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- soon if he can come and see
you sometime in the second week of December. This explains the
attached ticker item, but it doesn't say why we always learn from
the press first about Wilson's plans.
1.
2. What is on Wilson's mind is that the British have
- deliveries some time into the future but when word of
the deal gets arowid, it may increase Jordanian and Lebanese pressure
and give the Israelis an added talking point {though these planes will not
be a serious threat to them)/
Lebanon is pressing for a PL
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the Paks, and could lead to resw.nption of full-scale hostilities.
Wetre
pres sing the SYG to act.
In any event withdrawal to the 5 Al!.gust positions will be a tricky matter.
The UK believes the UN must press for it immediately, lest the war erupt
again
- the Marines already on the scene in combat roles and see how
that worked. It is not clear that we now need all these additional
forces.
Your own desire for nux1ng our Marines with the ir.s is quite a difÂ
ferent matte~ and I think that should be pressed
- . Although Quat has told me that no decisions have
been taken, the press and our informants have it that the Council confirmed
General "Little" Minh as Commander-in-Chief (he holds this post now on an
"Acting" basis), selected General Huynh Van Cao as Chief
- -Dade
county community leaders responded by establishing a local task
force to work with the Federal group. In contrast with their earlier
criticism and gloomy predictions, the Miami press has published
articles complimentary of the way Federal
- a major ruckus in the Middle
East. Nasser has made clear that he sees our suspension of shipments
since December as an act of economic pressure. But Egypt's pressing
food needs and foreign exchange shortage have so far deterred him from
doing more than
- at all that if a visit to London should have to
be paid for by another visit to the hospital, it is not worth it in terms
of what the world and your own countrymen ask of you.
But I will
admit if pressed that I do not see why this particular visit should
- to consider this?
Parenthetically, he noted that a twelve hour suspension of fight1nq
had been o.ffered and that our press spokesman had said neither
yes nor no.
The Secretary asked that if the Ambassador were in Viet-Nam,
would he put his arms dov.rn
- much from this and suggested a desperate
effort by John Martin to re-establish contact in the city and press for
observance of the cease-fire. Earlier in the day we sent Martin a flash
message to this purpose. Tom Mann is now sending him another
- . I said that I fully agreed, as
long as it was understood that one of the major tools of diplomacy was
the 7th Fleet. He said he not only agreed but had repeatedly made this
point.
He pressed me on the situation inside South Vietnam, which he clearly