INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-2-1-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 12, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/10/22: LOC-HAK-550-2-1-7
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OCTOBER 12, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM$ THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECTS INFORMATION ITEMS
BRITISH ELECTION RESULTSI
THE LABOR PARTY, PROMISING BRITAIN A SHARP DOSE OF
SOCIALISM TO CURE ITS RAGING ' ECONOMIC CRISIS, TOOK A LEAD
EARLY FRIDAY I N GENERAL ELECTION RETURNS?
PRIME MINISTER HAROLD WILSON SAID LABOR CANNOT LOSE, BUT
CONSERVATIVE LEADER EDWARD IEATH REFUSED TO CONCEDE DEFEAT.
"I EXPECT TO DORM MY FOURTH ADMINISTRATION TOMORROW (FRIDAY)
WILSON SAID AT 16P$ EDT. " WHATEVER HAPPENS NOW9 THE TORIES
CANNOT TAKE IT AWAY FROM US. WITH MORE THAN THREE-
FOURTHS OF THE VOTE IN, THE BRITISH BROADCASTING
CORPORTATION AND INDEPENDENT TELEVISION NEWS COMPUTERS
PREDICTED AN OVERALL LABOR MAJORITY OF THREE TO SEVEN SEATS.*
THERE ARE 635 SEATS IN PARLIAMENT. AT 3A. M. LABOR
MAD WON 283 SEATS, THE CONSERVATIVES 175, LIBERALS
5, AND OTHER PARTIES A TOTAL OF 7. LABOR NEEDS TO WIN AT
LEAST 318 SEATS TO CONTROL PARLIAMENT.
CA STR O MAY BE PLANNING TO VISIT PANAMA $
CUBAN PRIME MINISTER CASTRO IS EXPECTED TO
VISIT PANAMA NOVEMBER 3 TO PARTICIPATE IN PANAMA'S INDEPENDENCE
DAY (ELEBRAT'IONS. PANAMA AND CUBA ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
IN AUGUST BUT DO NOT YET HAVE RESIDENT AMBASSADORS. (LOW)
HANOI DEMANDS THIEU'S OUSTER) AN OCTOBER 8 "PRG" STATEMENT.
DEMANDED, THAT THE THIEU GOVERNMENT BE OUSTED AND REPLACED BY
AN ADMINISTRATION THAT .IS WILLING TO IMPLEMENT THE PARIS
AGREEMENT...IN A SERIOUS WAYS" MOREOVER, THE "PRG" WILL NE-
GOTIATE "ONLY" WITH SUCH A SUCCESSOR GOVERNMENT ON IMPLEMENTING
THE AGREEMENT.
THE STATEMENT'S APPEAL TO THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE TO OVERTHROW
THIEU CLEARLY INDICATES THAT HANOI IS PRESENTLY SEEKING TO
CAPITALIZE ON CURRENT (ALBEIT LIMITED) MANIFESTATIONS OF ANTIo
GOVERNMENT SENTIMENT IN SOUTH VIETNAM, EMBASSY SAIGON REPORTS
TAT THIS IS TJ COMMUNISTS' MOST DRAMATIC EFFORT SO FAR TO
CAPITALIZE ON THE CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE SOUTH AND
IS THE FIRST TIME (SINCE THE CEASE-FIRE) THEY HAVE UNEQUIVOCALLY
DEMANDED THLEU' S OUSTER. FBIS SPECULATES THAT THIS PARTICULARLY'
TOUGH STATEMENT MAY ALSO BE DESIGNED TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON HANOI'S
COMPLAINTR PRiAR Tn VMS M?Sfl W TRIP
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NT ON COMMUNIST TERN: _ (STEARMAN)
INDIAN CABINET RESHUFFLE= MRS. GANDHI RESHUFFLED HER CABINET
IN A MOVE" WHICH BEARS MORE ADMINISTRATIVE THAN POLITICAL SIG-
NIFICANCE, WITH THE MAJOR EMPHASIS ON CONTINUITY. THE MAIN
POINT IS THAT HER CLOSEST AND MOST POWERFUL ADVISORS STILL HOLD
THE KEY PORTFOLIOS. SWARAN SINGH9 WHOM YOU RECEIVED AS FOREIGN .
MINISTER LAST MONTH, HAS BEEN MADE DEFENSE MINISTER.! A POST WHICH
HE HAS HELD IN ' THE PAST. FORMER FINANCE MINISTER CHAVAN HAS RE-
PLACED SINGH AS FOREIGN MINISTER= HE IS WELL DISPOSED TOWARD
THE U.S. AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SINGH'S EFFORTS TOWARD
IMPROVING U.S.--INDIAN RELATIONS. MRS. GANDHI HAS MOVED TWO
OF HER OTHER KEY AIDES (FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER RAM AND
SCIENCE MINISTER SUBRAMANIAM) BOTH PROVEN ADMINISTRATORS,
INTO AGRICULTURE AND FINANCE SLOTS. THIS MAY REFLECT HER
INTEREST IN STRENGTHENING THESE MINISTRIES AT A TIME WHEN
INDIA'S ECONOMIC SITUATION HAS BEEN COMPOUNDED BY CRITICAL FOOD
SHORTAGES. SIIGH, CHAVAN, AND RAM HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF MRS.
GANDHI'S "INNER CABINET" FOR MORE THAN A DECADE.
POST-KIDNAPING SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: DOMINICAN
PRESIDENT B.ALAQUER HAS WON A PSYCHOLOGICAL VICTORY BY ACHIEVING
THE SAFE RELEASE OF THE SEVEN HOSTAGES HELD SINCE SEPTEMBER 27
WITHOUT GIVING IN TO THE TERRORISTS' INITIAL DEMANDS FOR THE
RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THE PAYMENT OF A CASH RANSOM.
SIGNIFICANTLY, DURING THE EPISODE A BROAD SPECTRUM OF LEFTIST
GROUPS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WENT ON RECORD AS OPPOSING THE
KIDNAPING AND THE USE OF VIOLENCE AS A POLITICAL TOOL. THIS
CONDEMNATION COULD DISCOURAGE OTHERS FROM TRYING SIMILAR ACTIONS
AGAINST THE BALAGUER GOVERNMENT. SHOULD THE SECURITY FORCES NOV
INITIATE A CRACKDOWN ON LEFTIST OPPONENTS, HOWEVER, BALAGUER
COULD LOSE HIS PRESENT ADVANTAGE BY GIVING EXTREMISTS AN EXCUSE
TO CLAIM SUCH ACTION JUSTIFIED THE USE OF VIOLENCE ON THEIR PART.
. KUDIRKA. CONTACTED BY SOVIET GOVERNMENT ON EXIT: SIMAS KUDIRKA
HAS BEEN CONTACTED BY SOVIET OFFICIALS AND INSTRUCTED TO APPLY
FOR EXIT VISAS FOR HIMSELF AND HIS WIFE ON MONDAY. THE DEPART"
WENT OF STATE ASSUMES THAT THE INSTRUCTION INCLUDES THE KUDIRKA
CHILDREN. (KUDIRKA IS THE LITHUANIAN SEAMAN WHO TRIED UNSUCCESS-
FULLY TO DEFECT TO THE U.S. IN 1970 AND WAS IMPRISONED IN THE
SOVIET UNION UNTIL A SHORT TIME AGO.)
ARGENTINE LABOR LEADER KILLED: AS POLITICAL MURDERS CONTINUE
IN ARGENTINA v THE LEADER OF THE PORT WORKERS UNION WAS SHOT AND
KILLED THURSDAY BY ATTACKERS WHO BROKE INTO THE UNION HOUSE.
THE PORT WORKERS UNION WILL HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY TO
EXPLAIN' MEASURES THEY WILL ADOPT IN RESPONSE TO THE KILLING.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/10/22: LOC-HAK-550-2-1-7