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Contents: NAMIBIA: Another Part of the War • REASONS FOR SUPPORTING THE UNITED NATIONS INSTITUTE FOR NAMIBIA • SOUTH AFRICAN POLICEMAN-SPRINGBOK RUGBY STAR TO TRY OUT FOR THE DALLAS COWBOYS • HOUSE BANKING COMMITTEE BANS U.S. SUPPORT FOR IMF LOANS TO SOUTH AFRICA by the Center for International Policy • APARTHEID - South African Naziism • The newsletter reports that the United Nations Security Council is meeting on the question of Namibia. The U.S. has given funds to the United Nations Institute for Namibia (UNIN) since the training center opened in 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia. UNIN prepares Namibians for positions in the civil service once Namibia becomes independent. The newsletter says Naas Botha, star kicker for the South African Springbok rugby team, will come to the U.S. in June to try out for the Dallas Cowboys. The newsletter includes a review of the book APARTHEID: SOUTH AFRICAN NAZIISM by Rev. Dr. Sipo Mzimela. The newsletter reprints a newspaper article "Blacks Seem to Applaud Bomb Attack in Pretoria" by Joseph Lelyveld. The newsletter discusses the Reagan administration, the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Republicans in the Senate, Senator Jesse Helms, Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Secretary of State George Schultz, Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker, the University of Zambia, the South African Police (SAP), Tex Schram, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Congressman Julian Dixon, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Parren Mitchell, Dr. Richard Eckaus, Dr. Collin Bradford, Stanley Lundine, the Treasury Department, Jim Morrell, Christine Root, the African National Congress (ANC), a car bomb explosion, Defense Minister Magnus Malan, military causalities, Boers, pro-Government Afrikaans press, and black consciousness.

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