THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 2 DECEMBER 1974

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006007882
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 2, 1974

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The President's Daily Brief?
December 2, 1974
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LATE ITEM
USSR
The Soviets launched a manned spacecraft this
,morning. Its flight is probably related to prepara-
tions for the joint Soviet-US manned space flight
planned for next year.
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Table of Contents
Japan: Takeo Miki reportedly picked to succeed
Tanaka. (Page 1)
Cyprus: Clerides returns home satisfied with man-
date from Karamanlis and Makarios. (Page 2)
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Jordan:
Palestinians increasingly
fearful for their
future in Jordan. (Page 4)
Notes: USSR; Panama-US; Kuwait - West Germany;
India-Pakistan (Page 5)
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JAPAN
Leaders of Japan's rul-
ing Liberal Democratic Party
reportedly have selected
Takeo Miki, a 67-year-old
former deputy prime minister,
to succeed Kakuei Tanaka as
party president and prime
minister.
Miki's selection must now be ratified by the
party's executive council and the Liberal Democrats
in the Diet, but at this point these steps are mere
formalities.
Takeo Miki was a powerful political figure ten
years ago,
Miki has been friendly to the US and has sup-
ported the security treaty. He earned a degree
from the University of Southern California in 1935.
One of Miki's favorite themes is closer cooper-
ation among the developed nations of the Pacific--
Japan, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand--
with Japan serving as the economic link to less
developed Asian states. He has also been a consis-
tent advocate of close relations with Peking, and
this has earned him a "leftist" tag from the party's
right wing.
As in foreign affairs, the domestic policies
of a Miki administration are not likely to change
much from those of Tanaka.
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CYPRUS
Acting President Clerides'returns
to Nicosia today satisfied with the man-
date given him by Greek Prime Minister
Karamanlis and Archbishop Makarios to
continue negotiations with the Turkish
Cypriots. Makarios has announced that
he will travel to Cyprus on Friday.
derides' brother told the US embassy inNiCo-
sia yesterday that derides confirmed by telephone
that he has been authorized to resume substantive.
talks with Turkish Cypriot leader penktash immedi-
ately. derides added that he .11.0W had written
instructions for the negotiations.
In a communique released in Athens yesterday'
after two days of talks among Karamanlis, Makarios,
and Clerides, the Greek Prime Minister was quoted
as saying that a full understanding and common line
had been reached. Makarios said that all aspects
of the situation were discussed and that he too
was satisfied with the result. .
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JORDAN
King Husayn's recent changes in
the Jordanian government have made the
Palestinians increasingly fearful for
their future.
The measures were taken in reaction to the de-
cision at Rabat to endorse the Palestine Liberation
Organization's claim to represent all Palestinians
at the Geneva talks. Husayn has altered the consti-
tution to enable him to postpone lower house elec-
tions for up to a year when parliament is dissolved;
he has also appointed a new cabinet with much re-
duced Palestinian representation.
Before the King dissolved parliament, residents
of the East and West Bank had roughly the same num-
ber of representatives in both houses. On Saturday
Husayn announced the appointment of a new upper
house, in which Palestinian representation has shrunk
to only 20 percent. As for the lower house, it is
expected that all West Bank constituencies will have
been eliminated by the time a new election is held.
In the cabinet appointed on November 23, the
Palestinians received only four of twenty posts;
they had ten in the former one.
Husayn has thus amply demonstrated his deter-
mination to reduce Palestinian influence in Jordan.
He apparently intends, however, to stop short of
forcing the Palestinians either to pledge loyalty
to him (and be labeled traitors to the Palestinian
cause) or declare themselves citizens of a notional
Palestinian state and thereby risk losing jobs, pen-
sions, and other rights gained over the years. The
Palestinians in recent weeks had become particularly
apprehensive over reports that the King was about
?to force this unwelcome choice on them.
Husayn apparently wants to avoid the serious
unrest that such a choice would bring. Prime Min-
ister Rifai has told Ambassador Pickering that he
believes the King has now decided to postpone action
on the nationality question.
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.NOTES
USSR: A remark made two years ago by General
Secretary Brezhnev, but reported only recently,
provides further evidence that the Soviet Union's
actual defense budget has been closer to 30 billion
rubles than to the 18 billion that has been announced
annually since 1969. Thirty billion rubles is about
$90 billion at 1973 US prices. While discussing
military expenditures
in mid-1972, Brezhnev is said to have
confided that "every third ruble in the government
'budget goes for defense." The all-union budget
was 90 billion rubles that year. In 1973, a Soviet
official.at the UN let slip that Soviet military
expenditures were "about 30 billion rubles." .Our
economists' estimate of Soviet defense spending in
1972 was 26 billion rubles, but this figure did
not include expenditures for civil defense, military
.aid, or stockpiling.
Panama-US:
government specialists
are drawing up a position paper dealing with the
basic points to be contained in a status-of-forces
agreement. Such an agreement would regulate the
US military presence in Panama after a new canal
treaty goes into effect. There are signs that the
Panamanians are prepared to be.. flexible on this is-
sue, apparently in hopes of getting favorable terms
on other matters, like jurisdiction. Recently, ?
government spokesmen began holding a series of sem-
inars with businessmen, students, and other groups
to explain why Panama should settle for less than
the immediate US pullout that ultranationalists
want.
India-Pakistan: The agreement to end the nearly
ten-year-old ban on bilateral trade could pave the
way for talks on renewing diplomatic relations,
which were broken in 1971. Pakistan has pressed
for early restoration of diplomatic ties, but India
has insisted that there be further progress on other
issues first.
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