INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-1-56-8
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: October 9, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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OCTOBER 99 1974
MRMOi?ANDUM FOR I THE P,RES I D, 'N T
FROM I HENRY A& K I SSI NtER
SUBJECTS INFORMATION 'TT ;MB
END TO KItDNAPING POSSIBLY NEAR: IT APPEARS THAT THE KIDNAPERS
IN SANTO DOMINGO HAVE OREEDt TO ACCEPT THE. OFFER OF DOMINICAN
PRESIDENT HALAGUER TO (RANT THE KI3)NAPERS SAFE CONDUCT TO THE
COUNTRY OF THEIR C i0ICE IN RTURN FOR THE SAFE RELEASE OF THEIR
XOSTAGES. THE.. CHIEF OF POLICE INFORMED OUR AMBASSADOR LATE
TUE$DAY:'AF"TERNOON THAT MENDEE VARGAS, LEADER OF TXE KIDNAPERS'
HAD AKED F?OR `SAFE CONDUCT TO MEXICO FOR ALL THE CAPTORS. MENDEE
ALSO ASKED THE GOVERNMENT TO NAME GVA3RAPVIORS FOR THE TRAN'SACTIO'N.
CN INSTRUCTIONS FROM HIS GOVERNM NT, THE '1EXICAN Az~BA,58ADOP IN-
FORMED DOM IN I C,AN OFFICIALS THAT ?EX I CO WAS UNABLE TO ACCT'DE. TO
T''HE REQUEST FOR `ASYLUM THIS IS' THE SECOND TIME T)lAT MENDED, HAS
REPORTEDLY AGREED TO ACCEPT SAFE CONDUCT. IN THE FIFS.T INSTANCE
HE USED THE ACCEPTANCE AS APLOY TO GET NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE
DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT STARTED.
HONDURAN SITUATION: THE RESUMPTION OF HEAVY RAINS IN HONDURAS
CAUSED DISRUPTIONS 'IN THE RELIEF EFFORT AND RESULTED IN OUR
AMBA:SSA OR'S RECALLING TWO HELICOPTERS.PT,,EVIOUSLY RELEASED AS
UNNECESSARY TO ASSIST IN THE SUPPLY DIS.TRI;BUTION FROCESS. TXE'
WEATHER CAUSED FURTHER LANDSLIDES AND DA` ASE TO LAND TRANSPORTATION
FACILITIES. ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A MET-UP MONDAY AFTERNOONS FURTHER
RAINS ARE EXPECTED. AN Ut"DCONFIR1E-"" REPORT OF A T'YP'HOID EPIDEMIC
IN ,TTHE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY IS BEING I NV-;S T I GATED. AD-
DITIONAL MED?CINES REQUESTED BY THE HONDURAN aOVER'Nt'DENT WERE
A I RL, IFTED FROM THE U.S. . TUESDAY.
ETHIOPIAN SITUATION: THE ARREST. MONDAY OF SOME DISSIDENTS IN
114E ?UI.ING ;ARMED FORCES COORDINATING COMMITTEE rtW 4S TO HAV
DEFUSED FOR. THE MOMENT' THE' TENSE SITUATION IN ADDIS AgARA. THr
ARRESTS 'L`RE P'n CIDFt: Y LI "IiED SKIRMISHES' RUT ALL AMERICANS
IN .THE CITY ARE SAFE AND THECI'TY IS `UI';T.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/10/22: LOC-HAK-550-1-56-8 A AL