ACAS NEWSLETTER

Contents: From the Editor • Membership Development • ACAS Goes High School • Report from the Political Action Committee • DIA Campaign • Free South Africa Movement Update • South African Consul Resigns in Oregon • Pressure Mounts in Seattle • Higher Education in Oregon Divestment • Divestment Campaign in Wisconsin • University of California Divestment Campaign • Letter to President Reagan • ACAS and the Western Sahara • Wolpe Wins Reelection • U.S. Policy and Southern Africa Famine • Further Resources on Southern Africa • New Films on Apartheid • Fragments • The newsletter discusses UCLA, David Groff, Jefferson High School in Portland, TIAA-CREF, the African Studies Association (ASA), the Alternate Middle East Studies Association (AMESA), the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), disinvestment, Representative Ron Dellums, Rep. Walter Fauntroy, trade embargo, H.R. 997, bank loans, gold coins, coal, uranium, the export of nuclear items, H.R. 1098, William Gray, Stephen Solarz, the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1985, the Export Administration Act, H.R. 1460, fair employment practices, American companies, Senator Kennedy, Republican Robert Walker, Ambassador Fourie, H.R. 1595, the Clark Amendment, the Sullivan fair employment code, the CIA, UNITA, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Charles Mathias, Richard Lugar, sanctions, Barry Goldwater, Chic Hecht, Jesse Helms, Steve Symms, the Washington Office on Africa, the Department of Defense, the Department of Education, Title VI centers, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), military/intelligence to university linkage, the National Security Agency (NSA), Boston University, Howard, Indiana, Michigan State University, Association of African Studies Programs (AASP), the Association of American Universities (AAU), the American Council on Education (ACE), Robert O. Slater, the Defense Intelligence College, the Defense Academic Research Support Program (DARSP), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the AFL-CIO, Thomas Donahue, Newspaper Guild president Charles Perlik , United Steelworkers vice president Leon Lynch, AFSCME president Gerald McEntee, Joseph Lowery of SCLC, Rosa Parks, former CORE leader James Farmer and two children of Martin Luther King, Jr., the American Jewish Committee, Judy Goldsmith, Gloria Steinem, Mary Frances Berry, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Daniel Berrigan , SANE executive director David Cortrigh, Richard Hatcher, Coleman Young, Richard Hillman, Gary Hart, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Krugerrand, George Wallace, Dick Gregory, Gus Newport, Nelson Mandela, Motorola, Oberlin College, Bank of America, firms doing business in South Africa, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), the South African Embassy, the Gray Panthers, the National Education Association (NEA), Chester Crocker, TransAfrica, Randall Robinson, Larry Holms, Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid, Calvin Van Pelt, the Black United Front, Portlanders Organized for South African Freedom, the Democratic Party, John Swing, Seattle First National Bank (Seafirst), the Church Council of Greater Seattle, the Oregon State System of Higher Education, James Campbell, Goldstein and Campbell, Henry Butcher, the Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa, Marcia Coggs, Immanuel Wallerstein, the ICCR (Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility), Lutheran World Ministries, General Motors (GM), Faculty for Full Divestment, Jennifer Davis, Jean Sindab, Willie Brown, the Western Sahara Campaign, U.S.A., the POLISARIO Front, Howard Wolpe, SWAPO, constructive engagement, drought, William Minter, the Investor Responsibility Resource Center (IRRC), the Pacific Northwest Resource Center, Roger Walke, Lawrence Schlemmer, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Herman Nickel, the South African Institute of Race Relations, California Newsreel's Southern Africa Media Center, International Conference on Eritrean Women, the National Union of Eritrean Women, Senait Bahta, and the Eritrean People's Liberation Front.