African Activist Archive

Reprint of a June 10, 1987 article by William Minter in The Guardian (U.K.). The article reports on a series of little-noted votes last month in which U.S. senators targeted Southern Africa's frontline states, calling for sanctions against Angola and restrictions on aid to other countries in the region. The article discusses President Ronald Reagan, Congress, the MPLA, the Clark Amendment, the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference (Sadcc), the frontline states, the African National Congress (ANC), the anti-Castro Cuban American National Foundation, Vice President George Bush, the Mozambique National Resistance (MNR, Remano), CIA Director William Casey, White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan, oil companies, Chevron, the State Department, Melissa Wells, the apartheid regime, the Congressional Black Caucus, and Senators Dennis DeConcini, Larry Pressler, Carl Levin, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Joseph Biden, Alan Cranston, Robert Dole, Lawton Chiles, Ernest Hollings, and Jesse Helms.

African Activist Archive

Senate snuggles up to South Africa

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