THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 MAY 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006015099
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: May 4, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
May 4, 1976
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May 4, 1976
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Lebanon: Fighting continued yesterday in the port area of Beirut;
there is no sign of a break in the deadlock between support-
ers of the two leading contenders for the presidency.
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Yugoslavia-USSR: Amid reports of a coming visit by Brezhnev,
Belgrade is trying to deflate what it believes are Soviet
expectations for major Yugoslav concessions. (Page 1)
Notes: Iran-Oman; Nigeria; China (Pages 3 and 4)
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LEBANON: Radical Leba-
nese and Palestinian
forces again pressed
their attacks against
Christian positions in
the port area of Beirut
yesterday, despite the
announcement on Sunday
that leftist leader
Kamal JumbZatt had
agreed to an indefinite
extension of the cease-
fire.
YUGOSLAVIA-USSR: Amid
reports of an impending
visit to Yugoslavia by
General Secretary Brezh-
nev, Belgrade is trying
to deflate what it be-
lieves are Soviet expec-
tations for major Yugo-
slav concessions.
The Christians have been forced
back, but they still control the
main part of the port and report-
edly are preparing to counterat-
tack. Although violence subsided
elsewhere in Beirut following Jum-
blatt's announcement, the fighting
in the port area is likely to
spread soon unless a determined ef-
fort is made to bring it under con-
trol.
The joint Lebanese-Syrian-Palestin-
ian military committee is sched-
uled to meet today to search for
ways to enforce the truce. The com-
mittee might be able to reduce the
level of fighting but is unlikely
to halt it.
On the political front, Christian
leaders reaffirmed their support
for Ilyas Sarkis to succeed Presi-
dent Franjiyah in the scheduled
balloting in parliament on Satur-
day. Jumblatt, who strongly sup-
ports Raymond Edde, again criti-
cized Syria, which backs Sarkis.
Delegations from the Lebanese par-
liament and the fedayeen may try
to find a compromise candidate in
talks with Syrian leaders in Da-
mascus this week, but the main
backers of Sarkis and Edde do not
seem ready to yield.
The Yugoslays' main concern is
that Brezhnev may ask that the So-
viet navy be allowed more use of
Yugoslavia's Adriatic ports. This
issue, as well as that of pro-So-
viet subversion in Yugoslavia, are
recurrent themes in conversations
of Yugoslav officials with our em-
bassy representatives.
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The Yugoslays also say that some
East European countries are en-
gaged in a "campaign" to slow ex-
ports to Yugoslavia. There is
little evidence to support this
claim, and the Yugoslays may be
dramatizing their trade problems
with Eastern Europe to wrest a
better economic deal from Brezhnev.
In a lengthy interview last week,
Stane Dolanc, President Tito's dep-
uty for party matters, publicly
rejected recent Soviet statements
equating Yugoslavia with the USSR's
socialist allies. Dolanc sternly
reiterated that Yugoslavia is, and
would remain, nonaligned in for-
eign affairs and an independent
factor in international communist
party matters.
Soviet media have reported Dolanc's
interview in a form that distorts
its content and thrust. As conveyed
by Pravda, Izvestia, and Red Star
last weekend, the interview becomes
an unqualified paean of praise for
bilateral party relations.
We doubt that Brezhnev will go to
Belgrade if the current Yugoslav
attacks do not abate.
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Dissension among Nig_e-
Ha's military rulers
appears to be growing.
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The Supreme Military Council is
badly factionalized
Disagree-
ment centers on the extent of eco-
nomic and political action the
government should undertake. Im-
mediate issues are the regime's
anti-corruption campaign and al-
leged coup plotters who remain in
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Major General Obasanjo, the coun-
try's head of state, reportedly is
still trying to resign.
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China is showing in-
creased interest in
some of the smaller
nations of the South
Pacific.
An advance team from the Chinese
Foreign Ministry is in Suva, the
capital of Fiji, making arrange-
ments to open an embassy. 25X1
Prime Minister Somare of Papua New
Guinea
will visit China sometime 25X1
this month, and diplomatic rela-
tions will be established. The
Chinese, however, probably will
not be invited to send a resident
ambassador to Port Moresby.
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