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Mailing on the John Tate-Gerrie Coetzee fight. The mailing says enclosed please find notes on our meeting with NBC; it contains important new information on African inputs into the Stop The Fight Campaign; we all felt that NBC was not at all firm about televising the fight; the pressure IS working. The mailing says if you have not contacted NBC, please do so NOW; write to: Art Watson, President, NBC Sports. The mailing says enclosed is a report from the South African Ministry of Sport which clearly shows how important professional boxing is in its international image campaign. The mailing includes ANNUAL REPORT of the DEPARTMENT OF SPORT AND RECREATION that discusses the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Council, and the SA National Boxing Control Board. The mailing includes Notes on meeting called by the Stop The Fight Campaign with officials of NBC-TV, 14 August 1979. The notes on the meeting says STFC delegates were Ambassador Blankston (Nigeria), Janice Bolden (International Freedom Mobilization), Cary Goodman (New York City Sports Council), George Houser (American Committee on Africa), Clayton Jones, (Progressive National Baptist Convention), Johnstone Makatini (African National Congress of South), Gay McDouga11 (TransAfrica), Ambassador Mustafa Sam (Organization of African Unity), Rev. Wyatt T. Walker (SCLC), Denton Watson (NAACP), and Richard Lapchick, Convenor (ACCESS). The notes on the meeting says NBC representatives were Art Watson, President, NBC Sports, Alan Baker, Corporate V-P for Public Relation:; Mr. Rausch, Corporate V-P for Legal Affairs, and Dick Auerbach, NBC Sports. The mailing discusses apartheid, the Olympic Games, Bob Arum, and Loftus Stadium.

African Activist Archive

[Dear Coalition members and friends, Enclosed please find notes on our meeting with NBC.]

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