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CONFIDENTIAL • ' -rONFIDENTIAL ...SKBY FCO 1209 DESKBY NAIROBI DESKBY TRIPOLI 12C3«0Z FM DAR E3 SALAAM 120545Z MAR 79 TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 192 OF 12 MARCH - INFO IMMEDIATE NAIROBI, TRI £QLI INFO PRIORITY BONN f-> •l'"_'' ''• L. XL \J MY TELS 190 AND 191 11GANDA/TANZAH IA 1, HISS WICKEN CALLED AGAIM LATE ON 11 MARCH TO SAY THAT SHE HAS UNINTENTIONALLY MISLED ME ABOUT THE LOCATION OF TTHE PRESENT FIGHTING. HAVING TALKED TO THE PRESIDENT SHE HAD MOW ESTABLISHED THAT REPORTS OF FIGHTING INVOLVING TANZANIAN TROOPS NEAR KAMPALA AT MPIGI WERE MOT ACCURATE: THE TAf^ANIAWS HAD NOT REACHED THAT FAR* THE BATTLE TO WHICH SHE VMS REFERRING HAD TAKEN PLACE '*JUST BEYOND*' MASAKA AND SHE HAD JUST HEARD THAT IT HAD BEEN ' > QSUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT THE TAMZANIANG AND SUPPORTERS WERE NOW f-'OVING SLOWLY UP THE LING OF THE MASAKA KAMPALA ROAD. SHE SONFIRMED THAT THEY HAD NOT YET COME ACROSS LIBYANS BUT EXPECTED THEM TO BE DUG IN IN THE MPIGI AREA WHERE SHE IMPLIED THE DECISIVE ENGAGEMENT WOULD PROBABLY TAKE PLACE. ?.» MISS WICKEN ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THIS LATEST MILITARY SUCCESS IN NO WAY AFFECTED THE URGENCY OF THE REQUES7 SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY MADE AS REPORTED IN MY TEL'K) 190, KliTfJ.'xOLIPIE [ALSO QEMT BY BAG TO BOMH MI) PARIS] F I L E S EAT) CAJ33 BID FS Sz. S Oil) E5V/3 D COD HAD SD DEF D PUSD PS PS/tlR EOl/LANDS PS/i'iH JUDL PS/PUS SIR A DUFF SIR A PARSONS MR BULLAEB Mi MI