MOROCCAN INQUIRY ON PRESS REPORTS OF US ATTITUDE TOWARD MOROCCO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000400160052-4
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: October 30, 1971
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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SUBU: MOROCCAN INQUIRY ON PRESS REPORTS OF US ATTITUDE
TOWARD MOROCCO
1. MOROCCAN CHARGE ZAILAICHI CALLED ON ASSISTANT
SECRETARY NEWSOM SEPT 29 ON INSTRUCTIONS TO SEEK
CLARIFICATION OF US NEWS STORIES REPORTED SEPTEL.
2. CONCERNING PRESS REPORTS, MR NEWSOM QUOTED STATJENT
BY WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN THAT THESE STORIES ARE "T'ALLY
SPECULATIVE AND WITHOUT FOUNDATION." MR NEWSOM ALSO
QUOTED CONVERSATION OF WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN WITH
REPORTER FROM COUNTRY OTHER THAN MOROCCO REPORTED
SEPTEL.
3. MR NEWSOM SAID HOWEVER IN MAKING THIS COMMENT HE
WISHED TO CONVEY ON BEHALF OF STATE DEPARTMENT
THAT WHILE WE APPRECIATE THAT MOROCCO. HAS SPECIAL
PROBLEMS AND WHILE WE HAVE HAD A LONG ASSOCIATION OF
COMMON BENEFIT, WE WERE DISAPPOINTED THAT ON A MATTER
OF IMPORTANCE TO THE PRESIDENT AND THIS GOVT, A 1.UMBEf{ QF
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OUR CLOSEST FRIENDS FOUND THEY WERE UNABLE TO SUPPORT US.
4. MR NEWSOM SAID WE WERE WORRIED BEFORE THAT AN
ADVERSE VOTE WOULD HAVE AN AFTERMATH THAT WOULD BE
FELT IN THE CONGRESS AND IN US, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS
THE UN AND INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES. IT HAS BEEN SHOWN
THAT THESE FEARS WERE NOT WITHOUT FOUNDATION.
5. MR NEWSOM SAID WE MADE A SPECIAL EFFORT WITH MOROCCO BECAUSE
OF OUR SPECIAL INTEREST THERE. WE SAID WE REALIZE THAT MOROCCO
CHANGED ITS VOTE ON IQ FROM NEGATIVE TO AN ABSTENTION.
WE ALSO REALIZE THAT THE GOM HAD KEPT US INFORMED OF
SHIFTS IN ITS POSITION AND RESPONSE FOR IT. HOWEVER,
MR NEWSOM SAID HE WISHED TO CONVEY UNAMBIGUOUSLY THAT
WE ARE VERY MUCH DISAPPOINTED.
6. MR NEWSOM SAID WE HAVE NOT OFTEN ASKED COUNTRIES
WHO ARE MAJOR RECIPIENTS OF USAID FOR SPECIFIC POLITICAL
SUPPORT. ON ONE OCCASION WE HAVE NOW DONE SO AND
ARE DISAPPOINTED THAT SO MANY KEY COUNTRIES FOUND
THEY COULD NOT SUPPORT US.
7. MR NEWSOM SAID THERE IS A TENDANCY ON THE PART OF
SOME AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO. FEEL THE VOTE DOES NOT MATTER
AND THAT THE US WILL GO ON DOING WHAT IT DOES REGARDLESS
OF THEIR ACTION IN A MATTER OF THIS KIND. HE SAID
OTHER COUNTRIES OFTEN TEND TO LOOK SERIOUSLY ON THE
REQUESTS FROM NATIONS OTHER THAN OURS BUT BELIEVE
THAT US REQUESTS CAN BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY. MR NEWSOM
SAID THAT RECENT EVENTS COULD BRING CHANGES IN US
ATTITUDES.
8. MR NEWSOM SAID THAT BY SAYING THIS HE DID NOT WISH TO
INDICATE THERE WILL BE ANY RETALIATION OR. ANYTHING OF THE
KIND BUT THAT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE UN LAST WEEKEND WILL
NOT GO WITHOUT IST EFFECTS.
9. MR ZAILA ICHI ASKED WHETHER THESE EFFECTS WOULD BE IN
REGARD TO THE UN OR OTHER COUNTRIES. MR NEWSOM RESPONDED
IN REGARD TO BOTH AND THAT WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN SOME
ADVERSE REACTION IN THE US TOWARDS THE UN.
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QPM MR NEWSOM SAID THAT OUTSIDERS OFTEN BELIEVE
SENATE MAY VOTE IN A WAY THAT
SUGGESTS EVENTS SUCH AS THIS DO NOT HAVE MUCH IMPACT.
THE ROLE OF COMMITTEES AND COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN IN THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS LESS CONSPICUOUS BUT IN
SOME WAYS MORE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY PROVIDE THE
MONEY. IT IS INTHIS GROUP THAT THE EFFECTS OF OUR
INABILITY TO PRESERVE A SEAT FOR TAIWAN AND THE MANNER
IN WHICH MANY COUNTRIES REACTED WILL BE FELT. HE SAID
HE HOPED IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR OUR FRIENDS TO KNOW
SOMETHING ABOUT' THE MOOD IN THE COUNTRY.
11. MR ZA ILA ICHI REFERRED TO PRESS REPORTS THAT WE
WERE UNHAPPY WITH SOME COUNTRIES WHO HAD MADE PROMISES
AND THEN GONE BACK ON THEM. MR NEWSOM SAID WE DO NOT
.a PUT MOROCCO IN THIS CATEGORY ALTHOUGH UNFORTUNATELY
WE DO PUT SOME COUNTRIES IN THIS CATEGORY.
12. MR ZA ILA ICHI SAID THAT AMBASSADOR DESIGNATE
SENOUSSI WAS VERY CONCERNED WITH THE PRESENT ATMOSPHERE
AND HOPED IT WOULD NOT AFFECT THE BEGINNING OF HIS
MISSION HERE. MR NEWSOM DID NOT RESPOND.
13. MR ZAILAICHI WAS GIVEN THE TEXT OF THE WHITE
HOUSE PRESS STATEMENTS REPEATED SEPTEL. ROGERS
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