THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 OCTOBER 1974

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006007848
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 22, 1974

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The President's Daily Brief
October 22, 1974
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October 22, 1974
? Table of Contents
Arab States: Foreign ministers meet today in Rabat
to prepare summit beginning Saturday; delibera-
tions likely to be contentious. (Page 1)
Syria
USSR:
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Brezhnev's private comments on key foreign
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France - Indian Ocean: French to build new naval
base. (Page 4)
China: New submarine construction. (Page 5)
Turkey Ecevit fears loss of influence with mili-
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ARAB STATES
Arab foreign ministers meet today in
Rabat to prepare an agenda for the Arab
League heads of state conference begin-
ning Saturday. For key Arab states, par-
ticularly Egypt, the deliberations are
likely to be difficult and crucial.
Bitter inter-Arab differences have flared over
where to go next in peace talks and, specifically,
how to handle the Palestinian question. The chief
topic for debate at the summit will consist of ram-
ifications of this issue?the roles in negotiations
of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Jordan,
the related but broader question of the future of
the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and the precedence
to be given the various stages of the peace talks
as they involve individual Arab parties.
Discussion of the Palestinian problem is bound
?to be complicated further by the reaction of those
chiefs of state who were the targets of the Black
Septembei. Or anization assassina
last week.
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Several issues arising out of last year's war
will be considered at Rabat. These center primarily
on the Arabs' international economic role and in-
clude:
--Political ?aspects of the oil price issue.
--The use of oil and money as political weapons.
--Arab economic cooperation with Africa and the
European Economic Community.
In the corridors, the delegates at Rabat will
probably also talk about the role of Iran in Oman,
as well as the pan-Arab force Egypt is proposing to
station there, and the dispute over Spanish Sahara.
If the Sahara question is raised in front of the
full summit and a resolution passed, it will prob-
ably be vaguely worded to avoid taking sides between
?the rival claims of Morocco and Mauritania.
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SYRIA
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Kadar and Brezhnev drive to Kremlin after the Hungarian leader's arrival in Moscow
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USSR
General Secretary Brezhnev conducted
a generally optimistic tour d'horizon of
international political and economic
problems during his talks in Moscow last
month with Hungarian party boss Kadar.
Brezhnev singled out China as the USSR's
only serious problem.
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POLAND
Moscow
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
ROMANIA
MONGOLIA
BULGARIA
Black Sea
TURKEY
Mediterranean
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CYPRUS
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Caspian
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CHINA
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EGYPT
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AFGHANISTAN
East
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PAKISTAN
BHUTAN
BURMA
THAILAND
SUDAN
Arabian Sea
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Bay of Bengal
China
SOMALIA
MALAhIA
NGAPOR
BRUNEI
(U.K.)
KENYA
TANZANIA
Zanzibar
SEYCHE4:LEi.
(U.K.)
Diego Douai*
RHODE
(U.K.)
ASCAR
Mozambique
Channel REUNIOP
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FRANCE - INDIAN OCEAN
? Paris disclosed on Friday that
plans to build a naval base in the
Comoro Islands. This will place the
French astride the shipping routes from
the Persian Gulf to Western Europe and
will expand Paris' role in the growing
naval competition in the Indian Ocean.
The French flotilla in the Indian Ocean has
been substantially augmented in the last few months;
the most recent arrivals include the aircraft car-
rier Clemenceau. ? -The French have had to use float-
ing support facilities since Paris relinquished its
naval base and communications facility at Diego
Suarez on Madagascar last year. The only signifi-
cant French base remaining in the Indian Ocean area
is at Djibouti, in .the French Territory of the Afars
and the Issas, where the French have a small perma-
nent naval contingent.
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CHINA
The Chinese continue to make prog-
ress in building large, modern subma-
rines.
the Hu-lu-
tao shipyard in northern China turned up more com-
ponents of the type used in China's only Han-class
attack submarine. The Han-class was built at Hu-
lu-tao and is probably nuclear-powered. The com-
ponents are probably for another Han-class, but they
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could also be
for a ballistic missile
submarine
based on the
Han's hull desian.
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TURKEY
Prime Minister Ecevit fears that his
influence-with the military is waning the
longer he remains head merely of a care-
taker government.
Ecevit's concern about his weakened position
may be one reason he wants to work out a compromise
with Justice Party. leader Demirel to end the politi-
cal stalemate and form a new government. The Jus-
tice Party congress that began yesterday should con-
firm Demirel as party leader and free his hand to
negotiate an agreement with Ecevit.
Ecevit is worried that hard-line
military leaders might react precipitately to a
Greek "provocation" on Cyprus.
The Turkish military blocked the prisoner ex-
change on Cyprus for three weeks; this suggests
there is some validity to Ecevit's concern. To
counter this tendency, Ecevit is taking steps to make
the military fully aware of the mounting pressure
of international opinion on the Turkish government.
During the conflict on Cyprus there were several in-
dications that the Prime Minister was able to limit
military actions, particularly by emphasizing inter-
national pressures.
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NOTES
Japan: The rally in Tokyo yesterday, to, protest
the alleged presence of US nuclear weapons in,Japan,
as well as your visit scheduled for. next month, fell.
well short of the organizers' goals. Communist .and
Socialist sponsors claimed an attendance of 70,000,
after forecasting a total of 100,000; police put the
figure at only 25,000. The demonstrators agreed. to
forward a demand that you call off your visit- Be-
cause of the relatively modest turnout, however, op-
position leaders face the hard choice -of.pressing _
an all-out campaign against the visit in the_face_
of uncertain public support, or limiting their ef-
forts to token protests.
Lebanon: The conservative Saib Salam has given
up trying to form a new government. Salam was
thwarted by President Franjiyah in his efforts to
strengthen the cabinet and the position of prime
minister, and faced opposition from parliamentary
factions supported by Syria and the fedayeen.
Franjiyah must now find another Sunni Muslim willing
to try to form a government. Salam's difficulties
make it unlikely that a more forceful or effective
government than the "do-nothing"_Sulh government
that resigned a month ago will be formed.
Syria:
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