THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 17 OCTOBER 1974

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006007844
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 17, 1974

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The President's Daily Brief
October 17, 1974
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October 17, 1974
Table of Contents
Israel:
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Greece: Foreign Minister Mavros has resigned to de-
vote full time to the parliamentary election
campaign. (Page 3)
USSR: The Soviets are preparing extended-range tests
of their new ICBMs to the Pacific. (Page 4)
Notes: Turkey; USSR (Page 5)
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ISRAEL
Prime Minister Rabin is running into
trouble on the issue of territorial con-
cessions to Jordan. Former defense min-
ister Dayan and three of his Knesset col-
leagues from Labor's Rafi faction have
signed a petition calling on the Knesset
to oppose a reversion of West Bank terri-
tory to Arab rule. The petition was pre-
cipitated by Rabin's suggestion earlier
this month that Israel should be ready
to give up parts of the West Bank in re-
turn for a Jordanian guarantee of nonbeZ-
Zigerency.
Dayan's challenge to Rabin's position, and his
defense of the challenge before a television audience
on Monday, dramatically surfaced the simmering divi-
sions within the Labor Alignment over the future of
the West Bank. Dayan's move underlines the diffi-
culty Rabin will face in securing unanimity from his
own party in support of an Israeli negotiating posi-
tion flexible enough to hold out the possibility of
progress in peace talks.
Adopting one of his more uncompromising stands
on the subject, Dayan said he would vote for any
Knesset resolution opposing the return of the West
Bank to a "foreign regime," including "Jordan, the
Palestinians, or even the British." He said ?he op-
poses:
--any territorial partition of the West Bank;
--any agreement preventing Jews from settling
anywhere on the West Bank;
--any agreement obliging the Israeli Defense
Force to withdraw from West Bank areas it be-
lieves ought to remain under Israeli military
control.
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GREECE
Foreign Minister Mavros resigned on
Tuesday so that he can devote full time
to the campaign for the parliamentary
election on November 17. In stepping
down, Mavros noted that "no developments
were foreseen" on the Cyprus issue until
after the election.
Mavros recently told Ambassador Kubisch that
Cyprus would be a major issue in the campaign. He
said another key issue is whether to "purge" those
who collaborated with the military regimes over the
past seven years; he did not divulge his own view
on this question. Mavros doubts that the campaign
will create more anti-US sentiment than already
exists.
The foreign minister claimed that his party
and the New Democracy Party, led by Prime Minister
Karamanlis, have already agreed to form a coalition
after the elections. He said that the two parties
could obtain from 70 to 75 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, a Soviet embassy official in Athens
has told a US diplomat that Moscow hopes Mavros?
party will win enough seats to deny an outright
majority to Karamanlis. The Soviets presumably
reason that the weaker Karamanlis, the more room
there will be for leftist pressures to operate.
The Soviet forecast is that Karamanlis? party
will obtain 140 of the 300 seats in parliament,
that Mavros? party will get 100, and the United
Left and Papandreou a maximum of 40. Smaller
parties would get the remaining 20 seats.
Our initial assessment is that Karamanlis?
party may win a majority. If his party falls short
of a majority, he and Mavros will almost certainly
be able to form a coalition government. We believe
that the United Left and Papandreou will probably
fall short of the 40 seats predicted by the Soviets.
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USSR
The Soviets are preparing for a
second round of extended-range missile
testa to the Pacific this month. Mos-
cow announced yesterday that an impact
area some 400 miles north of Midway will
be used for this purpose from October
20th to the 30th.
The impact area is about 5,000 nautical miles
from the launch center at Tyuratam and about 4,700
nautical miles from Plesetsk. Its size--260 nauti-
cal miles in diameter--suggests some of the missiles
will carry MIRVs. '
The three missile range instrumentation
snips remained in the vicinity after these tests
and were recently joined by a fourth.
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NOTES
IRELty.: Caretaker Prime Minister Ecevit met
with Justice Party leader Demirel on Tuesday to pro-
pose solutions to the month-old government crisis.
Demirel said he needed at least ten days to respond
to the proposals, almost all of which are linked to
holding an election in either the spring or fall of
1975. Ecevit's offer to Demirel reportedly calls
?for an agreement betWeen the two parties to revise
the national election law to eliminate the small
splinter parties. This would be followed by forma-
tion of either a minority government by Ecevit's
left-of-Center Republican People's Party ora coali-
tion with the conservative Justice Party that would
govern until a new election could be held in July
1975. Revision of the election law would be attrac-
tive to Demirel because it would enable the Justice
Party to increase its seats substantially'.
USSR:
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