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Leaflet discusses the right-wing attack on Southern African issues throughout the Reagan Administration. While the successes on sanctions and other measures to curb U.S. support for the apartheid regime have been significant, during the past four years reactionary pro-apartheid resolutions, legislation and media blitzes have proliferated. These include conservative support for anti-Angola sanctions and support for U.S. funding for Renamo, although Renamo atrocities, negative media coverage, and State Department resistance have put conservatives on the defensive. The leaflet says in the 101st Congress, conservative opposition to anti-apartheid sanctions will continue. The leaflet says even before his inauguration, George Bush has assured UNITA of continuing covert support. In 1986, Congress passed limited sanctions against South Africa, but under this legislation the U.S. still carries on business-as-usual in many sectors of the apartheid economy. The 1988 Dellums/Cranston Bill for Comprehensive Economic Sanctions against South Africa received a favorable 244 votes in the House but never reached the Senate floor. Dellums has reintroduced the bill in the new Congress as HR 21, but the major battle will be fought in the Senate. Now that a negotiated agreement has been reached which will possibly lead to an independent Namibia and a departure from Angola of all Cuban troops, it is time for the U.S. to cease support to UNITA and join the world of nations in diplomatic recognition of Angola and support of postwar rehabilitation. The leaflet asks people to contact their members of Congress and send copies of letters to Senator Claiborne Pell, Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and to Representative Dante Fascell, Chair, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives. The leaflet discusses the Washington Office on Africa and the WOA Hotline.

African Activist Archive

SOUTHERN AFRICA AND THE 101st CONGRESS

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