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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-548-12-18-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: December 20, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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MEMORANDUM. FOR THE` SE ;C E' AR;Y
FROM THE; SITUATION ROOM.
SUBJE fi~...? EVENING.o-^NOTESy
S`k?Af~ISH PR$ME fiINtSTERPEAD: PIM MINIS ' I:UI;S CARRERU
BLANCO t IED THIS MPRNI G AS A RESULT CIF INJt>RIES SUSTAINED
LINEN FITS CAR WAS AVGRT IN AN EXPLOSION 1$ .D Wf TUWN fi ADRID,
H WILL BED REPLACED AT LE_,AST TEMPORARILY, : $Y DOPUTY PREMIER
MIRANDA, .TWO OF t E BIDDY GUARDS ACCOMPANYING TH P IM
M;INIS' ER WERE ALSO REPL1RTEDLY KILLED 'IN THE ;-EXPLOSION. WHILE
PRES ' REPORTS..,; STATE ,THAT T 1 A-S ' AN ASSASSINATION;'. CADS D 8X A??.
BOR" s.~rTHE i p~EICTAL STA EMEM T S SAY THE . CAUSE OF THCPLOSI ON
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k I ON I N I NOOCH I NA THE SAIGON GQY~ERNMENT REPORTS T#.
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THE CCJMtIUNISTS STAGED THE r IGHEST NUMBER OP INCIDENTS Y STER
DAY AND EARLY ' THIS MORNING ;SINCE LAST MA CH;' k~E LARGEST
CIcASH* ABOUT 30 MILES FIRTH OF -SAIGON,r R EPORTEDLY WAS LAUNCH q
8v A .RATTAL I ON. S I ZD COMMUNIST FORC'E. MUCH lP .THE ACTIVITY
CHIEFLY SHEL 1 INGS --" WAS I THE: DELTA:.
IN CAMBODIA: OYERNI~4ENT ART:I?LLERY .B .GAN SoFI*ENING 'UP .KHMER
State Dept Review
.COMMUNI;ST `'PCISITIONS'YESTEROAY ALONG .ROUTE 4 US?. SOUTHWEST Completed,
OF KO tPONCs SPI~U. C I1 Ya '? AND DOVER iMENT "TROOI S ADVANCED BR EFLY'
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
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.AGAINST STIFF COMMUNIST RESISTANCE- ALONG..ROUTE,5, INCON-
CLUSIVE SKIRMISHING CONTINUED SOME TEN. MILES NORTH OF PHNOM
PENH. HELICOPTERS FERRIED REINFORCEMENTS.TO THE-THREATENED
GARRISON TOWN OF OUDONG FARTHER NORTH ON THE ROAD. GOVERN.,
MENT.COMMANDERS AT THE ISOLATED PROVINCIAL CAPITALS OF TAKEO
AND KAMPOT REPORTED MINOR SHELLINGS AND GROUND PROBES.
THO'S RECEPTION IN MOSCOW: LE DUC THO'S RECENT RECEPTION IN
THE USSR WAS, NOT VERY WARM HE GOT LITTLE ATTENTION IN THE
MEDIA, AND THE. HIGHEST LEVEL OFFICIAL HE MET. WITH WAS PARTY
SECRETARY:KATUSHEV. THE TASS REPORT ON THO'S MEETING WITH
KATUS.HEV SUGGESTS THAT AS USUAL THEIR DIFFERENCES RESULT
MAINLY FROM DIFFERING PERCEPTIONS OF THE U.S. ROLE.IN INDO-
CHINA. THU REITERATED THAT THE NORTH AND SOUTH VIETNAMESE
COMMUNISTS WERE. OBSERVING THE PARIS AGREEMENTS AND DEMANDED
THAT WASHINGTON AND SAIGON DQ,LIKEWISE. THO ALSO SAID THAT
THE SOUTH.VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS RESERVED THE RIGHT TO "PRO..
TECT THE LIBERATED AREAS FROM HOSTILE ENCROACHMENTS." MDSC1'1W.s
ON THE OTHER HAND, CONDEMNED ONLY SAIGON FOR ITS VIOLATIONS: OF
THE CEASE-FIRE AND REITERATED ITS SUPPORT FOR THE STRICK OBSER-
VANCE OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT BY ALL SIDES. MOSCOW ALSO LIMITED
ITS PLEDGES TO SUPPORT OF VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST,EFFORTS T?'RUILD
SOCIALISM IN THE. NORTH AND TO ATTAIN INDEPENDENCE, OEMOCRACV,
AND NEUTRALITY IN THE SOUTH.
GRANADA INDEPENDENCE: THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT HAS APPROVED
INDEPENDENCE FOR THE CARIBBEAN-ASSOCIATED STATE OF GRANADA,
EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 7s 1974, OPPOSITION LEADERS PLAN TO LAUWCH
A GENERAL STRIKE ON. DECEMBER 27 AS THE NEXT STEP IN THEIR CON_
TINUING EFFORTS TO BRING D.nWN PREMIER ERIC GAIRY'S GOVERNMENT
BEFORE INDEPENDENCE DAY.
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AUTUMN HARVEST. BELOWEXPECTATIONS: NORTH VIETNAM'S,RECENT
RICE HARVEST PROBABLY AMOUN!TEO TO A DISAPPOINTING 2.5 MILLInN
TONS. ACCORDING TO NORTH VIETNAMESE PRESSs.THIS YEAR'S AUTUMN
RICE CROP RANKED FIFTH AMONG THOSE OF THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARSs
AND THE OUTPUT EXCEEDED ONLY THE 1968 AND 1971.CROPS. THE
19.7 b CROP SUFFERED FROM DROUGHT AT THE START OF THE GROWING
SFASON AND FROM FLOODING CAUSED BY TYPHOONS JUST PRIOR TO
HARVEST.: THE FALL HARVEST.. TOGETHER WITH THE SPRING HARVEST
(ABOUT 1.8 MILLION TONS) WILL PROBABLY COVER ONLY , THREE-?
QUARTERS OF NORTH VIETNAM'S CONSUMPTION REQUIREMENTS. TO
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MAKEUP FOR THE DIFFERENCE. FOOD IMPORTS FOR THIS YEARS AL--
READY RUNNING AT RECORD LEVELS.s WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY EXCEED
THE I.968.PEAK OF ABOUT 800,000.TONS.
SIHANOUK AND THE KHMER COMMUNISTS THE KHMER COMMUNISTS.ARE
TAKING A MORE. POSITIVE PUBLIC LINE ON SIHANOUK. THE'SENIOR
KC OFFICIAL IN PARIS SAID rIN DECEMBER 8 THAT'THE KC HAVE BEEN
UNDER PRESSURE FROM "CERTAIN OF OUR ALLIES" TO RESOLVE ALL
RFMAINING DIFFERENCES WITH THE PRINCE. THERE IS NO ALTERNA-
TIVE TO THIS COURSE- THE OFFICIAL SAIDi, BECAUSECHINA$ NORTH
VIETNAM, THE PRGs FRANCE, AND THE USSR ALL SUPPORT SIHANOUK,,
THE SAME THEME WASPICKED HP BY A KC "MINI.STER" IN SIHANOUK''S
$'GOVERNMENT" WHO'COMPLAINEn THAT ALTHOUGH SOME OF SIHANOUK'S'
DECLARATIONS HAD UNDERMINED UNITY, THE PRINCE MUST BE PUT IN
A FAVORABLE PUBLIC LIGHT A~,,ID DIFFERENCES WITH.HIM PLAYED DOWN.
CIA COMMENTS'THAT THESE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS UNDERSCORE THE
KHMER INSURGENTS' CONTINUING PROBLEM OF MAINTAINING .A FACADE
OF UNITY. SIHANOUK IS NOT LIKELY TO BE TAKEN IN BY KIND WORDS,
HE CAN RE EXPECTED TO KEEP MAKING STATEMENTS THAT WILL NOT SET'
WELL WITH THE KHMER COMMUNISTS. RECENT PUBLIC STATEMENTS BY.
HIM ARE SIMILAR TO THE LINE THAT LED TO A PERIOD OF THINLY
VEILED SQUABBLING BETWEEN THE PRINCE AND HIS COMMUNIST ASS13.
CIATES LAST OCTOBER.
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