U.S. Denies Planning Force Against SL4.
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 31.
The State Department has denied a South African press report that the United States was planning to use troops to enforce possible United Nations sanctions against South Africa.
“I am aware of the report, and I can assure you there is no basis for it,” a department official, Mr Robert McCloskey, told a press conference.
The front-page report appeared on Wednesday in the “Rand Daily Mail.” Mr McCloskey also denied a claim in the report—by the newspaper’s Washington correspondent, Raymond Heard
—that the State Department was teaching Afrikaans to about 100 officers to prepare them for a possible invasion of southern Africa. The reports of United States military intentions against white-ruled South Africa and Rhodesia apparently arose from recent statements by the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, Mr Richard Russell, a foe of integration.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31333, 1 April 1967, Page 13
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