MORNING NEWS SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-247-10-15-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: December 7, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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UNCLAS
T OHAK 83
FOR HENRY KISSINGER
DECEMBER 7, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER
FR ON: THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECT: MORNING NEWS SUMMARY
THE WASHINGTON POST
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
JONATHAN RANDAL REPORTS FROM PARIS THAT RUMORS ARE RAMPANT IN
THE FRENCH PRESS THAT AN AGREEMENT IS PENDING. HE SUGGESTS
THE PUBLIC CORDIALITY SHOWN AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE
MEETING TENDS TO SUPPORT THESE OPTIMISTIC RUMORS. NEITHER SIDE
DEPARTED FROM THEIR STANDARD NEWS BLACKOUT. THE WHITE HOUSE
ANNOUNCED THAT ANOTHER MEETING WILT BE HELD TODAY. THE FRENCH
PRESS CONTINUES TO SPECULATE THAT YOU AND LE DUC THO MAY BE
WORKING ON THE FINAL WORDING OF A CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT. THE
OPTIMISTIC VIEW WAS HELPED ALONG BY WORD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
OF HEAVY DIPLOMATIC TRAFFIC BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND YOU9 AS
WELL AS BY SIAGON NEWSPAPER DISPATCHES PREDICT NG A CEASE-FIRE
BY CHRISTMAS. AFTER THE MEETING, YOU BRIEFED THE SOUTH VIET-
NAMESE, AND THO BRIEFED THE VIET CONG DELEGATION. A PICTURE
OF YOU AND LE DUC THO SHAKING HANDS AFTER THE MEETING APPEARS
ON PAGE A-1.
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PTTAL SPOKESMEN SAID HE WS "PASSED THROUGH AN UNTRAZ`RITICAL
PERIOD." THE HOSPITAL BULLETIN REPORTED: "HE IS NOT IN A COMA
AND IS BECOMING MORE RESPONSIVE TO STIMULI." (A-1)
JOHN GOSHKO REPORTS FROM BRUSSELS THAT FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE
U.S., BRITAIN, AND FRANCE AGREED TO BEGIN PRELIMINARY CONTACTS
ABOUT DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION OF EAST GERMANY AFTER THE SIGNING
OF THE TREATY BETWEEN THE TWO GERMANYS ON DECEMBER 1. THERE
HAS BEEN NO SET TIME TABLE FOR THE ACTUAT RECOGNITION OF EAST
GERMANY. (A-14)
EVANS AND NOVAK REPORT ON THEIR RECENT INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT
SAD AT. SEDAT HOPES FOR "GOOD, NEW RELATIONS BETWEEN CAIRO AND
MOSCOW, BUT HE BELIEVES MOSCOW" S COMMITMENT TO DETENTE WITH
WASHINGTON OVERWHELMS EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF KREMLIN POLICY.
SADAT HAS NO ASSURANCE ON HOW MUCH MUSCLE BREZHNEV WILL USE
TO CHAMPION EGYPT' S CASE WHEN HE MEETS THE PRESIDENT NEXT
SPRING. SADAT FEELS AS LONG AS THE PRESENT SOVIET LEADERSHIP
SURVIVES, IT WILL NOT PERMIT PERIPHERAL CRISES SUCH AS VIETNAM
AND THE MIDDLE EAST TO THREATEN MOSCOW'S TIES WITH WASHINGTON,
DESPITE THEIR VAST INVESTMENT IN THE ARAB WORLD. HE HAS PLAYED
HIS TRUMP CARD -- INVITING SOVIET TECHNICIANS OUT OF EGYPT AS
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS DEMENDED -- AND MOSCOW AND WASHINOTON ARE
DIDDLING EGYPT. IN AN EFFORT TO END THIS DIDDLING, EGYPT MAY
NOW RISK THOUSANDS OF CASUALTIES BY A RENEWAL OF HOT WAR AGAINST
ISRAEL. ( A-19)
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 MARILYN BERGER REPORTS ON A RECENT INTERVIEW WITH KEAWETH RUSH.
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HE PREDICTS THAT THE U. S."WILL GIVE FORMAL DIPLOMATIC KECOGN1-
TION TO EAST GERMANY WITHIN MONTHS THE U. S. HAS ALWAYS FOL-
LOWED THE LEAD OF WEST GERMANY AND WOULD TAKE ITS VIEW STRONGLY
INTO CONSIDERATION. HE SAID: "DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION SHOULD
NOT BE USED AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POWER POLITICS." HE HOLDS A
VERY OPT IM IST IC VIEW THAT A CSCE WILL BE HELD. HE ADM IRES
YOU AND IS FOND OF SE CR ET ER Y R OG ER S. ON YO SR ROLE HE SAID:
"IF THERE WAS NO KISSINGER, THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE TO CREATE
ONE, FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE CANNOT FULFILL ALL HIS DUTIES
AND STILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE WHITE HOUSE AT ALL TIMES." THE
PRESIDENT IS FULLY INFORMED ABOUT THE VIEWS OF ALL DEPARTMENTS.
ON VIETNAM, RUSH STRONGLY SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT' S VIEW. HE
SAID: "THE PRESIDENT TOOK EXACTLY THE ACTION THAT WAS NEEDED
TO START CATALYZING TOWARD AN EFFECTIVE SETTLEMENT." (A-29)
THOMAS LIPPMAN REPORTS THAT ORGANIZERS OF A NEW NATIONWIDE POLITI-
CAL PARTY BACKED BY PRESIDENT THIEU AND COMMITTED TO HIS POLICIES
HAS FILED REGISTRATION PAPERS AND PREPARING FOR PUBLIC DEBUT. IT
IS TO PROVIDE THIEU WITH THE MEANS FOR POLITICAL STRUGGLE WITH
THE COMMUNISTS IN THE PERIOD AFTER A CEASEAFIRE. (A-21)
THE BALTIMORE SUN
THE WESTERN BIG FOUR FOREIGN MINISTERS LAST NIGHT AGREED THAT
BILATERAL TALKS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELATIONS BY NATO
COUNTRIES WITH EAST GERMANY COULD BEGIN AFTER THE SIGNING OF
THE BASIC TREATY BETWEEN EAST AND WEST GERMANY ON DECEMBER 21.
(A-1)
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AN EDITORIAL BY NICK TH?ESCH. THIMMESCH SAYS THEW IS EVI-
DENCE THAT YOU WERE A BIT GENEROUS TO THE NORTH VIETNAMESE IN
ANNOUNCING THE TERMS OF THE "PEACE IS AT HAND" SETTLEMENT LAST
OCTOBER 26TH. BUf, THIS WAS NOT A POLITICAL ERROR ON YOUR
HART BECAUSE IT WAS HANOI WHICH FORCED THE TIMING. HE NOTES
HOW YOU HAVE LABORED HARD FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT AND THAT YOU
AND GENERAL HAIG HAVE GIVEN MUCH IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS. SUCH
MEN, HE DECLARES, IN HIGHER POSITIONS ARE HUMAN LIKE THE REST
OF US. (A-4)
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