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6. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State and the White House

sult is that we get considerable influence as a result of our policies toward development, health, food and agriculture, investment and technical assistance but jeopardize it all because of our equivocation on the essential African issues. 5. In the Nigeria-Biafra situation See Foreign Relations , 1969–1976, vol. E–5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1969–1972 , for documentation on the U.S. response to the Biafran civil war in Nigeria, which lasted from 1967 until 1970. as in Ethiopia-Somalia See Foreign Relations , 1977–1980, vol. XVII, Part 1, Horn of Africa , for documentation on t…