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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-2-53-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: October 28, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

o Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/08/15 : LOC-HAK-550-2-53-0
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CYPRUS PRISONER EXCHANGE: PRESS REPORTS THAT ANOTHER EX7
CHANGE OF PRISONERS BY TURKISH AND GREEK CYPRIOT AUTHORITIES
TOOK PLACE TODAY, WITH EACH 'SIDE RELEASING ABOUT 260 DE-
'TAINEES. UN\ OFFICIALS ADDED THAT, IN ALL, 3,319 TURKISH
CYPRIOTS AND 2,48S, GREEK CYPRIOTS HAVE BEEN EXCHANGED.
PORTUGUESE WITHDRAWAL COMPLETED IN GUINEA-BISSAU: THE POR-
TUGUESE , HAVE COMPLETED THEIR WITHDRAWAL FROM GUINEA-BISSAU
SMOOTHLY AND WITHOUT FANFARE. OUR EMBASSY IN LISBON RECENTLY
REPORTED THAT THE LAST PORTUGUESE TROOPS LEFT THE FORMER
COLONY ON OCTOBER 15, AT LEAST TWO WEEKS AHEAD OF THE DEAD-
LINE ARRANGED WITH THE LEADERS Of THE INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT.
GUINEA-BISSAU' S TOP OFFI CI ALS ARRIVED IN THE FORMER _PROVINCIAL
CAPITAL OF BISSAU ON OCTOBER 19 AND OCCUPIED THE RESIDENCE OF
THE DEPARTED PORTUGUESE GOVERNOR. APPARENTLY NO PORTUGUESE
OFFICIALS WERE ON HAND FOR THE MODEST CEREMONIES. THE NEW
GOVERNMENT HAS ANNOUNCED THAT ITS CAPITAL WILL BE THE SMALL
TOWN OF MADINA DO BOE' IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.
THE. TOWN IS ISOLATED, HOWEVER, AND IS LIKELY TO BE THE CAPITAL
IN NAME ONLY. BISSAU 'PROBABLY WILL CONTINUE AS THE COUNTRY' S
, ADMINISTRATIVE AND ECONOMIC CENTER. TO DATE, NEITHER THE
PORTUGUESE NOR THE COMMUNIST COUNTRIES MAJOR SUPPORTERS OF
THE LORI INSURGENCY AGAINST L I SBON HAVE RUSHED TO EXTEND
ECHNICAL AND ,FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE NEW GOVERNMENT AID)
SABLY WILL SE 1tORTHCOMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE, NPVEVER AS
NEW GOVERNMENT SETTLES IN AND DIPLOMATIC 'HIST014-$ ARE
ABL I SHED IN BISSAU. THE NEW STATE'S MOST IMMEDIATE NEEDS
ARE ECONOMIC , ASSISTANCE FOR ITS L ARO EL Y SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE
'NOMY THE HEALTH, EDtJCAI
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/08/15: LOC-HAK-550-2-53-0
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THE WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS
JEREMIAH O'LEARY COVERS YOUR ON-THE-RECORD ASSERTION THAT THE"
CHANCES ARE GOOD THAT A SALT ACCORD WILL BE REACHED IN 1975.
A SENIOR SOURCE CLOSE TO YOU REPORTEDLY SAID THAT YOUR DIS-
CUSSIONS WITH THE SOVIETS WERE VERY TOUGM'BUT MORE CONSTRUC-
TIVE THAN YOU HAD EXPECTED. YOU WERE ALSO SUCCESSFUL IN CON-
VEYING A UNIFIED AMERICAN POSITION AND IN REASSURING THE
SOVIETS OF THE CONTINUITY OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. (A-1)
THE ARAB SUMMIT HAS ERUPTED INTO A SHOUTING MATCH BETWEEN
KING HUSAYN AND YASSAR ARAFAT. ALGERIAN PRESIDENT BOUMEDIENNE
HAS BACKED ARAFAT WHILE THE.IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT, HADDAM
TARRITT, HAS ASKED THE SUMMIT TO DROP PLANS FOR A RESUMPTION
OF THE GENEVA TALKS AND PREPARE FOR WAR. THE SUMMIT WILL
CONTINUE INTO TOMORROW. (A-1)
HENRY BRADSHER, WHO RECENTLY VISITED CHINA, COMMENTS ON THE
RE-SCHOOLING OF THE CHINESE BUREAUCRACY IN THE THOUGHTS OF MAO.
IN RECENT YEARS,- GREATER EMPHASIS HAS BEEN ON POLITICAL REIN-
DOMINATION THAN PHYSICAL LABOR ALTHOUGH THE LATTER EXPERIENCE
IS STILL MADE AVAILABLE. (A-5)
AFTER AN INITIALLY COOL RECEPTION FOR YOU, MRS. GANDHI ASSURED
YOU THAT U.S.-INDIAN RELATIONS ARE IMPROVING. FOREIGN MINISTER
CHAvAN sFEs YOUR VISIT AS A PROPITIOUS MOMENT TO STEER INDIA
AWAY FROM THE SOVIET UNION AND CLOSER TO THE U.S. (4-6)
AN EDITORIAL EXPRESSES CONCERN THAT AUSTRALIA IS LIKELY TO
SUPPORT A SECURITY COUNCIL VOTE TO UNSEAT SOUTH AFRICA. SUCH
ACTION IS LIKELY TO BE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE AND ALTHOUGH THE
U.S. DOES NOT CONDONE SOUTH AFRICAN RACIST POLICIES WE SHOULD
VETO ANY EXPULSION RESOLUTION. A CONTINUING DIALOGUE WITH
souTH AFRICA IS NECESSARY ESPECIALLY NOW WHEN THERE IS SOME
MOVEMENT TOWARDS LIBERALIZATION. (A-8)
WILLIAM NICHOLSON. OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS FROM SANTIAGO.
THAT CHILEAN GOVERNMENT AND COPPER OFFICIALS ARE PROCLAIMING
THEIR COUNTRY AS THE SAUDI ARABIA OF COPPER AND ARE LOOKING FOR-
wARD TO EXPORT EARNINGS IN THE DECADES AHEAD. THE GOVERNMENT
WILL PROVIDE JUST COMPENSATION TO NATIONALIZED. CORPORATIONS PUT
WILL RETAIN. CHILEAN OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL. (A-13)
TAMMY ARPUCKLE REPORTS THAT CAMBODIA IS A. MAIN TRANSIT. POINT IN
THE SHIPMENT. OF HEROIN BETwEEN THAILAND AND SOUTH VIETNAM. THE
U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY BELIEVES THE TRAFFICKERS ARE A
LOOSELY ORGANIZED GROUP OF "SMALL. MEN." (D-9)
MARY ANNE WEAVER SUGGESTS THAT FORMER DICTATOR PAPADOPOuLOS'
EXILE IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF HIS TROUBLES AS HE IS EXPECTED
To BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL IN ATHENS IN A MATTER OF WEEKS. THE
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WHEREABOUTS OF GENERAL IOANNIDIS IS UNKNOWN EVEN TO SOME
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS VP CONCEDE THAT THEY ARE NOT EVEN SURE
HE IS STILL IN GREECE. (D-9)
REUTERS REPORTS THAT FOREIGN MINISTER SOARES LAST NIGHT
ANNOUNCED THAT SEN. KENNEDY WILL VISIT PORTUGAL WITHIN THE NEXT
TWO WEEKS.
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