will not back coercion plan

Press, 23 May 1977, Page 8

will not back coercion plan

I suiting London for instruc-Ition-s. The final drafts of the documents were close to a version submitted to a committee stage, containing I sweeping plans for coercive measures against Rhodesia and South Africa. The United States chief delegate, Mr Andrew Young, said that his country would be unable to join a consensus on such a programme. The programme calls on the United Nations Security Council to impose a mandatory arms embargo — consistently rejected by Western Powers — on South Africa, and orders the rupture of al! postal and other communications with Rhodesia. Mr Young told reporters the United States would be unable to join a consensus on either the action plan or an accompanying political declaration denouncing the I white minority governments I

■of South Africa and Rhodesia. ■ He said, however, that he t saw nothing wrong with the plan, and- that he felt the I majority of Americans prob- ( I ably would agree with most I of it. ’ Killer killed Ramathan Biryabikawa, one ■ of President Idi Amin’s chief executioners is reported to have been ambushed while driving near Kampala and shot dead, with his family,! by members of a “liberation front” in the Ugandan Army. —Nairobi Reactor sale The United States VicePresident (Mr Walter Mon- : dale) has said that his coun-; try will sell Yugoslavia the! core element for a 8600 M! nuclear reactor, expected to! Ibe built by 1979. —Belgrade I