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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A031100050001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 6, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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Briefs and Comments
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Egypt: Reaction to Israeli Statements .
USSR-Spain: Foreign Minister's Visit .
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Overnight Reports 12
The Overnight Reports, printed on yellow paper as the
final section of the Daily, will often contain material
that updates the Situation Reports and Briefs and
Comments.
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EGYPT: Reaction to Israeli Statements
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Recent allegations by Israeli Foreign Minister Dayan
that the turmoil in Iran has persuaded President Sadat
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raeZ have deeply angered Egyptian leaders and strength-
ened their belief that Israel is backin aura rom a
comprehensive peace settlement.
Dayan's suggestion that Egypt was moving toward a
separate peace before the situation in Iran deteriorated
has only strengthened Egypt's determination to insist
on firm links between a treaty with Israel and progress
on West Bank - Gaza issues. Egyptian Foreign Ministry
officials see Dayan's remarks as intended to blame Egypt
for the current slowdown in negotiations as a means of
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USSR-SPAIN: Foreign Minister's Visit
The Sov2ets appear to have reason to be satisfied
with Foreign Minister Ore~ja's visit to Moscow Zast month,
.the first official visit by a Spanish foreign m2nister
to the USSR since the Spanish Civil War. The US Embassy
in Moscow noted that Ore~ja was more accommodating than 25X1
expected 2n communique language supporting Soviet pro-
posals on such issues as disarmament and elimination o
nuclear stoclts.
The Spanish also told the US Embassy that Oreja
tried, but failed, to introduce a condemnation of ter-
rorism into the communique. This will feed Spanish sus-
picions that there is some connection between the Bascrue
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(The items in the Overnight Reports section have not
been coordinated within the intelligence community.
They are prepared overnight by the Office of Current
Operations with analyst comment where possible from the
production offices of NFAC.)
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Press reports state that, in a 5-2 decision, the
Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence given
former Prime Minister Bhutto 10 months ago on a murder
conviction. The reports also note that Bhutto's wife
and daughter were placed under house arrest and some
450 of his supporters were rounded up yesterday.
COMMENT: Bhutto has 30 days to petition the court
for a review and possible reversal of its decision. Al-
though President Zia is described as saying that he will
carry out the death sentence, there have been reports to
the contrary; the eaurt's re orted s lit verdzet ma bear
on his final decision.
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The US Embassy in Beirut reports the Sarkis govern-
ment has intensified its efforts to secure the assistance
of Arab states and the PLO to ease tension in the South
and to reestablish some measure of Lebanese authority
there. The Embassy does not expect the Arab states to
comply with Foreign Minister Boutros' reported request
that they exert pressure on the Palestinians to cease
using Lebanon as a base for operations against Israel.
It does believe that Fatah will continue to cooperate
with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon--at least for the
short term--but that the PFLP and other leftist Palestin-
ian and Lebanese elements will continue to provoke
incidents.
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The Labor government last night won a 270-262 pro-
cedural vote capping debate in the House of Commons on
its handling of the strike by health service workers.
The Daily Express has published a poll giving the Con-
servatives a 19-point lead over Labor if a general elec-
tion were held now; the poll also shows that for the
first time the voters rate Tory leader Margaret Thatcher
ahead of Prime Minister Calla han in terms of ersonal
popularity.
COMMENT: CaZZaghan's stature as a leader compared
to Thatcher has been perceived as Labor's best wea on i
a general eZectian were called.
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and the premiers of all 10 provinces today conclude a
two-day meeting in Ottawa on Trudeau's pro osals of last
June for extensive constitutional reform.
COMMENT: Trudeau had set a deadline of 1 JuZ~ for
passage of his basic reform proposals, hoping to show
progress before Quebec holds its promised referendum on
independence. A similar meeting Zast November produced
no significant agreement, and indications are that the
current round o talks will also show little progress.
Polish Foreign Minister Wojtaszek began an official
visit to the U55P~ yesterday, according to TASS?
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The US Embassy in Moscow reported yesterday that it
and US officials in Kiev continue to be inundated with
mail and visits from Soviet Pentecostals and Baptists
who have long lists of Soviet Christians--from congrega-
tions in the western USSR to others on the Pacific
Coast--seeking permission to emigrate. The Embassy
notes that public pressure against dissident Christians
continues in local and national newspaper articles and
that Soviet officials handling emigration requests--at
least those in outlying areas--have been telling Chris-
tian potential emigrants their only hope is a special
agreement between the USSR and the US. The Embassy ex-
pects a large influx of Pentecostal visitors over the
next several weeks.
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According to the US Embassy in Moscow, the Soviet
leadership apparently intends to crack down on proponents
of nationalism in Abkhazia, the northwestern portion of
the Georgian republic. Two Abkhazi officials have been
sacked, and the Georgian party leader has warned Abkhazi
party leaders that they have not dealt firmly enough with
manifestations of "nationalist chauvinism." The Embassy
doubts the unrest in neighboring Turkey and Iran has been
much of a factor in the decision to take a hard line at
this point; it believes, rather, that Moscow made sur-
prisingly conciliatory gestures on economic and cultural
concerns early last June and cannot budge on the basic
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