THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 NOVEMBER 1975

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006014946
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: November 5, 1975

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The President's Daily Brief
November 5, 1975
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November 5, 1975
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Lebanon: The cease-fire held yesterday for the
fourth day. (Page 1)
Angola: The National Front for the Liberation of
Angola and the National Union for the Total
Independence of Angola are setting up joint
committees to coordinate future political and
military activities. (Page 2)
Turkey-Cyprus:
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Notes: Syria-Israel; Spanish Sahara; Portugal;
Bangladesh; Thailand-Laos (Pages 5 and 6)
At Annex,
Lebanon.
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LEBANON
The cease-fire in Beirut held yes-
terday for a fourth day.
Army units reportedly have opened several key
highways into the capital. Christian and Muslim
militiamen have thinned out some of their forces
in the residential Qantari section and in the luxury
hotel district of the city. Neither side, however,
has shown any willingness to relinquish its vantage
points. The tense atmosphere in the downtown area
has kept the citizens off the streets, despite
Prime Minister Karami's repeated appeals for gov-
ernment and private employees to return to work.
Political attention, meanwhile, continues to
focus on the rift between Karami and Interior Min-
ister Shamun. Shamun apparently boycotted the meet-
ing of the national dialogue committee on Monday.
Shamun and the Prime Minister were to meet privately
yesterday, presumably to iron out their differences
before today's cabinet meeting.
Karami reportedly has made some behind-the-
scenes headway in negotiations with Christian and
Palestinian leaders, despite the poor showing of
the dialo ue committee. I
preparations are underway for a direct
la ogue between Phalanges Party leaders and the
Palestine Liberation Organization.
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ANGOLA
The National Front for the Liberation
of Angola and the National Union for the
Total Independence of Angola have announced
that they are setting up joint committees
to coordinate future political and mili-
tary activities. These committees prob-
ably represent a first step in the estab-
lishment of a government to rival the one
that the Popular Movement for the Libera-
tion of Angola is expected to proclaim on
November 11.
Cooperation and communication between the Na-
tional Front and National Union groups, however,
are poor. Their respective troops do not get along
well with each other in the field, and military
leaders on both sides believe the other group is
trying to take credit for recent battlefield suc-
cesses.
The two groups also expressed their willing-
ness to confer with the Popular Movement in Kampala,
as proposed by President Amin, the chairman of the
Organization of African Unity. They made no ref-
erence, however, to the cease-fire that Amin called
for last weekend. The National Front and the Na-
tional Union are in no hurry to agree to any cease-
fire as their joint force moves to recapture the
Benguela-Lobito rail and port complex in central
Angola. Heavy fighting apparently is taking place
in that area and the two groups seem confident they
will be able to take both towns soon. Their suc-
cess would significantly strengthen the credibility
of any government they may proclaim.
The hard-pressed Popular Movement has sent a
representative to Kampala. The Movement needs a
respite in order
to bolster its defenses at Benguela, Lobito and
.around Luanda.
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The Soviet media are devoting increasing at-
tention to Angola as the scheduled date for inde-
pendence draws near. Recent commentaries in Pravda,
I2vestiya, and Red Star portray the Soviet-backed
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola as
beleaguered patriots struggling against an alignment
of forces--including Chinese, American, and South
African--bent on reversing Angola's movement toward
independence and retarding Africa's decolonization
process. The articles apparently are designed to
prepare the domestic audience for a setback to a
client that Moscow has touted as a successful pro-
Soviet liberation movement. By emphasizing foreign
intervention on behalf of the Popular Movement's
adversaries, Moscow may also be attempting to jus-
tify to a foreign audience its own stepped-up as-
sistance to the Popular Movement.
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NOTES
Morocco's efforts to dissuade Spain and Algeria
from seeking a UN-sponsored solution of the Spanish
Sahara dispute apparently were unsuccessful.
Spanish leaders reportedly told Moroccan Prime
Minister Osman that negotiations could continue only
under UN auspices and provided Morocco called off
its planned mass march into Spanish Sahara. Osman
has stated that talks will continue, but that the
march will go on. Morocco continues to use the date
for beginning the march as its trump card in talks
with Spain. It may offer a further delay in the
hope of wringing some concession from Madrid.
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Portuguese Prime Minister Azevedo paid a visit
to the provinces yesterday to enlist popular support
for his government.
Azevedo's trip to the southern resort city of
Faro also is an expression of support for the newly
installed non-Communist civil governor and for the
commander of the southern military region. Before
the Prime Minister left Lisbon, his cabinet issued
a communique reaffirming its decolonization policy
in Angola and urging rapid reorganization of the
news media.
Five high-level officials of former president
Mujib's regime in Bangladesh who were imprisoned
last August by the Mushtaque government reportedly
have been executed.
In reaction to the killings, President Mushta-
que's cabinet has resigned, and Mushtaque himself
is reportedly attempting to resign. The cabinet
has not played an important part in the government,
but its resignation could make it difficult for
Musharraf, the new strongman, to build politi-
cal support for his regime. A general strike oc-
curred in Dacca this morning to protest the deaths.
There is further evidence that Musharraf moved to
take over the government out of personal ambition
and that he has no major ideological or policy dif-
ference with President Mushtaque.
Thai Foreign Minister Chatchai has informed the
US ambassador that Bangkok has decided to return to
Laos aircraft claimed by Vientiane to help ease dif-
ficulties with the new regime there.
The planes--mostly T-28s--were in Thailand for
servicing at the time of the communist takeover in
Laos. Chatchai said Bangkok is aware of US reserva-
tions over such a return and that he would talk to
the ambassador again before the government acts on
the decision. The return of aircraft to Laos would
make it difficult for Thailand to avoid a similar
concession to the Vietnamese communists.
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