SUNDAY CABLE SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-4-12-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 22, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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DECEMBER, 22, 1974
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SOVIETS STRONGLY DEFEND DETENTE ,,,POLICY AT MEETING OF COMMU N I ST
PA ES: BORIS PONQMAREV, CPS U; ''p:Orrikfit? COMM1 TT EE1SECRETA Y
IN CHARGE OF ,it,ELATIO10?:wrTH- NON,RULING PARTIES ?MADE A PARTICU-
LARLY 'STRONG , DEFENSE OF DETENTE At THE MEETING OF EUROPEAN
COMMUNIST PARTIE
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BUDAPEST WHICH ENDED .YESTERDA Y4 EMBASSY
MAR E V TACKLED'', ,HE AD ...ON THE AR GUME NT S
OF, THOSE'C.E. ME WSTERN COMMUNISTS) WHO BELIEVE THAT MOSCOW'S
ETENTE POLICY SACRIFICINGI THEIR'. INTERESTS.
TH ?EMBASSY,: W AS. WORNING WITH A FULL ,,TASS SUMMARY OF
PO NOMARE V" S R EMARX THAN IS NOW AVAILABLE IN WASHINGTON.
THE TASS-' SUMMARY T SAYS 'L TITLE ABOUT THE ? NY QUESTION OF
COMMUNIST PARTICIPATION IN' POPULAR FRONTS. THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN
A SOURCE 'OF. CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE SOVIETS AND SOME WESTERN
COMMUNIST . PARTIES,
,
THE THREE'D AY MEETING IN BUDAPEST WAS
EUROPEAN P APT' ES,. IT WAS INT ENDED TO
FOR MAL E UR OPEA N COMMflNIST CONFERENCE
AT THIS ST AGE It IS UNCLEAR I P FUR THE
WILL BE NECESSARY.
ATTENDED BY 2S
REPARE THE WAY FOR A
EXT YEAR IN EAST BERL I N.
PREPARATORY MEETI NGS
THAIS ADD To TRADE DELEGATION NOW IN CHINA: THE THAI CABINET
HAS MADE A L4TMINU.TE, DECISION TO STRENGTHEN THE TRADE
DELEGATION BANGKOK HAS SENT TO PEKING.THE THAI DEPUTY MINISTER
OF AGRICULTURE AND A PERSONAL SECRETARY TO THE PRIME MI NISI ER
FL EV; T 0 CHI NA ON D EC EMBER 20, THE SA ME DAY A THAI TRADE DELEGATION
ARRIVED IJN POI NG FR OM NORTHKOREA*
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THE TWO 'AD TT ONAL MEN OSTENSIBLY ARE TO EXPLORE T HA PRC
? AGR !CULTURAL COOPER AT ION HEIR INCLUSION LENDS ADDITIONAL
IMPORTANCE TO THE MISSION. THE DELEGATION MAY ENGAGE IN TALKS
THAT COULD LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR THAI -PRC DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS
APPLY .
OF PA
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DOS, DIA
reviews
completed.
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'WHEN'A NEW it HAI GOVERNMENT -- TO BE ELECTED IN LATE JANUARY --
?ECIDES TO rOvE ON THIS ISSUE.
SPANISH CLASH WITH INSURGENTS IN SPANISH SAHARA: THE SPANISH
EMBASSY IN RABAT HAS CONFIRMED PRESS REPORTS THAT SPANISH
POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES ENGAGED IN A SMALL BUT BLOODY CLASH
WITH INSuRbENTS RECENTLY IN NORTHERN SPANISH SAHARA NEAR THE
MAURITANIAN BORDER,
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ACCORDING TO THE SPANISH, SIX INSURGENTS WERE KILLED AND
THREE WERE soul:luso' WOUNDED AND CAPTURED. SPANISH LOSSES WERE
fIvE, KILLED, AND I,EN wOuNDED, THE CLASH ALLEGEDLY TOOK PLACE
wHEN A GROUP OF ttetAcE IN JEEPS WAS AMBUSHED NEAR THE TOWN OF
Tiswert BY MEMBERS OF THE SAHARA LIBERATION FRoNi... A SMALL
itisuRem GROUP WHICH RECEIVES SOME FINANCIAL AID FROM ALGERIA
AND 'LIBYA.
SPORADIC, 'AMA
-SOME TIME
,PROBABL
GALE FIGHTING HAS OCCuRED, IN SPANISH SAHARA
SKETtft EVIDENCE TO DATE INDICATES THAT MOST OF
MORD liNSPIRED.
SOVIET INSPIRED! RuM0R OF EARLY MIDDLE EAST ,H0ST TIES: THE
US DEFENSE ATTACHE IN CAIRO HAS REPORTED, THE DXSEMZATION TO
Agirso-orFICOIS THERE OF THE CLAIM a,Y THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR IN
BEIROI--ALLEOEALY MADE TO THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR?A:THAT WAR IN
THE MIDDLE EAST .4101..0.,D BEGIN ON DECEM'BER" Nit TA USDAO HAS OFFERED
HIS OPINION THAt ARAB INITIATION of .HO$TtLITIES,IS UNLIKELY AT
THIS TIME.
THE SOVIET 'EMBASSY IN BEIRUT I
?AGITPROP ACTIVITY IN, THE MIDDL
TIONS OF THIS' KIND ARE ITS STO
PERIODS OF UNCERTAINTY AND TEN
DIA HAS SUMMARIZED SOCK KOST/L
AVAILABLE TO THE INTELLIGENCE
ADD TO THE LIST.
THE CENTER 'OF SOVIET
EAST, AND UNSUBTANTIATED ALLE
K TRADE., PARTICULARLY DURIN
ION.
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TIES ,INDICATORS AS ARE
OMMI1NITY, AND CIA HAS NOTHING TO
THE EGYPTIAN ARMED FORCES HAVE CONTINUED, 'TO TAKE DELIBERATE
UNHURRIED MEASURES. TO IMPROVETHE1R-1ENERAL READ/NESS FOR WAR.
IN, THE PAST MONTH WE HAVE NOTED THE FORWARD MOVEMENT Of SA-6
BATTERIES ON T} WESTERN OF,THE'SUEZ CANAL AND THE CONSTUCTION
OF'TwO PERMANENT STIES FOR SAM BATTERIES IN THE LIMITED ARMAMENTS
EoNEi. THERE AA5-ALS(18EEN'AN INCREASE IN,14HEMECHANIZED INFANTRY
UNITS IN. THE LIMITED ARMAmENTS:ZONE ON THE'EASTSIDE
OF THE CANAL.
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AT THE SAME TIME, EGYPTIAN POLITICAL LEADERS HAVE BEEN
TAKING EVERY OPPOTUNITY TO IMPRESS ON THE UNITED STATES THEIR
DESIRE FOR SOME VISIBLE MANIFESTATION OF PROGRESS TOWARD RESOLUTION
OF THE MIDDLE EAST ISSUES. THEIR APPARENT DISMAY AT ISRAEL' S
LATEST CONDITIONS FOR ANOTHER STEP IN THE NEGOTIATIONS PROCESS
COULD BE REFLECTED IN SOME TIGHTENING OF MILITARY ADMINISTRATION
PROCEDURES.
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