INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-548-9-28-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: March 22, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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TOHAK 61
MARCH 22, 1973
MEMORANDUM FORI THE PRESIDENT
FROMI HENRY At KISSINGER
SUBJECT; INFORMATION ITEMS
SITUATION IN INDOCHINA; THE NUMBER OF CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS
MINOR
REMAINED NGIpENTSEREP~RTEr~,Y THE H~NGED~r WITH 15 MAJOR AND 85
TWO MUST SIGNIFICANT INCIDENTS IN-
I
VOLVED ENEMY GROUND ATTACKS AGAINST ARVN INFANTRY ELEMENTS
IN NORTHWESTERN KIEN PHONG PROVINCE AND IN DINH TUONG PROVINCE
OF MILITARY REGION 4, ENEMY SHELLINGS CONTINUED AGAINST THE
NINH PROVINCE OF,?MILITARY
TONLE CHAM BASE CAMP IN NORTHERN TAY
REGION 3, A PRELIMINARY FIELD REPORT INDICATES THE CAMP WITH
STOOD A REGIMENTAL SIZE GROUND ATTACK LATE YESTERDAY,
IN CAMBODIA,- ENEMY UNITS HAVE STEPPED UP OPERATIONS,, AGAINST
LINES OF COMMUNICATION EAST OF PHNOM PENH, SIX GOVERNMENT
POSITIONS ALONG ROUTE I BETWEEN THE CAPITAL AND NEAK LUONG
WERE ATTACKED, AS WERE CAMBODIAN UNITS ON THE EAST BANK OF
THE MEKONG RIVER. ROUTE 1 WAS INTERDICTED IN TWO POINTS, BUT
THE ASSAULTS ON THE RIVER BANK POSITIONS WERE REPULSED, ROUTE
2 HAS BEEN OPENED AS FAR SOUTH AS TAKEU CTHE ROUT
RESTRICTED BY BATTLE DAMAGE ALONG AND TO THE, OAT ADWAY? AYAFCAMFAM IBODD
CONE
UNITS AT TAKE
TO HOLD OUT EO REMAIN UNDER HEAVY ENEMY PRESSURE BUT CONTINUE
SPINCREASING ON SHORTAGESL ACONG
S NORTHWESTTOFIPHNOM PENH, FOURTCAMBODIAN COMPANIES ARE
SURROUNDED; AND THE HIGHWAY REMAINS GCOSED SOUTH OF KOMPONG
CHHNANG CITY, A U,S,.AIR STRIKE NEAR KOMPONGTHOM CITY,DE-
STROYED 28 TRUCKS OF A COMMUNIST CONVOY AND DAMAGED SEVEN
OTHERS, U,S. PILOTS FLEW 195 ATTACK (INCLUDING 12 GUNSHIP)
SORTIES AND 56 B-52 SORTIES.
CEASE-FIRE DEVECOPMENTS; AIRNBORNE INOI-
CATES THAT THE HEADQUARTERSIP' AND?TWO OF
ITS BATTALIONS HAVE MOVED INTO AN AREA ABOUT 40 MILES WESTuNORTH
WEST OF PLEIKU, THE COCATION HAS BEEN FIXED ABOUT THREE MIE5
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28 : LOC-HAK-548-9-28-4
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MESSAGE / ANNOTATION';
INSIDE THE BORDER, THE REGIMENT WAS CAST LOCATED IN SOUTHERN
LAOS THREE WEEKS AGO.
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THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH ICCS DELEGATIONS CONTINUE TO BLOCK AN
INVESTIGATION OF THE REPORTED ATTACK ON THE TONLE CHAM RANGER
CAMP IN TAY NINH PROVINCE,
DIA REPORTS THAT NO REDUCTION IN ENEMY LOGISTICS ACTIVITY HAS
BEEN DETECTED SINCE MARCH 15,E WHEN YOU PUBLICLY COMMENTED, ON
HANOI'S HIGH RESUPPLY RATE. SENSOR AND OTHER SOURCES CONFIRM
CONTINUED HEAVY ACTIVITY, CANADIAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER
SHARP, WHO HAS JUST RETURNED FROM A TRIP TO
PNTOD INONDOCHIN CHNA; WAS
QUOTED BY AP AS STATING THAT HIS TRIP CONFIRM LARGE"
SCALE NVA INFILTRATION, SHARP SAID THAT CANADA WOULD QUIT THE
VIETNAM TRUCE F~PJMC I MEETING"* THE FIGHTING BEGAN AGAIN',
HE U.S. PROTESTED NORTH VIETNAMESE
AT
VIOLATIONS, CITING "CLEAR AND IRREFUTABLE" EVIDENCE OF. SUBSTANTIAL
PERSONNEL, ARTILLERY, AND ARMOR MOVING THROUGH LAOS AND INTO SOUTH
VIETNAM, THE DRV/PRG DENIED AND REJECTED THE U.S. PROTESTS AND
ACCUSED THE U.S, OF COVERING UP GVN VIOLATIONS~r SHIPPING WAR
MATERIALS FROM JAPAN, AND CONDUCTING ILLEGAL RECONNAISSANCE
FLIGHTS OVER THE NORTH,
YESTERDAY, THE DRV FPJMC DELEGATION INFORMED THE U.S, THAT THE
DRV WAS PREPARED TO COMPLETE THE RELEASE OF AL,L U.S. POWS ON
MARCH 25 AND THAT THE PRG WOULD DO SO ON MARCH 24~ THE DRV
DELEGATE STATED THAT THE DRV WOULD ARRANGE WITH THE PATHET LAO
FOR THE RELEASE OF U,S, POWS IN LAOS BUT PROVIDED NO FURTHER
DETAILS, IN RESPONSE; THE DEPUTY U.S. 'DELEGATE NOTIFIED THE
COMMUNIST DELEGATIONS THAT THE U.S. WOULD NOT RESUME TROOP
WITHDRAWALS UNTIL ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE FOR THE RELEASE OF
ALL REMAINING AMERICAN POWS FROM INDOCHINA. AS A RESULT, THE
PRG NOW SAYS THAT IT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND HANDING
OVER THE LIST OF THE CAST GROUP OF AMERICAN PEWS, A SOUTH
VIETNAMESE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT HIS GOVERNMENT WOULD REJECT
ANY PROPOSALS TO EXTEND THE FPJMC BEYOND THE 60-DAY PERIOD.
ITALY AND THE BENELUX,, COUNTRIES WILL ANNOUNCE TODAY THEIR IN"
TENTION TO RECOGNIZE THE ORV,
PROTEST TO LIBYAN SHOOTING, SECRETARY ROGERS CALLED IN THE
LIBYAN CHARGE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TO PRESENT PERSEJNALCY A
U.S. NOTE PROTESTING "IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS" YES*
TERDAY'S INCIDENT IN WHICH LIBYAN MIRAGE FIGHTERS FIRED ON
AN UNARMED U.S. RECONNAISSANCE PLANE OVER INTERNATIONAL WATERS
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, THE LIBYAN ACCEPTED IT WITHOUT COMMENT.
FOLLOWING INQUIRIES; STATE ALSO PUBLICLY CONFIRMED THE INCIDENT
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-28-4
 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-28-4
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AGAINST "A U.S. MILITARY TRANSPORT" AND SAID WE WERE OFFICIAL;Y
PROTESTING.
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CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT IN EGYPT; FOR THE PAST, WEEK WE HAVE BEEN
RECEIVING RUMORS OF AN IMPENDING, CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT IN EGYPT,
PRESIDENT SADAT HAS NOW REPORTEDLY RECEIVED THE RESIGNATION OF
THE UNPOPULAR PRIME MINISTER. SIDQI, KNOWN MOST RECENTLY AS THE
ARCHITECT OF THE LIMITED RAPPROCHEMENT WITH THE SOVIET UNION
LAST OCTOBER,, SIOQI WILL APPARENTLY BE REPLACED BY NATIONAL
SECURITY ADVISER TO ORE ADA HAFIZ ISMAILe WHOM YOU
VERY POOR STATE
AS THE AN ADMINISTRATOR
OF THE EGYPTIAN ECONOMY , ISMA L1 ALE GIVEN
a
TIME, ISMAIL
COULD BE A REASON BEHIND THE CHANGE, AT THE SAME
M
IS CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH SADAT'S RECENT DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE,,
AND HIS ASSUMPTION OF. THE PRIME MINISTERSHIP COULD BE SEEN AS.,
AN EFFORT TO UNDERSCORE EGYPT'S INTEREST IN A POLITICAL SETTLE-
MENT WITH ISRAEL.,
BILLY GRAHAM IN SOUTH AFRICA; OUR CONSULATE IN DURBAN REPORTS
THAT ON MARCH 17 BICLY GRAHAM SPOKE BEFORE THE CARGEST MULTI-
RACIAL CROWD EVER TO ASSEMBLE IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE CROWD OF
45,000 EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS ACCORDING TO OUR CONSUL,
IN HIS ADDRESS, GRAHAM HIT HARD AT RACIAL.ISM,i NOTING THAT CHRIST
HAD BEEN NEITHER BLACK NOR WHITE BUT PROBABLY BROWN LIKE SO
MANY DURBAN'S CONSUL THE HUGE
AND COMPLETELY INTEGRATED RALLY IN DURBAN'S COMMENTS
PRINCIPAL STADIUM,
WHICH BLACKS ARE NOT NORMALLY PERMITTED EVEN TO ENTER; MADE A
TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON DURBAN,
THATILETHEWEIRDOENOTMBASSYKNOWASW
R.
GRAHAM'S VISIT, NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR USUAL SUSPICION OF
AMERICAN CHURCHMEN GOING TO SOUTH AFRICA,
SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING IN PANAMA: AT LAST NIGHTS IAN SECURITY
COUNCIL SESSION IN PANAMA, AMBASSADOR SCALI VETOED THE RESOLUTION
ON FUTURE PANAMA CANAC CONTROL, THIRTEEN COUNCIL MEMBERS VOTED
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IN FAVOR OF THE RESOLUTION,, WHILE GREAT BRITAIN ABSTAINED. THE
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-28-4
 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-28-4
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SECURITY
DEPLORED IMMEDIATELY
SAID HE ADJOURNED
SCALI COUNCIC
HAVING E TO.USEETHEH VETOTE. ATHES-
s BUT THE
U.S. 'FELT UN INVOLVEMENT IN A BILATERAL MATTER WAS NOT "APPRO-
PRIATE OR HELPFUL," AND HE NOTED THAT THE ISSUE OF THE TREATY
NOW WAS UNDER NEGOTIATION BY WASHINGTON AND PANAMA. PANAMA'S
AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. SAID AFTERWARD THAT HIS COUNTRY WOULD
RENEW EFFORTS IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL TO GET A SIMILAR CANAL
RESOLUTION PASSED.
CUBAN AIRLIFT TO RESUME' THE CUBANS HAVE INFORMED STATE THAT
THE CUBAN REFUGEE AIRLIFT FLIGHTS WILC RESUME OPERATION NEXT
MONDAY. THE FLIGHTS WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE OVER THE NEXT
TWO WEEKS# WITH THE FINAL FLIGHT ON APRIL b. THERE HAVE BEEN
NO AIRLIFT FLIGHTS SINCE FEBRUARY 9.
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