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220. Memorandum of Conversation

ot haphazard. We have Sudan with us. We shall defend Saudi Arabia. The last time Numayri met with Mengistu Mengistu Haile Mariam, Chairman of the Derg and Head of State of Ethiopia from 1977 until 1987; President of Ethiopia from 1987 until 1991. in Nigeria, Mengistu adopted a very hard line. He will cause trouble in South Sudan. That is my border. Our waters come half from Ethiopia, half from Sudan. Western Sudan alone is the size of Egypt plus the East and the South. I would join them in the next moment if anyone tried . . . Dr. Brzezinski said you are a factor for stability and we will work…