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199. Memorandum of Conversation

singer : All right, we’ll send a letter from me. Botha : If they think Dr. Kissinger is coming, that they like. Kissinger : For a practitioner of apartheid, you are throwing me in with a lot of blacks. [Laughter.] I’ll have to go to the Ivory Coast, Nigeria. Botha : Nigeria. In the middle of Angola, the previous head of Nigeria sent a man to us and asked for a document from us. We stuck to our deal, and they didn’t. Kissinger : What was the agreement? Botha : If we would consider withdrawing our troops, they would exert a strong influence to get the Cubans out. We were prepared, but they did n…