NOON REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-549-1-26-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: January 20, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/27: LOC-HAK-549-1-26-3
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Tit LARRY FAGLESURGE.* FOR SECRETARY KISSINGE,
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MORANOUM FOR TH'E:`SECRETARY
FROM.: THE SITUATION ROAM
SUBJECT: NOON REPORT
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N A n F NUUTK.VIE NAVAL FORCES HAVE SEEN ORDEPr 0
WITHDRAW FROM T$.. AREA" AND TO AVOID FURTHER CONTACT WITH Th4
CHINES>+ SHIPS. S"1;GON HAS NO PLANS TO. REINFr1RCE OR TO EXTRAr,.T
THE SOUTH VIETNAM^SVTRQOPS LEFT nN-.THE ISLANDS. THE STATU'', rlF
AN AMERICAN CIVICl4NLnCATcO ON PATTLE ISLAND IS UNKNOWNS
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ARAB STATES/USSIR. REACTION TO DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT:
i)AMASCUS HAS SO FAR WITHHEt D OFFICIAL
RFACTION TO THE EG:1f PTIAN-ISRAELI nISENGAGEMf:NT AGREEMENT
A STATEMENT IS NOT 1 X'PECTErn UNTIL PRESIDENT ASA" COMPLETES
TALKS SCHEDULED MI EKE aD WITH PRESIDENT 5ADAT AND SECRr_.
TARP KISSINGER;%l )"A.N LEADERS HAVE BEEN MFG=TINE SINCE JANsr'PY
TOR:O20/08:05Z OTG:2r,- 11.27 JAN 74
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/27: LOC-HAK-549-1-26-3
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117 T(; DISCUSS DISENGAGEMENT, ACCORDING TO .A DAMASCUS PRQSS
Rr" PORT. ASAD HAS ALSO SPflK N BY TFI EPHONE WITH PRESIDENT
B iUMEDIFNE ANn WITH KING H"SAYN.,, AND ON JANYAR.Y 16
PFCFIVFD A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT QADHAFI. .
In r-c,YPT, THE PRESS AND RADIO HAVF MADE PURE IC GENERAL
TERMS Orr THE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT, AND HAVE SPOKEN AP-
PoOVINGLY OF IT AS HAVING COMPLETED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
EARLIER SIX POINT AGREEMENT. AL AHRAM CAUT T f1NEDs HOWEVER, T Hn T
TwE LATEST ACCORD IS RUT A PRELIMINARY STEP TOWARD IMPLEME 1_
TATION Of= MORE BASIC UN RESLILUTTONS, AND THAT DISENGAGEMENT
MUST ALSO TAKE PLACE IN THU SYRIAN FRONT.
JORDAN'S PRESS HAS WELCOMEn THE A,':REEMENT, OUT HAS RE=-
FLECTED OFFICIAL ANXIETIES ABOUT THE RISKS TO JORDAN OF
E(YPTIAN- ISRAELI AGREEMENTS BY EMPHASIZING THAT IT SHOULD
A FIRST STEP TOWARD A COMPkFHENSKE MIDDLE LAST SETTLEMENT.
AMMAN RADIO APPEALED TO ARABS NOT TO LET THE AGREEMENT BECO f
A CAUSE FOR INTER-ARAB DIFFERENCE,.'
LIBYA'S DOMESTIC RADIO HAS CRITICIZED THE Ar:Rf=EMENT PY
SUGGESTING THAT THE PLANNED SEPARATION OF FORCES WILL HAVE err.-
FFFFCT lF PROVIDING TEL AVIV "TOTAL SECURITY." TRIPOLI RAt11 '
ALSO REPEATED ITS FAMILIAR THEMES THAT ARAB PARTICIPATION I?y
ANY NEGOTIATIONS IS A GAIN FOR 1SRAFL, AND THAT EGYPT'S INf._-
TIATIVE WEAKENS ARAB UNITY.
THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO THE GENEVA TALKS HAS BEEN OPENLY
CRITICAL OF THE WAY THE flIcENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT WAS REACHO
AND HAS CRITICIZED THE EGYPT I ANS FOR "HAVING FORGOTTEN THE T
TRUE FRIENDS." HE HAS CLAIMED To PE UNDER PRESSURE FROM CEP....
TAN ARAB STATES, WHICH HE REFUSED TO IDENTIFY, To RECfINVEo!
THE FULL CONFERENCE IN GENEVA.
SOVIET nELEGATION IN GENEVA IN THE DARK:
THE NUMBER TWO MAN ON THE SOVIET DELEGATION AT THE
GENEVA PEACE CONFERENCE TOnK THE- INITIATIVE VFSTEROAY FOR
THE FIRST TIMF IN TWO WEEK; TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HIS US
COUNTERPARTS. HIS MAIN PURPOSE WAS TO GATHEP INPOR"4T1(1N
ON THE TERMS OF THE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT. ADMITTING THAT
MtS,?OW WAS SENDING THE GENEVA DFLrGATION ALMOST NOTHING.
HS ALSO EXPRESSED THE VIEW--WITHOUT BELABORING THE
P!.'INT--THAT THE GENEVA TALKS SHOULD BE REACTIVATED SOON.
PRESUMAPLY THE SOVIETS ARE UPSET WITH WASHINGTON'S MONOPOL"
OVER THE DISE=NGAGEMENT NEGoTiAT IONS AND WANT To RETURN THE
THE TALKS TO THE FORUM IN r;ENEVA WHERE MOSCiW IS REPRESENTP
INDEED, THE EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR IN GENVVA INFORMED
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THE US YESTERDAY THAT SOVIs-T AM~3ASSAOOR VINf1GRA+)OV HAS
BFEN OPENLY CRITICAL f3F THE.- WAY THE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT
WAS ACHIEVED. VINrIGRADIiV CFpITICIZFD THE EGYPTIANS FOR
"HAVING FORGOTTEN THE- I R TRUE FRIENDS" AND CLAIMED THAT
H~ WAS ENDER PRESSURE FROM CERTAIN ARAB STATES TO RECONVENE-
THE FULL CONFERENCE IN GFNFVA. WHEN ASKt-D Tn IDENTIFY
THESE CPUNTRIES, VINOGRADOV REPDRTEDLY FHACKFD OFF.
JAPANESE RATIFICATION nF NPT:
DESPITE PRIME MINISTER TAN4,KA'S RECENT CALL Ff1R JAPANESE
RATIFICATION OF THE NPT DUPING THE DIET SESSION WHICH BEGIss
O)i\\ JANUARY 21, 11 APPEARS PATIFICATION MAY SLIP BACK UNTIL
AT [EAST AFTER THE UPPER HriUSE ELFCTIUNS THIS SUMMER. CABIr T-
LF?VFL OPPOSITION, PRIMARILY FROM TRADE MINISTER NAKASONF Ani.'
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER Mr1RIYANA, IS CflNfRIAUTING T'
T:4E DELAY. CONSIDERAF?LF SUPPORT FnR RATIFICATION EXISTS WIT ~I:1
T"E RULING PARTY, HOWEVER, AN!) THE EXACT TIMING WILL DEPLN,"~
ON HOW HARD TANAKA DECIDES TO PUSH FOR EARLIER RATIFVCATlnr;.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/27: LOC-HAK-549-1-26-3