THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 DECEMBER 1975

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006014978
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 15
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 13, 1975

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The President's Daily Brief
December 13, 1975
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December 13, 1975
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Lebanon: Fighting continued in Beirut this
morning, despite the announcement yes-
terday of yet another cease-fire and
the beginning of a four-day Muslim holi-
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LEBANON
Fighting continued in Beirut this
morning, despite the announcement yester-
day of yet another cease-fire and the be-
ginning of a four-day Muslim holiday.
A Lebanese security official said that radical
leftist Ibrahim Qulaylat has agreed to allow gov-
ernment security forces to patrol the hotel district
and adjoining commerical areas. We have no evidence,
however, that Qulaylat's followers have withdrawn
from any of the territory they seized this week.
The Phalangists have respected the cease-fire
at least to the extent of postponing a widely ex-
pected counterattack on leftist positions.
Unidentified forces did fire four mortar rounds
into a large Palestinian camp Thursday, thereby
raising again the possibility of wider Palestinian
involvement in the fighting.
According to one press report, Palestin-
ians in at least one camp have started firing on
Christian neighborhoods.
Palestine Liberation Army units in Lebanon
have gone on high alert, and the Saiqa unit in
Beirut has sought additional arms and ammunition
on an urgent basis.
Leaders of the major commando groups probably
still want to stay out of the fighting, but feel
they must make a display of military preparations
both as a precaution and as a means of quieting
radicals within their organizations.
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Prime Minister Karami still has been unable
to elicit agreement from the politicians on how to
enforce the cease-fire or on the composition of an
enlarged cabinet that might be more able to deal
with the crisis. Karami told Ambassador Godley on
Thursday that he is meeting resistance from Social-
ist leader Jumblatt, Christian leader Shamun, and
Beirut Muslim leader Salam.
The Prime Minister added that he may turn
again to the other Arabs to find a political solu-
tion. He said he is considering inviting the for-
eign ministers of Algeria, Syria, Saudi Arabia,
and Kuwait--"two leftists and two rightists"--to
mediate the Lebanese dispute.
In Cairo, Arab League Secretary General Riad
has announced that he is contacting member states
on the Lebanese situation.
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three of the largest ships in
the Soviet navy were all docked at the Nikolayev
shipyard on the Black Sea and were photoaraphed
rom a satellite.
The Soviets' second anti-submarine cruiser,
the Leningrad, was in port at Sevastopol when the
picture was taken. A third carrier, the Kharkhov,
is being built elsewhere in the Nikolayev yards.
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The latest round of Soviet-Egyptian talks on
debt repayment has ended apparently in a stalemate.
The authoritative Egyptian newspaper AZ-Ahram
reported yesterday that the Soviet delegation that
was in Cairo negotiating over the past three weeks
had returned to Moscow. The Egyptians said no date
has been set for further talks.
Jordan and Syria
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A draft constitution which provides for a
marked degree of self-government for the people of
the Azores has been completed.
The document--which the Portuguese government
seems likely to approve--will give the islanders
control of their own political, administrative, and
economic life, as well as a voice in foreign affairs.
Recent victories over the Communists and the far
left on the mainland have robbed the Azorean Liber-
ation Front's independence movement of most of its
momentum.
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