Soviet influence in Africa discussed
PARIS (AP) — Experts from the United
States and four European countries meet
here Sunday to discuss a Western re
sponse to alleged Soviet-inspired "de
stabilization” in Africa and to organize back
ing for a French-sponsored Pan-African
peace force for Zaire.
The representatives from the United
States, France, Britain, Belgium and
West Germany will conduct "an in-depth
analysis of recent events in Africa” during
their two-day meeting and make recom
mendations to their governments, a
spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry
said.
U.S. military planes already have begun
transporting about 1,000 Moroccan troops
from Agadir, on Morocco s Atlantic coast, to
Zaire as the first contingent of the peace
force, sources in Rabat reported.
American C-141 Starlifters also are
scheduled to fly out the 600 French Foreign
Legion paratroopers who jumped into Kol
wezi more than two weeks ago to drive out
Zaire’s southern Shaba Province from
bases in Angola.
French sources, who declined to be iden
tified. said most of the legionnaires will be
replaced by midweek with 1,500 Moroc
cans and eventually 500 other African
troops. The most likely contributions are
Gabon, Togo, Senegal, and possible Invory
Coast, the sources said. The force will be
led by French officers and armed by Fr
ance, which already has 14,000 troops in
and around Africa, the sources said.
France took the lead in convening the
meeting because President Valery Giscard
d’Estaing believes Western interests by
Soviet-inspired disruption of pro-Western
African governments. The French sources
said the main focus of the meeting will be on
how to continue economic development in
African countries threatened by military and
political turmoil.
Rene Journiac, Giscard d’Estaing’s top
aide on African affairs, was in West Africa
last week, reportedly lining up support for
the peace force which first was proposed by
President Omar Bongo of Gabon. Journiac
and Jean Soutou, the Foreign Ministry’s No.
2 man, head the French delegation to the
Paris talks. David D. Newsom, undersec
retary of state for political affairs and former
chief of the State Department’s Africa sec
tion, leads a five-man American team.
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Tokyo anti-smokers rally
TOKYO — Anti-smoking groups held rallies in three cities
Sunday to demand respect for the rights of non-smokers.
About 300 members of an anti-smoking group met in Tokyo,
adopted a resolution calling on smokers to observe the rights of
non-smokers, and then took to the streets chanting anti-smoking
slogans.
Organizations said similar rallies were held in Sapporo in
Northern Japan, and Nagoya in central Japan. The anti-smoking
campaign was sponsored by the National Council of Smoking
Prohibition.
Well, excuse me!
ANAHEIM, Calif — Comedian Steve Martin couldn’t make it
to accept his Headliner of the Year award for entertainment from
the Orange County Press Club, so he sent his parents to sub for
him.
“Steve appreciates this very much and would want my
mother and me to thank you,” Steve’s dad said, smiling at his wife
who cast him a dirty look.
“Well, excuuuuuse me,” Dad said, in true Steve Martin style.
Amin sends Queen greetings
NAIROBI, Kenya—Pres. Idi Amin of Uganda, who often has
proclaimed his affection for the British royal family, sent a mes
sage to Queen Elizabeth II on the anniversary of her coronation.
Uganda radio quoted Amin as saying he remembered with
pride his attendance at the queen’s coronation parade in 1953
when he was a member of the British army. The queen marked
her anniversary on the throne last week.
Pauling backs vitamin C
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chemist Linus Pauling says his
theories on the medical value of vitamin C are ridiculed because
they challenge myths that have dominated health sciences for
decades. Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner, has championed vitamin
C to help prevent and treat cancer, colds and ether ailments.
Pauling said Saturday at a symposium on “Nutrition and
Health: Myths and Realities” that many recognized authorities on
nutrition have publicly derided the value on vitamin C, and many
physicians and scientists have criticized his theories.
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...while officials say SALT
unaffected by Soviet policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two
Carter administration officials said
Sunday that negotiations for a
new strategic arms limitation ag
reement are continuing in earnest
despite Soviet actions in Africa.
Defense Secretary Harold
Brown and Energy Secretary
James Schlesinger, a former de
fense secretary, said in separate
interviews that a new SALT ag
reement is too important to be
sharply affected by transient
events.
"We should not look mainly at
the last week’s or the last month’s
events," Brown said. “We have to
look at a series of years.”
Brown noted that the long-term
outlook is not necessarily en
couraging, citing the Soviet milit
ary buildup in Eatem Europe and
along the Chinese border. That is
a long-term trend which, if it con
tinues, forces a response from the
United States,” he added.
But he said Soviet intervention
in Africa, while important, should
not by'itself be allowed to scuttle
arms limitations negotiations.
“SALT is in the common in
terests of the Soviet Union and the
United States,” the defense sec
retary said. “I would not hold up a
SALT agreement in order to ex
press unhappiness with Soviet ac
tions in Africa."
Schlesinger agreed that SALT
should not be linked with the Afri
can intervention.
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