NOON NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-5-48-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: December 29, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: NOON NOTES
NA REPORTEDLY APPROVES CUBAN ENROUTE STOPS!
Liir GUYANA HAS REpORTEDLY APPROVED A CUBAN REQUEST THAT ITS
A R CANwSOUND FLIGHTS REFUEL, IN GEORGETOWN, THIs wILL ENABLE
THE AIRCRAFT TO INCREASE THEIR PAYLOAD SIGNIFICANTLY. CUBAN
FLIONTs MAY HAVE BEGUN USE OF THE GEORGETOWN AIRPORT AS EARLY
AS DECEMBER 22, WITH FLIGHTS FROM HAVANA TO LUANDA VIA GEORGE
TOWN AND GUINEA BISSAU, IN AN APPARENT ATTEMPT To TEMPER THE
DECISION, THE OUYANESt HAVE LIMITED THE CUBANS TO TWO FLIGHT/
PER WEEK, HOwEVER, GUYANA HAS INDICATED THAT IF THE OAU RE.,
COGNIZES THE HpliA Al THE LEGITIMATEOOVERNMENT OF ANGOLA, THE
CUBANS MAY BE GRANTED UNLIMITED TRANSIT, THE APPROVAL OF THE
REFUELING STOP REMOVES A SERIOUS LOGISTICAL PROBLEM FOR THE
CUBAN SUPPORT OF TOE MP60 FORCES IN-ANGOLA,
NEW cm:NA NEWS AGENCY ATTACKS SOVIET IMPERIALISM; YESTERDAY,
ONE DAY F0140wING ITS RELEASE OF A SOVIET HELICOPTER CREW,
PEKING LASHED OUT AGAINST SOVIET IMPERIALISM AND ITS PUNSuIT
OF WORLD DOMINATION IN A NCNA COMMENTARY, THE COMMENTARY
CLAIN% THAT WHILE 507$ WASHINGTON AND mOSCOw ARE CONTENDING
FOR HEGEMONY, THE WEAKER AMERICAN POSITION MAKES THE SOVIETS
*THE MAIN SOURCE OP THE PERIL OF WAR," IT ALSO STATES THAT
OREZHNEV HAs PROVEN TO BE EVEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN KHRUSHcHEV
BECAUSE Mt HAS TAKEN MORE ACTIONS RATHER THAN DOING A LOT OF
TALKING, WITH ITS SYSTEM or SOCIAL IMPERIALISM, THE USSR
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