MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A002100090001-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 5, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Middle East - Africa Division, Office of Current Intelligence,
with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
Central African Republic: Plans to Resume
Relations with Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Tanzania: Presidential Election Results . . . 2
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Central African Republic
Plans to Resume Relations with Israel
President Bokassa announced last week that
his government plans to resume diplomatic relations
with Israel. No date has been announced, but Bokassa
has indicated it will take place in
"the next mont s. A private Israeli business
delegation was in Bangui when the announcement was
made.
Bokassa has been considering re-establishing
relations with Israel for some time and reportedly
has discussed the move with several other African
President Stevens has told the US-ambassador=i
n
Freetown that his government is now reconsidering
its position on relations with Israel. Senegal's
Senghor, Ivory Coast's Houphouet-Boigny, and
Ghana's Acheampong--all of whom reluctantly
broke with Israel during the October 1973 war--may
also be rethinking their positions. These leaders,
like Bokassa, are disappointed over the meager
financial aid that the Arabs have made available to
Africans and the failure of oil producing countries
to grant price concessions to African countries.
Israeli Foreign Minister Allon met with several
unidentified black African officials last month
at the UN with a view to persuading them, with aid
offers, to resume ties with Israel. The CAR foreign
minister may have been among the officials contacted
by A11on. (CONFIDENTIAL)
NOV 5, 1975
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Tanzania
Presidential Election Results
President Julius Nyerere was reelected to his
fourth five-year term as President of Tanzania in
elections on October 26. Although Nyerere was
unopposed, the voters could cast a "yes" or "no"
ballot in the secret voting. Nearly seven percent
of the valid votes were "no" this year, compared
with about three percent in 1970.
In cotton-and tobacco-growing areas near Lake
Victoria, "no" votes ranged from 19 to 24 percent--
in most cases more than twice the number cast in
1970. Nyerere had visited these areas extensively
during October.
Cotton and tobacco farmers have been angered by
the government's poorly-managed crash program, begun
last year, to expand grain production in order to
avoid spending foreign exchange on food imports.
Farmers in the Lake Victoria region appear to be
dissatisfied with the government's goal of moving
the entire rural population into socialist villages
by the end of 1976, and by the government's generally
inept economic performance. (CONFIDENTIAL)
Nov 5, 1975
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