International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

1. Memorandum From Fernando Rondon of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger )

t they did not result in the type of criticism that was to come in 1972 as a result of the Azores renewal—particularly the highly publicized aid package that accompanied it—and the Byrd Amendment on Rhodesian chrome. African critics, prominently the Nigerians, then accused the United States not only of being unsympathetic to Black Africa but of shifting to a policy favoring minority-ruled southern Africa. [South Africa and Portugal, which suffer our arms embargo, might, of course, question this.] With the foregoing in mind, I believe that our overall interests in Africa South of the Sahara, to…