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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1980
li in Africa
As envoy he eases Olympic boycott appeal
Libyans burn French embassy, then storm
Tunisia’s— France may break Libyan ties
United Press International
■ NAIROBI, Kenya— Muhammad
Ali, dazzled and confused in his new
jolt' as presidential envoy, Monday
ptened his appeal for a boycott of
tht Moscow Olympics, telling Afri-
tan nations: “Do what you want to
But Ali backed down on a threat to
andon altogether the five-nation
frican tour he began Sunday at
resident Carter’s request to drum
3 support for an Olympic boycott.
If America starts pushing buttons
iid Russia starts pushing buttons
nd a couple of bombs destroy both
Duntries and, in fact, the world, that
what I am trying to stop,” Ali said
he arrived in Nairobi on the
icond stop of his five nation tour.
J“If I am wrong, show me where I
ajn wrong and I will turn around now
Ad cancel the whole thing and go
IThe outburst came as reporters in
ienya picked up the theme of ques-
that left Ali dazed during a 23-
hour stop in Tanzania Sunday.
In Tanzania, Ali obviously was
pleased that Carter asked him to be a
special U.S. envoy to Africa. But at
his first news conference he was
questioned repeatedly about the
U.S. refusal to support a boycott of
the 1976 Olympics by African na
tions opposed to South Africa’s apar
theid policies.
“After hearing how America did
not support Africa in the boycott of
South Africa, I now see why the Afri
can people are not as quick as Amer
ica to jump on the problem of Afgha
nistan,” Ali said.
“If there’s something wrong I was
doing, if I’m to be looked on as an
Uncle Tom or a traitor or someone
against my black brothers, I want out
now, for that’s not my purpose.”
In Nairobi, he was even more
blunt.
“I’m not here to take America’s
whipping,” he told reporters. . .
And this is why I say: Do what you
want to do. I am not here to push
nobody.”
United Press International
PARIS — A Libyan mob, angered
by French support of Tunisia in the
tension between the two African na
tions, burned down the French
Embassy in Tripoli Monday and then
stormed the Tunisian Embassy.
France and Tunisia both said Li
byan authorities ignored pleas for
help while the embassies were being
attacked.
All French and Tunisian person
nel at both embassies were able to
escape unharmed.
The Libyan news agency JANA
said the mob was demonstrating
against French intervention in Afri
ca, and France’s alleged attempt to
turn Tunisia into its ‘protectorate”
again.
French officials said diplomatic
personnel, including Ambassador
Charles Malo, managed to escape
safely from the French Embassy just
as the surging mob was putting it to
the torch.
Malo told a French radio station
the mob broke down the embassy
doors, ransacked the building, then
put it to the torch. He said the fire
destroyed the building, leaving only
the walls standing.
He said only two Libyan police
men guarded the embassy and no
reinforcemnts were sent, despite his
Carter nominee for peace Nobel
.S., Pakistan reaffirm pact
United Press International
^'■ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — U.S.
Itional security adviser Zbigniew
m Br/ezinski left Pakistan for Saudi
™ labia without announcing comple-
e ’‘'ln of an aid agreement for the
“■ighbor to Soviet-occupied Afgha-
jtan.
His departure came amid growing
Jis that Afghan President Babrak
rmal, installed in the Dec. 27
Iviet invasion, soon may be ousted.
[Brzezinski told reporters at the
airport the United States was taking
steps to enhance “our ability to
engthen the security of our friends
this part of the world.
said in talks with Pakistan
ic sident Gen. Mohammad Zia Ul-
Haq and his foreign affairs adviser
Agha Shahi, the United States reaf
firmed its 1959 security agreement
with Pakistan.
“We came here to reaffirm the
agreement of 1959,” Brzezinski said.
“We have done so.” He did not ela
borate.
He said Pakistan’s security “will
be heightened by the efforts that
Pakistan itself, together with its
friends and also with us, is undertak
ing to enhance the security of this
region.”
Both sides ended 12 hours of talks
Sunday without announcing any
completion of an agreement. Brze
zinski and Shahi said Sunday that
“appropriate consultations between
the two governments will continue.”
The statement left open the possi
bility that a $400 million military and
economic aid package to be pre
sented to Congress this week will be
delayed.
The United States and Pakistan
were believed to be trying to form a
“consortium’’ of countries —
perhaps including China, West Ger
many, Britain and Saudi Arabia— to
provide up to $2 billion in assistance
to Pakistan.
During a break in the talks, Brze
zinski Sunday visited a border out
post with a view of Afghanistan and a
refugee camp where he told Afghanis
who fled their homeland “the whole
world sympathizes with your fight
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In London, the Foreign Office re
ported Sunday that three British
journalists were missing in Afghanis
tan. They failed to return to a hotel in
Kabul after leaving Friday to drive
towards the Soviet border.
Meanwhile, Karmal and his reg
ime appeared to be falling out of
favor with their Soviet sponsors.
One sign of the Afghan leader’s
trouble is that Karmal’s name has not
been mentioned by official Kabul
radio in any of its broadcasts over the
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The radio had mentioned his name
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Also, the lead editorial in the Jan.
28 edition of the official Kabul New
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Karmal, saying the government’s
“political base ” should be extended
to include “the best patriotic ele
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United Press International
OSLO, Norway — The Norwe
gian Nobel Peace Prize Committte
has received a record number of
nominations for the 1980 Peace Prize
— including President Carter, Pope
John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of
Spain and Soviet dissident Juri
Orlov, sources reported Monday.
Johan Sverdrup, director of the
Norwegian Nobel Institute, refused
to confirm the names of the
nominees. They were revealed by
members of the Norwegian Parlia
ment, which chooses the Nobel
Committee.
Nominations closed Friday.
The Nobel Institute said 54 indi
viduals and 10 organizations have
been nominated for the $193,000
prize. The winner will be announced
in October. The usual number of
candidates is 50, the committee said.
The International ScoutMove-
ment and the U.N. High Commis
sion on Refugees are among the orga
nizations nominated.
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plea when the mob began its march
on his legation.
The French Foreign Ministry, in
an angry protest note, called the
assault “inadmissible and unqualifi-
able.”
The ministry warned that France
may seek reparations and “drew all
the necessary conclusions regarding
French-Libyan relations,” apparent
ly meaning breaking off ties with
Libya.
The mob attack came eight days
after France had provided Tunisia
with prompt military logistic aid to
crush an attempted insurrection by
Libyan-trained guerrillas.
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