Reprint of a letter to the editor of the New York Times by Representative Stephen J. Solarz in response to an editorial "Doing Business With Racists." The letter, which appeared in the paper on July 14, 1983, discusses a bill introduced by Solarz that would ban the importation of the Krugerrand into the U.S. and prohibit American bank loans to the South African Government, except for health, education or housing facilities that are available on a nondiscriminatory basis. It discusses apartheid, the Sullivan Code, Rev. Leon Sullivan, American firms in South Africa, the 1978 Evans Amendment, the Export-Import Bank, the Reagan Administration, constructive engagement, and the illegal occupation...
Reprint of a letter to the editor of the New York Times by Representative Stephen J. Solarz in response to an editorial "Doing Business With Racists." The letter, which appeared in the paper on July 14, 1983, discusses a bill introduced by Solarz that would ban the importation of the Krugerrand into the U.S. and prohibit American bank loans to the South African Government, except for health, education or housing facilities that are available on a nondiscriminatory basis. It discusses apartheid, the Sullivan Code, Rev. Leon Sullivan, American firms in South Africa, the 1978 Evans Amendment, the Export-Import Bank, the Reagan Administration, constructive engagement, and the illegal occupation of Namibia.
