SOUTH AFRICA LEGISLATIVE PACKET

Contents: THE CASE FOR SANCTIONS • IS APARTHEID CHANGING? • U.S. STRATEGIC INTERESTS • LEGISLATION • GLOSSARY • CORPORATE AND BANK INVESTMENT • SULLIVAN PRINCIPLES • NUCLEAR/MILITARY TIES • URANIUM and COAL • KRUGERRANDS • The Washington Office on Africa • The packet contains short resources about developments in South Africa, U.S. economic involvement, and the Reagan administration's policy and Congressional initiatives. It lists U.S. banks with outstanding loans to South Africa, including Bank of Boston Corp., Bank of New York Co., BankAmerica Corp., Citicorp, Continental Illinois Corp., CoreStates Financial Corp., First Bank System Inc., First Wisconsin Corp., Fleet Group Inc., Harris Bancorp Inc., Lincoln First Banks Inc., NCNB Corp., Northern Trust Co., PNC Financial Corp., Security Pacific Corp., Texas Commerce Bankshares Inc., and United Bank of Colorado. It also identifies major U.S. firms investing in South Africa, including Mobil Corp., Caltex (Texaco and Chevron), General Motors (GM), Ford Motor Co., Burroughs Corp., Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., General Electric Co., Newmont Mining Corp., IBM Corp., and Coca-Cola Co. The packet quotes J. de Villiers, South African Minister of Industries, Commerce and Tourism; Bishop Desmond Tutu; P.W. Botha; John Dugard; Robert S. McNamara; John Vorster; Rev. Leon Sullivan; A. I. Roux, President of the South African Atomic Energy Board; and Paul Kruger. It also includes excerpts from United Nations Decree Number One for the Protection of the Natural Resources of Namibia and from a report by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Africa. It urges support for HR 997, sponsored by Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-CA), which mandates immediate corporate disinvestment from South Africa, a trade embargo, and additional sanctions; and HR 1460, co-sponsored by Reps. William Gray (D-PA), Howard Wolpe (D-MI), and Steven Solarz (D-NY), which bars new corporate investment in South Africa, bank loans to the South African government, Krugerrand imports, and computer exports to the South African government and its agencies. It also supports HR 1133, sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), which bans nuclear-related exports to and cooperation with South Africa; HR 1135, sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), which prohibits coal and uranium imports from South Africa and Namibia; and S 635, co-sponsored by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Lowell Weicker (R-CT), which prohibits new investment in South Africa, Krugerrand imports, bank loans to the South African government, and other sanctions. The packet poses questions about U.S. national interests in South Africa and nuclear and military assistance, National Key Points, the arms embargo, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, computer sales to South Africa, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, bantustans, "constructive engagement," Cuban troops in Angola, the Soviet Union, the Cape Sea Route, and minerals. A glossary includes terms about the apartheid system, resistance in South Africa, and the U.S. legislative process. A resource about U.S. corporate involvement discusses motor vehicles, heavy machinery, military hardware, the Carnegie Corporation, Transkei, South African Institute of Race Relations, Security Council Resolution 418, Commerce Department, State Department, Commodity Control List, Rudolf Stoltze, Simonstown, SAFARI I and II, Koeberg, plutonium, nuclear weapons, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), Terrorism Act, African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Black People's Convention (BPC), South African Students Organization (SASO), Christian Institute, Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), Council of Unions of South Africa, United Democratic Front (UDF), Willem de Klerk, South African Protection of Business Bill, Shell Oil Company, U.S. Coast Guard, and gold.