WEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78M02660R000300030067-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: October 26, 1976
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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SUBJECT: WEYLY HIGHLIGHTS
1. VISIT DEPUTY SECRETARY DEFENSE WILLIAM F. CL EMEN'
TO SANA AT HEAD HIGH-LEVEL AMERICAN MILITARY DELEGA'
RECEIVED FRONT-PAGE COVERAGE YARG GOVERNMENT DAILY
AL-THOWRA AND WAS FEATURED IN SANA TELEVISION NEWS.
THIS VISIT WHICH CAME ON HEELS OF HISTORIC YAR-SAUD
AGREEMENT IN JUNE TO PURCHASE $149 MILLION WORTH OF
US ARMS WAS HIGHEST LEVEL US VISIT TO YAR SINCE
SECRETARY ROGERS RE-OPENED RELATIONS IN 1972. WHILE
PRESIDENT IBRAHIM IL-HAMDI WAS ABSENT BECAUSE OF AR
MIT_.(LN CAIRO, gZCRETgRY CLEMEN" WAS GUEST
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EMBER OF COMB A CO U
LT. COL. AHMED AL-GHASHMI OCTOBER 26-27. HIS TALKS
WITH LT. COL. AL-GHASHNI AND PRIME MINISTER ABDUL
AZIZ ABDUL-GHANI WERE SOME OF FRANKEST AND MOST
WIDE-RANGING EVER HELD BETWEEN US AND YEMEN AND
REFLECT EXPANSION US PROGRAM HERE AND INCREASINGLY CLOSE
TIES BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES., WHILE VISIT SHOT, LT. COL.
AL-GHASHMI HOSTED A BANQUET WHICH WAS FITTING CELEBRATION
NEW US-YEMENI RELATIONS. SOME 2000 RIFLEMEN FROM
MORE THAN HALF DOZEN VILLAGES PERFORMED TRADITIONAL
YEMENI DANCES.
2. ONE OF THREE-MAN CONGRESSIONAL STAFF TEAM FROM HOUSE
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE, MICHAEL VAN DUSEN
WAS PROPWLED INTO BEING VOLUNTRAY SPEAKER AT
SANA UNIVERSITY OCTOBER 23. ADDRESSING FACULTY MEMBERS
AND STUDENTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMIC DEPARTMENTS,
DR. VAN DUSEN SPOKE ON "ROLE OF CONGRESS IN FOREIGN
POLICY". IN REVERSE OF CONGRESSMAN'?S USUAL ROLE STAFF
CONSULTANT VAN DUSEN FOUND HIMSELF ANSWERING SHARP
AND WLLL-PHRASED QUESTIONS ABOUT WIDE RANGE AFRICAN AND
ME ISSUES. HIS ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS PLUS NEW
AREAS FOREIGN POLICY ENTERED BY CONGRESS SINCE VIETNAM
WQR GAVE STUDENTS FRANK AND WINNING IN,.9jCiL4,NTQ AMERICAN
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YSTEM AND FO EIGN POLICY. HIS RECEp 0 WAS
EXCELLENT IN SANA INSTITUTION WHICH STANDS HIGH IN OUR
LIST OF PRIORITIES AND HIS TALK WAS IN DIRECT SUPPORT OF
POST OBJECTIVE NUMBER ONE TO "GENERATE BROADER
UNDERSTANDING OF US FOREIGN POLICY" AND THAT WE ARE
"IRREVOCABLY COMMITTED TO A JUST AND LASTING SETTLEMENT
OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT."
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