THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 AUGUST 1976

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• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 14, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
August 14, 1976
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August 14, 1976
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Lebanon: The fall of Tall Zatar has touched off heavy artillery
firing along Beirut's confrontation lines and the beginning
of possible reprisal activity. The Christian-controlled ra-
dio claims troops from Iraq began landing at Tyre on Thurs-
day. (Page 1)
Egypt-Libya: Egypt's lone marine infantry brigade apparently is
moving to the Libyan border. (Page 4)
Libya: The latest satellite photography shows Scud surface-to-
surface missile equipment in Libya. (Page 5)
Zambia-Rhodesia: Zambia's army has started to provide more di-
rect support for guerrillas infiltrating Rhodesia. (Page 5)
Mozambique-Rhodesia: Since the Rhodesian raid into Mozambique
earlier this week, President Machel may feel compelled to
accept a Cuban offer to send troops to Mozambique. (Page 6)
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Germany: Although the East Germans yesterday turned back West
Germans hoping to travel to West Berlin, East and West Ger-
man leaders have privately reassured each other that they
wish to reduce tensions. (Page 7)
Greece-Turkey:
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LEBANON: The fall of
Tall Zatar has touched
off heavy artillery
firing along Beirut's
confrontation lines
and the beginning of
possible reprisal ac-
tivity.
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The assault came as Arab League
and Red Cross negotiators were in
the midst of discussing evacua-
tion plans. Palestinian charges
that the Shamunists moved under
cover of a Red Cross convoy are
probably true. About 12,000
people nevertheless managed to
get out of the camp--8,000 to the
Muslim-held area of Beirut in truck
convoys hastily organized by both
Red Cross and Arab League forces,
3,000 to the Christian part of the
city in Red Cross vehicles, and
another thousand on foot to the 50X1
Muslim side.
IPhalangist leaders ac-
tively cooperated with Red Cross
and Arab League efforts to ensure
the safety of the camp's inhabi-
tants. Stories of atrocities are
nevertheless widespread throughout
Beirut, and at least some of them
undoubtedly are true. The Pha-
langes Party itself has admitted
the deaths of 10 refugees. The
chief Red Cross representative in
Beirut has announced that at least
10 nurses have been killed and 50
others are unaccounted for.
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With the fall of Tall
Zatar, the Christians
are expected to turn
their attention to Pal-
estinian strongholds
in the mountains east
of Beirut.
The stories have already begun to
spark leftist reprisals. Members
of one extreme leftist party, pos-
sibly in conjunction with members
of Fatah, surrounded several city
blocks in west Beirut and con-
ducted a house-to-house search,
apparently in an effort to track
down Christians supposedly associ-
ated with massacres at Tall Zatar.
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/the Palestinians have agree
to evacuate the area through nego-
tiations; the Shamunists are skep-
tical, but are willing to wait for
a while.
The Shamunists adamantly oppose
any kind of political compromise
at present, reasoning that the re-
sult--the presence of armed Pal-
estinians in Lebanon--would con-
stitute an unstable situation that
would erupt into fresh fighting
within two or three years. Some
leaders of the Phalanges Party are
apparently more amenable to a nego-
tiated settlement, but the Shamun-
ists believe they can persuade the
Phalangists to continue the fight.
The Shamunists are in a position
to overturn a cease-fire they do
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not accept.
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The Christian-controlled
radio claimed yesterday
that 2,100 members of
Iraq's Popular Army--
the ruling Baath Party's
militia--began landing
at the port of Tyre on
Thursday.
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We cannot confirm that such a large
contingent of Iraqi militiamen has
arrived in Lebanon, and the num-
bers may be exaggerated, but we
have had frequent indications over
the last several weeks of Iraqis
fighting there.
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The Christians have also charged
that "hundreds" of Algerians ar-
rived by ship in Sidon yesterday.
We have no other evidence of Al-
gerians being sent to Lebanon,
and tend to believe that the Chris-
tians are referring to Palestinian
volunteers recruited in Algiers.
These volunteers have also been
sent to Egypt for onward transport.
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The Israelis are unlikely
to be deflected from their
long-standing policy of
non-intervention by the
arrival of Iraqi units.
EGYPT-LIBYA: Egypt's
Zone marine infantry
brigade apparently is
in the process of mov-
ing from its home gar-
rison in Alexandria to
the Libyan border.
Israel probably would expect these
troops to move north to support
the Palestinian and leftist forces
there. The Israelis, however,
could be counted on to step up
their aerial and naval surveillance
of the Lebanese coast around Tyre.
Israeli naval vessels may also be
placed on increased alert status
to interdict and search any foreign
ships found in Israeli territorial
waters that are suspected of carry-
ing munitions or troops to support
the Palestinians.
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the bri-
gade is to arrive in the Sollum
area by this Tuesday. Although the
3,000-man unit may be used in a5oxi
conventional role, it would also
be useful for amphibious landings
in Libyal
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The deployment of the brigade to
the border may presage further
movement of Egyptian troops to
the area. For the past two days,
the Cairo radio and press have re-
ported that Egyptian armored, in-
fantry, airborne, and air defense
units are moving to the border.
Recent satellite photography shows
that Egypt has already built up
its air defenses there, but as of
late last month, few ground force
units were detected in the area.
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LIBYA: The Latest sat-
ellite photography shows
what appears to be
equipment for the Scud
surface-to-surface mis-
sile system in Libya.
ZAMBIA-RHODESIA: Zam-
bia's army has begun
providing more direct
support for Rhodesian
guerrillas infiltrating
northwestern Rhodesia
from bases in Zambia.
The equipment was seen
about 60 kilometers (35 miles)
southwest of Tripoli. Libya prob-
ably has enough Scud equipment to
outfit at least one brigade of
nine missile launchers.
The USSR has also supplied Scuds
to Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. These
290-kilometer (160-mile) missiles
probably are equipped with con-
ventional high-explosive warheads,
although they can carry nuclear as
well as chemical warheads. The
Soviets are unlikely to have pro-
vided such munitions to any of the
Middle East countries.
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The
guerrillas are probably members of
Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African
People's Union who have deserted 50)(1
guerrilla camps in Mozambique dom-
inated by a rival faction.
President Kaunda will prob-
ably restrict Zambia's military
involvement in hopes of avoiding
Rhodesian retaliatory raids.
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MOZAMBIQUE-RHODESIA:
The highly publicized
retaliatory raid by Rho-
desian security forces
into Mozambique earlier
this week has put Mo-
zambican President Ma-
chel on the spot. He
will feel compelled to
consider new ways, in-
cluding the possible
use of Cuban troops, to
provide his country
with a more effective
defense.
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Rhodesia claims 300 guerrillas and
some 30 Mozambican troops were
killed and that there were no Rho-
desian army casualties. Mozam-
bique claimed yesterday that the
Rhodesians had killed over 600 ci-
vilians.
Mozambican forces quickly retali-
ated with a series of mortar at-
tacks against the Rhodesian border
town of Umtali and nearby military
camps. Nevertheless, the Rhode-
sian raid points up the weaknesses
in Mozambique's image as the key
front-line African state suppor50X1
ing the Rhodesian insurgency.
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GERMANY: The East Ger-
mans yesterday turned
back a number of West
Germans hoping to
travel to West Berlin.
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Most of the West Germans planned
to attend a rally last night pro-
testing the Wall. East German and
Soviet officials argued that the
rally would violate agreements
pertaining to West Berlin.
The East Germans' stoppage of the
travelers, which probably is only
temporary, violates the East-West
German transit agreement; the ac-
tion also impinges on the Quadri-
partite Agreement on Berlin. The
interdiction of traffic on the
transit routes is the first since
mid-1974, when East Berlin protested
the establishment of a federal en-
vironmental office in West Berlin.
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GREECE-TURKEY:
the decision
to turn back buses carrying the
protesters will create problems
for Bonn. The Social Democratic -
Free Democratic coalition is locked
in a tight electoral contest with
the Christian Democrats, who are
trying to exploit the deteriorat-
ing political situation.
Indeed, the rally last night to
protest the Wall was sponsored by
the Christian Democrats' youth or-
ganization. The Schmidt govern-
ment, anticipating an East German
reaction, had tried to persuade
the Christian Democrats to tone
down the demonstration.
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ISoviet
Portuguese/
/Soviet
Foreign Minister Gro-
myko would like to stop
in Lisbon for two days
on his way to the UN
General Assembly ses-
sion in October.
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does not want a Soviet to be the
first important leader to visit
Portugal after the elections, pre-
ferring to have a West European
leader come first. Gromyko's
visit could be advantageous, how-
ever, if it served to placate the
Portuguese Communist Party.
From Moscow's point of view, Gro-
myko's visit would reaffirm the
Soviets' desire to maintain ties
to Portugal, despite Soares' pol-
icy of stressing development of
relations with the West. The So-
viets are probably still hoping
the Socialists will eventually
form a united front with the Com-
munists, but in the meantime ap-
pear to be trying to make the best
of the existing situation.
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