THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 MARCH 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993178
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: March 7, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
7 March 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
7 March 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
President Bhutto promises to convene the national
assembly next month as a step toward restoration
of civilian rule in Pakistan. (Page 1)
The UK and Malta have narrowed the gap on important
issues but some financial questions remain unsettled.
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We have photographed China's Mao-class submarine at
an operational base for the first time. (Page 4)
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PAKISTAN
After three days of negotiation with leaders
of the major opposition parties, President Bhutto
announced yesterday that the national assembly
would meet to discuss an interim constitution on
14 April and that martial law would be lifted four
months later.
Bhutto 's promise to convene the long-
suppressed national assembly and ulti-
mately to return to civilian rule will
reduce tensions and may induce the gov-
ernment's most influential critic, Abdul
Wall. Khan of the National Awami Party,
to cooperate. The agreement caps a
series of measures Bhutto has taken in
recent days to strengthen the stability
of his government. These have included
the beginnings of a land reform program
designed to attract peasant and left-wing
support, a shakeup of the military chiefs
intended to assert the supremacy of the
presidency over the armed forces, and
the removal of restrictions on travel
abroad that will appeal to big business
leaders.
Bhutto needs support and tranquility at
home as he preparesfor difficult ne o
tiations abroad.
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MALTA-UK
The meeting in London yesterday between Prime
Ministers Mintoff and Heath resulted in progress on
crucial bilateral issues- Mintoff accepted new and
more generous.British proposals that call for a
gradual phasing down of the number of Maltese em-
ployed by UK forces. The prime ministersalso ap-
pear to have come close to. an understanding on the
key question of pay for Maltese serving in the Brit-
ish armed forces. .
The chief remaining bilateral problems concern
Mintoff's demands that Britain stand by its offer
to the previous Maltese government of $7.8 million
in aid for improving Malta's drydocks, and that UK
forces no longer be granted exemptions from certain
import duties. Mintoff rejected London's compromise
offer to split the difference on these demands. He
also continues to insist on an additional, one-time
payment of $13 million beyond the final UK-NATO of-
fer of $36.4 million annually.
Mintoff will return to Valletta today. The
Maltese parliament is in recess until 20 March,
thus giving Mintoff additional freedom of action in
bargaining with London. Heath, however, reminded
Mintoff that time is short and that if the British
completed their withdrawal an "entirely new situa-
tion" would be created. No further meetings have
been scheduled and British Defense Secretary Lord
Carrington said that the next move was up to Mintoff.
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NOTES
Indochina: An intensified phase of North Viet-
nam's dry season logistics program began on I March
and is expected to last at least through the end of
the month.
China: The Mao-class attack submarine (prob-
ably nuclear) was photographed at the Hsiao-ping-tao
base in late February, the first time it has been
seen at an operational base. It had last been ob-
served fitting out at the Hu-lu-tao shipyard in No-
vember.
USSR:i
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