THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 17 DECEMBER 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006466925
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 16
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 17, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
December 17, 1976
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Table of Contents
OPEC:
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Palestinians-Israel: Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation seem to be signaling willingness to adopt a moderate
approach to possible negotiations with Israel, but the Is-
raelis are disregarding the signals. (Page 2)
Notes: Turkey-Israel;
At Annex
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Soviet media treatment
of the OPEC meeting has
been sympathetic to the
call for a price in-
crease for oils but
higher oil prices will
be a mixed blessing for
the Soviets.
PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL:
Leaders of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organi-
zation seem to be sig-
naling their willing-
ness to adopt a moder-
ate approach to possible
negotiations with Is-
rael without committing
themselves publicly to
concessions that might
deprive them of bar-
gaining power.
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Soviet hard-currency earnings will
rise because of the higher prices
Moscow will be able to charge Euro-
pean importers for its oil. There
have been reports that the Soviets
were holding back on new oil deliv-
ery contracts with East European
countries pending a decision in
Qatar.
The Soviets will be hurt by higher
Arab oil prices, although the quan-
tities purchased from the OPEC
countries are relatively small.
The Soviet trade balance will feel
the effects of any economic down-
turn in the West caused by an in-
crease in world oil prices.
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At the meeting of the PLO's 42-man
central committee this week, un-
identified Palestinians apparently
let it be known to the press that
PLO chief Yasir Arafat was making
a major effort to get the rest of
the committee behind him in agree-
ing to accept a negotiated settle-
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If a meeting of the
Palestine National
Council is held early
next year, the PLO will
presumably return to
a discussion of nego-
tiating positions.
Israeli leaders are for
now disregarding the
PLO signals in the be-
lief that the Palestin-
ians do not in fact have
anything of substance
to offer that would
satisfy Israeli demands.
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The committee's final communique,
however, broke no new ground.
Arafat may have judged it unwise
to push the central committee on
the issue. He faces possible
challenges to his authority from
both supporters of Syria--who are
moderates--and from the extremists
who object to any softening of the
PLO line.
A meeting of the PNC, the Pales-
tinian "parliament," is long over-
due and widely considered imminent,
but there are some indications
that Arafat is in no hurry to see
it held. The rejectionist fedayeen
groups have promised to attend a
council meeting, and Arafat pre-
sumably fears a concerted effort
to oust him.
The Israelis also continue to hope
that their refusal to deal with
the PLO will eventually force the
organization's Arab patrons to
back off from support for Pales-
tinian statehood. Several Israeli
officials have expressed confidence
to the US embassy that most Arab
states do not want a strong PLO
and that, in the final analysis,
no Arab state will mortgage prog-
ress on its own territorial is-
sues to the interests of the Pal-
estinians.
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On the procedural ques-
tion of PLO represen-
tation at the Geneva
conference, the Israe-
lis still insist that
they will not nego-
tiate with the organi-
zation, but they are
giving mixed signals
on the feasibility of
dealing with a joint
Arab delegation.
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Israel,
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French President Gis-
card announced yester-
day that France will
no longer sell nuclear
spent-fuel reprocessing
plants to developing
countries.
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The announcement apparently will
not affect the planned sale of a
reprocessing plant to Pakistan,
although the French would appar-
ently welcome a Pakistani deci-
sion to cancel the contract.
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