THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 12 JANUARY 1977

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006466946
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 12, 1977

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The President's Daily Brief
January 12, 1977
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Egypt:
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Lebanon: The Syrian chief of staff has acknowledged to AmbassE25X1
dor Murphy that he has no illusions about the difficulty of
collecting arms from combatants in Lebanon. (Page 2)
South Korea:
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Rhodesia: The decision of front-line African presidents--reached
at their meeting in Lusaka last weekend--to give full sup-
port to the Patriotic Front alliance of Joshua Nkomo and
Robert Mugabe has triggered a bitter response from rival
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Notes: Belgium-Libya; East Germany - West Germany; Mexico
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EGYPT:
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LEBANON: Syrian Chief
of Staff Shihabi acknowl-
edged to Ambassador
Murphy in Damascus on
Monday that Syria has
no illusions about the
difficulty of collect-
ing arms from combat-
ants in Lebanon.
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The quadripartite committee of
Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and
Kuwait--established in October to
oversee the Lebanon cease-fire--
announced last week that all heavy
weapons would be collected and all
brigades of the Palestine Libera-
tion Army would leave Lebanon by
midnight tonight. The Iraqi troops
in Lebanon also were to depart.
The Palestinians agreed in principle
in late December, after strenuous
resistance, to permit the collec-
tion of their heavy armament at
central storage points guarded
by the Arab peacekeeping force,
but have used various tactics to
postpone the implementation of
the agreement. The quadripartite
committee's decision to impose a
deadline was finally forced by
Syria, according to Shihabi, to
end further delay.
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SOUTH KOREA:
Syria regards this as only the
beginning of an arduous process.
Shihabi told the ambassador that
he expects all combatant elements
to lie about the number of arms
they have on hand and said he an-
ticipates some fighting as Syrian
forces carry out a massive arms
sweep.
It is not clear what, if any, pro-
vision has been made for arms col-
lection in southern Lebanon, al-
though Shihabi's remarks suggest
that the Palestinians may have been
allowed to retain weapons there.
Shihabi also told the ambassador
that he believes Palestinian morale
is so low in the south that cross-
border raids into Israel are un-
likely.
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RHODESIA: The decision
of front-Zine African
presidents--reached at
their meeting in Lusaka
last weekend--to give
full support to the Pa-
triotic Front alliance
of Joshua Nkomo and
Robert Mugabe has trig-
gered a bitter response
from rival Rhodesian
nationalists.
The presidents appar-
ently reached their de-
cision out of frustra-
tion over their repeated
failures to unify the
Rhodesian nationalists.
Bishop Muzorewa and Ndabaningi
Sithole, both of whom participated
with Nkomo and Mugabe at the re-
cent Geneva conference, have de-
nounced the decision.
It is not clear how far they in-
tend to go in promoting the Patri-
otic Front. They may try to get
the Organization of African Unity
and other countries to support
Nkomo and Mugabe.
The presidents apparently believe
that Sithole has little support
either within or outside Rhodesia,
and that if international support
and financial aid for Muzorewa are
reduced, his standing among Rho-
desia's blacks will decline.
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Belgian
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Libya.
East German security
police yesterday pre-
vented private visitors
from calling at the
West German mission in
East Berlin, obviously
another measure to keep
GDR citizens from ap-
plying for exit visas.
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The East German government based
its action on a regulation that
prohibits private citizens from
visiting foreign missions unless
they have received official per-
mission.
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West German
/office in East
Berlin has been sealed off from
the public for the first time
since it opened in 1974. Bonn
will find it difficult to take
effective countermeasures.
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