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111. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of State ( Springsteen ) to the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Scowcroft )

leadership’s unpredictability. The future course of the Somali-Ethiopian territorial dispute is also uncertain. The dispute is presently under the scrutiny of a “good offices” committee of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) headed by General Gowon , President of Nigeria. Somalia is publicly pledged to seeking a solution by diplomatic means and the election of President Siad of Somalia as OAU President for the year 1973–1974 has, in the estimation of many observers, including some Ethiopians, lessened the chances that Somalia would turn to military pressure to pursue its claims to Ethiop…

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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	1974-09-04
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/d111
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve06/d111`

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111. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of State ( Springsteen ) to the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Scowcroft ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1974. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve06/d111.