INFORMATION ITEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-5-39-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: December 17, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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AFRICAN LEADERS VIEWS ON ANGOI.AZ IN A RECENT MEETING WITH
OUR AMBASSADOR IN DAKAR# PRESIDENT 3ENGHOR WRGEO CONTINUED
U!S? HFLP FOR THE ANTIv!MPLA FORCES. UNTIL THE SOVIETS AND
CUBANS CAN SE FORCED OUT OF ANGOLA. HE SAID MOST OF THE
AFRICAN LEADERS ZTH WHOM HE HAS TALKED RECENTLY SEE THE
SOVIET/CUBAN .POLE AS A GREATER DANGER THAN SOUTH AFRICAN
INVOLVEMENT, S3ENOSOR EXPECTS AN SHAG SUMMIT JANUARY 10*12
ON ANGOLA AND HOPES FOR A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING ALL EXTERNAL
INTERVENTION IN ANGOLA ON THE OTHER' HAND, THE OAU COULD
NOT E EFFEC;TIVr IN FINDING AN AFRICAN SOLUTION TO THE ANGOLAN
P RO L,PIM UNLE6$ THE SUPER POWERS WITHDREW THEIR FORCES. ME
ADDEO THAT HE HAD THE IMPRESSION FROM THIS ' SOVIET AMOA33ADOR
IN DAKAR THAT THE ANGOLAN ADVENTURE WAS ' NQT A POPULAR' ONE
IN THE USSR ANO THAT THE 30VIETS WOULD NOT RULE OUT AN HONOR-
ABLE RETREAT IF THIS COULD. BE ARRANGED,
IN PRETORXA OUR AMSA33ADOR HAS HAD A RECENT' DISCUSSION ON
MINISTER WITH TH9 FOREIGN VORSTER, HO IS PRESENTLY AT THE REQUEST Of PRIME
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FOREIGN MINISTER SAID THE FIGHTING IN ANGOLA MAD REACHED
A NEW PHASE IN THE AREA SOUTH OF LUANDA. IN RECENT DAYS
THE UNITA/FLNA FORCES HAD INFLICTED HEAVY LOSSES IN MEN"
AND EQUIPMENT ON THE CUBANS WHO ARE $PEAR.HEADING THE'FIGHT*,
ING, ' THIS LEADS THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT TO BE4IEVE THAT
THE MOMENT ISM OPPORTUNE FOR THE ' U?S. GOVERNMENT TO MAKE
SPECIAL EFF(iRT$ 'TO GET THE SOVIETS AND CUBANS TO WITHDRAW.
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A NWW)GI AT THIS POYCMOLQ i1CA46Y PROPITIOUS JUNCTURE, THE
FOREIGN MINISTER MOP MIGHT BE ALL THAT $8 NECESSARY TO
TIP THE SCALES IN FAVOR OF WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN FORCES
HE AMBASSADOR
IN ANGOLA, IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION FRO$ THE'
SEEKING CLARIFICATION, MULLER SAID PIE WAS REFERRING TO DIPLO.
MATIC INITIATIVES, IN THIS CONNECTION ME EXPRESSED,APPRECIA