INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-4-76-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: October 23, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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NAVE A LOT OP CLOUT AS A LOBBY13T FOR TAX SENEFIT3, THE
MOUSE WAYS AND MEANS. COMMITTEE', YIELDING TO HEAVY PRESSURE
FROM Y ?u, REVERSED ITSE6F YESTERDAY AND VOTED TO PRESERVE
AN 354 MILLION TAX BREAK FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO WORK
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ABROAD (A-I.)
BEIRNARr GNERTZ+!A l REPORTS THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS OEM
CIDED TU (BREAK *ITW PRECEDENT AND SUBMIT FOR CONGRESSIONAL
APPROVAL THE NEW '"ILITARY, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL
AGREEMENT WITH SPAIN THAT 73 CLOSE TO COMPLETION, HIGH AD"
MINISTRATION OFFICIALS SAY. THIS WILL PROBABLY LEAD TO WIDEs
RANGING DEBATE ON CAPITOL MILL ON THE OVERALL STATE OF SPANISH.
AMERICAN RELATIO .S. (A.3)
TONY AVIRGA REPORTS THAT CHINAtS SHOWCASE PROJECT IN AFRICA,
A E,2 .MILE RAILROAD GIVING LAND-LOCKED ZAMBIA ACCESSTO'THE
INDIAN OCEAN, WAS INAUGURATED TODAY,, APPROXIMATELY 150OSS
CHINESE TECHNICIAN$ WORKED SIDE BY SIDE WITH ZAMBIAN AND
TANZANIA? ORKERS FOR YEAR$ TO PUNCH THE LINE THROUGH SAME
OF AFRICAf$ ROUGHEST TERRAIN. (As4)
THEODORA LURIE REPORTS THAT THE COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER ENRICO
SERLINGUER IS THE 0ST POPULAR ANO MOST TRUSTED POLITICIAN IN
ITALY 00W, ACCORDING TO A RECENT NATIONWIDE OPINION POLL0
ITALEA r8 ALSO SEE T1ME.COMMUNIST PARTY AS HAVING DONE THE MOST
FOR THE CAUSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS,, (A-4)
JEREMZAM O,'LEARY REPORTS THAT YOUR CHOICE To RUN YOUR AFRICAN
AFFAIR$ DEPARTMEkT IS A CAREER DIPLOMAT WHO 13 EXPECTED TO OF
ACCEPTABLE TO TIME AFRICAN NATIONS WITHOUT BEING TOO RESPONSIVE
TO THE PRESSURES OFTEN APPLIED BY THE MORE THAN 40 AFRICAN
NATIONS OR THE CONGRESSIONAL. BLACK CAUCUS, HE IS WILLIAM E,o
SCHAUFELE JR., -D INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE, (A-1'
THE LEAD EDITORIAL SAYS THAT IT 1$ ODD TO FIND MR, WILLIAM
KMUFUSS, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION,
ATTACKING THE NE GRAIN PURCHASE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE US
AND IMP SOVIET t. NIOii AS "A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT,. ?PURTHER
INTERFFRENCE WIT# THE MARKET SYSTEM IN WORLD MARKETS." I
AN IDEAL WORLD WERE THERE WERE NO SPECULATORS AND NO INSIDERS,
AND WHERE SOVIET GRAIN PRODUCTION WERE NOT RENDERED UNCERTAIN
BY CLIMATE AND THE LACK OF PRIVATE INCENTIVE, IT WOULD NO
DOUBT PE BETTER TO LEAVE GRAIN TRADING TA THE WILLING SELLER,
WILLING RUYER PRINCIPLE. BUT AS THE RECENT SUCCESS OF THE OIL
CARTEL INDICATE, WE ARE WILL INTO AN ERA OF INCREASING INTER
FERENCE, POLITICALLY AND NATIONALISTICALLY MOTIVATED, IN ALL
COMMOOTTY MARKETB? THE U.$, $OVIET DEAL REFLECTS THAT TREND
IN ONE OF ITS MILDER, MORE CONSTRUCTIVE FORMS, CA20)
CROSBY NOYES SAYS THAT THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT FOR SUMMIT
MEETINGS, YOU, ME SUSPECTS, WOULD 00 YOUR BOSS A FAVOR IF ON
YOUR RFTURN TO WASHINGTON, YOU TOLD PRESIDENT FORD TO FORGET
ABOUT 4I3 PROJECTED TRIP TO CHINA, SIMILARLY, THE TIMING
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AND THF- PROSPECTS FUR LEONID BREZMNEV 13 LONGwPLANNEO VISIT TO
WASHINGTON BECOME MORE DOUBTFUL AS TIME GOES BY. IT IS
QUITE POSSIBLE THAT THIS SUMMIT -? ORIGINALLY, PLANNED FOR
LAST suuMMER ?- WILL BE POSTPONED INQEFINITEE Y, THE CONTINUED
DEVOTION. TO DETENTE Sy THE, ADMINISTRATION RULES OUT ANY MA40R
IMPROVEMENT IN AMERICAN"CHINEESE RELATIONS AT THIS POINT. BOTH
CHINESE AND AMERICAN OFFICIALS ARE PREDICTING THAT NOTHING DPA
MATIC CAN SE EXPECTED FROM A NEW SUMMIT MEETING IN PEKING, IN
THE ""EANTIME, THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION OF A REAL NORMALIZATION OF
RELATIONS, SINCE T' E COMMUNIST CHINESE WILL NQT MOVE IN 'THAT
DIRECTTOkt UNTIL U.S* TIES WITH THE NATIONALISTS ARE BROKEN,
IN SHORT, IT IS A PERIOD OF UNCERTAINTY WHICH# ACCORDING TM
CO VENT'I& NAL ZSCOMi IS THE WRONG TIME FOR SUMMIT MEETINGS.
THE ONLY CALCULATION TO BE MADE AT THIS POINT IS WHETHER
FORO 3TANOS TO GAIN MORE THAN HE LOSES FROM WHAT MUSS" BE
RATEN' 45 A SINGULARLY POINTLESS PILGRIMAGE TO PEKING. (Ao21)
ASSOCIATED, PRESS REPORTS THAT PANAMA, LOCKED IN A DISPUTE
WITH THE U,S. OVER FUTURE DEFENSE OF THE PANAMA CANAL, IS
REPORTEO SHOPPING FOR NEW ARMS SOURCES. U.S, INTELLIGENCE
REPORTS SAY PANAMA ALREADY HAS TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO BUY
RIFLES, MORTARS, AND PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES PROM IPRAEL FQR THE
PANA ANIA N ;NATIONAL GUARD, NOW EQUIPPED WITH U.S,PSUPPLIED
WEAPONS* (Fos)
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