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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-248-1-9-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 11, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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REPORTED IN MOSCOW PEST ERDAY. FIVE SQVIET SOL-CERS MERE SAID.
TO HAVE, BEEN KILLED BEFORE THE CHINESE WERE DRIVEN OFF. THE
CHINESE FQREIt~N MINISTRY T~ISMISSED THE REPORTS AS BEING NOTHING
MARE THAN "SHEER FABRiCATTON." (A-1)
STAFF WRITER MIC;fiAEL GETLER, IN AN ARTICLE ON THE SQtITH ~JIET~
- AIAMESE AIR FARCE, SAYS THAT AMERICANS WHO HAVE WORKED CLOSEST
WITH VNAF BELIEVE ITS DEVELOPMENT MARKS QNE OF THE MOST. SAC-
CESSFUL OPERATIONS UNDERTAKEN. I~1 WTETNAM. BUT SOME EEPRESS
CONCERN THAT THE FtOCD OF ~9ATEAIAL STILL POURING IN MAY ,yUST
INCREASE THE ?E[~7ENC'Y TO RELY Op THE U. S. RATHER T'HAN' TO DO.
OTTER MAI~iTENA~iCE WORK. (Ar~S)
AN ED IT~IAL ON THE PRO~tESS QF HIJACKIr~G NEGQTIATIONS WITH
CUBA COMMENTS THAT "'UNgUESTIO~IABLY, HEMISPHERIC ACCOMf~13ATT4)N
,WITH HAVANA COULD PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN FANILITATTI~G THE
MORE ACTIVE ANfl HELPFUL SECONtHTERM APPROACH TO LATIN AMERICA'
THAT WE NQRE Aft. NIXON 'HAS IN MIND." ({~-22)
THE NEW YORK TIMES
mYPT' S PARLIAMENT NAS MADE AN UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON A MAJOR
Pfd., ICY 5T AT EMENT AND .QUESTIONED EGYPT'S PREPAREDNESS FQ R WAR
WITH ISRAEL. THE PARLIAME;I~1T DECLARED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD
FAILED T O DEAL FRANIKLY WITt~ MAJOR ISSUES, AMONG. WHICH WAS. EGYPT' S
STAND ON MEASURES TO BE TAKEN AGAINST U. S. INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE
..EAST TO PRE~tE~IT FURTHER S1~IFMENT OF AMERICAN ARMS TO ISRAEL. tA-3)
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PREMIER TA~iAKA' S LIBERAL-DEf~OCRA?I~ PARTY MAS BEE~1 RET~JRNE17 Tf~
POWER WITR A SOLID VICTORY IN NATIONWIDE ELECTIaNS. ZITH RACES
SETTLED IN TWtYTHIRDS Off' T ME 491 ~1013SE SEATS BEING ELECTEDs THE
LIBERAL-~EM~CRATS HAVE WON 21~ SEATS. Iii AaDITION, NT~QE IN13E-
~ENDEN'TS WH0 ARE EXFECtED TO COIN Tt1E LIBERAL-DEMDCR AT IC RANKS
WERE ELECTEd? THE SOCIALIST PARTY. k1AS. WON S3 SEATS A~1D APPEARS
T~ 8E STAGING A C4P~EBACK FROM T~dE SEVERE DEFEAT LT SUFFERED IN.
19:69. T1~E COMMUNIST PARTYSHAS 1.9J SEATS, 'THE KCMEITO HAS NINE,
AND THE -Efn9rW1CRATIG 5?CIALIST PARTY HAS 8 SEATS. tAwl)
A?T1~ONY LEWIS COi~FARES YDI~R APPROACH TO VIET@IAM AS STATED IN
YOUR ARTICLE F(7R T1~E ~ANIIARY 1569 FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND YOiJR
PRESENT #EGC1T IATI~IG POSIT ION. t~E REPORTS TtiAT IN 1969 YOU
WERE SKEPTICAL OF A COALITION aOVERNMENT OR ACEASE-F'I'RE..
YOU CaNQ..~EU "THEN TI~AT THE EI. S. SHOULU SEEK A ~' STAGEtI WIT N-
DRAW AL BY BATH .SIDES." IT APPEARS blaW THAT TF{E TERMS ~1" THE
t~TC3$ER AGREE~9ENT SET YOUR EARLIER TERMS Iii PART. WHILE THERE
HAS SEEN NO MUTUAL- W~THDRAWAI. ANU Tt~E U. S. HAS ACCEPTED TH?
SEA flF A CEASE-FIRE, YQti SUCCEEDED IN SEPARATINt) THE MILITARY
FRL1P6 TIDE pOLIT I~AL TRACKS. ?HE OCTO$ER AQREEMENT WaULD FULL
W, S~ Fl7~iCES Oi~T: WHILE TIDE PEILIT ICAL F`CaT tR~E IN C~IET~iA@l IS DPErMi
AND TMIEt1 REl~AIi1S IN POWER. WHAT YOU DID I~OT !FORESEE WAS T1~E
COST ~F MEETiNO SOME OF YOUR AIr~15 IN ?ERNS OF ME~1 AND MOI'dEY.
''IT' IS T00 LATE Tn AVOID ?HE CL2STS NOW... WE CAN 01iLY MOPE.THAT
xISSIN6ER AlEt HIS PRINCIPAL REMEMBER W1~AT HAS k1APPENED DURINS
THE.' LAST FOUR YEARS AS THEY WEIG1ri PEACE IN T`HE BALANCE N?.W."
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