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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-549-1-36-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: February 21, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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TCIHAK 11
FEBRUARY 21s 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: THE SITUATION RnOM
SUBJECT. EVENING NOTES
CIVIL DISTURBANCE IN ETHIOPIA: SMALL BANDS OF STUDENT DEMnr4-
STRATORS ARE ROAMING THE CAPITAL AND STONING PUBLIC TRANS-
PORTATION AND FOREIGN VEHICLES BEARING DIPLOMATIC LICENSE
PLATES. LATE YESTERDAY A U.S. MAAG BUS WAS SEVERELY DAMAGFn
BY THROWN ROCKS WHILE RETURNING PERSONNEL HC1ME FROM WORK.
TWO U.S. PERSONNEL RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES. THE AMERICAN
COMMUNITY SCHOOL HAS CLOSED AND U.S. PERSONNEL ADVISED TO KEEP
OFF STREETS. ALTHOUGH THE DEMONSTRATION IS OSTENSIBLY IN
SUPPORT OF A COUNTRY-WIDE TEACHERS STRIKE CALLED ON FEBRUARY 18
IT REFLECTS THE GENERAL DISCONTENT OF THE POPULACE OVER GOVERN-
MENT INABILITY TO STEM. THE RISING COST OF LIVING AND DEAL EF-
FECTIVELY WITH OTHER RELATED PROBLEMS. POLICE ARE REPORTED
ACTIVE IN DISRUPTING THE RIOTERS AND SOME KEY MILITARY UNITS
ARE ON ALERT TO PROTECT VITAL INSTALLATIONS. THE COUNCIL OF
MINISTERS IS ALSO MEETING ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS. THERE IS NIO
APPARENT IMMEDIATE DANGER TO THE SOME 4s400.U.S. PERSONNEL IN
COUNTRY. HOWEVERs IF THE GOVERNMENT FAILS TO REACT SOON THE
DETERIORATING SITUATION COULD BECOME SERIOUS.
GRENADA'S TAWU END STRIKE: ACCORnING TO PRESS REPORTS-9 MEM0,ERS
OF THE TECHNICAL AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION (TAWU)' WHO STAFF
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GRENADA'S ELECTRICITY AND COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, VOTED ON
FEBRUARY 20 TO END THEIR FOUR-WEEK PROTEST STRIKE AGAINST THE
GOVERNMENT OF PRIME MINISTER ERIC GAIR?Y. WHILE SIGNIFICANT.,
THE TAWU DECISION WILL HAVE LITTLE IMPACT ON THE SITUATION
UNLESS THE WATERFRONT WORKERS SIMILARLY DECIDE TO END THEIR
STRIKE AND To WITHDRAW THEIR REQUESTS TO UNIONS IN OTHER
CARIBBEAN STATES TO BOYCOTT GRENADA BOUND-GOODS. CURRENT
STOCK OF DIESEL FUEL IS SUFFICIENT TO RUN LOCAL POWER PLANTS
FOR TEN DAYS ONLY. THE SUPPLY OF FUEL ALREADY BROUGHT IN BY
SCHOONER BY THE GRENADA GOVERNMENT IS NOT AnEQUATE TO MAINTAIN
OPERATIONS OF ELECTRICITY AND OTHER ESSENTIAL"SERVICES.
HIROHITO VISIT TO U.S.: IN A STATEMENT BEFORE'A DIET COMMITTEE
ON FEBRUARY 20, FOREIGN MINISTER OHIRA SAID, IN EFFECT, THAT
THERE IS NO AGREEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE U.S. ON WHETHER
AND WHEN AN IMPERIAL VISIT WILL TAKE PLACE. OHIRA DENIED
CATEGORICALLY THAT HE HAD EVEN TOUCHED ON THE QUESTION OF THE
TIMING OF A VISIT DURING HIS RECENT WASHINGTON DISCUSSIONS
WITH YOU. A JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL PRIVATELY
REQUESTED THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT NOT PUBLICLY CONTRADICT THE
STATED OHIRA' POSITION.
THE WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS: THE HEADLINE ITEM TODAY IS
"KISSINGER WILL QUIT IF NIXON IS IMPEACHED". (FULL TEXT OF
THE ITEM SENT SEPARATELY.)
HENRY S. BRADSHER WRITES THAT THE POLITICAL STORM IN CHINA
IS CAUSING: WIDESPREAD DISRUPTION, PROBLEMS IN FOREIGN COM-
MERCIAL DEALINGS AND SUSPICION OF FOREIGNERS. HE ALSO SAYS
THAT THERE ARE SIGNS CHOU EN LAI IS THE TARGET OF THE POLITI-
CAL CAMPAIGN.
A STAR-NEWS EDITORIAL SAYS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND
SYRIA WILL NOT BE EASILY ACHIEVED BECAUSE OF THE DEMANDS ON
BOTH SIDES. YOUR FORMIDABLE DIPLOMATIC TALENTS COULD ONCE
AGAIN TURN THE TRICK,
CROSBY S. NOYES WRITES THERE IS A NEW AND DANGEROUS ARMS RATE
-- ON A SCALE NEVER BEFORE SEEN -- IN THE MIDDLE EAST. HE
POINTS OUT IT IS NOT JUST AN ARAB-ISRAELI RIVALRY BUT ALSO
INVOLVES DEADLY RIVALRIES BETWEEN ARABS.
MILTON VIORST NOTES THAT THE YOM KIPPUR WAR REMOVED THE SMUG
CONVICTION THAT THE ISRAELIS WERE SECURE. HE SAYS THEY ARE
"WORRIED" AND PERCEIVE THAT THE SENSE OF SECURITY HAD BEEN A
DELUSION -- THIS WORRY IS A HEALTHY SIGN.
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