enriched uranirm fuef for SAf'AlI-l is only the lxost visible ma.nifestation of adrylng up of those United States--South African ties in the nucle€tr fiel-d.. Theconstruction of the Koeberg pl-ant and. c ont inuing French assistance in training thestaff to olerate these reactors 6!/ constitute a significent exception to this changing pattern of officiaL ext eTna-l ties. Howevei, it has been reported boththat paevious ]imited South African access to French nucl-ear technoLogy ttis at axr apparent stand"stiLl-r' 9Q *d that France does not intend to se1l add.itional porer reactors to South Africa after hcnouring the Koeberg contnact. 6Tf 6V "South r'frica, vith U. S. Aid, I,trear A-Bomb", llashington Post,-/ -:-JO -reoTuory -l.y I l. !4 !ig!fgg4fs!_j!__!St er*14!C._ if Nuc+ear Trainins of Foreieners contributeg ti_l^lggpg! !__Prg!!elaqgn, Report by the ConptrolLer ceneral- of the United State5 (WaEtrinEton, n.t.-t ral Accor:nting Orfice 10-?9-2, 23 April 197Q) " pp. 20-22. !],/ Congressional Reseaxch Service, Libraxy of Congress, Nuclear Proliferation Factbook ( \^/ashington, D,C.: U. S, covernment Printing Office" f9??), p, 31?,p.3l-9. 6V Nevby-Fraser, g_!eil_899!!:9! p. 3l+; anit dervenka and Rogers, Nuclear Axis, p. 159. o)/ I\ewoy--braser ,Chain Reaction, pp. 132-f33. 55/ Adelnan and lcnight, 'rcan South Africa Go l,luclear?", p. 635.-v[7/ uurvenk; and Rogers, lTuc].ear Axis, p. L69t Richard K. Betts, Bomb for South Africa?", International- Securityo vo1. l+, I,Io. 2 ( Fal-lpr. f02-l-03."A Diplonatic 1979) "Al35/\ori Engli slr Annex r.tie i.o 3L. I'i'i.iL ii.r ri---rc::L ri.r,rt'loi'erl nuclel.r infras''i rr-:-r:ir-'.re and- a sizeab1t: cadrc of 1,raine4 cn3irreerin3 rncl scicntific talettt, South Africa in the 1900s has becone f.r.r Iess dependent on such external assistance. Even if it proceed.s mole slovIy and- at greater expense, there is no reason to question the ccuntryrs capability to carry fo1'\,rard the enrichment progralme at least on a reduced scale or to add ad.ditional 'currently absent conponents to its nuclear ind.ustry, whether a fuel fs.brication or reprocessing facility" 68/ 2, Unofficial or r:nconfirrnecl co-operaticn