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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-1-48-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 22, 2009
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: June 30, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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INCIOENT AT PANMIJUJQS AT FAN uNJoH ALONG T f KoREAN OmZ
THIs HORHI0i#, A 142 MAJOR WAS SEVERELY BEATEN' THE
ipiet0E0* 105 owt'GY I4 HOST VIDLENT CLASHES TO ocCUR AT
THE TRUCE SITE IM 414St THE U?S'ip OFFICER WAS AS
SAULTED MY NORTH Ko tWAMEN ANO GUARDS AFTER Hp HAD
BEEN TAKING PICTURES qUISIof THE BUILDING WHERE THE MILITARY
ARHISTTce coHHISSION *AS NEETING; YERBAL ExCHANGEs, sHOYING
MATCH, ANO FISTFIGHTS INVOLViNG U,S, MILITARY PERSONNEL
HAVE TAKEN PLACE OVER TM YEARS AT PANMUNJOM, BUT THFy HAvp
SEEN LFS6 COMMON IN llteNTUN,
YEARS.
LIKELy THAT THE INCIOtN1 TODAY WAS ri...Ammcv At A VERY HIGH
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LEVEL PT THE NOKTH KOIOANC,
NEw LEAN FSE CA INET 'TRW; DRESS REPORTS IMA T PREM FR
RAsHI0 KARAM! FORHF0 A SIKI.MAN CABINET REPRESENTING ALL OF
LEBANON'S MAIN RELIR OU3 FACTIONS TODAY IN AN ATTEMPT TO
END *LoOPY FIGHTINg SICH HAS TERRORIZE() OEIRuT FOR A
WEEK' THE WEEK'S TO L'OOAr TO 162 OVES W/TH 43 OEATHS
IN STREET COMBAT TODAY, THE CABINET WAS FORME') AFTER AN
ALL0DAY SESSION OF POLITICAL AND RELIGTODS LEADERS AT THf
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pREIT0 NTIAL pALACE,
SOVIET HEDITERRANEAN FL ET REINEnRcEm NTs THERE HAs
BEEN A RAPID REINFORCemENT oF THE SOVIET mEDITERRANEAN
FLEET TN THE pAsT weEK, ACCOROTNG TO OIA, NEW um/Ts
1.p. WHICH ARE cONCENTRATEO TN THE WESTERN PART OF THE
MEDITERRANEAN oo INCLUDE KYNoA AND KARA GUIDED mIso
RILE CRUISERS, A HosKVA HE! ICoPTER CARRIER, ANn A
KASHIN AND A KOTLIN DESTROYER, WITH THE LATEST AODI
MINS, THE SOVIET POSTURE TN THE MADITERRANKAN HAS RT8FN
To LEvpLS EXCEEDED ONLY DURING THE 1973 MIDDLE EAST WAR,
INTELLTGENcE ANALYSTS HAVE SUGGEsTED THE EOLLOwING REA?.
soNs FOR THE BUILD up;
AN IMPENDING LARF CALF EXERCISE IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN,.
0. A SOVIET OEcISION,TO FsTARL/sH ANEW LEVEL OF
SOVIET NAVAL COMMITMENT TO THF MEDITERRANEAN,
AT IAAsT TEMPORARILY; OR
ow A SOVIET ?EWE TO HAVE A FORCE AVAILA9 E FOR
RAPID DEPLOYMtgl THROUGH THF SUEZ CANAL TO THE
INDIAN OCEAN SHOULD CIRCUMSTANCES RfOUI E IT,
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THE WASHINGTON STAR NEWS
JEREM/AH O'LEARY REPORTS THAT ALL U,S, NAVAL, GUNF RE TRAIN..
/NG ACTIVIT/FS AT THr,POERTO RICAN ISLAND OF CULEBRA HAVE
MEEN nRDERED STOPPED PERMANENTLY. A JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT IS
TO Sr HAVE TOMORROW 41TIlE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AND THE PVPRIrn
RICAN GOVERNOR'
JOHN W. FINNEy REP THAT THE MARINE CORPS, WHICH SINCE
WORLD WAR II HAS LO 0 OUT ACROSS THE PAC/FIC FOR ITS
MILITARY MISS/ON, IS QUIETLY BEING REORIENTED TOWARD THE
ATLANTIC AND A POSISLE ROO' IN WESTERN EUROPE*
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS CIA CHIEF cOLBY HAS OPPOSED A SUG.,
GESTION or THE ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION THAT AT LEAST PART OF
THE CIAIS SECRET, MULTIMILLION DOLLAR BUDGET SHOULD BE MADE
pow'. may SAID ! .t %DISCLOSURE OF EVEN THF CTAS OVERALL
OPEMOINS TOTAL IME.V1?LY'WOULD LEAD TO DISCLOSURE OF DE-
TAILS wRics NEED TO 6 iaPt SECRET.
ROBERT Mo SMITH REPORTS THAT THE FORMER U.S, AMOASSAOOR To
VENEZUELA RECOMMENDED RECENTLY THAT THE GOVERNMENT TAKE
THE LEADING ROLE IN DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THAT COUNTRY
CONCERNING OIL, RATHER THAN LEAVING THIS TO PRIVATE COM-
PANIES.
HENRY 3, BRAOSHER REPORTS romNuN sTS TRYING TO TAK OVER A
COUNTRY MUST ALSO CAPTURE CONTROL Of THE ARMY AND BE PRE*
PARED "TO USE THE BOLDEST MEANS OF STRUGGLE stow.? ,HE sms,
UATION REQUIRE. mow T44114 Of THE LESSONS OP CHILE AS SET
FORTH RV A SENIOP OFFICIAL OFITHE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY,
THE FAILURE OF THE MARXIST REGIme OF PRESIDENT SALVADOR AL.
LEND! TO CONSOLIDATE ITS NOLO ON CHILE TAUGHT THF LESSONS,
A STAR EDITORIAL SAYS THE CONCLUSION OF A 1-YEAR, $4 DIL,
LION DEAL BETwEEN BRAM AND WEST GERMANY THOUGH WHICH
BRAZIL WILL BECOME THE FIRST COUNTRY IN LATIN AMERICA WITH
A SIGNIFICANT CAPACITY FOR PRODUCING NUCLEAR POWER HAS RE*
VIVEO FEARS OF AN EXPLOSION IN THE "MMERSHIP OF THE.30wFAR
EXCLUSIVE "NUCLEAR CLUB," IN wrmE CASE OF BRAZIL, CONCERN
OVER THE POSSIBILITY OP, A NEAPONsooEvELoPHENT PROGRAM MAY
6E'PARmFETCHED, ALTHOUGH THE COUNTRY HAS AT VARIOUS TIMES
ExPREssEo INTEREST IN PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS, somE
REASSURING SAFEGUARDS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN INTO THE GERMAN
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DEAL, NEaRTmELEss, TNe FFARS OF A SuDDEN OREAKDowN F
NUCLEAR INHABITIONS AMONG THE "HAVE NOT" NATIONS or THE
WORLD ARP! EMINENTLY 4USTIF7ED? AS THE PROOLEM dECOMFS
MOPE COMPLEX, MORE AND MORE EXPERTS IN THE FIELD ARE SuG?
GESTiNn A NEW APPROACH, INvOLVIND INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF
TmE mATER/ALS AND EQUIPMENT THAT PRODUCE MEAPONS*GROE
PLuIDNIUH, IN WHICH THE NONNUCLEAR INNERS WOULD HAYF A
DECISIVE VOICE, OTHERS HAVE SUGGESTED INTERNATIONAL SURER*
VISION OF ALL SO0CALLED PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS, GIVEN
PRESENT ATTITUDES, rf NAY SOUND A BIT VISIONARY, RUT IT
COULD ALSO BE THE WERNATIVF TO THE FEARFUL PROSPECT OF A
DOZEN OR MORE COUNTRIES HOLDING THE SURVIVAL OF MANKIND IN
THEIR HANDS,
TOM WICKER WRITES THAT THE MOST EmARKABLE THING ABOUT MRS,
INDIRA GANDHItS SWIFT SEJZLJRF OF POWER AND EFFECTIVE 803.
PENSION OF DEMOCRADY 2N INDIA IS HOW EASILY TT WAS ACCOm*
PLISHEn? IT ALSO SEEMS TO HAvE BEEN WIDELY ACCEPTED, To
HIS CREDIT, HOWEVER, NIKON NEVER REALLY TR/ED TO CLING TO
POWER mv THt RUTHLESS MEANS ADOPTED PY MRS, GANDHI.
JOHN ift'e FINNEY REPORTS THAT WHAT BEGAN AS A DEPENSE DEPART.
PENT PROGRAM TO BOLD A ,LOWPCOST" F/GHTEN PLANE HAS TURNED
INTO 4A SACW.PITI4O Ft0/4T AMONG MAJOR COMPANIES THAT HAVE
SHARED IN THF mULTION4UION0DOLLAR BUSINESS, A COZY RELA.
TIONSHIP WITH THE MILITARY SAW To IT IN THE PAST THAT CON*
TRACTS NENE SPREAD AROVNO SO THAT EACH COMPANY STAYED TN
BUSINESS, OUT THE MARKET IS SHRINKING NOW, PARTLY BECAUSE
THE PLANES HAVE BECOME so FXPENSIVE THE PENTAGON HAS To RE.
STRICT THE NUMBER IT ORDERS,
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