NOON NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-4-48-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: October 15, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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ROMANIAN PRESIDENT CANCELS VISIT TO YUGOSLAVIA' ROMANIAN
PAISIDFNT CEAUSESCU HAS ABRUPTLY CANCE~ED MIS STATE VISIT
TO YUGOSLAVIA SCHEDULED TO,,BEGIN TODAY? NEITHER. BUCHAREST
NOR BELGRADE HAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THE CANCELLATION. A
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS
APPLY
YUGOSLAV DIPLOMAT IN BUCHAREST TOLD THE U.S. EMBASSY YESTERw
DAY THAT HIS GOVERNMENT' IS "MYSTIFIED" BY THE ROMANIAN DE-
CISION, WHICH ME SAID ME HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED BY BELGRADE
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TO ATTRIBUTE TO "TECHNICAL AND PROTOCOL REASONS?" THE BEL
GRADE CORRESPONOENT FOR THE MIDDLE EAST NEWS AXENCY REPORTS
WEL?LOINFORMEO SOURCES HAVE TOLD HIM THAT THE VISIT NOW IS
NOT L. ELY TO OCCUR SOON, THE YUGOSLAV DIPLOMAT TOLD THE
U,S? EMBASSY THAT CEAUSESCU HAD INSISTED THAT PRESIDENT
TITO GREET HIM AT THE AIRPORT, A UNIQUE COURTESY THE
YUGOSLAV LEADER HAK- EXTENDED TO PRESIDENT PORCH;, THE
YUGOSLAV$ REPORTEDLY REFUSFOi DESPITE THE ROMANIAN CON-
TENTIOM THAT CEAUSESCU IS TITO'S "CLOSEST ALLY;" THE
YUGOSLAV. DIPLOMAT SAID THAT THE TWO SIDES ALSO COULD NOT
AGREE ON A JOINT DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES PROPOSED BY
ROMANIA AND ON TWO SUGGESTED ECONOMIC COOPERATION AGREEMENTS,
CIA BELIEVES STRAINS.IN 'THE RELATION OF BOTH COUNTRIES WITH
MOSCOW ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE CAUSED THE CANCELLATION THAN
THE ALLEGED BILATERAL' DIFFICULTIESw
GISCARRr REVERSES POMPIDOU S NUCLEAR TRIGGER POLICY: THE
U,$, OFFENSE ATTACHE IN PARIS REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT GIS.
CARP HAS DECIDED THAT A PRESIDENTIAL ORDER TO COMMIT
FRANCENS MAIN BATTLE FORCE? THE FIRST ARMY AND ASSOCIATED
TACTICAL AIRR FORCES ,-e WILL NOT CARRY WITH IT THE AUTHORITY
TO USE` TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS, GISCARDIS POLICY IS THAT
WHEN THE FIRST' ARMY IS COMMITTED IT WILL CARRY NUCLEAR
WEAPONS ALONG, BUT RELEASE AUTHORITY CAN ONLY COME FROM
THE PRFSIOENT HIMSELF.
RECORD SOVIET DEBTS TO WEST SEEN POSSIBLE; THE SQVIETRS
HARD-C-:-RRENC;Y DEFICIT CONTINUES TO GRROWI AND MAY REACH A
RECORD $S,5 BILLION THIS YEAR. A SIZABLE DEFICIT WILL CON.
TINUE WELL INTO 1976 BECAUSE OF HEAVY IMPORTS or GRAIN AND
CAPITAL GOODS. . CIA STILL BELIEVES THAT MOSCOW WILL BE ABLE
TO FINANCE THE DEFICIT WITHOUT APPRECIABLE DIFFICULTY, THE
USSR $0 PAR HAS MADE NO SERIOUS MOVES TO SLASH LOW-PRIORITY
IMPORTS OR TO CUT BACK' ORDERS FOR WESTERN PLANTS AND EQUIP-
MINT,*
THAI PLANES FIRE ON LAO GUNS IN RETALIATION ALONG MEKONG1
THE GOVERNMENT IN BANGKOK ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT THAI
AIRCRAFT HAD, FIRED UPON LAOTIAN GUN POSITIONS ALONG THE
MEKONG RIVER,, BANGKOK IS CLAIMING THAT THE LAO SHORE PO-
SITIONS HAD FIRED ON A THAI PATROL BOAT. IT WAS THE MOST
SERIOUS THAI REACTION YET TO THE DETERIORATING SITUATION
ALONG THE LAO%THAI BORDER,, BANGKOK ASSERTS THAT LAOTIAN
FORCES ALONG THE RIVER HAVE ON FIVE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS IN
THE PAST WEEK FIRED ON THAI PATROL BOATS, THE THAI AIR
STRIKE OCCURRED ABOUT 40 MILFS?SOUTH OF SAVANNAKHET THERE
HAS SEEN NO OFFICIAL LO REACTION TO EITHER THE THAI STATE-
MINT OR THE AIR ATTACK,
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SOVIET MINISTERS STIL4! DRAFTING NEXT FIVE-YEAR ECONOMIC PLANE
THE SOVIET COUNCIL OP'MINISTERS MET MONDAY FOR THE SECOND
TIME Iw POUR MOTHS TO REWORK THE NEXT FIVE?YEAR ECONOMIC
PLAN (19700-1989)0 DRAFTS OF THE 'PLAN APPARENTLY HAVE TO BE
AMENDED TO CONFORM TO NEW INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PARTYtS
CENTRAL, COMMITTEE AND GENERAL SECRETARY RREZHNFV SOVIET
OFFICIALS HAVE T04D U.$DTPLOMATS 'THAT THE DRAFTING OF
THE FIvEPYEAR PLAN IS BEHIND$CHEDULE, THESE OFFICIALS
CITE SEVERAL PROBLEMS COMPLICATING THE PROCESS: THE UNEX"
PECTECLY LARGEEXPENOITURE3 OF HARD CURRENCY THIS YEAR FOR
GRAIN AND OTHER IMPORTS, DISAGREEMENTS OVER INDUSTRIAL RE"
ORGANIZATION, REGIONAL LOB YING FOR NEW PROJECTS, AND EF-
FORTS TO SHIFT SOMEWHAT'FROM QUANTITATIVE TO QUALITATIVE
GOALS TN PRODUCTION,
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