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and military involvement have de clined substantially . Our relationship with the leadership is changing. The gen eration has passed or is passing which recalls our initial help to the newly independent countries. This change happened early in Algeria where the original leaders of the FLN ( National Liberation Front ) whom we had known were replaced by those we did not know . In Libya , those who recognized and welcomed our help to that country in its early years have been replaced ; both the present prosperity and the changed circumstances have ob literated recollections of that earlier relationship. Where there has been an ab rupt change in a country in which we had close relations with the previous regime, we have had the added element of suspicions regarding our inten tions on the part of the new leaders. Only time can overcome such feelings . The last decade, further, has seen climactic events in the Near East which have affected our own relationships. Algeria broke diplomatic relations with us; rela tions with the other three na tions of the area became difficult in the months immediately fol lowing the 1967 war. The belief that we had helped Israel to win the six -day war died hard . While these nations may not have been directly involved in the fighting , they were committed as Arabs and shared the feelings of humili ation and bitterness over these events . The Near Eastern issues remain a serious, but not insur mountable , problem in our rela tions with North African coun tries. In 1971 , we have new interests and requirements. For the first time in our peacetime history , we face shortages of significant resources. One of them is natural gas . In Washington, D.C. , early in November 1971 , the local gas utility announced it could take no more new commercial customers; there was simply not enough gas. North Africa-and particularly Algeria- has large gas reserves. U.S. POLICY TOWARD NORTH AFRICA Our approach to North Africa in these circumstances is based on certain clear assumptions : - First, North Africa remains important to us as an area . We 20 ° 0 ° 209 ROMANIA 100 FRANCE YUGOSLAVIA U.S.S.R. ITALY ATLANTIC BLACK SEA BULGARIA OCEAN ALBANIAY 40 PORTUGAL SPAIN MED 1 GREECE Annaboo TURKEY Skikdo Constantinelo Bizerte € ALGIERS TUNIS Tangier Oran R TUNISIA MALTA 9 Safaqis As خ . خ• خ‘ خ CYPRUS SYRIA RABAT Fes Casablanca Meknes MOROCCO Marrakech Bechar Leabsukhayrah LEBANON TRIPOLI SE A MIRAQ Ghardaia Ouargla ISRAEL BENGHAZI Tobruk GULF OF SIDRA Marsaal Burayqah JORDAN CAIRO ALGERIA Zillah Tindout In Amenas SAUDI ARABIA PEL AAUN SPANISH SAHARA Sobha . LIBYA EGYPT AlJawtآ؛ REDSEA MAURITANIA MALI NORTH AFRICA 202 Oil field A Gas field Oil pipeline Gas pipeline NIGER CHAD SUDAN 200 400 800 Oى¸ 600 Miles 200 400 600 800 Kilometers KHARTOUM Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative 200 3 |
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