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63. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Algeria

e to pursue its policy of national independence. 5. Bouteflika said he was reassured by Secretary’s reaffirmation of administration’s African policy. He said Algeria also supported principle of territorial integrity and had demonstrated it in Congo, Biafra and Ethiopian contexts. Mobutu’s accusations of Algerian complicity in renewed Shaba incursion were prompted by French and Moroccans, he claimed. He blamed South Africans for Shaba problem, indicating he thought they brought it on via their support for Savimbi in an effort to distract attention from their designs in Namibia and Rhodesia. 6. …

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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	1978-06-18
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XVII, Part 3, North Africa
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v17p3/d63
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Record ID	`frus:frus1977-80v17p3/d63`

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63. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Algeria. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1978. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1977-80v17p3/d63.