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34. Memorandum From the United States Representative to the United Nations ( Young ) to President Carter and Secretary of State Vance

again the supporter of racism and colonialism. This will be more difficult to deal with now than in the 60’s and 70’s. African states are stronger economically and politically and will tend to exercise that power in the UN, trade negotiations, OPEC (Nigeria, Angola, Gabon). At a time when we must increase exports to help in our control of inflation and unemployment, it effectively poisons the atmosphere for our corporations and puts them at a disadvantage against the German, Japanese, Eastern Europeans, and now Brazilian competitors. We can also suffer severe set-backs domestically. While ther…