THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 MARCH 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992513
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: March 5, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
5 March 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
5 March 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
East Pakistani leader Mujib has intimated that he
will soon declare what amounts to independence for
the East. (Page 1)
In Turkey,
security forces seeking
to track down the kidnaped US airmen have become in-
volved in a clash with students. (Page 2)
Egypt and Israel are showing wariness of each other's
intentions as the cease-fire deadline approaches,
but there are no indications that either is about
to initiate hostilities. (Page 3)
The parliamentary chief of West Germany's opposition
Christian Democrats appears to be bidding for some
US support to strengthen his hand on controversial
party issues, (Page 4)
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PAK I STAN
East Pakistani: leader Mujib has confided to a
group of foreign correspondents that, at the mass
rally scheduled for Sunday, he will call for the
drafting of separate constitutions for East and West
Pakistan, with discussions on the form of federation
to follow.
Although such a procedure would appear on
the surface to be less drastic than a uni-
lateral declaration of independence, Mujib
admitted to the correspondents that the
plan would be equivalent to independence
for East Pakistan. The proposal probably
will be unacceptable to the West Pakistani
dominated government and military.
Violence has lessened somewhat in East Pakistan
following Mujib's address to a rally on Wednesday
afternoon. Although he castigated the government
for firing on civilians and demanded that the troops
return to their barracks, he also urged East Paki-
stanis to halt the looting and arson that had been
going on since Tuesday. On the other hand, he urged
East Pakistanis to disrupt communications, to barri-
cade roads, to impede military movements, and to re-
fuse to pay taxes.
Before the disturbances began, about 20,000
troops were stationed in East Pakistan.
One fifth of these, however, were Bengalis
whose loyalties probably lie with their
fellow East Pakistanis.
Pakistan's airlift and sea transport ca-
pacity is not adequate to handle the large
numbers of troops we think would be re-
quired to contain a major uprising. The
military, in any case, would not want to
shift units away from the defense of West
Pakistan's border with India. Despite
these limitations, the Pakistani military
profess confidence they have sufficient
force to contain the situation so long as
it remains short of a full-scale rebellion.
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TURKEY
Turkish security officials, acting on informa-
tion that the four US airmen kidnaped near Ankara
were being held somewhere at the Middle East Tech-
nical University, have sealed off the entire campus
area. Some 4,000-5,000 gendarmerie and police are
searching the area today, and have clashed with
students who are armed and barricaded in dormitories.
The Turkish Government has been broadcasting
parts of the lengthy "manifesto" sent by the group
responsible for the kidnaping; thereby meeting one
of its demands. The manifesto is in effect a call
to arms for a popular uprising and guerrilla war-
fare throughout Turkey. One of the abductors, who
was apprehended soon. after the incident, has identi-
fied the five kidnapers as members of the Turkish
Revolutionary Youth Federation,. the primary organ-
ization involved in the recent upsurge of terrorist
action in various parts of Turkey. The kidnapers
have threatened to execute the four airmen if their
demands, including a ransom payment, are not met.
The original deadline was extended and is currently
set at 11:00 PM EST tonight.
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EGYPT-ISRAEL
As the cease-fire deadline approaches, the tone of
Cairo's propaganda has been less strident than it
was just prior to the previous expiration date of
5 February. The rhetoric has concentrated on polit-
ical maneuvering rather than on military threats,
with some emphasis on the responsibility of the US
to prod Israel toward a more forthcoming attitude.
International efforts to gain a more posi-
tive commitment from the Israelis on withdrawal, to-
gether with appeals for continued military restraint,
could provide Cairo with sufficient justification for
continued reliance in the immediate future on polit-
ical rather than military action. Sadat is expected
to make his intentions public in a major speech prior
to 7 March.
On the military side, both Egypt and Israel continue
to be wary of the other's intentions. Each has
stepped up reconnaissance flights along the canal
and, with increasing frequency, is penetrating air-
space over the other's positions. Although these
overflights do not go undetected, no attempts to in-
tercept them have been noted.
The only military preparations by both sides appear
to involve contingency planning and alerting of
forces. There are no indications, however, that
either the Egyptians or the Israelis are mobilizing
or redeploying forces to initiate hostilities.
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WEST GERMANY
Rainer Barzel, parliamentary chief of the oppo-
sition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has told a
US Embassy officer he is facing increasing diffi-
culty in holding his party to the position that
ratification of the treaties with the USSR and Po-
land should be tied to the ability of the Brandt
government and the Allies to obtain a "satisfactory"
agreement on Berlin.
Barzel said he hopes to meet with President
Nixon during a visit to the US next month. Barzel
said such a meeting would strengthen his authority
against those in the CDU who would set unrealisti-
cally high terms for a Berlin settlement in order
to prevent ratification of the treaties and defeat
Ostpolitik.
Barzel is no great proponent of Ostpolitik
and has in fact criticized Brandt's poli-
cies openly on occasion, but his own po-
litical ambitions require him to stay in
the middle of the road. A meeting with
the President would boost Barzel's chances
to succeed former chancellor Kiesinger as
party chairman and chancellor-candidate.
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