INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-3-66-5
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: November 28, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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FM THE SITUATION' ROOM //TOHAK128//
TO JERRY BREMER FOR THE SECRETARY
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MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: THE. SITUATION .ROOM
SUBJECT:- INFORMATION ITEMS
ETHIOPIAN SITUATION THERE WERE PRESS 'REPORTS FROM BEIRUT,
ON WEDNESDAY THAT THE ETHIOPIAN MILITARY. REGIME. HAD DECIDED .
. 0'+ THE EARLY EXECUTION OF HAILE SELASSIE. WHILE THE ETHIOPIAN
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAS OFFICIALY'INDICATED TO OUR-
E='ASSY IN ADDIS THESE REPORTS ARE WITHOUT'FOUNDATION, THERE
HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE PUBLIC CONCERN EXPRESSED BOTH HERE. AND
ABROAD.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS INSTRUCTED OUR EMBASSY TO EXPRESS OUR
CONCERNS TO THE -MILITARY REGIME-CONCERNING PAST EXECUTIONS AND
;TO ASK ON HUMANE GROUNDS AND IN-THE CONTEXT OF THE TRADITIONAL-'
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ETHIOPIA AND THE. U.S. THAT NO.:FURTHER EXE-.
CUTIONS BE CARRIED OUT. THE STATE. DEPARTMENT PRESS OFFICER.
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IN ADDITION, OUR EMBASSY HAS. BEEN INSTRUCTED TO'INFORM ; ,
ETHIOPIAN AUTHORITIES THAT THE' U.S. WOULD VIEW_.WITH:. SHOCK'
AND REVULSION THE EXECUTION OF 7THE FORMER EMPEROR-,- U.:S
VIEW, WHICH WE BELIEVED WOULD -BE' SHARED BY WORLD OPINION,': I:-S
BASED ON HAILE SELASSIE'S HISTORIC ROLE-IN RESISTING .FOREIGN
AGGRESSION AGAINST ' ETHIOPIA 40. YEARS AGO AND HIS_ MAJOR CON,
TRIBUTION TO AFRICAN UNITY AND INDEPENDENCE. ' ' , THE "STATE -DE-'
PARTMENT DOES NOT CURRENTLY PLAN TO -MAKE. THIS DEMARCHE PUBLIC..
IN ADDITION; WHILE AGAIN NOT MAKING THIS. DECISION PUBLIC, THE
STATE DEPARTMENT IS NOT CONCLUDING ANY.NEW'ECONOMIC OR MILITARY
ASSISTANCE ARRANGEMENTS WITH ETHIOPIA UNTIL IT' HASS HAD AN'OP- .
PORTUN.ITY TO ASSESS THE SITUATION FURTHER. STATE- IS ALSO PLACING
A HOLD ON ANY FUTURE DELIVERIES OF.MILITARY EQUIPMENT THAT.MIGHT
BE IN THE PIPELINE. (HORAN)
CHILE EXPELS OPPOSITION LEADERS THE LEADER OF THE.LEFT'WING
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TU SECRET
OF CHILE'S LARGEST POLITICAL PARTY WAS EXPELLED FROM THE-
CCNTRY FOLLOWING CRITICAL COMMENTS ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT TO
A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. SENATOR.FUENTEALBA WAS PICKED UP AT
:CIS OFFICE AND PUT ABOARD AN AIRPLANE BEFORE HIS FAMILY WAS
A
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RE THAT HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED. A CHILEAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
IOU OUR EMBASSY THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND LEADER OF THE
SAY PARTY, EDUARDO FREI, WAS IN DANGER OF THE SAME TREATMENT.
TAE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT'S STRONG REACTION..TO CRITICISM FROM
THOSE CONSIDERED TO BE RELATIVELY MODERATE WILL:: HARDEN OP-
OSITION TO IT, BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF CHILE, AND ENCOUR--
BE OPPOSITION WITHIN THE U.S. CONGRESS, TO'OUR OWN 'EFFORTS TO
?3"VVIDE DEFENSIVE ARMS TO CHILE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGE FROM
C.AND FIRES ON AND ' SEIZES WEST. GERMAN TRAWLER: AN ICELANDIC
"ST GUARD CUTTER FIRED -FIVE SHOTS AT A WEST GERMAN TRAWLER
3C?T 35 MILES OFF THE COAST OF ICELAND YESTERDAY, AFTERNOON.
THE. TRAWLER WAS BOARDED AND ESCORTED TO WESTMANN ISLANDS, WHERE
THE TRIAL WAS TO BEGIN WEDNESDAY. THE SECRETARY GENERAL IN THE
S RY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TOLD OUR AMBASSADOR, "IT LOOKS LIKE
T_=-_ BEGINNING OF ANOTHER COLD WAR." (CLIFT)
C=TH" KOREANS MAY LOSE AT UN: FOR THE 'FIRST TIME, ESTIMATES'.
F THE ASSEMBLY VOTE ON THE NORTH KOREAN RESOLUTION TO:GET'U.S.
FO`1OES OUT OF KOREA INDICATE THAT IT WILL BE DEFEATED. A
ICKur OF SEVERAL VOTES IN RECENT DAYS BY OPPONENTS OF THE NORTH
DRE"N MOVE HAS RESULTED IN A TALLY OF 44 FOR, 45 AGAINST, 46
?t. IAI "~G. THE VOTE IN THE POLITICAL COMMITTEE WILL NOT COME
-,N
I T_ 'TEXT WEEK," HOWEVER, AND THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL-SHIFTS
Iii 30TH DIRETIOS IF TH NTT
CN.EORH KOREANS SEE A .PROSPEC .OF
DEFEAT NEXT WEEK, THEY MAY BECOME MORE RECEPTIVE TO PRIVATE
DI'SCCUSSIONS LOOKING TOWARD COMPROMISE, AS WAS THE CASE LAST
AR.
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