MAJOR STORIES OF THE DAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-247-10-3-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 6, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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MAJOR STORIES OF THE DAY
ALL NETS BRIEFLY NOTED (CBS LEAD) THE UNEXPLAINED CANCELLATION
OF PARIS TALKS ON TUES. THERE'LL BE SESSION WED. AND SPECULATION
IS THAT OPEN DAY TUES. WAS TO ALLOW STUDY OF THE LENGTHY DOUBLE
SESSION MONDAY. THINGS STILL SEE11 ON SCHEDULE, SAID NBC.
NBC/CBS FILM OF ROGERS SAYING "A FOUNDATION HAS BEEN MADE" FOR AN
AGREEMENT BETWEEN US-CUBA ON HIJACKERS. COULD BE REACHED EARLY
NEXT YEAR -- UNLESS, SAID KALB, THE WH CHANGES ITS MIND.
INDOCHINA
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
UPI SAYS RZ SHED NO LIGHT ON POSTPONEMENT, SAYING ONLY, "IT
WAS MUTUALLY AGREED THE 2 SIDES WOULD MEET WED." US WILL PICK
SITE -- PREVIOUSLY CHOSEN BY MUTUAL AGREEMENT.... AP NOTED SPECULATION
THAT ANNOUNCEMENT WAS A RUSE TO MISLEAD NEWSMEN AND THAT SECRET
RENDEVOUS WAS PLANNED.... AP SAID THERE WAS NOTHING TO INDICATE
IF PAUSE MEANT PROGRESS OR LACK OF IT.
UPI SAYS NO SNAG WAS APPARENT AND SOURCES REMAINED OPTIMISTIC
AGREE MIENT COULD BE INITIALED BY DEC. 15...
UPI SAYS HAK SOUGHT TO SQUELCH REPORTS HE MIGHT BE SPENDING SOME
OF HIS TIME DALLYING RATHER THAN NEGOTIATING. NOTING POST STORY
THAT HE'D PICKED UP UNIDENTIFIED BLONDE ON THE LEFT BANK, UPI
SAYS HAK ASKED RN TO TELL PRESS TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD
HE WORKED WELL INTO THE NIGHT "WHICH HE DID", ADDED RZ, WHO THEN
TOLD REPORTERS HAK DROPPED BY AMB. WATSON' S WHERE HE MET A US OFFICIAL
AND WIFE WHO GAVE HIM A RIDE BACK TO EcI3ASSY.
CBS NOTED GVN OFFICIALS IN SVN SAID SECRET AGREEMENT IN WHICH
NVN WOULD PLEDGEE TO WITHDRAW NVA, BUT WIOUT WRITTEN PUBLIC
AGREEMENT IS BEING WORKED) ON. THE S. VIETS SAID THIS WOULD REDUCE
SAIGON OPPOSITION W/OUT i M3ARRASSING HANOI... UPI SAYS SAIGON
DISPATCHES INDICATED SVN STILL EXPECTED AN EARLY CEASE-FIRE.
INFLUENTIAL TIN SONG QUOTED SVN OFFICIALS CLOSE TO THE NEGOTIATIONS
AS SAYING WHILE THEY DON'T EXPECT THE US TO SIGN A BILATERAL
AGREEMENT W/ NVNi, THEY BELIEVE A NUMBER OF POW' S WILL BE RETURNED
HOME FOR XMAS. AP SAID THE REPORT WAS INTERPRETED IN SOME CIRCLES
AS MEANING THAT EVEN IF NO AGREEMENT IS SIGNED BY XMAS, SOME POWS
WOULD BE RELEASED, POSSIBLY AS PROPAGANDA TO INDUCE US TO CONCLUDE
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SIDELINES, COLLINGWOO0 ON CBS/AM SAID IT APPEARS HAK AVTHO HOLD
THE KEYS FOR PEACE, BUT SOUNDS OF ANGUISH COME FROM GVN OFFICIALS
WHO SAY THEY CAN'T SIGN BY DEC. 15 AND WON'T UNTIL NVA W/DRAWAL
IS AGREED UPON. COLLINGW000 SAID US FUDGES OVER THIS BY SAYING THEY
HAVE UNWRITTEN AGREEMENT FOH W/DRAWAL, SUT GVN WANTS IT MORE EXPLICIT
THAN THAT. COLLINGWOOU SAIL) IT SEEMS GVN IS STUMBLING BLOCK AGAIN,
ADDING THAT YEARS AGO HAK WROTE THAT US MIGHT WIND UP APPLYING
PRESSURE TO GVN TO CONCLUDE AGREEMENT. HAK SAID NEGOTIATIONS
WOULDN'T 6E EASY, SAID COLLINGWOOD, AND THEY ARE PROVING TO BE
DIFFICULT.
IF SVN IS INTERESTED IN CEASEFIRE, IT'S "A DEEP DARK SECRET,"
SAID MUDD PRECEDING FILM FROM DELTA WHERE TENS OF THOUSANDS TURNED
UJT IN THE MOST ELABORATE ANTI-COALITION DEMONSTRATION YET. MANY
FLAGS, SAID DAVIS OF CbS, BUT HE EMPHASIZED LACK OF EMOTION AND
COMMITMENT ON PART OF CIVILIANS, MANY OF WHOM SIMPLY SAID THEY' .D
%LE N TOLD T O PARTICIPATE BY THEIR HAMLET CHIEFS. IT MAY BE GVN' S
FINAL PRE-SETTLEMENT MOVE IN HOPES WORLD WILL SEE "REAL" SUPPORT
OF SVN PEOPLE FOR THE GOV''I., SAID DAVIS.... UPI SAYS ABOUT 200,000
WERE LARGEST SERIES OF DEMONSTRATIONS IN SVN' S 16-YEAR HISTORY
TO DENOUNCE COMMUNISM AND VC.
GUN SAID VC PLANNED TO MASSACRE THE LARGEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF
GIN OFFICIALS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE A CEASE-FIRE.... CAPTURED DOCUMENTS
SHOW VC ARE UNDER ORDERS TO CONTINUE FIGHTING IF THE US SIGNS A
SEPARATE AGREEMENT AND GVN REFUSES TO GO ALONG.
ENK SAYS SVN CIVILIANS HAVE TAKEN THEIR ".MOST FEROCIOUS BEATING
OF THE WAR" IN '72, W/65011 KILLED, AND " FLOW OF REFUGEES C2l
AND CIVILIAN CASUALTIES CONTINUES AT AN ALARMING RATE."
HANOI CLAIMED MORE THAN 500 SVN POLITICAL PRISONERS WENT ON A
2-WEEK FAST IN SEPT. TO PROTEST TREATMENT. AP SAYS THIS IS VIEWED
AS PART OF NVN' S CONTINUING CAMPAIGN FOR RELEASE OF THE PRISONERS...
HANOI HAS BEEN PUT ON FULL ALERT AGAIN, INDICATING NVN FELT US
MIGHT RESUME BOMBING IN AREA, IF AGREEMENT ISN'T CONCLUDED SOON.
ROYSTER, NOTING ALL SETTLEMENTS OF PAST 0TH C WARS HAVE BROUGHT
OUTCRIES AND RECRIMINATIONS, SAYS SAME. WILL BE TRUE W/VN SETTLEMENT
NO MATTER WHAT IT CONTAINS. SAIGON WON- Y LIKE IT AS MANY WILL WONDER
CF THEIR FUTURE; NVN WON'T LWKE IT AS IT'LL BE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
OF THEIR FAILURE TO MILITARILY TAKE SVN; US HAWKS
WON'T LIKE IT AS THEY SEE NU SUBSTITUTE FOR VICTORY; AND US DOVES
WON'T LIKE IT AS IT CONES TOO LATE AND WILL LEAVE THIS U' S -REPRESSIVE.,
GOVT. IN CONTROL. US RECRIMINATIONS ARE ALREADY NOTICEABLE AND ROYSTER
POINTS OUT ALL SEEN T O HAVE FORGOTTEN IT WAS HANOI, NOT SAIGON,
THAT STARTED WAR. HE PREDICTS US WILL LOOK FOR "VILLAINS," AND WONDERS
WHO THEY'LL BE -- JFK, LBO, RUSK, GENERALS, OR RN WHO DIUN' 1'
EUROPEAN Ir)"P-Q0 CAT` 0CCC :AC MADbCT1_AAl_ n_w7 rT rnTTr rr rte.: v~rc-
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L E AMERICANS FEEL, THERE WAS NOTHING DISHONORABLE I RYING TO
PREVENT THE AGGRESSION.IT WAS A BLUNDER NOT TO RECOGNIZE LIMITS
OF US POWER BUT THE JOURNAL WRITER WON'T QUIBBLE OVER WHETHER
RN COULD HAVE ENDED EARLIER OR WHETHER ANYONE IS PLEASED W/SETTLE-
MENT. HE'LL JUST BE GLAD A WAR THAT TORE US APART IS OVER.
POST-DISPATCH SAYS A GROUP OF SAN DIEGO BUSINESSMEN ARE PLANNING
A WELCOMING PARTY FOR RELEASED POWS. PLANS ARE FOR $2,+ Z VACATIONS
FOR THE MEN AND FAMILIES AND HOPEFULLY $500300 OF GIFTS FOR EACH
POW.
FOR 1ST TIME SINCE EARLY IN OFFENSIVE, COMMUNISTS FIRED ROCKETS
AT TAN SON NHUT.
CBS AM REPORT ON VIEWER MAIL. ONE FEARS BOMBING AND SHELLING MAY
1E CREATING MORE CASUALTIES THAN EVER BEFORE
FjOPITE ADMIN CONTENTION
IT'S WINDING DOWN WAR. ANOTHER SAID THAT IN SPITE OF CBS ATTEMPTS
TO SELL OUT THE US, RN IS WINNING THE WAR --"THANK GOD, CBS ISN'T
RUNNING THE COUNTRY."
EAST- WEST
FOR THE 1ST TIME SINCE WWII, A
SHIP CARRYING USSR FLAG DOCKED IN
HOUSTON TO CARRY PART OF THE WHEAT, NBC FILM FOLLOWED NOTE OF POSSIBLE
PETERSON ELEVATION.... MARITIME'S CURRAN SAID HE WAS AFRAID US IS
CBOT LIVING UP TO DEAL TO SHIP 1/3 THE GRAIN IN US SHIPS. H'E' S
BEEN HEARING "RANORS THEY MAY BE GETTING LESS."
ABC NOTED THAT USSR ANNOUNCED A NATL. FARAIERS CONPET IT IO N FOR
WORKERS HARVESTING MOST GRAIN IN "76. AP NOTES USSR HAD LITTLE
LUCK FIRING UP FARMERS W/SLOGANS IN ''71, AND THAT DESPITE EFFORTS,
THE USSR STILL CAN'T CONTROL THE WEATHER. ... A6C SAID OBVIOUS
REASON FOR COMPETITION WAS THE BAD HARVEST, ONE OF WORST EVER
AND ATTRIBUTED TO WEATHER. STILL, FUSS WON'T .any SHORT AS 25M TON
SHORTFALL IN OWN CROP IS BEING MADE UP BY 28M TONS FROM ABROAD.
E READ AND FOODSTUFFS WILL GET PRIORITY AS KREMLIN REALIZES ANY
DECLINE IN PRODUCTION OR RISE IN PRICE WOULD CAUSE REAL PROBLEMS.
IT'S THE NEEDS OF LIVESTOCK WHICH WON'T iii: T.
NATO'S EUROGROUP OF 10 PLEDGED TO SPEND $1-1/23 MORE ON
DEFENSE IN 1,97,3, HOPING TO HELP RN HEAD OFF HILL PRESSURE FOR GI
CUTS. BUT, SAYS AP, IT SEEMED CLEAR THAT RISING PRICES WOULD
&ALLOW UP NEARLY ALL THE INCREASE. ..."THE TIME MAY BE RIPE FOR
A FURTHER REDUCTION IN TENSION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST," BENTSEN
SAID. HE'LL CALL A MEETING IN FEB. OF A NATO SUBCOMM. TO DISCUSS
FORCE REDUCTIONS.
AP SAYS THAT DESPITE THE BASIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN E AND W AT
ECSC PREPS, AN ATMOSPHERE OF ACCOMMODATION ALSO WAS APPARENT.
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(lgN'GLOBAL POLICY. THEY SAY THE FAR EAST SECURITY CONC111 IS STILL
IN EARLY STAGES, BUT MOSCOW IS DETERMINEDLY PUSHING FOR IT. ...
ERITAIN SAID THE BALANCE OF CONVENTIONAL FORCES IN EUROPE IS TILTED
IN FAVOR OF MOSCOW AND WARNED EUROPE MUST KEEP UP ITS GUARD WHILE
NE GOT IAT I NO,
,-CHH LOOKS FOR "CONSIDERABLE" EXPANSION OF POLISH-US AGRIC. TRADE.
(HER FOREIGN AFFAIRS
PRC CHARGED AT UN THAT "A TI0 ISRAEL DARES TO PLAY THE BULLY
AND RUN AMOK' IN MID EAST A CAUSE US STANDS BEHIND IT AND
EE CAUSE USSR IS TRICKING THE ARASS. RUSSIA'S MALIK RETORTED THAT
PRC ENGAGED IN ANTI-SOVIET "SLANDER, INSINUATION AND DEMAGOGUERY"
THAT HELPS US AND COINCIDES WITH ISRAELI POLICIES. IT WOULD NOT BE
SURPRISING IF MEIR CAME TO UN "AND EXTENDED WARMEST THANKS" TO
PR C, MALIK SAID. PRC' S HUANG HUA SAID THE USSR -IS MORE DECEPTIVE
AND MORE DANGEROUS THAN OLD-LINE IMPERIALISM" SUCH AS PRACTICED
BY USA. ...NEITHER HE NOR MALIK MENTIONED THE BUSH SUGGESTION THAT
REOPENING THE CANAL MIGHT E AN INTERIM STEP TO PEACE.
SYRIA CANCELLED LEAVES AND ORDERED ALERT IN E F.CTATION OF
MASSIVE ISRAELI ATTACK WIN 2 DAYS. AN NAHAR '11S TARGET WILL
EE NEW SOVIET SAM SITES.
ALL NETS NOTED FOUR DIED IN N. IRELAND AS IRA, FIGHTING W/
d4CKS TO THE WALL, LAUNCHED AN OFFENSIVE ACROSS THE PROVINCE.
AT LEAST 1 INNOCENT WAS KILLED BY BRITISH, NOTED NETS.
CHURCH SAID DESPITE ITT' S " SUSPICION AND HOSTILITY," HE' LL
60 AHEAD W/ INVESTIGATION OF ITS ACTIONS IN CHILE AND OTHER CORPORATIONS'
IMPACT ON US FOREIGN POLICY. ...ABC NOTED ITT DENIED ALLENDE CHARGES.
ABC FILM OF WARM FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RECEPTION FOR AN INDIAN SOLDIER
REPATRIATED IN INDIA-PAK DEAL. ARMY IN HIGH-ESTEEM AND SOLDIERS
ARE HEROES, SAID ABC- S JENNINGS, NOTING THAT IT WAS A GREAT TIME
C{ PEACE FOR THE FAMILY -- THE 1ST IN OVER A YEAR.
LOUIS STOKES SAID A BLACK MC SHOULD BE ON THE PANEL INVESTIGATING
KITTY HAWK AND SAID EFFORTS TO HAVL ON TEMPORARILYSADDED HAD BEEN
UNSUCCESSFUL. HE CALLED T HE PRONE A "TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE." ...ABC
NOTED CAUCUS CALLED FOR A BLACK TO BE ADDED TO HOUSE ARMED SERVICES
COMMITTEE.
ABC NOTED A FEDERAL GRAND JURY INDICTED 98 IN BUFFALO FOR
VIOLATING THE SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT.
PROXMIRE SAYS USAF FINDINGS THAT F-111 IS SOUND AND SHOULDN'T
EE GROUNDED IN VN IS "TOTALLY UNSATISFACTORY.
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