NOON NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-548-9-38-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: March 24, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT CATAGORY1 OUTGOING III
MESSAGE / ANNOTATIONi
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IN PLACE SINCE THE CEASE-FIRE.
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State Dept. review completed
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MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER
FROM; SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECT; NOON NOTES
PRO REPLIES TO CHARGE OF MISSILE SITE AT KHE SANH THE VIET CONE
REJECTED TODAY U.S. CHARGES THAT MISSILES HAD BEEN SET IN THE KHE
SANH VALLEY AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT. THE DEPUTY
CHIEF OF THE VIET CONG'S DELEGATION TO THE JMC TOCO A PRESS CON-
FERENCE THE U.S. CHARGES WERE PART OF A "tCAMPAIGN TO COVER UP THE
ILLEGAL INTRODUCTION OF U.S ARMAMENTS FROM JAPAN." WHEN ASKED
WHETHER MISSILE SITES WERE INSTALLED AT KHE SANH BEFORE THE
CEASE-FIRE CAME INTO EFFECT, HE REPLIEDI "IT,IS KNOWN TO ALL
JOURNALISTS WHO FOLLOWED THE FIGHTING IN THOSE AREAS CAST YEAR
THAT MANY TIMES AMERICAN HELICOPTERS AND AIRCRAFT WERE SHOT DOWN
THERE BY MISSILES." HE SAID ALL VIET CONG WEAPONS HAD REMAINED
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TO JON HOWE FOR DR. KISSINGER
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EMBASSY PARIS THAT SIHANOUK MAY WELL ALREADY BE THERE AND MAY
SURFACE IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
At THE QUAI HAS TOLD EMBASSY PARIS THAT THERE IS,WIDESPREAD
SPECULATION IN PEKING ABOUT SIHANOUK'S WHEREABOUTS AND PLANS,
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT EXPECTS DEVELOPMENTS SOON AND DOES NOT
EXCLUDE THE POSSIBICITY THAT HE MAY APPEAR IN CAMBODIA IN AN
EFFORT TO MOBILIZE HIS CAUSE, ANOTHER FRENCH OFFICIAC TACO
SIHANOUK IN CAMBODIA; THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR ASIAN AFFAIRS
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UGANDA-TANZANIA CLASHT ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS, UGANDA
CLAIMED TODAY THAT A 30OO MAN FORCE FROM TANZANIA WAS ATTEMPTING
AN INVASION, UGANDA SAYS THE INVASION WAS PLANNED BY PRESIDENT
NYERERE OF TANZANIA AND DEPOSED UGANDAN PRESIDENT OBOTE. THE
FORCE IS REPORTEDLY MADE UP OF TANZANIAN TROOPS AND UGANDAN
ASIANS WHO WERE EXPELLED LAST YEAR, RADIO UGANDA SAID SOME
OF THE INVADERS HAD BEEN CAPTURED, BUT IT WAS NOT ,,,CLEAR IF ANY
ACTUAL FIGHTING TOOK PLACE. RELATIONS BETWEEN UGANDA AND TAN-
ZANIA HAVE BEEN STRAINED SINCE JANUARY 071 71 WHEN IDT AMIN OVER-
THREW PRESIDENT OBOTE AND OBOTE TOOK REFUGE IN TANZANIA* TAN'
ZANIA HAS NEVER RECOGNIZED THE AMIN REGIME,
INDIAN NATIONALIZATION ALIZATION OF GRAIN TRADE: , THE GOVERNMENT+S NA-
TIONALIZATION THE WHOLESALE GRAIN TRADE HAS EVOKED A WIDE-
SPREAD PROTEST BY BUSINESSMEN. THEIR FORCASTS OF,MASSIVE UN-
EMPLOYMENT ARE UNLIKELY TO BE BORNE OUT IN VIEW OF NEW DELHIRS
PLAN TO USE THE PRIVATELY-OWNED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. THE
ARTIFICIALLY COW OFFICIAL PRICES UNDER THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS
WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO SECURE MUCH GRAIN,
HOWEVER,, AND PRODUCERS OF THE BETTER GRADES WILL FIND THEIR
INCENTIVES ESPECIALLY REDUCED,
U.S.-CHILE DISCUSSIONS END DISAPPOINTINGLY; NEGOTIATIONS IN
WASHINGTON BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CHILE ON COMPENSATION AND
RELATED MATTERS CLOSED INCONCLUSIVELY MARCH 23. BOTH SIDES
AGREED ON A COORDINATED, NOT JOINT,; PRESS STATEMENT DISCLOSING
THAT NO PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE s THE DEPARTMENT! S BUREAU OF
INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COMMENTS THAT THE MEETINGS IN THEIR
PRESENT FORM AND AT THEIR PRESENT LEVEL ARE OVER. PROSPECTS
FOR PROGRESS EVEN AT A HIGHER LEVEL ARE DISCOURAGING.
THE EVENING STAR AND WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS: AN EDITORIAL COMMENTS
THAT THERE CAN BE NO COMMON-SENSE EXPLANATION, FIR THE REPREHEN-
SIBLE DECISION OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO.SEND TWO CUBAN DEFEC-
TORS BACK TO FACE CASTRO JUSTICE WITHOUT THE JUDICIAL PROCESS
TO WHICH ANYONE IS ENTITLED HAVING SET FOOT ON U,S. SOI . WASH-
INGTDNIS DIPLOMATS ARBITRARILY DECIDED THAT THE TWO WOULD-'BE
DEFECTORS WERE "UNLANDED ALIENS." THIS RULING WAS BASED ON THE
FLIMSY GROUNDS THAT WHILE THE PAIR HAD ASKED TO REMAIN IN THIS
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COUNTRY, THEY HAD NOT DONE SD FORMALLY. "QUITE APPARENTLY,
THE STATE DEPARTMENT WAS BENDING OVER BACKWARDS TO DEMONSTRATE.
GOOD FAITH IN HAVANA ON THE RECENTLY-CONCLUDED HIJACKING AGREE-
MENT," IT ALL SMACKED OF THE INFAMOUS CASE OF THE CITHUANIAN
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SAILOR, THE EDITORIAL COMMENTS, AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT DxDN'T
COVER ITSELF WITH GCQRY IN THAT CASE EITHER,
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