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11. Briefing Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Newsom ) to Secretary of State Kissinger

ng-term purchase contracts or joint ventures—the resources remain under the control of other sovereign powers increasingly assertive of sovereign rights. Africa is an important supplier or potential source of all the resources mentioned except zinc. Nigeria has replaced Venezuela as our second largest supplier of crude oil. Our basic problem is to assure access at an acceptable cost to strategic minerals and other resources, not only in Africa but throughout the developing world, while preserving our industrial power base, providing a reasonable standard of living for our growing population an…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1973-10-05
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve06/d11
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve06/d11`

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11. Briefing Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Newsom ) to Secretary of State Kissinger. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1973. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve06/d11.