INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-4-60-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2009
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: October 20, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT; INFORMATION ITEMS
THIRD ROWIET KIEV.CLASS CARRIER;
VIA BLACK PATCH WW51992
OCTOBER 20, 1975
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THIRD KIEYPCLA05 CARRIER WILL PROBABLY BE LAID DOWN ON
THE BUILDING wAYS AT NIKOLAYEV SHIPYARD IMMEDIATELY P0100
LOWING vie LAUNCH OF THE SECOND KIEV*CLASS CARRIER, THE
M/NSK's ATTACHE REPORTING PREVIOUSLY INDICATED CONSTRUCTION
OF A THIRD CARRIER, AND SUGGESTED THE NAME KHARKOV FOR THIS
UNIT* THE LAUNCH FOR THIS THIRD UNIT CAN SE EFPECTED BY
mI0?1978 WITH SEA TRIALS TO BEGIN IN LATE 1900,
RHODES/AN PRIME MINISTER To PRETORIA FOR TALK81 RHODESIAN
PRIME MINISTER SMITH IS SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN PRETORIA TO.
DAY FOR TALKS WITH SOUTH AFRICAN OFF/CIAO, SMITH'S VISIT
SUGGESTS THAT SOUTH AFRICAN PRIME MINISTER VORSTER IS MAKING
A NEW EFFORT TO PRESS SMITH TO RESUME TALKS WITH RHOOESIAIS
SLACK NAT/ONALISTS0 .KAUNDA H43 BEEN IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH
THE SOUTH AFRICANS SINCE THE MEETING AT VICTOR/A FALLS* HE
HAS MADE HIS CONCERNS KNOW:4 TO VORSTER, WHO ALMOST CERTAINLY
WILL PASS THEM ON TO SMITH. MEANWHILE, MILITANT NATIONALISTS,
LED 5Y FORMER COUNCIL MEAD MUZOREWA AND NOABWNCIT SIYHOLE.
ADV liarDAMIlma TO RESUME GUERRILLA OPERATIONS*
THE mIWANT3 MOPE TO BEGIN OPERATIONS BY THE
END OF TME MONTH OR EARLY IN NOVEMBER IN ORDER TO TAKE AD.
VANTAGE OF THE RAINY SEASON,
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