SUNDAY NEWS PAPER SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-248-1-1-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 10, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER:,
FROM; THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJEtft.. SUNDAY NEWS. PAPER SUMMARY
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?NERAL HAIG' S TRIP TO WASHINGTON TO BRIEF ~T.HE PRESIDENT IS
FEATURED QN THE FRONT PAGE.. THE ARTICLE SAYS THAT 11F."ANNOUNCEMENT
W HAIG? S MISSION.. AND THE 'MONDAY MEETING WAS GREETED WITH CAUTIOUS
OPTIMISM ` AN4 HOPEFULLY INTERPRETED AS AN INDICATION THAT
'A FINAL`,.CEASE'FIRE AGREEMENT HAS-BEEN ALL Bur WORKED OUT.
SOME OBSERVERS:-,WARNED THAT EVENS IF THE PRESENT 'ROUND OF
TALES:: IS COMPLETED' EARLY NEXT WEERs KISSINQER, HASG OR
PERHAPS BOW MA.Y HAVE TO FLY TO SAIGON, AND A FINAL ROUND
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
OF -SECRET TALKS FOLLOWING SUCH A MISSION' 'WAS NOT. BEING RULED
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*11EET ING. N E A R : 08 NOTICE, THAT ? THE'
NIXON. ADMINISTRATION INTENDS: TO BE TOUGH AND `BUSINESS-LIKE
-WITH ERUOPEA:N ALLIES I.N THE.-ECONOMIC AND MILITARY
AEG-OTIATIONS PROJECtED FOR THE NEXT. TWO' YEARS.. HELi+UT
. NENFELDT SAID` THAT THE -ADMINISTRATION
PJF E.Y RECOGNIZES _THAT' THE MO OF THE COUNTRY IS- THAT
E OPE MUST. 00 SOMETHING TO REMOVE THE PERMANENT DEFICIT.
.IN .tHE - Sw :BALANCE. OF PAYMENTS CONFERENCE SOURCES REPORTED.
DIPLO[!I TIC SOURCES 'REPORTED THAT THE PRESIDENT PLANS TO
# At+ ,DANIEL MOY THAN AS:-THE-NEW US AMBASSADOR` TO IND IA.
THE SOURCES. VIEWED THE-. PROSPECTIVE APPOINTMENT-AS, AN EFFORT
TOWARD.
A NEI, FRIENDLIER ERA IN US- INDIAN RELATIONS.-
OC3VERNMEE SOURCES. IN SAIGON SAID THAT PRESIDENT. THIEU
IS LAN'NIN?i. TO-RESHUFFLE HIS GABINETs PROBABLY GIVING
.SM MI NOR . POSTS :; T 0 REPRESENTATIVES O F THE, ANT I- CONMUN:IST
. tPPOSITION 'IN AN: ATTEMPT` TO WIN NEW POLITICAL SUPPORT..
IS EXPE ED::40 ANNOUNCE THE CHANGES IN HIS ADDRESS
TO A JOIE` SESSION OF-THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY-08 TUESDAY.-
TEE ;SOVIET; UNTO l; AND NORTH VIETNAM SIGNED NEV TRADE AND
AID AGREEME-N?S TODAY. THE SOVIETS PROMISED TO "GIVE-
NECESSARY ASSISTANCE IN TIE. STRENGTHENING OF (NORTH VIETNAM" S)
DEFENSE. F" Nn.... ......@ L1 DC on WACWfl RV TASS..
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UNI=fN WILL. SHIP LARGE CONSIG-NNENTS OF GODS, EQUIPMENT
;AW OTHER PROPERTY OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE DEVELOP?
OF (NORTH WIET.NAW 9 NATIONAL ECONOMY,," TASS SAID
POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION WAS ALSO -EP WHASITED.
II1 THE; .EDIT tIAL PAGE, CHAL14ERS ROBERTS WRITES THAT SENATOR
MANSFIELD SAID .THAT, HE INTENDS TO ASK THE
NEW . CQ fRE5S TO PASS :A RESOLUTION CALLING 09 THE. PRESIDENT
0, SERVE FORMAL NOTICE THAT THE US WILL. WITHDRAW FROM SEATO?
THE RES ,:T ` IS" LIKELY TO' BE A NEW ROUND ` OF ' DEBATE OVER .THE`
SHAPING Of A14EERICAS. FOREIGN POLICY IN ASIA IN THE POST-
INDOCHINA WAR PERIOD*
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