ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-549-3-39-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: April 16, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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CONTAINS CODEWORD APRIL 16s 1974
MEMORANnUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECT: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS
MIDDLE FAST SITUATION: BY CONTRAST TO THE HEAVY GROUND AND AIR
ACTIVITY ON THE ISRAELI/SYRIAN FRONT OVER THE WEEKEND, INCInENTS
ON THAT FRONT APPEAR TO HAVE TAPERED OFF YESTERDAY AND WERE CON-
FINED LARGELY TO GROUND ACTION, AGAIN MAINLY IN THE MOUNT HERMON
AREA. IN ISRAEL' THE'POLITICAL SITUATION REMAINS FLUID, WITH
OUR EMBASSY SUGGESTING THAT DEVFLfPMENTS POINT INCREASINGLY TOWARDS
NFW ELECTIONS IN LATE OCTOBER. THE LABOR ALIGNMENT HAS REQUESTED
MORE TIME -- UP TO TWO WEEKS -- TO DECIDE ON ITS POSITION ON THE
FORMATION OF A NEW GOVERNMENT, WHILE RIGHTIST OPPOSITION PARTIES
LIKUD AND THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTY CONTINUE URGING THE EARLY
FORMATION OF A NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT. OUR EMBASSY HAS nES-
CRIBED THE CURRENT RANGE OP OPTIONS AS FOLLOWS:
-- CONTINUATION OF THE PRESENT CARETAKER GOVERNMENT IF
MRS. MEIR AGREES, WITH A POSSIBLE CABINET RESHUFFLE,
AND THE HOLDING OF NEW ELECTIONS IN OCTOBER;
-~ THE FORMATION OP A NEW INTERIM GOVERNMENT ON THE BASIS
OF THE PRESENT OR A NEW COALITION, WITH ELECTIONS IN
OCTOBER; AND
THE FORMATION OF A NEW PERMANENT GOVERNMENT NOW.
State Dept., NSA reviews
completed
ACCORDING TO AMBASSADOR KEATING, TALK IS CURRENTLY CENTERING ON
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *WHSR COMMENT * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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THE FIRST TWO OPTIONS, ESPECIALLY SINCE FINANCE MINISTER SAPIR HAS
APPARENTLY REFUSED TO TRY TO LEAD A CABINET, (NIEHUSS/QUANnT)
NnRTH KOREA TRIES ROMANIAN CHANNEL WITH LETTER TO CONGRESS:',
IN ADDITION To TRYING TO DELIVER A LETTER FROM THEIR PARLIAMENT TO OUR CONGRESS THROUGH OUR UN MISSION, NORTH KOREA HAS
ALSO ATTEMPTED TO TRANSMIT THE LETTER THROUGH THE ROMANIAN
GOVERNMENT. (WE REJECTED THE NORTH KOREAN APPROACH IN NEW YORK.)
STATE HAS INSTRUCTED OUR EMBASSY IN BUCHAREST TO INFORM THE
RnMANIANS THAT WE WOULD BE PREPARFD TO TRANSMIT THE SEALED MES-
SAGE FROM THEIR EMBASSY HE~',E TO THE CONGRESS, JUST AS WE DID
LAST YEAR. OUR EMBASSY WOULD AnD THAT WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF
BECOMING INVOLVED IN ANY COMMUNICATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA. WE
SUGGESTED TO STATE (f4)- WHICH WAS INCLINED TOWARD THIS COIJR.SE
IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THE ROMANIANS, THAT OUR EMBASSY ALSO IN-
FORM THE ROMANIANS THAT WE WERE DnING THIS AS A FAVOR TO THEM IN
THIS INSTANCE, BUT THAT WE EXPECTED THEM NOT TO PUT US IN THIS
POSITION AGAIN.
THE MESSAGE, YOU MAY RECALL, HOLDS THAT KOREAN UNIFICATION +.,iILL
BE POSSIBLE ONLY WHEN U.S. INTERFERENCE IN KOREA IS ENDED, AND
PR. POSES THAT WE NEGOTIATE DIRECTLY WITH NORTH KOREA A PEACP
TREATY TO REPLACE THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENT. (FROEBE)
OPPOSITION TO PAK GOVERNMENT CONTINUES: OFFICIALS OF THE SOUTH
KnRFAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES APPEAR RESOLVED TO CONTINUE THEIR OP-
PfSITION TO THE PAK CHONG-HUI GOVERNMENT DESPITE STERN WARNINGS
BY THE AUTHORITIES. APPROXIMATELY 20 OFFICIALS OF THE COUNCIL
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MET ON APRIL 12 TO DRAFT A STATEMENT CRITICIZING THE PAK GOVERN-
MENT FOR "OPPRESSIVE RULE." THIS ACTION MAY HAVE BEEN STIMULATED
IN PART BY THE FACT THAT THE BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES OF THE
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN NEW YORK HAS ALSO PREPARED A STATEMENT
TERMING THE PAK REGIME AS ,INCREASINGLY TOTALITARIAN AND DICTA-
TORIAL."" THE NEW YORK STATEMENT ALSO APPEALS TO THE PRESInFNT
T[1 MAKE CLEAR, HIS DISPLEASURE WITH THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT.
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