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Testimony of Thomas Conrad, staff of NARMIC (National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex, a program of the American Friends Service Committee. Conrad expresses AFSC's criticisms of the enforcement of the U.S. arms embargo against South Africa and the regulations that implement it. NARMIC is in the final stage of a critical evaluation of the embargo, focusing on high-technology sales. The testimony discusses U.S. export controls, the Department of Commerce, the International Emergency Powers Act, Kampuchean schools. Church World Service, the Mennonite Central Committee, Sperry Corporation, computers, Atlas Aircraft, the Munitions List, police, military, loopholes, U.S. weapons, the military magazine Paratus, Colt police revolvers, Remington shotguns, Winchester semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action riot guns, Smith and Wesson revolvers, Colt Army revolvers, high-tech exports, U.S. corporations, a Model 370 computer, the South African Department of Interior, the national identity system, IBM, racial classifications, apartheid, NCR, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the Reagan Administration, Control Data Corporation, ICL, South African Police (SAP), the South African military, RCA, the Computer Users Handbook, a police software system, Major Hennie Reyneke, the South African Defence Force (SADF), Infoplan, Log-On, Digital Equipment Corporation, Plessey, South African Air Force, Britain, re-exports, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), poison gases, missile research, fingerprints, counter-insurgency vehicles, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett-Packard, Calcomp, Leyland-South Africa, Burroughs, Data General, Barlows-South Africa, Sandock-Austral, African Explosives and Chemical Industry (AECI), explosives, ordnance, Napalm, tear gas, Project Bowie,Uitkijk Radio Center, Voortrekkerhoogte, Telonic/Berkeley, TRW, Kistler Instrument, Sunstrand Corporation, the Army Armament Research and Development Command (AARADCCM), the National Physical Research Laboratory (NPRL), Philips Corporation, the Commodity Control List, and the Defense Department's Qualified Products List. • Controls on Exports to South Africa • Support for Government Agencies • Support for South Africa's Police • Support for South Africa's Military • U.S. Army Collaboration • Conclusion

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Testimony by the American Friends Service Committee For Hearings on U.S. Controls on Exports to South Africa

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