EVENING NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-548-12-4-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 17, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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DECEMBER 17,.1973
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY
FROM: THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECT: EVENING NOTES
PALESTINIANS HIJACK LUFTHANSA 737 AT ROME: THREE PALESTINIAN
COMMANDOS ATTACKED PASSENGERS AT F.IUMICINO AIRPORT IN ROME
THIS MORNING. THEY THEN DESTROYED A PAN AMERICAN BOEING 707''
AND SEIZED A LUFTHANSA BOEING 737, WHICH IS REPORTEDLY EN
ROUTE To BEIRUT. LOCAL SECURITY OFFICIALS HAVE SAID THEY
WILL NOT PERMIT THE AIRCRAFT TO LAND. SEVERAL AIRPORT W,0RKFRS
.ARE HOSTAGES. ONE U.S.. CITIZEN IS DEAD AND EIGHT OR NINE PER
SONS HAVE BEEN INJURED. ISRAEL'S LYDDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
IS ON ALERT BECAUSE OF THE HIJACKING. LATE INFORMATION
INDICATES THAT THE PLANE HAS JUST LANDED IN ATHENS,
CHINA TO ALLOW FOREIGN DEVELOPMENT OF OFF-SHORE OIL: OVER THE;
PAST TWO MONTHSw. CHINESE OFFICIALS HAVE TOLD JAPANESE BUSINESS-
MEN AND OVERSEAS CHINESE LEADERS THAT PEKING MAY CONSIDER COOP?
ERATIVE SCHEMES TO DEVELOP OIL DEPOSITS IN THE PO HAI GULF.
CHINA EARLIER HAD INDICATED UNYIELDING OPPOSITION TO JOINT
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DEVELOPMENT VENTURES. THIS OPPOSITION PRESUMABLY HAS BEEN
SOFTENED BY THE,PROSPECT OF EARNING FOREIGN EXCHANGE FROM OIL-
EXPORTS,, GAINING TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ASSOCIATION WITH,?FORE'IGN
FIRMS, AND FORESTALLING JAPAN FROM BECOMING DEPENDENT ON THE
USSR FOR MAJOR ENERGY SUPPLIES. CRUDE OIL OUTPUT IN CHINA
THIS YEAR WILL REACH APPROXIMATELY 38 MILLION TONS, COMPARED
WITH 7.5 MILLION IN 1965. THE CHINESE EFFORT TO-FIND NEW
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FIELDS HAS REPORTEDLY BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL THAT WELLS ARE FRE-
QUENTLY CAPPED OFF BECAUSE TRANSPORT AND HANDLING'FACILITIES'
CANNOT KEEP PACE.
FURTHER INCREASES IN OIL EXPORTS WILL DEPEND ON CHINA'S''SUCCESS
IN IMPROVING ITS INADEQUATE TRANSPORTATION AND HANDLING FACIL-
ITIES DIFFICULTIES IN THIS AREA MAY RESULT IN FAILURE TO
MEET EXPORT COMMITMENTS TO.JAPAN OF ONE MILLION TONS THIS.YEAR.
IF TRANSPORTATION AND HANDLING PROBLEMS-ARE RESOLVED, CHINA
COULD EXPORT SOME SIX TO TEN MILLION TONS OF OIL' ANNUALLY BY
106.
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SITUATION IN INDOCHINA: THE ENEMY ATTACK IN PLEIKU PROVINCE
WHICH THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE EXPECTED ON SATURDAY IMORN'ING DID
NOT OCCUR. ON THE TWO PRECEDING DAYS, SOUTH VIETNAMESE AIR-
CRAFT BOMBED ENEMY TROOP CONCENTRATIONS IN THIS REGION AND
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MAY HAVE DISRUPTED COMMUNIST PREPARATIONS. YESTERDAY' THERE
WAS. SHARP FIGHTING IN THE DELTA AROUND VINH LONGS WHICH LIES
ALONG THE MEKONG RIVER. PRESUMABLY, THE FIGHTING BROKE OUT_
OVER COMMUNIST RICE RAIDS. FIGHTING ELSEWHERE IN SOUTH VIET-
,NAM DECREASED OVER THE WEEKEND.
THE FIRST SIGNS OF CONCERTED COMMUNIST ACTION TO ISOLATE PHNOM
PENH DURING THE DRY SEASON EMERGED OVER THE WEEKEND. ENEMY
RESISTANCE TO GOVERNMENT CLEARING OPERATIONS KEPT ROUTES 4
AND 5 CLOSED TO SUPPLY CONVOYS AND ROUTE 1 WAS CUT ON DECEM-
BER 15 AT A POINT SOME FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CAPITAL.
IN ADDITION, ENEMY ACTIVITY HAS PICKED UP ALONG THE EAST
BANK OF THE MEKONG. RIVER IN WHAT-MAY BE A NEW ATTEMPT-TO
DISRUPT GOVERNMENT DEFENSES ALONG THIS CRUCIAL SUPPLY ARTERY'.
ACCORDING TO AN INTERCEPTED ENEMY MESSAGES THE COMMUNIST
COMMAND HAS ASSIGNED A HIGH PRIORITY TO KEEPING ROUTE 4
CLOSED.
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