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EVENING NOTES

Document Type: 
CREST [1]
Collection: 
Library of Congress [2]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
LOC-HAK-544-2-26-7
Release Decision: 
RIPLIM
Original Classification: 
T
Document Page Count: 
2
Document Creation Date: 
January 11, 2017
Document Release Date: 
December 18, 2012
Sequence Number: 
26
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
November 5, 1973
Content Type: 
MEMO
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_ v.1, ,e - A-R-19 e q No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/18: LOC-HAK-544-2-26-7 MEMORANDUM WASHINGTON TOP SECRET-SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM: The Situation Room SUBJECT: Evening Notes November 5, 1973 ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS APPLY Middle East Situation: The Syrian front remained calm today and Israeli aircraft continued to fly over the front without incident. Several violations of the cease-fire on both the northern and southern sectors of the Egyptian front appeared to indicate a higher level of military activity, but the. scale of the fighting is unknown. Israeli aircraft continued to fly over the Egyptian front, however, and have not been noted. participating in any of the clashes.. Press reports from Tel,. Aviv cite an Israeli military spokesman who claims that three. of the four incidents took place in the northern sector of the east bank --- the Fi inct cminh i nni ri~antc i n tha-I cr=ni-n-n ci nr+a TOP SECRET-SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/18: LOC-HAK-544-2-26-7 ; No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/18: LOC-HAK-544-2-26-7 0 4P TOP SECRET-SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD Possible Arab Summit: Ambassador Brown has suggested that the U .S.. begin conslderang means to defuse what is apparently a snowballing:Arab effort.to.convene a summit conference. The Ambassador feels that an Arab conference at this time would be counter-productive to efforts to bring about a Middle East settlement. Any Arabconference"in the past has been dominated by hardliners who generally have the influence to push .a con- sensus among the other Arab participants. 25X1 The Washington Star -- News: Jeremiah O'Leary reports on your. depart re today and notes that you will be meeting with Arab leaders in an effort to get formal peace talks started between the Arabs and Israelis. A.Star editorial comments that when the country has been aware for over a year of the existence of an energy crisis, it is unsettling that the Administration has still not gotten around to doing anything about it. Another Star editorial states that it should not be forgotten that a UN truce-keeping force is basically. symbolic in nature, and that continuance of the armistice depends on the, combatants' desire for peace, and that of their big-power sponsors. The Star-News feels that the recent vote in Quebec re- lieves any i mediate fear of a split that could drastically reduce Canada's present and potential importance. Garry Wills comments that detente was severely tested during the recent Middle East crisis and proved that it can survive. TOP SECRET-SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/18: LOC-HAK-544-2-26-7

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