EVENING NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-3-7-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 5, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/03/03: LOC-HAK-550-3-7-0
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FM THE SITUATION ROOM
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PASS TO BREMER/GOMPERT FOR THE SECRETARY
NOVEMBER At 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINC.ER
FROM: THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECT s EVENING NOTES
NORTH KOREA SEEKS TRIDENTS FOR ITS CIVIL AIR FLEET: PYONGYANG
IS APPARENTLY PLANNING TO SEND A. DELEGATION TO THE UK TO DIS-
CUSS THE PURCHASE OF AT LEAST THREE TRIDENT :`TEDIUM-RANGE COM-
MERCIAL JET TRANSPORTS, TO ACCELERATE DELIVERY, T MAY ALSO
APPEAL TO PEKING TO AUTHORIZE LONDON TO DIVERT THREE TRIDENTS
CURRENTLY BEING BUILT FOR CHINA. INTEREST HAS ALSO BEEN SHOWN
IN PROCUREMENT OF LONG-RANIGE COMIERCIPL PLANES, INCLUDING
BOEING 7075 OR DOUGLAS DC-ES THROL;H A F ENCH FIRM. REPORT-
EDLY, THE SOVIET IL-$2 WILL BE PURCHASED IF THE U.S. PLANES
ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
THE WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS
JEREMIAH O'LEARY REPORTS THAT YOU NOW HAVE A FIRM SCHEDULE
FOR YOUR MIDDLE EAST TRAVEL AIia`TD AT SOUNDING OUT THE SHAKY
SITUATION IN THE AREA FOLLOWING THE ARAB SUINMIT MEETING IN
RABAT. INFORMED SOURCES SAID THERE IS LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF
NEGOTIATIONS ON A SHUTTLE BASIS DURING YOUR EIGHTH SWING
THROUGH THE REGION SINCE THE OCTOBER 1973 WAR.
JUDITH RANDAL STATES THAT ALTHOUGH THE ROME CONFERENCE WHICH
CONVENES TOMORROW, WAS INITIATED BY YOU, THERE IS LITTLE TO
SUGGEST THAT EVEN YOUR PRESTIGE CAN BE COUNTED ON TO PRODUCE
SENSIBLE AND CONCERTED PLANNING, ?'AUCF, LESS MIRACLES.
MILTON VIORST WRITES THAT YOU REGARD IT AS A PERSONAL AFFRONT
AND PRIME MINISTER RABIN'S GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS IT A DISASTER
BUT IT WOULD BE FOLLY, HE BELIFEVES, IF '30TH DEAL WITH THE AC-
TION TAKEN AT THE ARAB SUMMIT LAST WEEK AS IF IT WERE THE END
OF THE L I N E
A STAR EDITORIAL ON "ULSTER GLOOM" STATES THE BLOODY STALEMATE
BETWEEN EXTREMISTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND SHOWS NG SIGN OF YIELD-
ING TO ANYTHING THAT REASONABLE MEN ARE. LIKELY TO THINK OF
AS A SOLUTION. BUT THE ATTEMPT TO DEVISE A POLITICAL SETTLE-
,ANT MUST GO ON, AND MST BE SEEN TO BE PRESSED IN A VIGOROUS
WAY WITH NO ADMITTING THE POSSIBILITY OF A FINAL FAILURE. IT
IS A TIME FOR MORE IDEAS ON BREAKING THE IMPASSE, BUT THE
WILSON GOVERNMENT SEEMS TO BE SHORT OF THEM.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/03/03: LOC-HAK-550-3-7-0