BREZHNEV HAS REPORTEDLY DELAYED HIS US VISIT TILL FALL TO ALLOW USSR LEADERS TO ASSESS RN'S ADMIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-248-1-3-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 11, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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BREZHNEV HAS REPORTEDLY DELAYED HIS US VISIT TILL FALL TO ALLOW
USSR LEADERS TO ASSESS RN' S ADMIN. LATER, USSR DIPLOMATS SAY
82EZHNEVS VISIT MAY NOT COME TIL '74.,.RZ SAID VISIT WASN'T
DELAYED BECAUSE A SPECIFIC DATE HADN'T BEEN SET,
USDA SAID USSR WILL PROBABLY HAVE A SIZEABLE GRAIN SHORTAGE
AGAIN IN '73, BUT CAUTIONED IT WAS TOO EARLY TO TELL IF USSR
WOULD NEED TO PLACE MAJOR NEW ORDERS FOR US WHEAT..... THE WEEKLY
TIMES ECONOMIC REVIEW FOCUSES ON THE RAPID. PROGRESS IN US.
USSR TRADE RELATIONS, "THE DEALS AND DEVELOPMENTS HAVE COME
TUMBLING OUT W/ ALMOST UNSEEMLY HASTE."
THE UNION OF. COUNCILS FOR SOVIET JEWS CALLED FOR A BOYCOTT
:_ PEP I_.TO PROTEST SOVIET FOOTDRAGGING OF EMIGRATION. AND THE
EXIT TAXES. THE MORE ESTABLISHMENT GROUP , THE NAT' L CONF.
FOR SOVIET JEWRY, WILL DISCUSS A BOYCOTT BUT HASN'T SUPPORTED
SUCH ACTIONS IN PAST.
2 NUKE TESTS IN SIBERIA REGISTERED ABOVE FIVE ON
RICHTER SCALE, W/ AP NOT NG 2ND BLAST WAS ONE OF STRONGEST OF
RECENT YEARS.
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A POWERFUL EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE REJECTED THE
GJJT.' S ASSURANCES THAT PLANS HAVEBEEN COMPLETED FOR PREPARING
EGYPT FOR WAR W/ISRAEL. AP SAYS,THE ACTION IS A SLOW TO
PREMIER SIDKY, WHO WAS APPOINTED MAINLY TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL
0 PUTTING EGYPT ON GOQU MILITARY FOOTING..... A TOP-SECRET
SURVEY BY EGYPT' S MILITARY FOUND ONLY 40 PERCENT OF ITS
WEAPONS AND 60 PERCENT OF ITS PLANES TO BE COMBAT?READY.
TH0 SOVIETS HAVE AGREED TO SEND SPARE PARTS, SOURCES SAY EVEN
QUICK USSR ACTION CAN -DO LITTLE TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION
WHICH IS SO BAD THAT EGYPT IAN MILITARY PRIVATELY DESPAIRS ITS
ABILITY TO FIGHT NOW OR IN FORESEEABLE FUTURE.
JACKSON, ON "MEET THE PRESS' SAID MIDEAST PEACE EFFORTS ARE
IN A STATE OF LIMBO" BUT HE DOESN'T ANTICIPATE ANY RUSS-BACKED
CON FL ICT. HE' IS '"MOST DISTURBED THAT WHILE SOVIETS ARE MOVING
OUT OF EGYPT THEY ARE MOVING INTO PERSIAN GULF." HE WARNED AGAINST
SEATER US RELIANCE ON OIL FROM THERE, SAYING IT WOULD PLACE US
IN "BAD BARGAINING POSIT ION." (JACKSON SAID AS 1ST ORDER OF
BUSINESS IN SOLVING US ENERGY .CRISIS, US SHOULD APPOINT 'AN "ENERGY
CZAR" AND DEVELOP "A VERY LARGE DOMESTIC PROGRA(!T INCLUDING
R& D. )
ISRAEL WILL DISREGARD THE UN RESOLUrION CALLING ON HER TO. LEAVE
OCCUPIED TERR.IT OR IES. HOWEVER ISRAEL DID NOT THREATEN, AS IT
HAS IN PAST TO PULL OUT OF UN PEACE EFFORTS IF THE BODY TAMPERED
wf INTENT OF '67 RESOLUTION.
WITHOUT FLAB ORATING, GOV. SHAPP SAYS HAK WILL VISIT ISRAEL IN
NEAR FUT URE AS M IDEAS 1-S -1 MAJOR `~ P-ART OF 'MAX' S'PEACE PLAN."....
..." APART FROM JOLLYING ISRAEL ALONG," SAYS KRAFT, URGING US-
USSR COOPERATION ON MIDEAST, "THE US WILL HEVE TO GET THE OIL
SATES T O RELAX THEIR PRESSURES AGAINST AN AGREEMENT. APART FROM
JOLLYING EGYPT ALONG, USSR WILL HAVE TO MUZZLE THE SYRIANS" AND
THE GUERRILLAS. IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN ROGERS' GOOD WILL AND A
UN RESOLUTION, SAYS KRAFT. HAK. WILL HAVE TO BE INVOLVED AS
WILL THE No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/08/06: LOC-HAK-248-1-3-2
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*WRITING IN SUNg LOUIS
HALASY FINDS A DECLINE IN PRC INFLUENCE IN UN, LARGELY DUE
TO PEKING' S CONCENTRATION ON FIGHTING MOSCOW "TOOTH AND NAIL,
TO THE VIRTUAL EXCLUSION OF ANYTHING ELSE."
RE: INDONESIA' S RICE SHORTAGE, INTELLECTUAT, REFLECTING WHAT
AP CALLS ALMOST UNIVERSAL OPINION, SAID: " IF ANYTHING CAN UP-
SET ( INDONESIA' S) STABILITY, THE RICE CAN."
MAR.COS GOVT, SAID RIGHT WING., CONSPIRATORS CONFESSED THEY
PLANNED TO SEIZE POWER AFTER ASSASSINATING MARCOS OR FOLLOWING
HIS OUSTER IN A COMMUNIST REBELLION..... PREVIOUSLY THE GOVT
SAID AT LEAST 6 AMERICANS HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN A RIGHTIST CON-
SPIRACY, INCLUDING VN VET LEHMAN WHO IS IN CUSTODY, AND FRISCO
BUSINESSMAN TRACTMAN, WHO IS BEING SOUGHT WITH HELP OF US......
NBC NOTED 85 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED 'SINCE THE MARCOS STABBING,
INCLUDING GRANDSON OF A FORMER FILIPINO. PRES. AND NEPHEW OF
CURRENT VP,. PHILIPPINE GOVT SAYS MORE ATTEMPTS ARE EXPECTED ON
MAR COS FAMILY, SAID UTLEY.
"RN SENDS AID TO WIFE OF MARCOS" IS HEAD ON STORY INSIDE
TRI&... SHE WAS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL ON RECOMMENDATION OF
US SURGEON CHASE.-
LATIN AMERICA
USSR PROMISED CHILE INCREASED SUHPORT TO HELP ITS EMBATTLED
ECONOMY. COMMUNIQUE CONDEMNED *FOREIGN INTERFERENNE" IN CHILE' S
INTERNAL AFFAIRS, "SPECIFICALLY ITS RIGHT TO FREELY SELL ITS
COPPER.".... NOTING THE WARN WELCOME FOR ALLENDE IN MOSCOW AND THE
WAY HIS UN VISIT WAS IGNORED BY US9 SZULC OF TIMES ASKS "DIS-
TURBING, QUEST ION: WAS THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE WITNESSING A RE-
PLAY- OF THE SCENARIO 12 YEARS AGO TO A BREAK BETWEEN THE US AND
CUBA, A BREAK BOTH SAY THEY WISH TO AVOID.".... ALLENDE ARRIVED
IN HAVANA SUNDAYs
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