ACAS Bulletin

Contents: I. U.S. CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS ON SOUTHERN AFRICA • ATTACKS ON ANGOLA AND THE FRONTLINE STATES IN CONGRESS • CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN U.S. POLICY TOWARDS MOZAMBIQUE • "Washington about to Betray Mozambique" • "An African War Ensnarls he U.S. Ultra-Right" • II. PERSPECTIVES ON U.S. EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO SOUTH AFRICANS AND NAMIBIANS • CONFERENCE ON U.S. EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING INITIATIVES FOR SOUTH AFRICANS AND NAMIBIANS, NOVEMBER 1986, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY • GUIDELINES ON FINANCIAL AND OTHER FORMS OF ASSISTANCE FOR EDUCATING AND TRAINING OF SOOTH AFRICANS AND NAMIBIANS • SOUTH AFRICA: EDUCATION UNDER APARTHEID • THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW HASONDO, DIRECTOR OF MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT, AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOUTH AFRICA • VIDEOTAPES ON U.S. INITIATIVES FOR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF SOUTH AFRICANS AND NAMIBIANS, November 23-25, 1986 • III. REPORTS OF ACAS ACTIVITIES, 1986-87 • ACAS EVENTS AT NOVEMBER 1987 ASA MEETING IN DENVER • ACAS MEMORIAL SERVICE - MESSAGE IN HONOR OF PRESIDENT SAMORA MOISES MACHEL • STATEMENT OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY AFRICANISTS OPPOSING AWARDING AN HONORARY DEGREE TO CHIEF BUTHELEZI • LETTER FROM ACAS TO P.W. BOTHA CONCERNING SOOTH AFRICAN DETENTIONS • SUSPECT IN WALTER RODNEY ASSASSINATION LOCATED • LETTER FROM ACAS TO PRESIDENT HOYTE • LETTER FROM PATRICIA RODNEY TO PRESIDENT HOYTE • MINUTES OF THE ACAS GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING Madison, Wisconsin, Inn on the Park, October 31, 1986 • NOTE FROM THE EDITORS • The newsletter includes a statement of Boston University Africanists opposing awarding an honorary degree to Chief Buthelezi signed by Sara Berry, Katherine Demuth, Irene Gendzier, Jane Guyer, John Harris, Gillian Hart, Priscilla Hinckley, Shaheen Mozaffar, Jeane Penvenne, Jo Sullivan, Ed Wilmsen, and Jennifer Yanco. The newsletter discusses the anti-apartheid movement, independent socialist states, the Clark Amendment, the Reagan administration, covert CIA aid to UNITA, the Export-Import Bank, the Department of Defense, the Chevron/SONANGOL oil pumping operation, the FY 1987 Supplemental Appropriations Bill, Senator DeConcini, Al Gore, Robert Dole, Renamo, Mozambique National Resistance (MNR), CIA Director Casey, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Chester Crocker, Melissa Wells, liberation movements, Senator Pressler, the SADCC (the Southern Africa Development Coordinating Conference), Senator Carl Levin, the African National Congress (ANC), SWAPO, Secretary of State Shultz, Oliver Tambo, the United Nations, the PLO, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, former British Special Air Service officers, Mozambican Special Forces, Willard De Pree, Jesse Helms, Joaquim Chissano, John Samuel, Fatima Meer, Nahas Angula, Merlin Mehl, Kenneth Hartshorne, the University of the Western Cape, the University of Witwatersrand, Moses Omeb, Namibia Council of Churches, Fanyana Mazibuko, Modise Khoza, Black Lawyers Association Legal Education Centre, the State Department, AID, John Marcum, Gail Gerhart, David Smock, IIE (Institute for International Education), the United Church of Christ, the University of Zambia, refugee students, PAC (Pan-Africanist Congress), the Black Consciousness Movement, the National Education Crisis Committee (NECC), Bantu Education, the African Education Movement, Soweto, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Soweto Parents Crisis Committee (SPCC), the Department of Education and Training (DET), People's Education, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA), African Teachers' Association, Western Cape Teachers' Union (WECTU), Lawrence Eagleburger, Pace College, the American Chamber of Commerce, the State of Emergency, "Constructive Engagement", P.W. Botha, scholarship programs, Stellenbosch, Rand Afrikaanes University, SASO (the South African Students Organization), SASM (the South African Students Movement), the BPC (Black Peoples Convention), Bannings, the Battle of Isandhlwana, Umkhonto we Sizwe, the Azanian Students Organization (AZASO), the Freedom Charter, the Coloured Persons' Representative Council, the Coloured Labour Party, the tricameral parliament, the Release Mandela Campaign, Nelson Mandela, the Anti-South African Indian Council campaign, the Transvaal Indian Congress, the South African Indian Council, the South African Federation of Women, the Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA), Chief Leabua Jonathan, the Nkomati Accord, Betsy Schmidt, Bud Day, James Mittelman, Ann Seidman, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, Frelimo, Fernando Honwana, Jose Carlos Lobo, Aquino de Braganca, Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, President Silber, Helen Suzman, Gavin Relly, Anglo-American Corporation, the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, Leon Sullivan, General Motors (GM), IBM, Inkatha, Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, and the South African Council of Churches (SACC).