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36. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ) to President Carter

c cooperation with the new emerging regional “influentials”—thereby widening, in keeping with new historical circumstances, our earlier reliance on Atlanticism or, more lately, on trilateralism. These regional influentials include Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, Indonesia, in addition to our more traditional friends; 3. To exploit the foregoing in the development of more accommodating North-South relations, both political and economic, through such devices as the Global Development Budget, the institutionalization of CIEC , the shaping of links between OECD and OPEC , et…