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    "ocrText": "IOP SECRET\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972\n- -3-\nBy NLICH NARS Date 9.18.75\nInternational Tension over Levent Incrensing. General\ntension over the situmtion in the Levent States is increased\ntoday by the French shelling of Demascus and by the issuence\nin Peris of two quite intrensigent statements.\nOne exposition of the French attitude was a French\nPreas Agency item regarding a French cabinet meeting\nyesterday. This set forth the uaual French arguments for\na\nspecial position in the Levent States end accused the\nletter of refusing to discuss a general agreement prelimi-\nnery to the granting of full independence. Mischievous\npropaganda\" was blamed for \"the belief that France was\nresorting to intimidation and blackmail.\" The other Trench\nstatement, of which the Paria radio was the source, claimed\nthat \"foreign influence* WRS responsible for the trouble.\n*Our British friends, however, it said, will have cause\nto regret the disturbances on the next occasion when they\nmust replace and transfer forces in other Arab countries.\nNot only do these declarations appear to reduce even\nthe smoll remaining chance for a negotiated solution for\nthe problem, but they ere also generally counter to a state-\nment of Bidault to Caffery last Friday that he opposed the\nposition being taken by de Gaulle and would bring definite\npolitical pressure to effect a change. A French Foreign\nOffice official also told Caffery that the Foreign Office\nhad disagreed with de Gaulle nll along.\nThe possible remedy most favored by the Syrians and\nLebenese would be an announcement thnt they are counter-\nproposing, to the French treaty proposals, a general treaty\nto be offered to the British, Americans, Russians and Chinese,\na.s well B.B to the French. The American view of this proposal\nhas been solicited.\nVenezia Giulia. Embassy Belgrade is instructed to\npresent the note and draft agreement on Venezia Giulia\nto Tito, which the British Government has accepted, as\nsoon as SAC gives him end the British Ambassador word.\nIn Venezia Giulia,\na ARCHIVES \"NATIOMAL AND\nspencer"
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