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Memorandum to Member of the Nationwide Peace Education Division and Southern Africa Task Force. The memorandum says on September 7 a small group of people, meeting at the American Committee on Africa offices in New York, decided to launch a "consortium" to conduct research and investigation into covert military collaboration between the U. S. and South Africa, nuclear collaboration between the two countries, and the ways in which the arms embargo against South Africa has been circumvented; the organizations represented were ACOA, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), the Center for National Security Studies, the Transnational Institute, and the AFSC. The memorandum discusses Congress, Western powers, U.S. policy on the shipment of arms to South Africa, nuclear co-operation with South Africa, base agreements, the changing balance between non-interventionist and interventionist influence within the U.S. government since 1973, the policy debate within the Carter Administration, Sean Gervasi, the U.N. Council on Namibia, Sean McBride, The Africa Fund, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jim Turner, Bob Cummings, Ron Walters, the Cornell Institute for African Studies and Research, the Institute for World Order, Richard Falk, SUNY Binghamton, Africa News, Columbia University, and Howard University. • CONSORTIUM FORMATION OF A WORKING GROUP ON ASPECTS OF U. S. POLICY TOWARDS SOUTHERN AFRICA • Need for Research • Decisions Reached • Interest Expressed • Next Meeting • Recommendation

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