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/bVm) THE UGANDANS HAD SENT A«i MR CRAFT OVER BUKOBA* LATER THiIY V-,.AD .SENT THREE AIRCRAFT OF WHICH THE TANZANIANS HAD SHOT DOWN ONE WITH ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE, .ON THE FOLLOWING DAY THE UGANDANS HAD" "" SENT AIRCRAFT ROUND KYAKA AND THE TAN2ANIANS HAD SHOT DOWN TWO* AMIN HAD ADMITTED TO THE SHOOTING DOWN OF ONE AIRCRAFT* A. YESTERDAY, UGANDAN GROUND FORCES HAD INVADED TANZANIA. THEY WERE NOW IN THE WEST LAKE REGION WITH QUITE A LOT OF TANKS (MYERERE WAS HOT ABLE TO GIVE ANY DETAIL OF THE S U E OF THE FCRCG) THEY HAD REACHED kH IMPORTANT BRIDGE ON THE KAGERA RIVER* NYKRERE THOUGHT THE DEPTH OF PENETRATION WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SEMICLN MKAPA THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE AS MUCH AS 2Q TO 25 MILES, THE TANZANIA?! INFORMATION WAS THAT AM IN WAS CONTINUING TO MASS HIS FORCES ON THE BORDER AND CIVILIAN TRANSPORT WAS BEING MOBILISED* THEY HAEMAL SO. ' BROUGHT AIRCRAFT FROM THE NORTH TO ENTEBBE, NYERERE UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY WERE SHORT OF PILOTS BUT WERE HOPING TO OBTAIN THEM FROM LIBYA, 4, ASK£D ABOUT WHAT TANZANIA WAS DOING TO DEAL WITH THE SITUATION NYERErtE SAiD THAT THEY V/I7.RS TRYING TO ORGANISE THEIR WIDELY DISPERSED ARMY TO PUSH THE UGANDANS OUT, SPAIN ASKED IF THEY WC-Rf 'WINKING OF ANY KIND OF RETALIATORY ATTACK EG AM AIR STRIKE ON A UGANDAN TARGET AND NYERERE REPLIED THAT FOR THE MOMENT.THEIR" PLAN WAS SIMPLY TO DEAL WITH THE INVASION WHERS IT WAS ON THE GROUND* 5* WITH REGARD TO AMIN'S AIMS, NYERERE SAID THAT H£ HAD MO IDEA BEYONG THEIR WISHING TO CAUSE TANZANIA AS MUCH TROUBLE A3 POSSIBLE. THERE WERE WIDESPREAD REPORTS OF DISTURBANCES INSIDE UGANDA. AMIN WAS DEEPLY SUSPICIOUS OF THE TANZANIANS AND UK MAY HAVE SEEN THIS ATTACK AS A MEANS OF IMMODILISING THEM. SPAIN Af>s< IF, IN THE EVENT OF THE INTERNAL TROUBLES IN UGANDA BEING SGTTLEI ONE COULD EXPECT A HALT TO THE INVASION. NYERERE SAID THAT AT PRESENT AM IN APPEARED COMMITTED TO CAUSING MORE TROUBLE* 6, NYSRERE'MADE NO REQUEST FOR SPECIFIC ASSISTANCE, THOUGH UK SAID HE WOULD WELCOME AMY INFORMATION WE MIGHT HAVE ABOUT Till: . ' SITUATION IN UGANDA (DOTH SPAIN AND I DREW ATTENTION TO OUR LACK OF .DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION). ASKED IF IN ORGANISING HIS FORCH: ME WAS FACING AUY PARTICULAR PROBLEMS, HE SAID THAT THEY HAD THE USUAL PROBLEM OF TRANSPORT. HI; ALSO MENTIONED THEIR HEED OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPONS (IT .WAS CLEAR THAT HE WAS NERVOUS OF FURTH AIR RAIDS), WITH REGARD TO DIPLOMATIC ACTION, NYERSRE SAID THAT HAD HRPOnTGO Tllfi MTMTIOfl TO THIS OAU HUT HAD NOT YET