INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-548-9-41-9
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: March 26, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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MARCH 26,, 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR; THE PRESIDENT
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FROMf HENRY A' SUBJECTt INFORMATIONSITEMSR
INDOCHINA SITUATION$ MAJOR CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS IN SOUTH VIETT
NAM DECLINED TO IA WHSLE MINOR INCIDENTS DROPPED TO b2, THE LOW"
EST TOTAL NUMBER SINCE THE CEASE-FIRE BEGAN. ENEMY SHELLING
RESUMED AGAINST THE TONLE CHAM BASE CAMP IN MILITARY REGION 3p
BUT CASUALTIES WERE LIGHT, A U.S. ARMY HELICOPTER WAS HIT BY
GROUND FIRE AND THREE U.S. CREWMEN WERE INJURED NEAR MY THO
DINH REGION 4,.
THE SITUATI N IN PROVINCE
HAS NOT CHANGED APPRECIABLY ENEMY
TROOPS STILL HOCO A12 -MILE STRETCH OF ROUTE 1 NORTHWEST OF
NEAK LUONG AND POSITIONS ALONG THE MEKONG RIVER TO' THE SOUTH.
THE COMMUNISTS MADE NO FURTHER GAINS ALONG ROUTE 2, AND NO
NEW ACTIONS WERE REPORTED NEAR ROUTE 15 EAST OF KAMPOT CITY.
FARTHER WEST,e.T HE CAMBODIAN INSURGENTS CONTINUED TO $COCK
ROUTE 4 NEAR STUNG CHHAY, U.S. PILOTS FLEW 166 IINCLUO NG
19 OVN$HIP AfTACK AND
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THE PATTHET
DEVECOPMENTS
CEASE-FIRE
LAO NEWS AGENCY SAID TaD4Y, ,:
THE PATHET LAO WERE READY TO SET FREE AMERICAN MI4ITARY AND,CIVIL-
IAN PERSONNEL IN THEIR HANDS "AT ANY DATE.'" GENERAL WOC3DWARD
REPORTS THAT U.S. POWS IN LAOS WILL BE RELEASED ""IN A FEW DAYS."
THREE INDONESIAN ICCS OFFICERS WERE WOUNDED IN TWO SEPARATE
INCIDENTS YESTERDAY IN THE CAN THO AREA OF THE DELTA. IN THE
FIRST, TWO OFFICERS WERE SLIGHTLY WOUNDED WHEN THEIR JEEP WAS
AMBUSHED. IN THE SECOND,, AN OFFICER WAS HIT BY.R!FCE FIRE WHILE
RIDING IN A TRUCK AND WAS EVACUATED TO SAIGON, WHERE HIS CONDI-
TION WAS NOT URGED SERIOUS, THE INDONESIAN COMMANDER IS RE
PORTEDLY CONVINCED THE SHOOTING WAS AN ACCIDENT.
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MESSAGE / ANNOTATION .
PROBABLE NEW ISRAELI PRESIDENTS EMBASSY TEL AVIV REPORTS THE
LIKELIHOOD THAT DR, EPHRAIM KA.TCHALSKI, AN OUTSTANDING ISRAELI
SCIENTIST AND MEMBER OF MRS', MEWS LABOR PARTY, WILL BE THE
NEXT PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL,
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CONTAINS CODEWORD tRC tNMA PRESIDENT SHAZAR,r WHO IS 03 YEARS OLD, RT Y AFTER
A DECADE IN OFFICE, A KNESSET ELECTION TO CH,.OSEA SUCCESSOR
I$ EXPECTED,.. IN EARLY APRIL., BUT GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF MRS. HEIRS
LABOR PARTY,, WHOMEVER IT CHOOSES IS LIKELY TO WIN AND LABOR
HAS NOW GIVEN THE NOD TO KATCHAL$KI. KATGHAL KI LONSIDEREt
A POLITICALLY NONCONTROVERSIAL FIGURE;' WHICH S,,IMPlR'ANT?SINC
ISRAELIS PRESIDENT IS STRICTLY CEREMONIAL. HE IS DESCRIBED IN
ISRAEL. ASA GREAT SCIENTIST AND A GREAT MAN. F'-! OUR EMBASSY
COMMENTS THAT HE HAS SHOWN HIMSELF A GOLD FRIEND OF THE UMS
DTHHEEPOLLITICIANS
SITUATION IN TURKEYI THE TURKISH MILITARY ANN S
REMAIN
AT LOGGERHEADS OVER THE SLLEt~Tit'IN OF
PRESIDENT SUNAY, WHOSE TERM EXPIRED, AMBASSADOR HANDLEY DE-
SCRIBES THE SITUATION AS TOUCHY,: THOUGH IT DOES NOT YET APPEAR
THE MILITARY ARE MOVING TOWARDS OPEN INTERVENTION.
AT A ATNAAMINIMUM, HOWEVER; LAST THEIR PATIENCE IS WEARING THIN PARLIA-
AST WEEK REFUSED TO BACK THEMILITARY;+S
CANDIDATE AND THIS WEEK REJECTED THE MILITARY~'S.ACTERNATIvE,
WHICH WAS TO EXTEND PRESIDENT SUNAYIS TERM. BOTH SIDES ARE
SEARCHING FOR SOME OTHER KIND OF COMPROMISE.
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY DEVECOPMENTSI THE DOLLAR HAD A GOOD,,
WEEK# FLUCTUATING ONLY SLIGHTLY SINCE EXCHANGES REOPENED LAST
MONDAY,
E:, HOWEVER;
LINE 1~EASL7N FOR THE L'~t?LARIS GOOD Pt~Ri~L7RMANCTLIRS kgtONG
IS THAT TRADING WAS GENERALLY LIGHT BECAUSE PRMAN
STRONG CURRENCIES ARE AWAITING A CLEARER PICTURE OF PAYMENTS
TRENDS, CIA'S PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS..,
TRENDS IN JAPAN AND WESTERN EUROPE INDICATES THAT THE YEN AND
MARK WILL APPRECIAT_ FURTHER AND THE POUND WILL DEPRECIATE.
JAPANESE ANALYSTS EXPECT THAT ONCE HEAVY PAYMENTS TO THE MIDDLE
EAST FOR OIL IMPORTS AND PAYMENTS TO THE U'.S, ,FOR ATOMIC ENERGY
MATERIALS ARE MADE- PERHAPS BY NEXT MONTH ?- TH DOLLAR WIL?t
WEAKEN ON THE TOKYO MARKET. EUROPEAN TRADERS BELIEVE THE DOLLAR
WILL STRENGTHEN IN THE SHORT RUN OUT WEAKEN LATER.
IN GENERAL, THE DOLLAR DID WELL BY ITSELF' THE CENTRAL , BANK
OF JAPAN INTERVENED MILDLY TO KEEP THE DOLLAR'S VALUE FROM
RITOSING KEEP TOO THE FASTS' AND fHE WITHIN THENLIMITSKOF NTHE JOINT PBRIEFLY THE OINT EUROPEAN C,OM"
MUNITY FLOAT.
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