Military links
Closer military co-operation between South Africa and Argentina. Chile and Uruguay is likely after the visit to South Africa last month of General Robert Rogers, commander of the South African Air Force, writes Hugh O’Shaughnessy.
Gustavo Leigh, head of the Chilean Air Force and a member of the ruling junta, underlined the two countries’ “common ideals and the challenge of common problems born out of the lack of understanding of our reality” at a ceremony in Santiago at which General Rogers received a Chilean decoration.
Earlier, during a two-day visit to Argentina, General
Rogers conferred with Brigadier Agosti, the Argentina Air Force commander and a member of the Argentine military junta. Argentina official sources say that South Africa interest in South America is centering on Argentina and hint at increasing air links. General Rogers was also received by military officials in Uruguay. Apart from the publicised activities of the South African general, there is speculation that he discussed Cuban military activities in southern Africa, and reports that South American countries are preparing to receive white settlers displaced from southern Africa by black nationalism.
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