HE FELT THAI WADUS HAD TAKEN A CONSOUS W HION GOVERN IN HIS OWN WAY. PEOPLE NOW RECOGNISED THAT HE WAS AN AUTOCRAT, THOUGH MORE GENEROUS AND BENEVOLENT THAN HIS FATHER. IT SEEMED THAT HMG WERE SUPPORTING HIM IN THIS LINE. THIS I STRONGLY DENIED, SAYING THAT IT WAS IN HMG'S INTEREST TO HAVE A STRONG AND UNITED ADMINISTRATION IN OMAN AND IT WAS ASSENTIAL THAT THERE SHOULD BE GREATER RAPPORT BETWEEN THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE SULTAN, TARIQ SEVERAL TIMES CAME TO THE POINT THAT HE WAS A CONSTITUTIONAL IST AND ANTI - MONARCHIAL. 5. TARIQ COMPLAINED OF THE ADVISERS ROUND QABUS, SAYING THAT THE SULTAN WAS EQUALLY OPEN TO GOOD AND BAD ADVICE CCLEARLY HE THOUGHT THAT ROBERT ANDERSON WAS A BAD COUNSELLOR). HE WAS NOT SURROUNDED BY GOOD MEN. SOME OMANIS WERE LINING THEIR POCKETS. LANDON WAS MORE THAN AN EQUERRY, AND MCLEAN, THE SULTAN'S PRIVATE SECRETARY, WAS HAVING A SORT OF A SCHOOL MASTER'S FIELD DAY. 6. ON DEFENCE, WHICH HE CLAI MED AS USUAL THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH, TARIQ CONSIDERED THE SITUATION IN DHOFAR CONS I DERABLY * BETTER. HE WAS GLAD THAT SAF WERE NOW ON TOP OF THE JEBEL. IF HE WERE IN CHARGE OF DEFENCE HE WOULD NONE THELESS HAVE SENT MORE UNITS, MAYBE ONE OR TWO COMPANIES, TO DHOFAR INSTEAD OF KEEPING THEM IN NORTHERN OMAN. HE FELT THAT THE SAF INTELLIGENCE NETWORK · SAW BOGEYS IN NORTHERN OMAN WHICH DID NOT REALLY EXIST, ALTHOUGH HE CONSIDERED THAT THERE WERE A FEW SMALL GROUPS WHO WOULD CAUSE TROUBLE. HAWLEY (REPEATED SAVING TO WASHINGTON UKMIS NEW YORK AND BEIRUT) DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION ARAB D NED UND UN ODA NAM D DEF D FED RES. D (AMER SECT) FFFFF CONFIDENTIAL
