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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-6-61-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: February 20, 1976
• Content Type: CABLE

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THE, PRESIDENT
BRENT SCOOCROFT
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FRENCH FEAR TROUSLE IN MOROCCO' EMBASSY PARIS REPORTS
THAT CONVERSATIONS HUH STAFF OFFICERS WHO WORK w/TH
TOP fReNCH FOREIGN POLICY OFFICIALS REFLECT A GROWING
PREOCCUPATION AT THE Homes/ Leygol WITH THE SPECTER
Of ANOTHER ANGOLA CLOSER TO HOME.' IN THEIR INVENTORY
OF ACTUAL TROUSLE SPOTS WHICH THEY CONSIDER VULNERABLE
TO THE INTRODUCTION OF CUBAN OR OTHER SOVIET.SPONsORED
FORCES, THE FRescm ARE WORRIED MOST ABOUTMOROCCO, FRENCH
ANALYSIS IS THAT ALGERIA'S PRESTIGE IN THE THIRD WORLD,
LIOYA'S MASSIVE ARMS OUL.DUP, KING HASSAN'S FEUDALISTIC
IMAGE, AND POLASARIO'S CLAIM TO SELNWERMINATION COM-
SINE TO GIVE THE SOVIETS AN EXCELLERT OPPORTUNITY TO
REPEAT THE ANGOLA EXPERIENCE IN THE SAHARA THROUGH UR,.
ROSATE romp DESCRIBED AS ASSISTANCE TO LEGITIMATE
/NSTITUT/ONS.
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AMOASS DOR RUSH COMMENTS THAT THE FRENCH HAVE CLOSE
DEFENSE AS WELL AS POLITICAL ANO ECONOMIC LINKS wITH
MOROCCO, A COUNTRY H!GH IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL INTEREST
CATEGORY, IN CONVERSATIONS OF THIS -SUBJECT, THE FRENCH
OFFICIALS TALK MUT FRANCE HAVING TO TAKE ACTION IF NEC*
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MARY, BUT THESE QUESTIONS ARE FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY
THE et$ GWEIITION 0^P WILL, THE U.S. ALSO STAND BY ITS
RELATIONSHIP TO MOROCCO? THE FRENCH STILL HAVE NO HARD
EVIDENCE THAT MOROCCO IS NEXT ON THE sov:ET LIST BUT AM.
SASSA00R RUSH NOTES THAT THEY ARE CLEARLY WORRIED THAT
IT MIGHT SE:
IVORY COAST VICO ON ANG0041 IN DISCUSSING THE
IVORY COAST'S RECOGNITION OF THE MPLA, THE FOREIGN
MINISTER MADE THE FOLLOWING POINTS TO OUR AMSAs.
LOON IN AS2DJAN:
0* THE GOVERNmENT OF THE IVORY COAST HAD TO
RETHINK ITS POSITION IN LIGHT OF THE FAILURE
OF THE WEST IN GENERAL AND THE U.S. IN PARm
TICULAR TO MAINTAIN SUPPORT TO FN6A/UNITA
AND TO EXPAND THAT SUPPORT TO OFFSET SOVIET/
CUBAN AID TO THE MFLA, THIS WAS A GRAVE OM.
APPOINTMENT TO THE IVORY COAST ANO TO OTHER
mODERATES, PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF THE FACT
THAT RFOR THE' FIRST TIM!" THE" MODERATES HAD
STUCK TOGETHER IN ADDIS. THE FOREIGN MINISTER
SAID IT IS NO LONGER POSSISLE IN INTERNATIONAL
POLITICAL MATTERS'70,C0UNT ON THE DECLARED
INTENTION OF THE, U.S. GOVERNMENT TO UNDERTAKE
AN ACTION SINCE IT CAN SUBSEQUENTLY BE RE.
VERSED BY ACT/ON OF THE CONGRESS.
000" THE ANGOLAN SITUATION HAD GRAVE CONSEQUENCES
FOR THE FUTURE OF AFRICA WITH THE ?SOVIET/CUSAN
FOOTHOLD THREATENING TO SPREAD QUICKLY TO ZAIRE
AND ZAMBIA, OF EVEN GREATER CONSEQUENCE WAS
THE REAL POSSIBILITY THAT CUBAN TROOPS WOULD
ADVANCE TOWARD AND INTO NAMIBIA, ENGAGE SOUTH
AFRICAN TROOPS, AND HAVE TME ARDENT SUPPORT OF
PRACTICALLY ALL THE REST OF AFRICA FOR AN
AcTIDN TO FREE NAMIBIA FROM ITS WHITE COLONIAL
YORE, ANY WESTERN COUNTERSUPPORT FOR SOUTH
AFRICA wOULD CLEARLY BE UNWELCOME.
..,IN THE VIEW OF ALL THESE DEVELOPMENTS, THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE IVORY COAST WAS REASSESSING
ITS ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SOVET UNION. THE AM-
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OASSADOR COMMENTS THAT THE CLEAR IMPLICATION
wAS THAT THE RESum TUN OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
wiTH THE SOVIETS, WHICH THE IVORY COAST BROKE
IN 1009 OVER ALLEG 0 $01f/ET ACTIVITY IN sTIRRING
uF IVORIAN 0NIVERSITy STUDENTS, MIGHT BE IN THE
OFFING,
THERE IS LITTLE CHANCE THAT THE IVORY COAST
WOULD OE ABLE TO INFLUENCE TO MPLA TO REDUCE
SOVIET/CUOAN PRESENCE /N ANGOLA. THE HPLA
HAD WON A TREMENDOUS VICTORY WHICH IT 0=0
WANT TO CONSOLIDATE, THE SOVIETS ALSO HAD
THEIR FIRST REAL SUCCESS. IN AFRICA AND HAD AS.
SOLUTELY NO INCENTIVE TO LEAVE, GIVEN THE OTHER
EXCITING PROSPECTS /N SOUTHERN AFRICA,
WHILE THE FOREIGN MINISTER SEES LITTLE HOPE
FOR A POSITIVE, MEANINGFUL UoiCt STANCE, HE
STILL HOPED THAT SECRETARY KISSINGER WOULD
VISIT AFRICA, HE OELIEVES THE U?So STILL
STANDS AS AN IMPORTANT POWER N AFRICAN EYES,
OUT THAT AFRICANS NEED ASSURANCES .0- WHICH THEY
HAVE NOT HAD RECENTLY THAT THE U.S. IS
GENUINELY INTERESTED IN POLITICAL ASPECTS OF
AFRICA'S FUTURE,
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