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Mailing seeking contributions to the American Committee on Africa. The mailing asks: Will the Research Bureau, long awaited, really start functioning this month? Will it afford office space of its own or shall we squeeze in a desk in our present office (next to whom? and borrowing whose typewriter?); Will work pile up while staff members take on one of the new campaigns such as South African Airways, or will field work be far enough ahead so that community groups (with field workers!) will be doing it themselves? The mailing says unless we can mobilize public opinion better - which means, first, better educational and publicity work - we foresee a strengthening of relationships between the United States and southern Africa's white minority regimes (South Africa, Portugal, Rhodesia), instead of the disengagement we are working for; the struggle for freedom will continue, despite sacrifice and suffering, but with hindrance instead of help from the United States. The mailing includes two newspaper articles "South African Airways" by Simon Anekwe, N.Y. Amsterdam News and "U.S. Grant Encourages Apartheid", THE NATIONALIST, and Letter to the Editor by George M. Houser. The mailing discusses the Nixon Administration, President Johnson, and the Civil Aeronautics Board.

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