THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 31 JANUARY 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006015018
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 31, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
January 31, 1976
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January 31, 1976
Table of Contents
Zaire-Angola:
Lebanon: Muslim and leftist leaders are growing
increasingly
tors.
impatient with Christian negotia-
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ZAIRE-ANGOLA
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LEBANON
Muslim and leftist leaders are grow-
ing increasingly impatient with Christian
negotiators who are continuing to haggle
over the terms of a political settlement.
Following a meeting yesterday of Muslim lead-
ers, leftist spokesman Kamal Jumblatt--a key figure
in the negotiations--called for a quick settlement
and implementation of a reform program within 40
days. Although generally more strident than his
colleagues, Jumblatt seemed to be voicing general
frustration with Christian footdragging.
An aide to President Franjiyah told US offi-
cials yesterday that the main problem at this point
is the regulation of the Palestinians in the coun-
try. The Christians--led by Interior Minister
Shamun--have been arguing that final agreement on
political reforms must await resolution of the
Palestinian issue.
Even if the Palestinian problem is resolved,
the Christians may continue to insist on spelling
out their exclusive control of the presidency--a
point the Muslims have so far refused to include
in a written agreement. A potentially more dan-
gerous problem may arise over the timetable for
implementing reforms.
the Christians believe they can
block any basic changes until the presidential
election in September.
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NOTES
The wave of terrorism, campus unrest, and
street violence that has claimed more than 20 lives
in Turkey since last fall may be taking on anti-US
overtones.
Turkish police officials have told US embassy
contacts that extreme leftist groups have formed
roving bands and instructed them to attack US per-
sonnel and property. In Ankara earlier this week,
a US government vehicle was bombed. The radical
leftist Turkish People's Liberation Army--driven
underground in the early 1970s and quiet since
then--is thought to be connected with this incident.
Until now, the domestic disorders have pri-
marily involved fighting between left- and right-
wing student groups. Recent changes in the tac-
tics of the extreme left, however, could portend
a return to the more widely focused violence that
wracked the country in the late 1960s and early
1970s.
Soviet military
The Soviet naval group that entered the
Atlantic on Thursday morning and sailed south
along the African coast, reversed course late in
the day and returned to the Mediterranean. The
Sverdlov-class cruiser, Kashin-class destroyer,
and probably two F-class submarines passed through
the Strait of Gibraltar yesterday morning.
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The Warsaw Pact has made its first official
response to NATO's offer to reduce nuclear forces
in Central Europe in return for the withdrawal of
a Soviet tank army.
In the opening session of the eighth round of
the force-reduction talks in Vienna, the Polish
delegate criticized some aspects of the proposal
but was careful not to reject it. Articles in
Izvestia and other Soviet bloc papers have said
the offer was merely a continuation of NATO efforts
to obtain a unilateral advantage from the negotia-
tions. The Soviets would, nevertheless, probably
like to retain the central ingredient of the pro-
posal--acknowledgment that nuclear forces should
be reduced. This has been a cardinal tenet of the
Warsaw Pact position since the beginning of the
negotiations. A counterproposal, if there is one,
may not come until after the Soviet party congress
next month.
An article in yesterday's Washington Post
about an influx of foreign military technicians
and advisers into Syria over the past year appears
to be a mixture of truth and rumor.
We estimate that there are about 3,000 Soviet
military advisers and technicians in Syria. Al-
though some Soviets advised Syrian air defense
units during the 1973 war, none of them are known
to have accompanied Syrian ground units into com-
bat. There may also be as many as 100 North Ko-
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