ACAS NEWSLETTER

Contents: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR NEWSLETTER • ACAS ACTIONS • Steering Committee Protests to President Reagan on Independent U.S. Role in Namibia • Executive Board Supports Emergency Food Assistance to Africa Bill ACAS and Central America • ACAS Endorses Ad Hoc Committee to Keep South Africa Out of the Olympics • REPORT FROM THE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE • South Africa sanctions on the Export Administration Act • Foreign aid for Africa • Other political projects • REPORT FROM THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE • SOUTHERN AFRICA PILOT "LEARNING PROCESS" • UNDERSTANDING CURRENT ISSUES • SOUTH AFRICA: NEW CONSTITUTION, OLD IDEOLOGY by Fatima Meer • ANGOLA, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES: APRIL 1984 by Gerald Bender • GETTING THE WORD OUT by Thomas Spear • AFRICA AND THE LOCAL PRESS by Robert Cuddy • DIVESTMENT UPDATE • Oregon Divestment Suit, Associated Students v. Oregon Investment Council, Lane Circuit Court No. 78-7502 • Washington, D.C. Divestment Victory • Nationwide University Divestment Mobilization • LARGEST LOBBYIST FOR SOUTH AFRICA CANCELS CONTRACT • ANTI-APARTHEID SPORTS RESOLUTION • SOUTHERN AFRICA RESOURCES • Organizations working on Southern Africa and African Liberation • Liberation Movement Representatives in the U.S. • Periodicals dealing with Southern Africa • PROGRESSIVE PUBLISHERS APPROACH ACAS • MEMBERSHIP FORM • The newsletter discusses Africa-related activism, Henry H. Bucher, Jr., Immanuel Wallerstein, Thomas P. O'Neill, the Reagan administration, starvation, food purchases for Africa, the Low Income Energy Assistance bill, the Africa Emergency Food Aid Supplementation Appropriation bill, USOCA (U.S. Out of Central America), Bread for the World, the ASA (African Studies Association), Jean Sindab, Washington Office on Africa (WOA), James H. Mittelman, Carol Thompson, Bud Day, the Federation for Progress, Rep. Bill Gray, aban on new investment; Rep. Stephen Solarz, a ban on bank loans to the government and on gold coin imports, Rep. Howard Wolpe, nuclear technology exports to South Africa, fair employment practices by U.S. investors, controls on goods destined for the military or police, House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Africa Subcommittee, military aid to Zaire, a recommendation that the U.S. should establish diplomatic contact with all parties to the dispute in the Western Sahara, limits on U.S. military teams in Liberia and the Sudan, SADCC-related projects, a conference South Africa's Strategies for Survival, TransAfrica, Howard University African Studies and Research Program, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Disciples of Christ, Lutheran Church bodies, Kim Zalent, Oxfam America, SADCC (Southern African Development Coordinating Conference), the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the World Bank, South Africa's regional and international strategy, propaganda, the South Africa-Mozambique non-aggression pact, the University of Natal, a recent banning order, the South African Indian community, Africa News, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), Soweto, black demands, the Nationalists, the West, capitalism, the Afrikaner Volk, the white bourgeoisie, the National Party, the Constitutional Bill, the interest of the ruling party, Afrikaner traditionalism, the Botha government, conflict, self-determination, the President's Council, the Cabinet, the House of Assembly, the House of Representatives, Coloureds, the House of Deputies, Indians, apartheid, Margaret Ballinger, Native affairs', homelands, the Freedom Charter, jobs, a shortage of white labour, recent military developments, UNITA, the MPLA, Soviet military equipment, Eastern European military technicians, Cuban combat troops, "linkage", the Contact Group, Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker, South African military operations against Angola, vetoed Security Council resolutions condemning South African invasions of Angola, the African Development Bank, human rights, Eliot Abrams, Frank Wisner, a loan for agricultural development, SWAPO attacks from Angola into Namibia, a cease-fire, the negotiations logjam, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Cape Verde, meetings with the United States, U.S. African policy, turgid academic prose, James B. Campbell of Goldstein and Campbell, the liberation movements, White minority rule, the Oregon State Board of Higher Education, Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Susan Sowards, DC Divest, Councilmember John Ray, public employee pension funds, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), ACOA student coordinator Joshua Nessen, Brooke Baldwin, the Yale Coalition Against Apartheid, Baskin and Sears, John Sears, Dumisani Kumalo, New York City Mayor Edward Koch, Controller Flaherty, Smathers, Symington and Herlong, Frank Beeman, the Southern Africa Liberation Committee, the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA), Lawrence Hill and Co., Richard Leonard 's recent book, South Africa at War, Zed Books, the State University of New York Press, James Turner, Cornell University, Henry Bretton, Elizabeth Schmidt, the Africa Network, and SUNY Brockport.