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CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL ,. .SKBY FCO 12095J3Z DESKBY NAIROBI 120800Z DESKBY TRIPOLI 1203^02 FM DAR E3 SALAAM 120545Z MAR 79 TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELMO 192 OF 12 MARCH • INFO IHHEDIATE NAIROBI, TRIPOLI INFO PRIORITY BONN PAR! 1 3 M-':: '"79 MY TELS 190 AND 191 -UGANDA/TANZANIA 1, MISS WICKEM CALLED AGAIN LATE ON 11 MARCH TO SAY THAT SHE HAS UNINTENTIONALLY .MISLED ME ABOUT THE LOCATION OF TTHE PRESENT FIGHTING, HAVIMG TALKED TO THE PRESIDENT SHE HAD MOV/ ESTABLISHED THAT REPORTS OF FIGHTING INVOLVING TANZANIAN TROOPS NEAR KAMPALA AT f/PIGI WERE MOT ACCURATE.- THE TAPANI AMS HAD MOT REACHED THAT FAR. THE BATTLE TO WHICH SHE WAS REFERRING HAD TAKEN PLACE "JUST. BEYOND" MASAKA AND SHE MAD JUST HEARD THAT IT MAD BEEN A "SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT", THE TAMZAfl 1ANS AND SUPPORTERS WERE NOW MOVING SLOWLY UP THE LINE OF TME MASAKA KAMPALA ROAD. SHE SONFIRMED THAT THEY HAD NOT YET COME ACROSS LIBYANS BUT EXPECTED THEM TO BE DUG IN IN THE MPIGI AREA WHERE SHE IMPLIED THE DECISIVE ENGAGEMENT WOULD PROBABLY TAKE PLACE, 2. MISS WICKEN ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THIS LATEST MILITARY SUCCESS IN NO WAY AFFECTED THE URGENCY OF THE REQUEST SUE HAD PREVIOUSLY MADE AS REPORTED IN MY TELNO I9fl* SEHQ? BY BAG 'JO BOJM AHJ) PARIS] .? 1 L • EAD CAJJ3 Il-.i) EID ,E3 & Oil) insv/3 COD HAD S S SD D DEF D PUSD PS PS/i'iR ROWLANDS FS/i'i3 JUJOD PS/PUS SIH A DUFP SIR A PAilSOUS MH EULLAHJD M£ MwY