19
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 5, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
June 5, 1976
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Syria-Lebanon: Damascus seems determined to introduce more
troops into Lebanon, if necessary, in order to reinforce a
durable cease-fire. (Page 1)
Syria-Israel:
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France-Lebanon: Paris is keeping open its offer to sen'5X1 - token
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peacekeeping force to Lebanon. (Page 3)
Arab States:
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Notes: USSR (SS-NX-17); USSR (food shortages); Israel-Turkey
(Pages 5 and 6)
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SYRIA-LEBANON: Damas-
cus reportedly is pre-
paring for possible
further military ad-
vances in Lebanon.
An armored brigade at Al Harak in
southern Syria has been placed on
full alert for possible movement
into Lebanon. This unit is one of
only two armored brigades defend-
ing the southern Golan Heights.
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The Syrian troops that moved into
eastern Lebanon early this week
have tightened their control over
the area around Zahlah, and ap-
parently succeeded yesterday in
forcing leftist and Palestinian
elements to withdraw from Chris-
tian territory west of Zahlah.
Although most of the Syrian troops
are holding their positions near
Zahlah, an armored battalion that
had been based at Al Masna repor-
tedly moved south to Rashayya
Thursday to take over positions
held by the renegade Lebanese Arab
Army.
There reportedly have been some
isolated clashes between Syrian
and Palestinian troops. On at
least one occasion Syrians skir-
mished with Palestine Liberation
Army troops.
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SYRIA-ISRAEL:
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The PLA previously served as an in-
strument of Syrian policy in Leba-
non, but has become an increas-
ingly unreliable prop as Damascus'
differences with Yasir Arafat and
independent Palestinian groups
have sharpened. The PLA defec-
tions undoubtedly influenced Sy-
ria's decision to send greater num-
bers of its own forces into Leba-
non.
Recent private comments by several
senior Syrian officials tend to
confirm that Damascus is deter-
mined to introduce more troops in-
to Lebanon, if necessary, in order
to enforce a durable cease-fire.
One of President Asad's close ad-
visers told a US official early
this week that Damascus "cannot
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FRANCE-LEBANON: When
Syrian Foreign Minister
Khaddam was in Paris
yesterday, the French
publicly reiterated
their offer to send a
small peacekeeping
force to Lebanon.
ARAB STATES:
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We have no indication that the Sy-
rians, who hold the key to whether
the French decide to move, have re-
quested French assistance. Syria
has mixed feelings about the use
of French troops. It sees their
involvement as a possible way of
patrolling Christian areas other-
wise off limits to Syrian and Pal-
estinian troops, yet it is reluc-
tant to allow Paris to proceed
while there remains any hope that
Damascus can salvage a negotiated
peace and get full credit.
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The Soviets have launched
their new submarine-
launched ballistic mis-
sile?the SS-NX-17--
seven times since the
test program began a
year ago, and we now
are able to estimate
some of the missile's
key characteristics.
Shortages of food, es-
pecially meat, are
spreading and becoming
more severe in the USSR.
NOTES
The SS-NX-17, which is a possible
follow on to the SS-N-6, has two
stages and is the first Soviet sub-
marine-launched ballistic missile
to use solid propellants. It car-
ries a post-boost vehicle, but so
far we have not noted a MIRVed pay-
load on any of the flights.
The SS-NX-17 can probably deliver
a payload of about 1,200 kilograms
(2,650 pounds) to a range of about
1,675 nautical miles. While only one
reentry vehicle was observed during
each of the tests to date, the
missile's payload weight is large
enough to include three MIRVs.
Ambassador Stoessel reports that
on a recent trip to Siberia he
found the food situation consider-
ably worse than reported during
the past winter. In Khabarovsk,
embassy officials saw long lines
of shoppers waiting to buy poor
quality pork. At a meat store in
Irkutsk queues of shoppers held
coupons, suggesting that formal
rationing is occurring there.
Western press reports that food
shortages have caused some local-
ized demonstrations have not been
confirmed, but there is evidence
that Soviet officials are concerned
about the possibility of such out-
bursts.
Although the appearance of spring
vegetables should ease the over-
all situation, shortages of meat
and meat products will intensify.
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