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    "ocrText": "DECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 TOP SECRET\nBy NOWE NARS Date 9:18.25\n-2-\nSpanish Occunation of Tancier Zone. The French\nGovernment is being appros.ched by the American and\nBritish Governments in regard to the steps necessary\nin order to terminate the illegal Spanish occupation of\nthe International Zone of Tengier. It is hoped that a\njoint approach can be mnde to the Spanish Government at\nan early date.\nSyris and Labanon - Allied Talks Proceeding. In\nthe absence of further major developments in the Levent\nitself yesterday, the center of interest in the Franco-\nLevantine crisie has shifted for the moment to Anglo-\nAmerican consultations on the next step to be taken.\nThe\nBritish have suggested general Allied Levantine talks on\nthe whole question of United Nations forces in the Levant\nduring the war and recommend Beirut as the locale. Our\npresent disposition is to urge that Paris be the scene of\nsuch talks and thet they be on a level which would include\nGen. de Gaulle personally, since according to Gen. Beynet\nthe whole French course in the Levant States is de Gaulle's\npersonal policy.\nA serious resction on the part of the Arab world\nto the French attitude is already apparent. King Ibn\nSaud, through an official, informed our Legation at Jidda\nthat \"Arebs cannot remain more spectators\" of what is going\non. The King has telegraphed de Gaulle. The Secretary\nGeneral of the new Arab League has strongly assailed the\nFrench. The local situations in Lebanon and Syria remain\ndisturbed by strikes, closed stores and street deponstra-\ntions.\nYugoslavs on Three Borders. Tito has accepted the\nUS-UK demarche on Venezia Giulia but has cheracteristically\nmade various reservations. He demends: (1) that repre-\nsentatives of the Yugoslav Army be included in the area's\nmilitery administration; (2) thet Yugoslav Army unite remain\nthere, though coming under SAC; (3) that AMG not through the\ncivil authorities he has alrendy set up in the area.\nWe feel"
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