Declassified in Pan - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016f07l12 C1A-RDP79T00024A000200070004-1 The President s Daily Brief September 28 1976 2 Top 5 Declassified in Part - Copy Approved for Retease 2016m' 12 in Part -- Sanitized Copy Approved for Reiease 20 61'07112 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY gapanese Prime Minister Niki has accepted the suggestion of officials from the Foreign Minis try and Japan Defense Agency that the US be allowed additional time for direct examination of the Soviet The Eoiish Supreme Court today euSpenaed the prison sentences of seven workers who were jaiZed for activity darn ing the strike in June NOTES Miki s revised deadiine- extending direct US access to the aircraft through October 3 is apparently firm Foreign Minister Kosaka con firm Japan s commitment to return the MIG-25 during his meeting with Foreign Minister Gromyko at the UN today but reportediy wii avoid giving Gromyko a firm date eapa nese defense officiais caicuiate that it take about two weeks to prepare the aircraft for ship ment Shouid negotiations for the transfer proceed rapidiy even the Japanese investigation of the MIG would be curtaiied In commenting on the action af fecting the year sentences the court said that a sense of social justice has been satisfied The suspension which is unprecedented was obviousiy ordered by the top party hierarchy The Poiish popuiation view the suspension of the sentences as a conciliatory gesture by Warsaw but aiso see it as another sign of pubiic power over the ieaders In addition to piacating the Pew 1ish peopie the regime was re sponding to pieas from the Poiish episcopate and to demands of West European communist parties that the strikers be treated ieniently -continued FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016107                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu