INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-1-51-3
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: September 24, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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INFORMATION ITEM
HONDURAN DISASTER COUNT: THE ,ATEST OFFICIAL HONDURAN -STIMATES
PUT AT 7#000 TD 8,000 THE NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED IN THE FLOODING
WHICH HAS FOLLOWED IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE FIFI. ALL BUT EIGHT
OF THE U.S. PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS WORKING IN HONDURAS HAVE NOW
BEEN ACCOUNTED FoR, THE LACK OF COMMUNIcATIONS FACILITIES IN SEC-
TIONS OF THE COUNTRIES IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INABILITY TO CoNFIRM
THAT THE OTHERS ALSO AV, OKAY.
POLISH MEDIA BUILDUP FOR GIEREK VISIT TO U. WARSAW HAS ORDERED
PMISH MEDIA TO BEGIN INTENSIVE COVERAGE OF THE U.S. IN PREPARATION
FOR PARTY CHIEF OTERErS VISIT, WHIQ1-; Ba'GINS OCTOBER Si TiE FOREIGN
EDITOR OF ONE OF POLAND* S MAJOR DAIL 1E5 RECENTLY TOLD A U*S?
EMBASSY OFFICER THAT "THERE WILL SOON JE SO MUCH COVERAC-E THAT THE
U.S. WILL LOOK LIKE ONE OF OHR SOCIALIST BROTHERS." THESE EFFoRTo
UNDERLINE. THE IMPORTANCE THAT GIEREK ATTACHES TO HIS VISIT.
REALIZES TliAT MOST POLES HAF?BOR FRIENDLY FEELINGS TO10,?ARD THE .J.S.
AND HOPES TO ENHANCE HIS STANDG AT HOME BY THE TRIP AND THE A -
COMPANYING WIDESPREAD PUBLICITY. IN REGENT MONTHS THE POLISH PRESS
HAS ACCORDED RELATIVELY FAVORABLE TREATMENT TO THE !_1.5. IN ITS COV-
ERAGE OF EVEN SUCH CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES, AS VIETNAM OR CHILI
E WARSAW
HAS CONSCIOUSLY AVOIDED POLEMICS. IN ADDITION" THERE HAS l',ETE,N 1:.7.Y-
TENSIVE AND POSITIVE COMMENTARY ON TE PRESIDE.NTIAL TRANSITION AND
FAVORABLE TREATMENT OF THE REGENT SS1ON WASHINGToN OF THE U.Sa-
POLISH TRADE COMMISSION.
INDOCHINA SITUATION: THE COM4U1S.IS. ARE CONTINUING THEIR HARASSMENT
OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE MAT-ZINE POSLTIONS TO THE ,ICif?Tl-tiAtEST OF !-WE BUT
MILITARY ACTION IN THE REMAINDER OF -.THE REGION HAS BEEN GENERALLY
LIMITED TO COMMUNIST SHaLINGS OF GOVEiiNMENT FORCES. MILITARY
ACTIVITY CONTINES To FALL oFF THROUGHOUT MOST OF T)-IE REST OF SOUTH
VIETNAM ESPECIALLY IN THE DELTA WHERE FLOOD WATERS ARE INHIBITING
BOTH SIDES. REXENT ;AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY REVEALS THE F,XISTAN(,'E OF A
POSSIBLE NEW NORTH VIET NA NESE SA-2 SITE WEST uF DAK TO IN THE
END HIGH-
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LAND PROVOICE OF KONTUM? IF THIS IT IS COMPLETED AND
ACTIVATED IT WILL REPRESENT THE FARTHET SOUTHERN DEPLOYMENT OF
THE SA-2 TO DATE AND WILL BE THE FIRST SITE, IN SOUTH VIETNAM'S
m1LIT4RY RECIION gi
IN CAMBODIA, THE KHMER COMMUlilSIS ARE KEEPING PRESSURE OM WIDELY
SEPARATft GOVERNMENT HOLDINGS IN ME COUNTRYSIDE. INSURGENT AT-
TACKS OVER THE WEEKEND FORCED GOVERNMENT DEFENI5ERS TO WITHDRAW FROM
SEVERAL OUTPOSTS NEAR THE PROVINCJAL CAPITAL OF KOMPONC CHHNANG, SOME
50 MILES NORTH OF PHNOM PENH? IN THE SO,J4WEST? THE INSURGENTS RE-
NEWED ATTACKS AGAINST TWO ISOLATED GARISON TOWNS ON ROUTE 4 AND
HEAVILY DAMAGED GOVERNMENT ARTILLERY POSITION NEAR THE PROVINCIAL
CAPITAL OF KomPoNa SPEU. A AEXONG RIVER RFSuFPLY CONVOY CARRYING
AMMUNITION, FUEL, An RICE REACHED PHNOM PENH ON SEPTEMDER 22;
ANOTHER CONVOY CARRYING AGPICULTURAL PRODUCE MADE THE RUN DOWN THE
TONLE SAP RIVER TO THE CAPITAL LATE LAST WEEK.
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