KEESING'S CONTEl PORARY ARCHIVES January 6, 1978 Januarq A. ETHIOPIA - SOMALIA - Ethiopian-Somali made from time to time, while during a visit to Cuba on Oct. An emb, Conflict - Somalia's Abrogation of Treaty of Friendship 15-19, 1977, Colonel (Dr) Feleke Gedle-Ghiorgis, the Ethiopian had been I Foreign Minister, was reported to have obtained promises of Korea this with the Soviet Union, Expulsion of Soviet Experts, and of friendsh Severance of Diplomatic Relations with Cuba Continued full support for Ethiopia from the Cuban Government. - Reports of the alleged arrival in Ethiopia of Cuban troops air- Soviet e Warfare inside Ethiopia - Execution of First Vice- lifted from Angola (according to sources in Somalia and in South Libya, we President of Ethiopia's Military Government - Other Africa) were officially denied in Addis Ababa on Oct. 4 and in "Stalin or1 Developments in Ethiopia Angola on Oct. 6, while the US State Department announced on mounted c It was officially announced by Radio Mogadishu on Nov. 13, Oct. 4 that it had no confirmation of such Cuban troop movements. war [see 28 1977, that because of the Soviet Union's "collaboration with Whereas the Somali Government persisted in claiming that there Mr An; Ethiopia in preparation for an invasion of Somalia" Soviet were up to 15,000 Cuban troops in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Ministry assured th military and civilian advisers stationed in Somalia would have of Information and National Guidance denied on Nov. 3 that any ceased to such troops were engaged in fighting in the Ogaden region. The invasion c to leave the country within a week; that all military facilities Western Somalia Liberation Front (WSLF), however, had first ceremony granted to the USSR in Somalia were withdrawn with immediate reported the presence of Cuban advisers on the battlefront near Revolutio~ effect; that the 1974 treaty of friendship between the two Dire Dawa on Oct. 11, and, according to an Ethiopian defector side in the countries [see 26931 A] was abrogated; that the staff of the quoted in Mogadishu on Nov. 8, there were a large number of Cuban Soviet embassy in Mogadishu would have to be reduced; and troops being taken to the front near Harar (as well as South Yemeni During Minister, ( that Somalia had severed its diplomatic relations with Cuba, forces committed to battles east of Dire Dawa and East German state to tl with all Cubans being required to leave the country within 48 troops being also involved in the war). Khalatbar: hours, because of "Cuba's brazen decision to commit its troops All 44 Cubans present in Somalia departed for Aden on Nov. At the , on the side of the Ethiopian Government and its propaganda 15, and between 5,000 and 6,000 Soviet citizens, including some Permanen against Somalia". 2,000 civilian and military experts, left the country .between 26-27, it These decisions were reached at a 19-hour meeting of the Central Nov. 15 and 20, the majority by air and others by sea, with three measures Committee of the ruling Somali Socialist Revolutionary Party, and Soviet ships off Mogadishu being reported on Nov. 20 as effort to k their announcement was followed by one of the biggest demonstra- loading "sensitive" military equipment from Soviet instal- disclosed tions ever held in Mogadishu, where President Siyad Barreh declared lations in Somalia. ways of st in a speech on Nov. 14 that the fighting in the Ogaden desert [see Tass reported on Nov. 20 that Somalia had also ordered the in the ecor 28633 A] had become internationalized and that the integrity and expulsion of all correspondents of the Tass and Novosti news independence of all Ethiopia's neighbours-Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia Dr Kla~ and the Sudan-were being threatened. The President stated in agencies. a visit to 1 particular: "We are fully convinced of the existence of a joint Soviet- Among countries officially welcoming the Somali decisions supported Cuban plan for imminent total military aggression by Ethiopia against were the People's Republic of China and Oman. in accord; Organizati Somalia." He added that the West should not cherish the illusion that Meanwhile the Somali Government had pursued its efforts to the overthrow of Lieut.-Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam (the leader obtain arms and other support from powers other than those of Earlier of the Ethiopian military Government), who, he said, advocated "the Eastern Europe. their oppc birth of a new Cuba in the Horn of Africa", would solve the problem because the Soviet Union had built up in Ethiopia a political system According to an announcement made on Radio Ethiopia on Oct. 12, The W,$ with sufficient cadres to replace Lieut.-Colonel Mengistu and to the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq had decided at a no ceasefi~ continue his regime. meeting on Aug. I5 to support the Somali war effort with a grant of people's r: $400,000,000 (about f230,000,000) and a force of 3,000 men. WSLF int In the Soviet Union the Somali decisions were not announced Mr Zuhair Zakariya, a member of the Syrian Baath Party, said at and there2 until Nov. 15, when it was officially stated that Somalia's the end of a visit to Mogadishu on Oct. 25 that Syria fully supported Ababa). abrogation of the treaty of friendship was entirely due to the "all peoples struggling for their freedom and independence" and did The Etk Soviet refusal to support Somalia's "territorial claims against not approve the continued "colonization" of the Somali people by the headquart a neighbouring state" and "to facilitate the stirring-up of Mengistu regime. ceasefire i fratricidal war in the Horn of Africa". Calling the Somali Radio Mogadishu announced on Oct. 26 that on the previous day withdrawn Government "chauvinistic and expansionist", Tass, the official Major Mohammed Dayfallah Mohammed, commander of the Air After ti Soviet news agency, added that the Soviet Union was "resolved Force of the (North) Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), had, after and Mr A to recall all its specialists" since they were no longer wanted delivering a message to President Siyad Barreh from Lieut.-Colonel US State 1 in Somalia. Ahmed Hussein el Ghashmi, the Chairman of the Presidential Council the Unitd In the United States Mr Hodding Carter, spokesman for the State of the YAR, declared that the YAR would continue to give all-out conflict ur Department, said on Nov. 14 that the Somali decisions would not support to Somalia's stand which his country, he said, regarded as had prop( change the US policy of not supplying arms either to Somalia or to "an Arab cause". [For deterioration in relations between Ethiopia to determi Ethiopia and of favouring the maintenance of existing frontiers in the and North Yemen, see page 28638.1 Ethiopia c Horn of Africa and the "restoration of Ethiopia's territorial [Mr Mohammed Saleh Muti, the Foreign Minister of South Yemen, United Sta integrity". At the same time Mr Carter referred to US concern at the also visited Mogadishu (on Nov. 1) with a message for the Somali in April IS recent growth of Cuba's military and civilian presence in Ethiopia President from Mr Salim Rubbaya Ali, Chairman of South Yemen's refused.] (which according to Washington estimates included that of some 400 Presidential Council. The WSLF had maintained that South Yemen military personnel-see also below). was actively supporting Ethiopia.] While ' US dele$ The Somali decisions had been preceded by "serious,warnings" A Somali military mission led by Brigadier Ahmed Suleiman chairman issued to the USSR by President Siyad Barreh in October and Abdullah, the head of Somalia's National Security Service and the President's son-in-law, visited Tehran on Nov. 6 with a message from committe early November, together with an appeal to Western powers to visited Is: "assume their responsibilities" in the Horn of Africa. President Siyad Barreh to the Shah of Iran, and on Nov. 7 it was announced in Kuwait that Iran had sent a military mission to proceed t In a nationwide broadcast on Oct. 21 (the eighth anniversary of the Somalia. The Shah was, however, subsequently reported to have said Somali Army's seizure of power in 1969-see 23672 A), President that he could not support Somalia as strongly as he would like to do <: Siyad Barreh had condemned the Soviet Union for "pouring huge since Iran had been reminded that it could not pass US-supplied quantities of armaments, including the latest fighter planes, tanks and The wa weapons to third countries, and to have added: "So we gave them October i missiles", into Ethiopia and had said that "the continuation of the small arms instead." present all-out armed support for the Ethiopian regime by the USSR advances and the influx of Cuban troops" put the relations between these On Nov. 23 President Siyad Barreh expressed disappointment the key tc countries and Somalia "in great jeopardy". Of the Ogaden region that the United States had rejected an appeal made by him for Accordi and Eritrea he had said that they were "examples of colonial terri- military assistance, and he said that Europe and the USA had afterwards tories under a Black colonial power", and he had also asserted that "particular responsibilities to ask their friends [by whom he was been remo "widespread killings" were being carried out in Ethiopia "in cynical understood to mean countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran] Ethiopian violation of human rights". to help us" in order to prevent the Soviet Union and Cuba from colonel an' At a press conference in Mogadishu on Nov. 2 the Somali President "engulfing" the Horn of Africa and endangering the trade town's fa1 had said: "The Somali Democratic Republic has never been anybody's route through the Red Sea. Ghiorgis, : stooge. 1 hereby declare that Somalia pursues a non-aligned foreign policy. We are opposed to becoming anyone's followers." Wider Support sought by Ethiopia -Rejection of The W! it had cay On the presence in Ethiopia (and in particular in the eastern Ceasefire Proposals Soviet T-3 Onaden region) of Cuban advisers or military forces. and also The Ethiopian Government, while continuing to intensify its remainde~ ofpersonn~lfrom the People's Democratic ~k~ublicof (South) relations with communist countries, also made approaches to and that Yemen [see also page 286351, conflicting statements had been other powers for support of its country's territorial integrity. depots at January 6, 1978 KEESING'S CONTEMPORARY ARCHIVES 2876 1

I on Oct. An embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea US-made M-41 tanks. (According to a report published on Nov. 9 a !thiopian had been opened in Addis Ababa on May 20, 1977, and in North total of 108 Ethiopian tanks had been stationed at Jijiga early in )mises of Korea this step was seen as a contribution to the "further development September 1977.) of friendship and co-operation between the two countries". The continued fighting resulted in large numbers of casualties on .oops air- Soviet arms for Ethiopia, said to have been supplied partly via both sides, with the WSLF claiming inter alia on Oct. 3 to have killed in South Libya, were on Oct. 2 reported to include at least 58 batteries of some 200 Ethiopian soldiers near Harar, on Oct. 10 another 800 at 4 and in "Stalin organs" or BM-21s. consisting of 40rockets of 122 mm calibre two separate localities, and on Nov. 6 more than 400 soldiers and unced on mounted on lorries-as had been used by the Cubans in the Angolan militiamen near Harar in the previous week. :merits. - war [see 28424 A]. On Nov. 13 WSLF forces estimated at about 20,000 men :hat there Mr Anatoly Ratanov, the Soviet ambassador in Addis Ababa, launched a new offensive against about 60,000 Ethiopian Ministry assured the Ethiopian Government on Oct. 18 that the USSR had that any regular troops and militiamen using 80 tanks and 200 light ceased to supply Somalia with weapons even before "the Somali armoured cars and defending positions near Harar and Dire :ion. The invasion of the Ogaden region", and on Oct. 24 he declared at a had first ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the (Russian) October Dawa, and again the WSLF claimed to have inflicted heavy ont near Revolution that the Soviet Union would "remain on the Ethiopian casualties. On Nov. 23 the first WSLF units were reported to defector side in the defence of its revolution and unity". have entered Harar. ~f Cuban 1 Yemeni During a visit to Tehran Colonel Feleke, the Ethiopian Foreign Developments in Eritrea German Minister, on Oct. 24 delivered a message from the Ethiopian head of Further moves towards a unification of the three Eritrean state to the Shah of Iran and also had talks with Mr Abbas Ali Khalatbari, his Iranian counterpart. liberation movements took place in October 1977. on Nov. Under an agreement signed in Khartoum (Sudan) on Oct. 20 by ng some At the end of a visit to Rome by Major Dawit Wolde Ghiorgis, Mr Ahmed Nasser and Mr Isaias Afewerki, the respective leadefs between Permanent Secretary at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, on Oct. of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) and the Eritrean Popular 26-27, it was stated in a joint communique that Italy opposed ith three measures taken against the unity of Ethiopia and would spare no Liberation Front (EPLF), joint co-ordination committees were to be . 20 as effort to bring about a peaceful solution of the problem. It was also set up in the military, information, economic, social and foreign : instal- affairs fields, and the Eritrean Liberation Front-Popular Liberation disclosed that an Italian delegation would visit Ethiopia to "find Forces (ELF-PLF) was asked to join one or the other of them. ways of strengthening the links between the two countries, especially Mr Osman Saleh Sabeh, the ELF-PLF leader, however, stated on ered the in the economic field". Oct. 23 that his 2,000-strong organization would remain militarily sti news Dr Klaus Kinkel of the West German Foreign Ministry said during and politically independent until an ELF-EPLF merger had been a visit to Ethiopia on Nov. 4 that the Federal Republic of Germany finalized. ecisions supported the maintenance of the territorial integrity of Ethiopia in accordance with the Charters of the United Nations and the The EPLF claimed further military successes during October and November. forts to Organization of African Unity. hose of Earlier both sides to.the Ethiopian-Somali conflict had stated On Oct. 14 it said that its guerrillas had seized a convoy of more than 100 vehicles, including newly-supplied Soviet armoured troop their opposition to agreeing on a ceasefire. carriers, had killed or captured 600 governmental troops and had cut Oct. 12, The WSLF had stated late in September 1977 that there could be the last road connexion between Asmara (the Eritrean capital) and the xi at a no ceasefire as long as the Addis Ababa regime did not recognize "the port of Massawa. On Nov. 16 it was announced on Tunis radio that grant of people's right to self-determination" and that, on the contrary, the the EPLF had again cut the Asmara-Massawa road. WSLF intended to "liberate" the towns of Harar and Dire Dawa said at and thereafter to advance to Awash (about 100 miles east of Addis Execution of Ethiopian First Vice-President - Continued ?ported Ababa). Internal Unrest in Ethiopia and did The Ethiopian Government declared in a statement issued at UN It was officially announced in Addis Ababa on Nov. 13 that e by the headquarters in New York on Oct. 4 that it was opposed to any Lieut.-Colonel Atenafu Abate, the First Vice-President of the ceasefire as long as the Somali "forces of aggression" had not Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC) since ous day withdrawn completely. February 1977 [see page 284211, had been executed. the Air After talks between Mr Cyrus Vance, the US Secretary of State, In a statement issued by the PMAC on that day and broadcast on I, after and Mr Abderrahman Jama Barreh, the Somali Foreign Minister, a Nov. 14 it was stated that "a revolutionary measure" had been Zoolone1 US State Department spokesman said in Washington on Oct. 6 that taken against Lieut.-Colonel Atenafu Abate on Nov. 11 "on the 20uncil the United States did not intend to supply arms to either side in the decision of the Congress of the PMAC for counter-revolutionary all-out conflict until a ceasefire had been accepted by them, and that the USA crimes committed against the broad masses of Ethiopia at a time when rded as had proposed the holding of a referendum in the Ogaden region the people are engaged in a sustained struggle against their class thiopia to determine whether its population wished to retain its links with enemies, the discredited aristocracy and landlords as well as foreign Ethiopia or to be attached to Somalia. [An Ethiopian request to the invaders". !emen, United States to resume US arms supplies, which had been suspended A long list of crimes said to have been committed by Lieut.- Somali in April 1977-see page 28423-was on Sept. 29 reported to have been Colonel Atenafu included opposition to the programme of the :men's refused.] National Democratic Revolution; the "weaving" of "anti-revolu- Yemen While the withdrawal of Soviet personnel was in progress a tionary conspiracies" with "the hirelings of the Ethiopian Democratic US delegation led by Mr Melvin Price, the (Democratic) Union (EDU) [see page 286351 and the Ethiopian People's Revolu- eiman tionary Party (EPRP)" [see pages 28637 and 284211 and making ~d the chairman of the House of Representatives armed services constant contacts with the "internal and external enemies of the : from committee, visited Somalia on Nov. 16, having previously revolution, including [US] Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] agents"; it was visited Israel, Egypt, Iran and Kenya, and being scheduled to his failure, according to his own confession, to believe in the ideology on to proceed to Zambia and the I'vory Coast. of the working class; his intention to establish a military dictatorship; e said and "numerous anti-revolutionary acts serving his own interests and to do Continued Warfare on Ethiopian-Somali Front those of people of his kind". >plied The war on the Ogaden front continued during the months of them In a further statement issued by the PMAC on Nov. 14, October and November 1977, though without the spectacular however, all demonstrations of solidarity with the decision to advances of the WSLF forces which had led to the capture of execute Lieut.-Colonel Atenafu were forbidden and "all ment the key town of Jijiga in mid-September [see page 286341. peasants, workers and progressive Ethiopians" were urged "to n for According to Western journalists who visited the area shortly strengthen the struggle against counter-revolutionaries on the had afterwards, Jijiga-from which most of its population had fled or land, in factories and in offices", to "spread red terror in the :was been removed-had been lost to Ethiopia because of a mutiny in the camp of reactionaries" and to "turn the white terror of [ran] Ethiopian Third Army Division whose members, after killing a reactionaries into red terror". Rom colonel and several other officers, had retreated without fighting. The rade town's fall was acknowledged on Oct. 16 by Major Dawit Wolde Even before this execution, internecine warfare had continued Ghiorgis, Permanent Secretary at Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry. unabated, especially in Addis Ababa. The WSLF claimed on Sept. 27 that during the conquest of Jijiga According to city officials, some 200 kebele (neighbourhood it had captured or destroyed 43 Ethiopian tanks (11 of them being association) office-bearers had been assassinated in Addis Ababa Soviet T-34 tanks received by Ethiopia via Aden in April 1977 and the alone by members of various Marxist factions, and another 200 y its remainder American-made) as well as 28 armoured personnel carriers, seriously injured, during the first nine months of 1977. s to and that large quantities of ammunition, seized in underground Diplomatic sources in Addis Ababa, quoted on Oct. 13, stated that depots at three locations, had included Soviet-made ammunition for up to 350 persons had been killed in political violence in the capital 28762 KEESING'S CONTEI 'ORARY ARCHIVES January 6, 1978 during the previous two weeks after demonstrations by anti- Brazil under the nuclear co.opcratian agreement signed between government left-wing students protesting against alleged executions Brazil and West Germany in June 1975, which provided for the carried out in prisons. construction of eight nuclear reactors, a uranium enrichment On Nov. 2 it was announced that Lieutenant GiTemesgen, a plant and a further plant for the reprocessing of spent nuclear member of the PMAC and head of the information and wm- fuel [see 27250 A]. The Carter Administration had expressed munications section of its standi committee, had been murdered. particular opposition to the construction of the nuclear re- Lieutenant Solomon Legesse, a member of the Revolutionary Defence Committee, was killed on Nov. 13. "Hired assassins" were held processing plant, although it had recently reduced its opposition responsible in both'cases. to the purchase of enrichment facilities, and shortly before Mr Vance's visit the State Department recommended on Nov. 16 Earlier, on Oct. 22, it had been announced in Addis Ababa that a shipment of about 50 tonncs of enriched uranium for that eight men who had "diiectly participated in counter- Brazil's first nuclear reactor (Angra I), which had been sus- revolutionary activities" had been found guilty by a court- pended since 1976, should be released [see also pages 28479; martial and had been condemned to death and executed after 28195-961. The shipment would, however, need clearance from approval of the death sentences by the head of state.-(Times - the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Daily Telegraph - Fiancial Times - Guardian - International Herald Tribune - Le Monde - Neue Ziircher Zeitung - New York The Urenco consortium of Dutch, West German and British Times - Soviet Emhassy Press Department, London - Peking interests [see page 271721 had, moreover, recently agreed after Review - BBC Summary of World Broadcasts) (Prev. rep. earlier resistance on the part of the Dutch Government [see page 28633 A; Maps, pages 28633; 28422) 281951 to deliver enriched uranium to Brazil for the reactors to be built under the West German agreement. (Angra 1 had been A. US - LATIN AMERICA 2 Visits by United States constructed by the US fmWestinghouse before the conclusion Officials to Latin America and Caribbean - Aid to of the treaty with West Germany.) Nicaragua Shortly after Mr vance'iarrival in Brazil it was announced that the visas of 150 US, Canadian and West European missionaries working InNovember 1977MrCyrusVance, the US Secretary of State, in Indian areas would not berenewed on expiry at the end of 1977. The visited Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela for consultations on president of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), General nuclear policy and oil prices, Earlier, Mr Terence Todman, Ismarth de Arahjo Oliveira, said that foreigners were not needed for Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, had work which Brazilians were qualified to do. visited Argentina, Chide, Paraguay and Uruguay in August, After a meeting on Nov. 23 with President Pkrez of Vene- at the same time as Mr Andrew Young, the US permanent zuela, Mr Vance told a press conference that they had "agreed representative at the United Nations, paid visits to 10 Latin on everything except oil prices" and that Sr Ptez had said that American and Caribbean countries with the aim of expanding he would support a price rise of between 5 and 8 per cent at the US relations with the region. next meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Mr Yamx's Visib to Argentina, Bradl and Venezneln Countries (OPEC) in December in Caracas. Mr Vance said that Mr Vance arrived in Argentina on Nov. 20 for meetings the the United States believed that an increase in oil prices "would following day with President Videla, with the other two members have seriously adverse effects on inflation and unemployment in of the ruling military junta (General Orlando Ram6n Agosti both developed and developing countries and could present very and Admiral Eduardo Emilio Massera) and with the Foreign serious balance-of-payments problems for some developing Mister, Rear-Admiral Oscar Montes. The main result of the countries that are already precarious". visit was the announcement in a joint communiquk that Argentina would ratify the Treaty of T!atelolco for the Prohibi- tiqn pf Nud&r.V~~n$in Latin .America Csigndd' dlqb, Jil, @67 .by ,SJ. Ldtin American and Canbbean co&tri&-sq 22& A) In return for the supply by the United St&&$bf.ntf~Iear technology. Argentina, which: i$regarded as Latin Anierica's most advanced nuclear pow&* afi ode nudear reactor in opera- petroleum prices". dm and @the"u@dtxf'%mstiuction [see page 28342; 27871 Bl, Mr Todman's Visits to Chlk and Other Countrks - Dlscohtion of hriid bitherto r& b ratify the treaty on the giounds that Chlltrn !3em!t Porn it.'lirtlited the exchange Of nuclear technology for peaceful Mr Todman visited Chile, Argentina, Pmaguay and Uruguay purposes. The communiqut said that Argentina and the USA in mid-August 1977 for talks with members of the Government were anxious to prevent the "vertical proliferation of nuclear and opposition and with human rights groups in these countries. arms" in the area. During his visit to Chile, the Chilean Government announced While both Argentina and Brazil had declared that their nuclear on Aug. 12 that the secret police organization DINA (Direccidn programmes were for peaceful purposes only, neither country had deInfe1igenciaNacional)hadbeendissolved under a decree dated signed the 1%8 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Aug, 6 and that a new military intelligence body, the National [see 22787 A, for countries of the region which had signed, ratified or Information Centre (CNI), had been established to replace it. acceded to the treaty, see list in 274Q9 A and also page 278141; both countries were classed under the nuclear policy terms of the Carter The decree dissolving DINA (which was created in 1974) said Administration as "nuclear threshold" nations-i.e those which did that "the agency has completed the delicate functions of not yetpossess nuclear weapons, but which were capable of doing so- national security for which it was created", and that the new and the United States had earlier in the year expressed the intention of centre (which was elsewhere described as having reduced powers attnqpt3ig to limit the spread of nuclear weapons to such countries which excluded the power of arrest) would "gather information [see 28481 A; 28478 A]. at a national level which may be required to adopt measures to A group of women on Nov. 21 picketed a wreath-laying cere- protect theinternal security of the citizenry". mony attended by Mr Vance in Buenos Aires and requested him OmeralGustavo Lc'iGuzmltn, the commander of the Chilean Air to help them find missing relatives. Meanwhile, Mrs Patricia Forceandamember of themilitary junta, asserted in a television inter- Derian, the US Co-ordinator for Human Rights and Humani- view on Aug. 13 that President Carter's human rights policy was mian Affairs who was in Argentina at the same time as Mr "hypocritical", in that the United States sought rapprochement with Vance, was reported to have handed the Government a list of Cuba, which "trampled on human rights". while US officials were 7,500 people @eged by human rights organizations to have bee4 "reprimanding" Chile over alleged human rights violations. illegally imprisoned or murdered or to have disappeared. Mrs Following the meeting in washington between President Deriansaidafterwardsthatthehuman rights situation had shown Carter and General Pinochet on the occasion of the signing of an "Qpreciableimprovement~~sinceherfist visit to the country the new Panama Canal treaties (on Sept. 7-see 28629 A), in March. President Pinochet was reported to have agreed in principle to On his way to Brazil Mr Vance reported "good progress in allow United Nations human rights observers to enter Chiie nuclear matters" in Argentina, as well as "a far-reaching @ving in July 1975 refused entry to representatives of the UN exchange of views" on human rights. Commission on Human Rights-see page 27645). Talks in Brazil on Nov. 22-23 between Mr Vance, President As the resuh of meetings between President Carter and other Geisel and the Foreign Minister, Sr MnioFrancisco Azeredo Lath American Presidents on the same occasion, Honduras and da Silvd, fded to allay US fears of nuclear proliferation in the Dominican Republic ratified the Inter-American Convation