INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-3-28-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: November 18, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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NOVEMBER 18, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
THE PRESIDENT
HENRY A. KISSINGER
INFORMATION ITEMS
EVACUATION OF SOME AMERICANS FROM ANGOLA: A PRIVATE AMERICAN
OIL COMPANY (THE CABINDA GULF OIL COMPANY) HAS EVACUATED ABOUT
100 DEPENDENTS OF ITS EMPLOYEES IN ANGOLA AFTER A WEEK IN
WHICH WHITE PORTUGUESE TROOPS INTERVENED TO QUELL CLASHES BE-
TWEEN RIVAL BLACK LIBERATION GROUPS. THE CLASHES LEFT AT LEAST
50 DEAD AND SHARPLY INCREASED THE RACIAL AND POLITICAL TENSION
SURROUNDING PORTUGUESE EFFORTS TO MOVE ANGOLA TO INDEPENDENCE.
NO EVACUATION OF THE SMALL U.S. OFFICIAL COMMUNITY HAS BEEN
DIRECTED.
UN DEBATES OF KHMER AND KOREA RESOLUTIONS IS EXPECTED: UN
DEBATES ON THE KHMER REPUBLIC AND KOREA ARE LIKELY TO BEGIN
SOON9 BUT THE EXACT TIMING REMAINS UNCERTAIN. WE WOULD PRE-
FER THE PLENARY DEBATE OF THE KHMER REPRESENTATION (WHERE
THE FRIENDLY RESOLUTION FACES AN UNCERTAIN VOTE) TO OCCUR
AFTER THE DEBATE ON KOREA IN THE FIRST COMMITTEE (WHERE THE
FRIENDLY RESOLUTION HAS A COMFORTABLE MARGIN). HOWEVER, BOTH
ITEMS COULD COME UNDER DISCUSSION SIMULTANEOUSLY AS EARLY AS
NOVEMBER 25. SO FAR, NEITHER THE SOVIET UNION NOR THE PEOPLES'
REPUBLIC OF CHINA HAS OFFERED MORE THAN PRO FORMA OPPOSITION
TO THE FRIENDLY RESOLUTIONS ON THE KHMER REPUBLIC AND KOREA.
RETURN OF EVA PERON'S BODY TO ARGENTINA: IN A SUDDEN AND
-UNEXPECTED ACTION, PRESIDENT PERON'S PRIVATE SECRETARY AND
MINISTER OF SOCIAL WELFARE LOPEZ REGA RETURNED TO ARGENTINA
SUNDAY ESCORTING THE BODY OF EVA PERON, THE REVERED FORMER
WIFE OF LATE PRESIDENT PERON. THE RETURN OF THE BODY IS
INTENDED TO HAVE.AN IMMEDIATE POLITICAL IMPACT, RALLYING,
IT IS HOPED MUCH NEEDED LEFTIST LABOR SUPPORT FOR THE GOV-
ERNMENT. PRESIDENT MARIA ESTELA PERON ANNOUNCED THE RETURN
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AND ATTENDED A MEMORIAL HONORING "EVITA." SHORTLY FOLLOWING
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RETURN, THE TERRORIST MONTENEROS RETURNED
THE BODY OF FORMER PRESIDENT ARAMBURU, STOLEN A MONTH AGO.
IT WAS ARAMBURU WHO OVERTHREW JUAN PERON IN 1955 AND HAD EVA'S
BODY SENT OUT OF THE COUNTRY. THE SUDDENNESS OF MRS. PERON'
ACTION WITHOUT PRIOR PUBLICITY TO CAPITALIZE ON ITS POLITICAL
BENEFITS SUGGESTS THE MOVE MAY HAVE BEEN PROMPTED AT LEAST
IN PART TO STRENGTHEN THE POSITION OF LOPEZ REGA, WHO REPORTEDLY
HAS BEEN COMING UNDER INCREASING PRESSURE TO RESIGN FROM MEM-
BERS OF THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL OPPOSITION. HIS INFLUENCE
WITH MRS. PERON IS RESENTED AND REGARDED WITH DEEP SUSPICION
BY MANY. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER MRS. PERON'S ACTION
WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN COOLING THE TENSIONS BETWEEN RIGHTS
AND LEFTISTS, INCLUDING TENSIONS BETWEEN FACTIONS WITHIN THE
PERONIST MOVEMENT.
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