NOON REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-548-11-18-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: December 11, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER,
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SUBJECT NDON- REPORT'
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PRIME.MINISTER MUJIB'S'.RECENT DECISION TO AMNESTY SOME30,000'
BANGLADESH NATIONALS WHOM HE HAD JAILED ON' CHARGES OF' AIDING.
PAKISTAN.IN 1971 MAY "AVE H'ELPED:SMOOTH THE WAY'FOR,AC.ON
CILIAT?RY MOVE BY PAKISTAN. MUJIB HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED LATELY
AS'POSSIBLY HAVING DROPPED HIS. INSISTENCE ON PUTTING .195 PAK4-
ISTANI P?WS ON TRIAL. ABANDONMENT BY MUJIB OE, HIS: PLANS' FOR
TRIALS,, TOGETHER WITH'. PAKISTANI RECOGNITIOF` OF BANGLADESH,
WDULD IN TURN REMOVE IMPORTANT OBSTACLES TO THEIMPROVEMENT OF
CHINA'S CURRENTLY NONEXISTENT RELATIONS WITH BANGLADESH.
BHUTTOOS PRINCIPAL RIGHT-WING.OPPQNENTS AT:HOME, HOWEVERt H4VE
RUMORS BY ' INITIATING
REPORTEDLY STARTED REACTING TO-RECOGNITION.'
.A DRIVE `'TO TURN CURRENT' STUDENT UNREST INTO _A. CAMPAIGN .AGAINST
RECOGNIZING BANGLADESH. IN 19720' AN UPSURGE IN RIGHTIST-AND
STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS BLOCKED WHAT APPEARED TO BE MOVEMENT_BY
BHUTTO TOWARD RECDGNI?T'ION,. .AND THE SAME THING COULD HAPPEN.. AGAIN.:
PAKISTAN'S: GENERAL POPULACE PROB ABLY.WOULD ACCEPT REC?GNITIi7N
OF BANGLADESH WITH RELATIVE EQUANIMITYY BUT THE. WELL;GRGANIZED
RIGHT-WING PARTY 'THAT' DOMINATES STUDENT POLITICAL CIRCLES RE-
MAINS ACTIVELY' OPPOSED TO RECOGNITION. (APPELBAUMISAUNDERS
ZAIRIAN ;OFFSHORE OIL`s, AN INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM, OF WHICH
GULF. OIL ' IS . A 50 PERCENT" OWNER' HAS . ANNOUNCED , IT'y W ILL' BEGIN.
IN.' MID?197r.
PETROLEUM PRODUCTION FROM ZAIRIAN OFFSHORE WELLS,
THE,CONSORTIUM CONFIRMED THAT PRODUCTION WILL' BE,FEAS.IBLE AT
AN ANTICIPATED INITIAL .RATE OF 25.,;000 BARRELS' PER DAY'. ZN..
VESTMENT T? DATE HAS' BEEN $25 MILLION,, AND IT IS PRESENTLY'
ESTIMATED THAT' AN ADDITIONAL ,$75 MILLION WILL, BE~I.NVESTED IN
1.974 AND 1975:? (HORAN)
NIGERIAN OIL10:.- ACCORDING' TO PRESS. REPORTS: THE, NIGERIAN COMA.
MISSIONER OFMINES ;. AND' POWER HAS INDICATED NIGERIAIWILL NOT'
TAKE: ADVANTAGE' OF THE '. ARAB EMBARGO BY' INCREASING ITS CRUDE'.
OIL PRODUCTION. HE MIMED AS ,ADDING THAT NIGERIA ""WOULD
NOT ON ANY CONDITION SELL HER OIL TO ANY COUNTRY TOYWHICH'.
OUR. GOVERNMENT WAS NOT`, KINDLY DISPOSED.' OUR EMBASSY IN, LAGOS
BELIEVES THESE AND SIMILAR REMARKS ATTRIBUTED TO THE COMMIS-.
S.IONER CONFIRM' '' THAT' NIGERIA WILL.MAKE CRUDE AVAILABLE TO ALL
DESTINATIONS EXCEPT SOUTHERN . AFRICA, .INCLUDING THE UNITED... -
STATES.. NIGERIA . IS. A' MAJOR -FOREIGN. SDURCE AF.OUR CRUDE OIL,
RANKING WITH CANADA,,' VENEZUELA AND SAUDI ARABIA.. IMORANI'
S IHANOUK''COMMENTS t REVERS I-NG A STATEMENT OF NOVEMBER 110
PRINCE SIHANOUK REPORTEDLW'CALLED AFP ON DECEMBER .8, CLAIMING
HE WILL RETURN TQ CAMBODIA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER HIS
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POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS..JN CAMBODIA= S CHARGE,ENDERS: HAS REPORTED
THAT . FOREIGN' MINISTER . LONG BOR. ET. PROBABLY WILL' BE NAMED AS THE,
NEW PREMIER REPLACING . THE INEFFECTUAL IN TAM.WHQ SUBMITTED, HIS.
RESIGNATION LAST WEEK., THE NEW CABINET IS EXPECTED TO BE SMALLER
AND MORE AUTONOMOUS OF LON NOL. THAN PREVIOUS: GOVERNMENTS. pNDERS:
IS HOPEFUL THAT THE GOVERNMENT"ALSO WILL BE MORE EFFECTIVE. IN
RELATED DEVEL?PMENTSs ENDERS HAS AGAIN NOTED LON NOL'+S CONTINUING
DESIRE IN FOREIGN .TRAVEL . OR TREATMENT AND; STRI.K MATAK'S ' NEW' INS-.
TEREST IN ASSUMiNG THE VICE' PRESIDENCY. (STEARMAN/ADAMS)
VENEZUELAN, ELECT I ONS r TH E GOVERNMENT OPPOSITION DEMOCRATIC
ACTION (AD) PARTY LAST', NIGHT CLAIMED VICTORY FOR ITS CANDIDATE
CARLOS ANDRES:: PEREZ. FOUR OTHER CANDIDATES. HAVE' CONCEDED'
SUNDAY'S PRESIDENTIAL~ELECTION TO,PEREZsHOWEVER',HIS CHIEF
OPPONENT ?F THE GOVERNING SOCIAL CHRISTIAN ICOPEI)PARTY;
LORENZO FERNANDEZ HAS THUS FAR MAINTAINED SILENCE. EMBASSY
CARACAS. REPORTS THAT IT' CONTINUES -TO . RECEIVE NUMEROUS: INDICATIONS.
THAT COPEI PARTY_ LEADERS ARE NOT OPTIMISTIC, OVER THE APPARENT
TREND OF,THE VOTE-COUNT'AND?ARE PRIVATELYCONCEDING,VICTORY'
TO PEREZ& AND BEf.TEVE.THAT IF PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE BORNE CUT
PEREZ WILL WIN THE ELECTION BY A CONSIDERABLE MARGIN.
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