EDGAR F. KAISER

300 LAKESIDE DRIVE
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94604

October 11, 1975

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Cornell C. Maier, President of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, Mrs. Kaiser and I hope that Mrs. Kissinger and you can join us for dinner at the 1925 F Street Club on Thursday, November 13th, to welcome the new Ambassador of Jamaica, His Excellency Alfred Rattray, and Mrs. Rattray.

Jamaica is the source of approximately 70 per cent of Kaiser Aluminum's bauxite. We have recently negotiated with Prime Minister Manley and his associates a new long-term partnership arrangement between Kaiser Aluminum and the Jamaican government. While there will be substantial increases in the bauxite taxes, we believe the new arrangement in total is fair and reasonable.

Considering the present era of relationship between developing nations which supply raw materials to developed nations, we feel it is particularly appropriate to give the Ambassador and Mrs. Rattray a warm welcome.

You will be receiving a more formal invitation in the next several days but, because of this special background, we did want to write in advance of that in the hope you will be able to join us.

Warm regards.

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
22nd and C Streets, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Mr. Kalaidjian,

Thank you for your letter. It was in-
deed an honor to be awarded the Special Peace
Award last year by the St. George Association
of the Police Department of the City of New
York. I appreciated your kind wishes at that
time and will long remember your thoughtful-
ness in sending me the handsome plaque.

I would like to congratulate Dr. William
James McGill, this year's award recipient,
and to express my hope that your Communion
Breakfast will be most enjoyable and success-
ful. My only regret is that the demands of
my schedule prevent me from joining you on
May 4.

The Reverend William G. Kalaidjian,
309 East 201 Street,
Bronx, New York.

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Bainbridge Avenue at 201st Street, Bronx, New York 10458

The Reverend William G. Kalaidjian
Minister

Church Office
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Pastor's Study
CY 5-4078

April 14, 1975

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
United States of America
State Department Building
Washington, D.C.

My Dear Mr. Secretary Kissinger:

It is with delight that I mail the enclosed plaque to you. It was one year ago that we sought your presence at our Communion Breakfast of The St. George Association of The Police Department of The City of New York.

We were terribly disappointed that you could not be with us, and we gave you a standing ovation even though you were absent. In fact as the MC I mentioned that on the very day of our Breakfast you were in the Holy Land seeking PEACE.

This May 4, 1975 we have as our speaker Dr. William James McGill, President of Columbia University. Again as always, we will be at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. If you care to send a note in response to the enclosed plaque, I will be happy to read it at the Breakfast.

May God keep you safe, in good health and filled with courage to continue humanity's struggle for freedom with justice and peace with morality.

P.S. The delay in sending this plaque is due to our hope of bringing it to you personally, but that hope has vanished because of your schedule.

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Sue:

The more I looked at the letter the more confused
I became. I finally called Rev. Kalaidjian. Seems
the Secy. received the award last year---but finally
got it sent to him this year. I've noted new recipient.
You can probably polish off my "language"--I'm not
a writer. Thanks for the help.

P. S. Use new address--309 E. 201 St., Bronx,
10458.
Bonnie

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DEAR MR. SECRETARY:

IT WAS ONLY AFTER I RETURNED TO WASHINGTON AND SCANNED THE WHITE HOUSE SCHEDULE FOR TODAY THAT I UNDERSTOOD WHY YOU HAD TO RETURN WHEN YOU DID. I APOLOGIZE FOR MY PEEVISHNESS. I HOPE IT IS FORGOTTEN.

ALLOW ME TO REPEAT WHAT I TOLD YOU ONE NIGHT IN YOUR PLANE CABIN. I FELT THROUGHOUT THE TRIP THAT I WAS WITNESSING HISTORY UNFOLD. I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. IT COMES RARELY TO A REPORTER.

I START MY BOOK-WRITING TIMEOFF THIS COMING WEEKEND. BERNIE AND I WOULD BE GRATEFUL TO HAVE ANOTHER SESSION WITH YOU--ANY TIME YOU SAY--BEFORE YOU GO OFF FOR A WEEK EARNED VACATION. MAY WE CALL? OR, COULD YOU HAVE ONE OF YOUR GIRLS CALL US TO SET A TIME? WE WOULD BE IN YOUR DEBT ONCE AGAIN.

P.S. Mady said, "You keep using the word 'FABULOUS' ALL THE TIME. I've never heard you so excited." AND SHE IS, AS YOU KNOW, AN OBJECTIVE WOMAN.

June 17, 1974

Dear Mr. Secretary:

On Saturday morning, I received the first two uncorrected page proof books. I delivered one to Mrs. Kissinger at the hospital. The other is attached.

This coming Sunday, the New York Times Magazine will run excerpts from two Middle East chapters. The following day, Time will run similar excerpts.

I know that you will not "like" everything in the book, but I also know that everything in the book was written ~~with~~ the single motivation of fairness and objectivity--as close as Bernie and I could come to it anyway. I also know that you know this.

I would love to talk to you about it when you have a moment; and as soon as we get the hard-cover, finished commodity--maybe in a week or two--I shall get a few copies to you.

If it were possible to get a ride back to Washington with you on Wednesday evening, I would be very grateful.

Good luck in Ottawa.

January 19, 1976

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I do realize the time pressures on you--plus the
personal problem of Nancy's illness. It is only with
considerable reluctance therefore that I add to them.
Your recollections of the closing Vietnam story are
vital to our research, and we have reached the point
where we are stymied without them. Would it be possible
for you to see us very shortly after your return? Or, if
it is more convenient, talk with Bernie on one of the
long upcoming legs of the journey? Either way, we'd be
very grateful.

PS. Good luck in Moscow.

February 19, 1976

Dear Mr. Secretary and Nancy:

Yours were the first flowers to arrive, and they
were the ones we chose to leave with Mother after the
service. My sister, Estelle, Bernie and I deeply
appreciate your thoughtfulness and your expression of
sympathy.

I wish you could have known her. She had such
enormous respect for you, Mr. Secretary, and such genuine
affection for you, Nancy, though she never met either of
you. She was a vital woman, a warm personality, a strong
mind. Her legacy was a sense of family, a commitment to
work, a love of country, a devotion to study. She was an
original, and now I am no longer anyone's child.

HERBERT W. KALMBACH

1056 SANTIAGO DRIVE, NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA 92660

February 19, 1975

Dear Henry:

A week ago last Monday, I had lunch in Los Angeles with our mutual friend, Taft Schreiber. Your name came up in the conversation and I told him what a wonderful and truly remarkable job I feel you have done and are doing as Secretary of State. I asked Taft to please relay my feelings to you the next time the two of you talked. However, immediately after saying this to Taft I had second thoughts and told him that I would prefer to make my feelings known in a personal letter to you.

That's the sole reason for this short note, Henry. I simply wanted you to know of Barbara's and my very high regard and admiration for you. You will always have our total support.

Washington, D. C.
600 New Hampshire Avenue,
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman,
Max M. Kampelman, Esq.

Personal Assistant
Susanne S. McFarlane

Sincerely,

meant a great deal to him at this time.
I know your good wishes and the blessings of the Reppe
not able to observe the Passover in the traditional way,
matzoos from the Lubavitcher Reppe. Although he was
very much he appreciates your forwarding to him the
The Secretary has asked me to let you know how

Dear Mr. Kampelman:

April 30, 1976

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April 14, 1976

OUR REFERENCE

Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

About two years ago I had the occasion to spend a number of hours with the Lubavitcher Rebbe in a stimulating and informative exchange of conversation. Since then I have on various occasions received one or more of his emissaries dealing with different matters of mutual interest. Yesterday one of his representatives brought me a package of Passover matzos prepared under special Lubavitcher auspices. In addition to a package for me and my family, there was a request that I forward a package to you with the personal compliments and blessings of the Rebbe. I am pleased to do so. It is my recollection from last year that the matzos are particularly tasty and I know that all of us could use an extra blessing now and then.

My best personal wishes.

Attachment

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THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

COPIES TO:

June 19, 1976

S
RF-WS

Dear Dr. Luna Kan:

It was a pleasure to meet you on my visit to Merida and Uxmal. You were thoughtful to receive me personally and to arrange the colorful greeting at the airport. It was one of the warmest and friendliest I have ever been given.

I could not have been more favorably impressed by Uxmal; the "Governor's Palace" there must indeed be the most spectacular building in all pre-Columbian America. The Yucatan has a heritage of which to be truly proud, and I enjoyed the opportunity to visit one of the fascinating sites.

Dr. Francisco Luna Kan,
Governor of Yucatan,
Palacio de Gobierno,
Merida, Yucatan.

MICROFILMED
BY S/S-I

KANAKARTNE, Neville

Amb. of Sri Lanka

THE AMBASSADOR OF SRI LANKA
WASHINGTON, D. C.

April 5, 1974

Dear Henry:

Heartiest congratulations and my warmest
good wishes for the future happiness of both of you.

Apart from the natural joy that the marriage
of a friend brings to his colleagues and close
associates, in this particular case to those among them
who are still bachelors in this city, it also brings
some degree of relief that they will not have to
continue to compete with the "most eligible" of them
up to now, in this nation's Capital!

I think that I must now insist that, for old
time's sake, you give me an opportunity of entertaining
your wife and you to dinner. I promise that it will be
quite private and personal, and that you will not have
to worry about Press photographers and reporters or
about what will appear in the social pages of next
morning's "Washington Post"!

Once again, with every good wish,

The Honourable
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
WASHINGTON, D.C.

May 1, 1975

Dear Neville:

You were thoughtful to send us the tea. You
can be sure that Nancy and I will derive both
enjoyment and refreshment from it.

I read with particular pleasure your reflections
and observations. The views of a former student
always have special significance and I appreciate
your generosity very much.

It was good to see you at the reception and I
hope our paths will cross again soon.

Henry A. Kissinger

His Excellency
Neville Kanakaratne
Embassy of Sri Lanka
2148 Wyoming Avenue N. W.
Washington, D. C.

HAK:ba

THE AMBASSADOR OF SRI LANKA

WASHINGTON, D. C.

April 22, 1975

My dear Henry:

It was so nice seeing you and talking to you after a long time - even though only for a few minutes - at President Kaunda's reception on Sunday evening.

If it means anything to you from a former "student" and admirer, and an old friend, I want you to know that I myself personally and my Government are very much aware of the great contribution you have made and are continuing to make towards the realization of man's age-old aspiration to live with his fellowmen in peace and security. For us in the developing world, peaceful coexistence among the Great Powers is an essential pre-requisite for our own economic development and the progress of our peoples towards minimum standards of living and the full realization of human dignity. As the principal architect of recent American policy aimed at peaceful coexistence both with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, your claim to our appreciation and our confidence is beyond doubt. Most of us are unimpressed by the shortsighted and self-serving criticisms now being levelled at you from different quarters. Having known you closely over a period of almost 20 years, I am confident that you have enough strength of character and intellectual integrity to proceed without distraction towards the goals you have set for yourself and for your great nation.

Apart from these sentiments, which I want you to know are deeply and sincerely felt, there is nothing more tangible I can offer as proof of my confidence in you than the accompanying gift of tea (my country's internationally famous product) as a token of that confidence. I hope that Nancy and you will derive some enjoyment and much needed refreshment from it. This brings you both my warm regards and you my best wishes for a continuingly successful and prolonged tenure as Secretary of State.

The Honorable
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.

THE AMBASSADOR OF SRI LANKA

WASHINGTON, D. C.

December 26, 1975.

My dear Henry,

If anyone that I can think of has earned a few days of relaxation during this festive season it is you. I am sending you herewith some pure tea from Sri Lanka to help you and Nancy enjoy your holiday. To many of my colleagues in the Diplomatic Corps here who are amazed by your energy, single-mindedness, and rational approach to the world's problems, I have explained that none of these qualities of yours have surprised me since they were quite evident twenty years ago when we first came to know each other at Harvard. I take some modest pride that at least Sri Lanka has not given you and your Government any cause for concern or disappointment! As you are aware the relations between our two governments have continued to improve in recent years and I have no reason to doubt that this trend will be maintained.

I hope you will accept this small gift as a token not only of our personal friendship but also of the relationship between our governments and our peoples.

Wishing Nancy and you good health, good fortune and happiness in the coming Bicentennial Year.

The Honourable
Dr.Henry Kissinger,
The Secretary of State,
Washington D.C.

7601082

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts - Boston
Politics Department, College II.
Harbor Campus
Boston, Massachusetts 02125

TELEPHONE (617) 287-1900

Boston, March 22, 1976.

His Excellency Dr. Henry Kissinger,
Secretary of State,
State Department,
Washington D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

Please find enclosed a copy of my small book "Evolution and Revolution in Africa" published in England in 1972 and in 1974, the American edition. Also my interview on Angola.

I sincerely hope that your forthcoming trip to Africa will improve relations and understanding between United States of America and many African countries.

Events do progress in Africa in a speed and direction which are not always forecast accurately in Washington. May I respectfully remind you the meeting we had with you in April 1973, in the White House, together with other Fellows of the Center for International Affairs. I remember leaving that meeting with the sad impression that the American government was convinced that no serious political or ideological change will occur in Portugal and its colonies in the near future. One year later, in April 1974, there was revolution in Portugal; two years later, in 1975, all Portuguese colonies became sovereign States.

I may be wrong but more and more it seems that African countries have priorities and interests which sometimes are different or conflicting with those of Western and Communist countries. Consequently, policymakers, inside and outside Africa, would avoid unpleasant surprises by adapting their general line of thinking and planning to the realities developing in Africa.

I take this opportunity to wish you bon voyage; as we say in Africa, our ancestors will protect you and Mrs. Kissinger during your African discovery.

With my very best wishes,

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BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE August 17, 1975

# Angola following Congo down road to bloody civil strife

By Don Marshall
Globe Staff

Fifteen years ago, the former Belgian Congo — now Zaire — was caressing crazily and bloodily along a post-independence path and the world was brought to a crisis by: threats of direct Soviet and American intervention.

Within the country three factions wrestled for political control. None succeeded in the longterm and all their leaders have since died.

Patrice Lumumba, the nation's first prime minister and a person regarded by the West as a communist, was assassinated shortly after he took office. Moise Tshombe, leader of the secessionist Katanga Province, died tragically in an Algerian jail where he was held after his plane was hijacked over the Mediterranean in 1967.

Joseph Kasavubu, the only major politician to weather the first five years of Congo independence, died in 1969 in his own Bakongo tribal area. He was forced to retire to his small farm after General Joseph Mobutu seized power in a bloodless coup in November 1965.

Split by outside alliances and each individual's will to rule, the three leaders plunged the Congolese nation into killings and human suffering which unleashed a flood of white refugees.

FOREIGN FOCUS

A United Nations force eventually was assembled to restore order.

Outwardly peace has returned to the Congo, now Zaire. Neighboring Angola, which is due to gain independence from Portugal in November, now has become Africa's number one trouble spot.

There are striking parallels between recent events in Angola and the sequence of events that tore the Congo apart 15 years ago, Thomas Kanza, associate professor of politics at the University of Massachusetts, said in Boston this week.

(Kanza has held several diplomatic posts for the government of Zaire in various countries. Born in 1933, he was the first native Congolese to gain a university degree, was a member of Patrice Lumumba's first post-independence cabinet, and was the first Congolese ambassador to the United Nations.)

"The current struggle in Angola reminds me of the situation we faced in the Congo in 1960. To me and many other Africans, the struggle for power between Dr. Agostinho Neto, Roberto Holden and Jonas Savimbi — the key Angolan leaders — are a rep

etition of Patrice Lumumba, Moise Tshombe and Joseph Kasavubu," Kanza said in an interview with the Globe Staff.

"The Congolese leaders did not realize in 1960 that only unity and understanding between them could save the Congo. They fought among themselves instead, divided by outside powers, and the situation deteriorated into a tragedy," he said.

"Now, in Angola, Dr. Neto, Savimbi and Holden find themselves in almost the same situation after fighting Portuguese colonialism for almost 14 years."

It has been conservatively estimated that more than 5000 people have died since the rival Angolan factions began resorting to violence last year. The fighting continues with Neto's group, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), controlling the capital, Luanda, and most of the outlying areas.

Holden, leader of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) has the support of Savimbi's liberation group, National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), in a drive to oust MPLA.

The MPLA is backed by Moscow and several socialist and non-aligned countries. FNLA and UNITA have received Chinese, American and other Western support.

Efforts for a peaceful solution to the confrontation have so far failed

and the fighting has spread from Luanda to all outlying areas.

Earlier this week, in a move to prevent the collapse of the six-month-old provisional government, the Portuguese Commissioner in Angola announced that he was resuming responsibility for administering the territory.

The withdrawal of FNLA and UNITA forces from the capital had left only MPLA members to serve on the traditional government, and this gave rise to speculation that Dr. Neto's group would declare unilateral independence from Portugal before the scheduled independence day.

The fighting has precipitated the largest flood of white refugees to flee a black African country since the chaos in the Belgian Congo in the early 1960s. Of Angola's 450,000 whites, one-third already has returned to Portugal and 200,000 will be evacuated by airlift during the next three months.

"I fear that the three Angolan leaders will suffer the same fate as Patrice Lumumba, Joseph Kasavubu and Moise Tshombe," Kanza said.

Zaire's President Mobutu openly supports Roberto Holden in the struggle, and Holden has the military backing of America. Holden's headquarters are in Kinshasa, Zaire, and the African revolutionary leader has spent only about four years of his life in Angola.

"It appears that Kinshasa has become the Brazzaville of the 1970s. All the forces who were opposed to Lumumba used to meet in Brazzaville, capital of the former French Congo, with the blessing of President Youlou and France," Kanza said.

"Today, Dr. Neto has been branded a communist and a Marxist and I believe that plots against him are hatched from Kinshasa in Zaire with President Mobutu's blessing.

"I fear that forces opposed to MPLA outside of Angola might decide to assassinate Dr. Neto, just as Lumumba's assassination must have been discussed in Brazzaville", Mr. Kanza said.

In America, Dr. Neto is generally regarded as a communist. Kanza does not agree.

"He is an African nationalist. I know the man and I have met often with him. Do not brand him a communist."

"Those who do are making the same mistake as was made with Lumumba. The Americans believed that Lumumba was a communist because the Belgians said he was. The Americans did not even know Lumumba.

(Next month in Washington an investigation will be held into CIA involvement in Lumumba's assassination, among those of other foreign leaders.)

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Two roads...

In the middle 1960s, racial hatred
afflicted America as never before.

Sometimes it reared its head in
urban centers — cities whose cores
were steadily deteriorating, dragging
thousands of poverty-stricken black
people into hopelessness. In Detroit,
Harlem, Watts, frustrations bred of
that hopelessness burst into riots
which left large areas looted and in
-flames.

In other places the black-white
confrontation was more direct.

These were increasingly years of
victory for a civil rights movement

whose time had arrived: one after an-
other the legal and social barriers to
black equality were falling, in the
face of this, bigoted whites turned to
force — church burnings, beatings ...
murders.

Whether it took the form of riots
by blacks or beatings and murders by
whites, racial violence left each com-
munity it touched with open wounds,
wounds which could only grow worse
if not treated.

The following articles report on
two communities, once scarred by ra-
cial hatred, that took different roads
toward recovery. One has nearly
healed. The other has grown worse.

Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price watches memorial parade for three slain civil rights worker in Philadelphia, Miss., on June 21, 1965. At that

time he had been charged but not yet convicted of conspiring to violate the
civil rights of the men who were killed.
(AP)

Philadelphia, Miss.

One has led toward healing

By Richard M. Cohen
Washington Post

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — This is

"Something that happened ..."

The government of the United
States said it wasn't quiet that sim-
ple

bank official fumbles it, referring to
"colored or blacks or whatever they
call themselves now."

The army of civil rights workers

"The people are warm and friend-
ly," he says. He says it over and over
again, telling you how his kids were
welcomed into the community — two