THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 3 NOVEMBER 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
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• Publication Date: November 3, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
November 3, 1976
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November 3, 1976
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China: The Chinese leadership yesterday issued an "announcement"
designed to reassure both domestic and foreign audiences
that there will be no sudden break in Chinese policies at
home or abroad. (Page 1)
Lebanon: President Sarkis and Christian leaders reportedly agreed
yesterday on a plan for policing the cease-fire, but leftists
are likely to object to it. (Page 2)
Rhodesia-Mozambique:
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Notes: UK; Panama; India; Burundi; North Korea (Pages 5, 6, and 7)
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tACHINA: The Chinese
leadership yesterday
issued an "announce-
ment" designed to re-
assure both domestic
and foreign audiences
that there will be no
sudden break in Chinese
policies at home or
abroad.
In the international
sphere, the statement
stresses that China's
current foreign policy
was "personally laid
down" by the late Chair-
man and strongly im-
plies that this policy
is immutable.
The "announcement"--an unusual
form of communication--is the re-
gime's first authoritative pro-
nouncement on domestic and inter-
national affairs. Issued in the
name of the party Central Commit-
tee, the standing committee of the
National People's Congress (the
Chinese legislative body), the
state council and the party's
military affairs commission, the
statement is ostensibly a message
of thanks to foreign individuals
and organizations which offered ex-
pressions of sympathy to China on
the passing of Mao Tse-tung.
On the domestic front the "an-
nouncement" may be meant to re-
assure those in China who sympa-
thized with the ideological posi-
tion of the fallen leftists that,
despite the fact that the current
Chinese leadership is now composed
of "centrist" and rightist civil-
ians and of important military
men, the Maoist vision of a revolu-
tionary society will not be aban-
doned. Perhaps significantly,
there is no reference to the need
to preserve "new socialist things,"
a catch-phrase used by the deposed
leftists to emphasize the policies
and organizational forms spawned
by the Cultural Revolution, nor
is there any mention of the left-
ist-inspired campaign to criticize
former vice premier Teng Hsiao-ping.
This section seems designed to put
to rest speculation that Chinese
policy toward the Soviet Union is
subject to change now that Mao is
dead and the leftists have been
eliminated from the leadership.
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e. LEBANON: President
Sarkis and Christian
leaders reportedly
agreed yesterday on a
plan that would allow
Christian soldiers from
the regular Lebanese
army to serve in the
Arab League peace-
keeping force and to
patrol the Christian
side of the major con-
frontation lines.
The "announcement" also states
that China will "unite with all
the genuine Marxist-Leninist
parties and organizations the
world over and carry the struggle
against modern revisionism"--read
the USSR--"through to the end."
This reference may in fact signal
that Peking is prepared to resume
its paternal relationship to the
various so-called Marxist-Lenin-
ist groups that Peking organized
in the early 1960s as a means of
countering Soviet international
influence. In 1971 China largely
abandoned its position of patron
to these non-ruling parties, rec-
ognizing that they were for the
most part ineffective and perhaps
more trouble than they were worth.
If the new Chinese statement does
in fact mean a reassessment of the
usefulness of these groups, it
suggests that the current Chinese
leadership may remain somewhat
skeptical as to the degree China
can rely on the US connection to
offset what it sees as worldwide
Soviet pressures against Peking.
Signs of such skepticism were ap-
parent in the autumn of 1975 and
again last summer, when the left-
ist leaders still retained power.
The plan is intended to appease
Christian militia leaders who op-
pose the movement of Muslim peace-
keeping troops into Christian ter-
ritory. Arab League mediator
Hasan Sabri al-Khuli refused to
reveal specifics of the plan to
the press or the number of regular
army troops that will participa25xl
in the deterrent force.
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Leftist chief Kamal Jum-
blatt and Muslim leaders
will object strongly to
any arrangement that
subjects them to po-
licing by the Syrians
and other Arabs while
the Christians, in ef-
fect, monitor them-
selves.
The Chris-
tian contingent would presumably
be directly responsible to Sarkis
rather than to other Christian
leaders and would be drawn from
those who have had the least in-
volvement in the conflict.
Militants like Jumblatt will almost
certainly accuse Sarkis of caving
into the demands of his fellow
Christians, and they may try to
use the issue as a pretext for
breaking their already tenuous
commitment to the cease-fire. The
Beirut press speculated yesterday
that some Lebanese Muslim forces
might be allowed to join the
peace-keeping force to create the
appearance of evenhandedness.
The Saudi and Sudanese contingents
that will augment the Arab League
force reportedly arrived in Damas-
cus on Monday, and some of their
troops may have reached Lebanon
yesterday.
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Rhodesia
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Mozambique
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RHODESIA-MOZAMBI UE:
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On Monday night, a small band of
guerrillas attacked a hotel in
Wankie, according to a government
communique, killing one black ci-
vilian and wounding two others.
This was the second attack on a
hotel in western Rhodesia in three
days.
figures
released by the Salisbury govern-
ment indicate that casualties on
both sides were unusually high
last month.
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kw Indian Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi's govern-
ment yesterday was for-
mally given broad new
powers by the lower
house of parliament.
& The Burundi armed forces
have reportedly estab-
lished a 29-man Supreme
Revolutionary Council,
assisted by an execu-
tive committee, to run
the country following
the ouster of President
Micombero and his gov-
ernment on Monday.
A new constitutional amendment un-
equivocally establishes the prime
minister as the supreme authority
in the government and incorporates
a number of repressive measures
that have been in effect since
Gandhi imposed a national emer-
gency in June 1975. The amendment
curtails the power of the judici-
ary to challenge legislative and
executive actions and to safeguard
civil liberties. Gandhi is author-
ized to make additional constitu-
tional changes during the next two
years to remove any "difficulties"
that stand in the way of imple-
menting the new amendment.
The upper house and at least half
the 22 state governments must also
agree to the amendment, but the
Congress Party's majority in the
upper house and its control of
most state governments make these
steps largely a formality.
The council is headed by Colonel
Jean Bagaza, who apparently led
the coup.
US observers have considered Colo-
nel Bagaza friendly but of modest
ability. He has served as deputy
chief of staff since 1972 and re-
portedly is a cousin of the de-
posed president.
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North Korea continues
to increase its fleet
of attack submarines,
which now totals 14
with at least 10 of
them operational. Four
more are believed to
be under construction.
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The submarines provide the North
Koreans with a limited but grow-
ing ability to intercept shipping
off the Korean peninsula and add
to their anti-submarine warfare
and coastal defense capabilities.
The North Koreans, with Chinese
help, are producing R-class sub-
marines and have been given four
W-class submarines by the USSR.
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