MEXICAN PRESS REACTION TO SECRETARY'S SPEECH ON LOS MATTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82S00697R000400140020-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2002
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 15, 1976
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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SUBJECT: MEXICAN PRESS REACTION TO SECRETARYIS SPEECH ON LOS MATTERS
'REF: STATE 84997 .
1. MEXICAN PRESS 'REACTION-TO SECRETARY'S APRIL 8 SPEECH ON
'LOS MATTERS HAS BEEN CRITICAL AND SPARSE. EXCELSIOR'S
EDITORIAL APRIL 10 'CALLED THE SPEECH A "VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM'"
AND ASSERTED THAT IT WAS AN-EFFORT TO RETURN TO AN ERA WHERE
FORCE RATHER THAN LAW PREVAILED.
2. THE ONLY OTHER NOTEWORTHY REACTION IS A COLUMN BY
CARLOS ROJAS JUANCO IN EL NACIONAL APRIL 13 ENTITLED
"RESTORATION OF THE RIGHT. OF OCCUPATION AND CONQUEST".
ROJAS DISPARAGES THE SECRETARY'S PROPOSAL THAT SEABED.SITES
FOR EXPLORATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL BONE BE DIVIDED SO
THAT PRIVATE. CONTRACTORS AND AN INTER.NAT!ONAL AUTHORITY
(ON BEHALF OF LDCS) EACH GET SITES OF EQUAL'WEALTH AS
"VERY. DIFFICULT TO TAKE SERIOUSLY". HE GOES ,ON TO
NOTE THAT THE COMPETITION FOR COLONICAL DOMINIONS IN
THE PAST RESULTED IN NUMEROUS BLOODY,WARS AND WARNED
THAT THIS "SHOULD NOT BE REPEATED IN A RACE FOR.DOMI-
NAT I ON OF THE SEABEDS." (COMMENT; ALTHOUGH ROJA SI
COLUMN APPEARS REGULARLY IN SEMI-OFFICIAL EL NACIONAL,
WE ARE NOT AWARE THAT HE IS PARTICULARLY CLOSE TO GOM
THINKING. SINCE HE IS A MEMBER OF THE PARTIDO POPULAR
SOLI AL ISTA AND HAS LONG BEEN. ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNISTS
AND EXTREME LEFTISTS, HE SHOULD PROBABLY NOT SE CON-
SIDERED A GOM SPOKESMAN) THOMPSON
State Dept. review completed
C O N F I D E N T I A L
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