THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 27 SEPTEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977704
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: September 27, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
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SUPPLEMENT TO PDB OF SEPTEMBER 26
Cabled to Kissinger In Paris
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MIDDLE EAST
There is still no word on the six American hostages
who apparently remain in fedayeen hands. The six include
two Department of Defense officials, one foreign service
officer, two Rabbis who hold dual American and Israel
citizenship, and one scientist from New York. The reten-
tion of these six may indicate that the PFLP still hopes to
use them in bargaining with the Jordanians or to secure the
release of Palestinians in Europe and Israel. Meanwhile, we
continue to receive reports that the PFLP is threatening
attacks against US installations in the Middle East ard may
attempt further hijackings./
King Husayn has named a 13-man civilian-military cabi-
net, headed by Ahmad Tuclan, a Palestinian known in the past
for being sympathetic to the fedayeen. The new government
has seven civilians--six of them Palestinian including Tut:Ian--
and retains five military men from the previous all-military
government. The army's retention of key ministerial portfolios
indicates that it continues to exert the strongest influence
in the country, and that the King and army have not softened
their attitudes toward the fedayeen. Tut:Ian's appointment is
a gesture to the Palestinians but he is not a strong personality
and will find it difficult to hold his ?own with the military
members still in the cabinet.
Although security has been established in most areas
of Amman, fighting continues in the areas around the major
refugee camps in the city. Radio Amman has announed that
the around-tht-clock curfew will be lifted for five hours
daily. There was fighting yesterday in the Zarga area, 16
miles northeast of Amman, when army forces attempted to ad-
vance on the town which the fedayeen claim still to control.
Sudanese Premier Numayri has returned
to Cairo with his delegation and attacked Husayn for "an
organized plot and premeditated plan to crush the Palestinian
people." Husayn, stung by the charge, has accused Numayri
of "serious distortions and defamations" which would aggra-
vate the situation./
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Government forces are conducting clearing operations
around Tang Kouk, following their reoccupation of the vil-
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