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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-1-43-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: September 4, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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No Objection to Declassification in Full2"010/10/ca2ts2_: LOC-HAK-550-1-43-2
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SEPTEN13E 4, 1974
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SUBJECT 14 ADDITIONAL .INFORMATION ITEI'1":,
ETRIOPIA - THE EMPEROR AND TH AROLD FORCE$ COOP, 1,'l NATING
NITTEE (AFCC) : ENBASSY ADDIS REPQil.Z THAT- INFURNATION IT IS
RECEIVING STRONGLY SUGGE- TS THE FUTU1ti} OF THE EVIP211011 AND THE
MONARCHY ARE RAPIDLY BECOMING THE SU :3JECT OF SHARPENING DE13ATE
t'ITNIiN THE RULING ARJED FORCES COORDINATING CO,,INITTE.E.. LINES
!T}tE BEGINNING TO BE DrHAW+'I BE:TW.EN RADICALS WHO INSIST THE EMPEROR
OUST GO AND MODERATES WHO ARE PREPARED TO RETAIN THE EMPEROR
AND THE INSTITUTION. IT IS DIFFICULT TO TELL WHICH WAY THE
DEBATE IS GOING, BUT LEADING OBSERVERS I N ADDIS SPECULATE THAT
THE DENOUNCEMENT COULD COOL FASTER THAN ANTICIPATED, PO ,SILLY
WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS,. IF AFCC MEMBERS ACT IN KEEPING WITH
}'AST PERFORMANCE,. THEY WILL r30 ONLY SO FAR AS THEY FEEL THEY
CAN WITHOUT RISKING CIVIL STRIFE. EMBASSY LONDON REPORS THAT
THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN ADDIS AEAEA HAS SLEW APPROACHED BY THE
EMPEI OVS GRANDSON CONCERNING THE POSSIDILIT OF POLITICAL
ASYj.,UN FOR HAILE SLLASSIE: IN THE UK. AS A RFSULT OF' THIS AP-
PROACH A 4U GROWING AGITATION AGAINST THE EMPEROR, Trio:: 3I ITISH
AMBASSADOR IS RETURNING TO ETHIOPIA TWO WEEKS EARLIER THAN
PLANNED. (HORAN)
POSSIBLE SCI"UETZ VISIT TO U.S.: A CONFIDANT OF WEST BERLIN
MAYOR SCHUETZ HAS INDICATED THE MAYOR'S INTEREST IN VISITINu TILE
U,. S. eOiiE TIME PRIOR TO THE 3ERLIN ELECTIONS NEXT MARCH. IHE
CONFIDANT, GUENTER 'STRUVE, LEFT LITTLE DOUBT THAT THE PURPOSE
OF THE. VT, SIT WOULD BE TO BOLSTER SCHUETZ'S IMAGE WITH BERL1 Iw' S
POPULACE. HE ALSO EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT WHILE I N THE U.S. ,
THE MAYOR WOULD BE AI3LE TO BEET V2I. Ii THE PRESIDENT AND YOU.
SC}IUE:TE i"EELS THAT A VISIT lIWT 'i THE ili:,'LSIDENT AND YOU IS POLIHCALLY
IMPORTANT, BUT THAT AN INVITr1TiON IS Nk DED TO HAKE IT POSSIBLE.
THE MISSION IN B}:RLItJ T?I::.Ot'iIIE;~ :i THAT THE STATE DEPART TENT
"IV,' FAVORABLE CONSIDERATIG i TO k: ?}tb vDING ~ 1C}3 A14 INVITAT36ilPAR-
TICULARLY INASMUCH AS BERLIs CDU i ~?AKTON PLAN; TO SEND A i)l::i~E.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/10/22: LOC-HAK-550-1-43-2
 No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/10/22: LOC-HAK-550-1-43-2
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GATIOU TO THE U.S. PRIOR TO TiU i RLIN ELECTIONS, (GATES)
JAPANESE PROPOSAL ON KHMER UNGka CREDENTIALS FIGHT: E (16 AS .13Y
PHNOM PEN1-! REPORTS THAT THE JAPANESE HAVE PiOPOSED A NEW
STRATEGY TO SAVE THE GKR'S U N Si AT THIS FALL. IT CALLS FOR
THE TWO PARTIES TO ENTEN INTO NE(tOTIATIOW ;
ALL DOVER NOO)ENTS CONCEFH EJ TO RI SPECT THE RL:5ULTE OF
THE Wi,G0TIAT1O (q -'S ; AND ,
THE U1.N SECRETARY GENERAL TO UE INNVITEP TO OFFER Hl':,*
GOOD OFFICES TO START THE N GOTi.ATIUN4)'.
TIRL ,JAPANESE REPORTEDLY BELIEVE THAT THE "UN FACTrINDIUG NlS-
SION" APPROACH BEING DISCUSSED BY ASEAD STATES WOULD FAIL, TINE
S %0
JAPANESE SEE THE CURRENT VOTE :'I.EAt,DOWb AS GiUWK - 55, AND (,KR
THERL IS SOLE FEAR IN PHN011 PENH (WHICH WE DO NOT SHARE) THAT THIS
1'FiOPOSAL TIGHT HE(UIF E THE G TO VACATE ITS UN SEAT, ( .1I ONE
5T E AR ("M A N)
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