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Testimony about how Rhodesia imports oil in violation of United Nations sanctions, including a summary of information in "The Oil Conspiracy" June 1976 report about South African subsidiaries of Mobil, Ca1tex, Shell/BP, and NATREF (partially owned by the French oil company Total) through intermediaries. The British-based multinational corporation Lonrho has revealed that it has gathered considerable evidence confirming and amplifying the allegations made in "The Oil Conspiracy." The Zambian government has instituted its own lawsuit against the five oil companies. The Security Council should order UN member states to ensure that oil sold by South African subsidiaries of their oil companies does not find its way to Rhodesia. The Security Council should impose an embargo on oil to South Africa until the South African government provides effective and verifiable guarantees that no oil is being sent to Rhodesia. Appendix 1: Letter from the :Governor-General of Mozambique to the Portuguese Government; 3 January 1967 Appendix 2 is articles from The Observer (London) and The Guardian (London). [Note: Although Bernard Rivers was based in the office of the American Committee on Africa, he was not testifying on ACOA's behalf.]

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Testimony Regarding the Supply of Oil to Rhodesia made before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives

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