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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-5-37-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: December 16, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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IRANIANagGYPTIAN INCREASED MILITARY COOPERATIONS ACCORDING
TO DIA, IRAN ANO WO' ARE CONTINUING SUBSTANTIAL MILITARY
COOPERATION, DURING HIS MID.NOVEMBER MIXT TO CAIRO, IRANIAN
VICE MINISTER OF WAR, GENERAL TOUFANIAN, WAS REPORTEDO'OFFER
UNRESTRICTED ACCESS TO SOVIET MILITARY EQUIPMENT IN TME EGYPa
TIAN INVENTORY, PRESIDENT SAOAT ANO HIS ADVISER, MARWAN, ARE
SAID TO HAVE TOLD TOUFANIAN TWAT IRANIAN PILOTS MAY TRAIN ON
MI6.018 AND M1G003$, IN ADOITION, THE EGYPTIANS WILL ALLOW
MILITARY PERSONNEL TO FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH
EGYPT! s LATEST MODEL SOVIET TANKS AND ARMORED PERSONNEL CARat
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ST IA ANO THAT THEY ARE THE LATEST VERSIONS MANUFACTURED BY
THE USSR,
MAURITANIAN AND POLISARIO F
RcEs CLASH IN SAHARA'
ARMED CLASHES HAVE BEEN
CORING SET !EN MAURITANIAN FORCES AND THE POLISAR/0 IN
SOUTHERN SAHARA, MAURITANIAN LOSSES ARE ESTIMATED AT 0 DEAD AND ISO WOUNDED,
THE oNLY GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL IN NOUAKCHOTT HAS REPORTEDLY
SEEN CLEARED OF PATIENTS IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE WOUNDED*
THE mAuRITANIAN GOVERNMENT REPORTEDLY IS TRYING To SUPPRESS
THAT MAURIANIAN MILITARY FORCES witt.LEP THE TOWN OF 1.A ABUKRA
THE NEWS.
IN SOUTHERN SPANISH SAHARA WHICH IS IN THE HANDS oF THE
POLISARI0 FRONT, MAURITANIAN UNITS REPORTEDLY WAGED A
FIERCE SATTLE WITH THE POLUARIO GUERRILLAS, SOME SOO HEMP
!MRS OF THE POLISARIO FRONT HAVE APPARENTLY BARRICADED THEM.'
SELVES IN THE TOWN ANO MAURITANIAN FORM HAVE GIVEN THE
GUERRILLAS 48 HOURS TO EVACUATE WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM THE
AREA IN ORDER TO PREVENT A MASSACRE, THE 'PRESS REPORTS THAT
IT APPEARS MAURITANIAN TROOPS HAVE SUFFERED MANY LOSSES ANO
HAVE BEEN FORCED TO EVACUATE THEIR WOUNDED SY AIR TO NOUAK?
ChOTT,
ISRAEL! AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTsi IN LATE NOVEMBER, THE ISRAELI
AIR FORCE LOST AN Few! AIRCRAFT IN THE SINAI, ITS LOSS AND
RERsoNNEL CASUALTIES IN THE ACCIDENT, ALONG WITH NUMEROUS
OTHER LOSSES 1N THE PAST YEAR, DEMONSTRATE A GROWING MOSLEM
FACING THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE, ACCORDING TO 01A, THIRTEEN
CRAFT ARE KNOwN TO HAVE SEEN LOST SO FAR THIS YEAR, THE IN/.
CREASE IN ACCIDENT ROES IS BELIEVED TO BE CAUSED BY TWO MAJOR
FACTORS, THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE IS 6031ND MANI, QUALIFIED MAIN.
TENANcE PERSOZNNEL TO COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES SUCH AS EL Alo* IN
ADDITImN, IT HAS EXPANDED ITS PILOT'TRAINING PROGRAM TO COM-
PENSATE FOR WARTIME LOSSES AND TO PROVIDE A'HIOHER PIOT,TIO*AIR*
CRAFT RATIO, DECLINING MAINTENANCE SKILLS COUPLED WITH MORE
PILOTS WITH LESS EXPERIENCE THAN SEFoRE HAVE ALSO CONTRIBUTED
TO THE INCREASE IN ACCIDENTS, ANOTHER CONTRIBUTORY FACTOR THAT
MAY HAVE HAD SOME IMPACT ON LOSSES INCLUDES THE ISRAELI AIR
FORCE PROPENSITY TO EXCEED PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS, AS AN
EXAMPLE, THE Fp4E IS ROUTINELY SUBJECT TO NON FORCES OF OVER
0, ALSO, TAKEOFF WEIGHT FREQUENTLY EXCEEDS TECHNICAL ORDER
MAXIMUM DROSS WEIGHT', THE !AF INVENTORY IS 060 IN MANY CASES,
AND ALHOST ALL PRE4.1973 WAR AIRCRAFT HAVE RECEIVED SAME
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HAVE ADOPTED A NEW CONSTITUTION, ACCORDING TO A COMMUNiQUE
BROADCAST YESTERDAY BY RADIO PHNOM PENH, THE ANNOUNCEMENT
PROVIDED NO DETAILS ON ITS CONTENTS; OR ON WHAT ROLE THE NEW
CONSTITUTION ASSIGNS TO PRINCE SIHANOUK, DEPUTY PRM t MINIS..?
TER KHIEU SAmPHAN STATED THAT A "THIRD NATIONAL CONGRESS."
REPORTEDLY ATTENDED BY MORE THAN 1,600 DEC,EDATESt HAD 1/0144
ANImoWSLTs APPROVED THE CONSTITUTZON4 THE CONGRESS, HELD ON
DECEmeER 14, APPARENTLY CULMINATES THE WORK OF A COMMITTEE
ALLEGEDLY PORMEU AT A SPECIAL NATIONAL CONGRESS LAST APRIL,
FOLLOWING THE COMMUNIST TAKE?DVER OF CAMBODIA TO DRAFT A
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