Kissinger begins vital shuttle

Press, 16 September 1976, Page 8

Kissinger begins vital shuttle

International

NZPA-Reuter Dar-es-Salaam The United States Secretary of State (Dr Henry Kissinger) yesterday began mediation attempts between

black and white Governments in southern Africa by meeting President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.

President Nyerere was expected to brief Dr Kissinger on the five-nation African summit of which he was chairman last week. The meeting agreed to intensify armed struggle in white minority-ruled Rhodesia.

The summit was attended by the “front-line'’ Presidents of Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, and Angola, who are most closely concerned with southern Africa. Tanzania, in a statement issued in Dar-es-Salaam, has called on the United States to support black nationalist guerrillas if the peaceful ;olutions it has backed in southern Africa prove impossible. Dr Kissinger, who was met at the airport at Dar-es-Salaam on Tuesday night by about 100 students chanting "Go home” and with placards reading “We oppose shuttle diplomacy,” said the United States would do nothing without the approval of black African leaders.

“We will do nothing that is not requested. We will take no initiatives that, are not invited . . . every step in the future will be co-ordi-nated with the front-line Presidents,” he told reporters.

“The United States wants nothing for itself except in the interests of peace and economic and social progress.” In an unusual formal policy statement, Tanzania asked: “Why can not the American Government say that if a peaceful transfer of power is impossible because of the intransigence of the racists, then it will be on the side of those who fignt for freedom?” United States officials with Dr Kissinger yesterday said Soviet diplomats at the United Nations had been spreading word that the Secretary of State’s attempts to negotiate solutions in Rhodesia and Namibia (SouthWest Africa) were designed to keep Western capitalism in southern Africa.

Similar allegations have been made in the official Tanzanian ..press, which has attacked Dr Kissinger for suggesting that his African, mission. which includes visits to Zambia and South Africa, was aimed at stopping the spread of communism.

The Cape Province police are searching for a 19-year-old Coloured man who they believe has shot dead eight persons in the past three days, according to South

African radio bulletins. A Coloured woman and her four children were killed on a farm near Caledon east of Cape Town, on Tuesday morning. An hour before that a motorist was shot dead in the same area, according to the report. The radio said the police believed that the killer was the same man who killed a 14-year-old girl on Sunday night. The other victim was an African.