EVENING NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-544-1-14-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 29, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
NGA, DOS & NSA
Reviews Completed.
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
,FROM:
SUBJECT:
The Situation Room
Evening Notes
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October 29 1973
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Middle East Situation: Both the Egyptian and Syrian fronts
generally UN observers reported explosions
and small arms fire in the vicinity of Suez City late this
morning. According to the chief Israeli liaison officer,
Egyptian forces attempted to put a bridge across the canal
during the night from the east to west bank north of Suez
City. He said the bridge was broken by the water current
before Israeli forces could destroy it. The Israeli liaison
officer also claimed that Egyptian forces fired three rockets
from Port Tawfiq early today to the southwest but caused no
damage. The Syrian front remains quiet as Iraq continues the
withdrawal of its forces from Syria. Radio Baghdad reported
today that Iraqi units would be withdrawn from the two fronts
and returned home. Baghdad said the units no longer have a
"pan-Arab combat duty to fulfill" and the presence of its armed
forces raises "delicate and serious military and security matters.?
The Soviet airlift remains at about one half the level observed
over the last three days. Further substantial reductions are
not expected at least for the next two days, as 13 AN-12
flights to the Middle East are already scheduled.
Recent arrivals and departures have brought the total size
of the Soviet Mediterranean force to 89. The estimated com-
position of the force is now as follows: Surface Warships --
36, comprising 25 major combatants (cruisers,-Ergates,
destroyers, escorts), seven amphibious ships, and four mine-
sweepers; submarines -- 21, including four nuclear-powered
cruise missile units, two diesel-powered cruise missile units,
ancl 15 diesel-powered torpedo attack units; support ships -- 32.
The General Assembly is beginning work today on funding the
United Nations' Emergency Force. The Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions, a 12-member standing
committee, is meeting this afternoon to receive Secretary-
General Waldheim's cost estimates and consider financing pro-
posals. The Committee's report must eventually be approved by
a two-thirds majority of the Assembly.
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Cairo Voice of Palestine Coded Message: The Cairo Voice of
Palestine carried the following coded message yesterday, "The
time has ripened, move." Similar messages were noted being
passed just prior to the Khartoum tragedy last March.
State Department posts have been cautioned to take all reason-
sable precautions to forestall any possible terrorist action
Chinese Expand Laotian Road: Aerial photography
has revealed' the existence of a new Chinese road extending east.
from Muong Sal to Nom ?Bac in northcentral Laos. The work appar-
ently began in January 1972 when the Chinese first inserted sur-
veyors in Laos and subsequently brought in infantry units to
protect the early activity.
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Washington Star-News: C.L. Sulzberger reports from Peking that
Chou En-lai has stated that relationships between the U.S. and
China have in no way been affected by the Watergate affair.
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Senator Mark Hatfield plans to introduce a bill to prohibit the
use of U.S. combat troops in the Middle East. .(A-7)
Fred Hoffman quotes U.S. intelligence sources as saying Indonesia
may offer the U.S. greater access to its oil in return for financ-
ing help. (A-8)
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Administration officials are reportedly taking a "hard look" at
possible troop and arms cutbacks overseas, due to lack of cooper-
ation by Eurcipean allies during the Middle East crisis (A-9)
A Star editorial writes that the imposition of a cease-fire in
the Middle East leaves the United States, and the West in general,
groping for policies to deal with a suddenly worsened energy cri-
sis that has been developing for years. (A-12)
Theodore Shabad writes that the Soviet Union, in an evident move
to reduce dependence on American wheat, has begun construction
of a major irrigation canal that is intended to divert water
from Siberian rivers to dry grain-growing lands to the south.
(A-18)
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