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CONFIDENTIAL DESK3Y 0313302 m CAR E3 SALAAM 0812152 NOV 78 . 5T0 IMMEDIATE FCO " TELEGR/M NUMBER 797 OF 8 NOVEMBER • md TO IMMEDIATE MODUK, WASHINGTON,' OTTAWA PRIORITY TO NAIROBI, MY 2 LPa'lVS 3 TANZANIA/UGANDA a SUPPLIES FOR TANZANIA- / » » ' • 1? I DO NOT NEED TO ELABORATE ON THE POLITICAL ADVANTAGES OF - EG ING WHAT WE CAM TO HELP.' IT fS CLEAR THAT THE RAPID REPEAT RAPID SUPPLY OF EVEN A FEW ITEMS WOULD BE ENORMOUSLY APPRECIATED? 2'j THE TANZANIANS ARE LOOKING TO US AND THE CANADIANS TO CO-ORDINATE OUR ASSISTANCE EACH SUPPLYING WHATEVER WE CAN DO ' . MOST EASILY AND QUICKLY;' '" 3? SOKOINE.DID NOT ADD ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE STATE OF HOSTILITIES.' WHEN I ASKED IF HE THOUGHT THAT, GIVEN THE INTER- . NATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF HIS ACTION, PRESIDENT AMIN MIGHT WITH- DRAW VOLUNTARILY, HE SAID THAT HE "FEARED'* THAT THIS MIGHT B£ . • POSSIBLE, (THUS DEPRIVING THEM OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO INFLICT' A MILITARY DEFEAT).1 HE COMMENTED THAT IF THE UGANDAN FORCES DID WITH- DRAW THEY WOULD. NONETHELESS PLANT MINES? ' 4"; THE DEPTHS OF TANZANIA?! "CONCERN ABOUT POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE TO £4JN WERE SHOWM BY SOME OF THE QUESTIONS SOKOINE PUT TO ME? DID ' WE KNOW THAT ON THE NIGHT OF 31 OCTOBER A LIBYAN C130 AIRCRAFT • HAD LANDED BRINGING LIBYAN PILOTS? DID WE THfNK IT TRUE THAT SITHOLE HAD SENT HIS 'ARMY' INTO UGANDA ^iUST BEFORE THE INVASION?. WAS LONRHO INVOLVED? * ' . 5.1 ON OIL SOKOINE SAID THAT THEY HAD BEEN TRYING TO SENtt A MAN TO NAIROBI TO DISCUSS WITH THE KENYANS BUT HAD NOT YET SUCCEDED? WHEN I MENTIONED THIS TO THE CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER,' HE CONFIRMED WHAT NYERERE HAD SAID TO HIM AS REPORTED IN PARA 5 OF MY TELNO 793, NAMELY THAT HE (NYERERE) HAD RAISED THc MATTER WITH MO I , BUT THAT NYERERE HAD NOT GONE FURTHER THAN AN EXPRESSION OF HOPE THAT THE KENYANS WOULD COOPERATE?.