International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

236. Memorandum of Conversation

of law and order will be [in the Five Points]? Kissinger : No, we never did. We just said they had to be European. This is 300 percent better than what they presented. They wanted the Chiefs of Staff to be from the Commonwealth, with one Indian, one Nigerian, and one Canadian. Botha : It would have been useless. Kissinger : Now they can be British. Botha : This would be the body with the power. Kissinger : Defense and law and order. Botha : That’s all? Kissinger : Yes. Sanctions would be lifted and the guerrilla war would end. That’s still in the plan. And the Army wouldn’t return to Rhodesia …