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A packet of resources about recent South African raids into Angola. Note especially the New York Times editorial of September 3 ("The Risks of Indulging South Africa") and letter to the editor written by Edward May that appeared with it ("On the Wrong Side in Namibia"). The packet also includes a letter to the President by David W. Preus, President, The American Lutheran Church; James R. Crumley, President, The Lutheran Church in America; and William H. Kohn, President, The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. Newspaper articles and op-eds include "Africa cries 'encore' to France's new foreign policy" by Tom Gilroy; "White Is Luck" by Osborn Elliott; "Robert C.S. Powell, Directed Africa Unit For Church Council"; "Crawling With South Africa" by Carl T. Rowan; "Namibia Shift Denied in South Africa"; "U.N. Assembly Again Ejects South Africans"; "HAIG REPORTS U.S. MAKES PROGRESS ON NAMIBIA ISSUE"; "S. Africa Said to Be Seeking A Buffer Zone for Namibia" by Jay Ross; "Too Hard the Nose" by Tom Wicker; "South Africa Reports the Capture Of a Soviet Soldier in Angola Raid"; "Reagan Administration Aides Defend Their Policy Toward Southern Africa" by Lee Lescaze; "US tilt to South Africa costly; gains unknown" by Daniel Southerland; "U.S. VETOES REBUKE TO SOUTH AFRICANS" by Bernard D. Nossiter; "Resolution As Proposed"; "What Pretoria hope to gain from attack" by Geoffrey Godsell; "S. Africa is Proud of its Angola raid" by Humphrey Tyler; "Churches debate aid to radical groups" by Alexander MacLeod; "South Africa And the U.S." by Joseph Lelyveld; "Alone With South Africa" by Flora Lewis; "Keep out of Angola"; "US reaction to Angola raid comforts Pretoria" by Humphrey Tyler. The memorandum includes a letter to the editor "Namibia's Faith and Pretoria's Works" by Martin A. Sovik, Lutheran Church in the USA. The articles mention the Reagan Administration, Russians, East Germans, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker, Dean Fisher, the Mitterrand government, French Socialists, the U.S. veto in the U.N. Security Council, theCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Cuban troops, human rights, military attacks on Angola, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., SWAPO (South West African People's Organization), UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), United Nations Security Council Resolution 435, the Carter Administration, Marion Smoak, the Namibian National Assembly, the South African Defense Force (SADF), the Contact Group, Defense Minister Magnus Malan, Angola guerrillas, Charles M. Lichenstein, Olara Otunnua, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), Soviet weapons, the African National Congress (ANC), the Salvation Army, the World Council of Churches (WCC), the British Council of Churches (BCC), Maj. Gen. Charles Lloyd, and Prime Minister Pieter Botha (P.W. Botha).

African Activist Archive

Re: Angola Raids

TO Namibians and Friends of Namibia

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