INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-3-65-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: November 27, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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F111 THE SITUATION ROOM//TOHAK 125//
TO JERRY BREMER FOR THE'SECRETARY
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T C P S E C tR E T SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWGRD VIA-BLACK PATCH WH434132.
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EI~d3RANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: THE SITUATION ROOM
UBJECT: INFORMATION ITEMS
EATION OF SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT-PARK TO VISIT OF PRESIDENT
FORD. ONE OF PRESIDENT PARK'S AIDES REPORTS THAT.PRESIDENT
F ORD' S MESSAGE CONCERNING THE PROBLEMS GENERATED. FOR U.S. -
?DLICY BY CONTINUED DOMESTIC UNREST IN SOUTH KOREA. HAS HAD A
IWTICEABLE IMPACT ON PARK. IT HAS CLEARLY ADDED T0-PRESSURES
,?1W HIM FOR MODERATION IN DEALING WITH HIS OPPONENTS.OH
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ET!C?IAN DENIAL OF INTENT TO EXECUTE HAILE SELASSIE:- AN
I0='IAN FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL TODAY. DENIED TO THE U.S.
IM SSY THAT THE RULING MILITARY COUNCIL WAS-PLANNING'TO
vX .CUiE FORMER EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE. THE-.OFFICIAL SAID THAT
F_0iiEIGN PRESS REPORTS ALLEGING THAT HAILE SELASSIE.`HAD BEEN-
DVED TO A TOWN NEAR ADDIS ABABA IN PREPARATION. FOR HIS EXE-
FOUNDATION."
HAILE SELASSIE
2RA9D PALACE IN ADDIS ABABA, WHERE HE HAS BEEN HELD FOR. THE.':
PAST IWO WEEKS.
1;H XICO BREAKS RELATIONS WITH CHILE; THE. MEXICAN.. GOVERNMENT,..'
EL?.ASED A COMMUNIQUE TUESDAY AFTERNOON ANNOUNCING . IT 'WAS
BREAKING RELATIONS WITH CHILE AND WITHDRAWING'ITS PERSONNEL
F.~G;1 SANTIAGO. ACCORDING TO THE CHILEAN EMBASSY IN MEXICO
CI Y, IT HAD NO INKLING A BREAK WAS IN THE OFFING. HOWEVER,
'TRE'SS REPORTS SPECULATE IT WAS RELATED TO THE REFUSAL OF THE
C1ILEANS TO ACCEPT A MEXICAN OFFER OF ASYLUM FOR ALLENDE"S
DALGHTER. . (LOW)
.A rHINGTON STAR-NEWS: OSWALD JOHNSTON REPORTS THAT YOUR TALKS
WITH CHINESE LEADERS CONTINUED TODAY IN ALMOST TOTAL. SECRECY
AND AT A PACE THAT SEEMS ALMOST LEISURELY.
STAR EDITORIAL SAYS THAT UN SECRETARY GENERALWALDHEIM'
APPARENTLY HAS EXTRACTED FROM PRESIDENT ASAD OF SYRIA AN
~.GREE.MENT TO RENEW THE MANDATE OF THE UN PEACE-KEEPING FORCE
ON. THE GOLAN HEIGHTS FOR ANOTHER PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS. WHAT
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CAUSED ASAD TO CHANGE HIS.MIND.IS AMATTER FOR SPECULATION,.
BUT IT ALMOST CERTAINLY WAS NOT TOTALLY UNRELATED TO THE RUSSO-
AMERICAN TALKS IN VLADIVOSTOK.
SMITH HEMPSTONE WRITES THAT CANADIANS, LIKE MOST PEOPLE, WANT
BOTH TO HAVE THEIR CAKE AND TO EAT IT. THEY WANT TO PURSUE AN
I:ZDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY AND 'YET ENJOY A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP'
WITH THE U.S. THEY .WANT FOREIGN CAPITAL TO DEVELOP THEIR VAST'
NATURAL RESOURCES * AND CREATE INDUSTRY BUT RESENT--'AMERICAN DOMI-
NATION OF THEIR ECONOMY. THEY WANT FREE ACCESS FOR.-THEIR GOODS
INTO THE AMERICAN MARKET'BUT AS MUCH PROTECTION AS POSSIBLE FOR
THEIR OWN GOODS AND PRODUCTS. THEY WANT, AS THE WORLD'S SECOND
LARGEST NATION, TO PLAY A PROMINENT. ROLE IN NATO AND THE WORLD,
WHILE MAINTAINING THEIR ARMED FORCES AT A LEVEL.CONSIDERABLY
LCWER THAN HOLLAND',S. ALTHOUGH IT IS; SELDOM IF EVER STATED, '.ONE
SENSES THAT WHAT REALLY GRIPES CANADIANS (AS DISTINCT FROM THE
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT) ABOUT THE U.S. ' .IS NOT SO -MUCH THAT AMERICA
IS HOSTILE TO CANADA -- WHICH IT IS NOT --- AS THAT. IT IGNORES
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