ECSA Bulletin

Contents: PRETORIA'S WAR IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - THE NEXT PHASE • The newsletter says six leaders of states neighboring South Africa who are meeting in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, charged that South African forces are concentrated on the Zimbabwe and Mozambique borders and that commando units have infiltrated into Mozambique. The Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 is in place; now remains to be seen if the governmental bureaucracy will diligently carry out its provisions, The newsletter includes a copy of a leaflet by the Riverside Church Disarmament Program advertising the Olof Palme Memorial Lecture of Disarmament and Development with Oliver Tambo, President of the African National Congress, and Mrs. Lisbet Palm. The meeting is being held in cooperation with the Black Christian Caucus, the Committee on South Africa, Latinos at Riverside, and the Sanctuary Committee. The newsletter reprints newspaper and magazine articles including: "House Roll-Call on Sanctions," "Senate Roll-Call Vote on Vote," "Mr. Botha's other government waits in the shadows" by Anton Harber, "Elected to do nothing" by Stanley Uys, "BLACKS WAIT FOR WHITES TO SUE FOR PEACE" by Michael Attwell,"China and apartheid" by Jonathan Mirsky, "South Africa's Violence Shifts Pattern" by Allister Sparks, "Botha plays US in grain game over sanctions" by Eric Marsden, "South Africa economic prospects downgraded," "Botha flied into storm," "Botha in mid-air color dispute" by Simon Winchester, and "Unions, UDF plan mass resistance campaign" by Shaun Johnson and Sefako Nyaka. The newsletter discusses constructive engagement, Herman Nickel, South African Minister of Defence Magnus Malan, UNITA, the National Security Management System (NSMS), the State Security Council, the Joint Management Committees (JMCs), Colin Eglin, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP), James Selfe, the Department of Education and Culture, black opposition, the ANC (African National Congress), the PAC (Pan Africanist Congress), Asapo, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, the National Party, the Conservative Party, NHP (Herstigte Nasionale Party), unrest, the United Democratic Front (UDF), black townships, majority rule, Desmond Tutu, black nationalism, the National Forum, KwaZulu, one person one vote, a unitary state, whites, Premier Zhao Ziyang, diamond mining, Senator Alan Cranston, the Reagan Administration, nuclear outlaws, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, nuclear proliferation, enriched uranium, the Bureau of Information, attacks on black policeman, township councilors, detention, Audrey Coleman, the Detainees' Parents Support Committee (DPSC), Neil Ross, unrest-related deaths, Hermann Giliomee, security laws, torture, Law and Oder Minister Louis le Grange, schools under military occupation, Foreign Minister Pik Botha, Kobus Jooste, agriculture, Kent Durr, the Reserve Bank, Gerhard de Kock, Cathay Pacific Airways, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the National Education Crisis Committee (NECC), Sidney Mufamadi, Eric Molobi, Murphy Morobe, Nelson Mandela, front-line states, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Osaka, Japan, Taipei, and the state of emergency.