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Contents: AIUSA prisoner update • - changes in prisoner status • - POC released again without charge or trial but still banned • - Banning orders lifted • A.I. ACTIONS ON SOUTH AFRICA, WINTER '81 - '82 • -prisoner case reassigned • - latest urgent actions on South Africa: health concern and death penalty • Adoption Group Work • - Adoption Groups volunteer for SADA program • - Update on the list of Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations in South Africa • - Program of Action for the Banned People in South Africa • - Photographs of POC's now available from the co-group • - Adoption Group newsletter contents • Latest Developments in South Africa and Namibia; selected international • newsclippings on the following issues: • - South Africa and USA each assign new representatives • - US Foreign policy • - Homeland policy • - Steyn and Rabie Commissions • - Update on Namibia negotiations • - South African raids into Angola • The mailing includes lists of Government Authorities and CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN SOUTH AFRICA and some items produced by the Amnesty International Secretariat in London. It also includes reprints of newspaper and magazine articles including: "Regan's Choice for Pretoria" by Davis Shribman, "SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN" by John Dugard, "REPRIEVE, BUT NO SOLUTION, FOR NYANGA SQUATTERS" by Barry Streek, "SA attacks on Angola 63 million," "Western Plan for Namibia: The Tables Are Turned" by Joseph Lelyveld, "Fear of Mandela Said Behind Move" by Allister Sparks, "S. African Activist Sentenced," and "10 years' goal for reporting which 'prejudices security.'". The mailing discusses Thozamile Gqweta, the South African Allied Workers Union (SAAWU), Siza Njikelana, Patrick Mqhubelo, Phulelane Ngcuka, Rev. Frank Chikane, the Apostolic Faith Mission Church (AFMC), Ida Motha, Horatius Vuyisi le Mdleleni, Helia Phunghula, Phalo Joseph Tshume, Thoko and Malusi Mpumlwana, Charles Yeats, the South African Army, Pretoria Central Prison, cracking down on dissidents, Mrs. Koshi Mbatha, Soweto, an attack on a police station, policemen killed, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venda, Rev. T.S. Farisani, the death in detention of Dr. Neal Aggett, the Food and Canning Workers Union, Vorster Square Police Station, the South African Parliament, Helen Suzman, the security police, Ncimbithi Johnson Lubisi, Petrus Tsebo Nashigo, Naphtali Manana, Marais Viljoen, H.J. Coetsee, Gerrit Viljoen, Magnus Malan, P.W. Botha, R.F. Botha, Dawie de Villiers, P.C.J. Koornhof, the South African Press Association, Sowetan, Action for Banned People, POCs (Prisoners Of Conscience), Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Anne Hughes, Rev. Fred Bell, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, Rt. Rev. L.E. Diamini, the South African Institute of Race Relations, banning orders, the Minister of Justice, house-arrest, Winnie Mandela, Black Consciousness organizations, Juby Mayet, Phil Mthimkulu, Reverend David Russell, Dr. Beyers Naude, Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, the Zanempilo Clinic, medical care, Dr. Rick Turner, an extreme right-wing political group, Dr. Fatima Meer, Mewa Ramgobin, Ela Ramgobin, trade unionists, black journalists, incommunicado detention without trial, Andrew Boraine, the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), Azhar Cachalia, the General Law Amendment Act, Firoz Cachalia, Nelson Diale, Baptiste Marie, Phindile Nfethi, Susan Sibongile Mthembu, Immanuel Gotlieb Nathaniel, Petrus Nchabeleng, Robben Island, Curtis Nkondo, the Soweto Teachers' Action Committee, the Azanian People's Organization (AZAPO), Chanderden George Sewpersadh, a boycott of school, Reggie Vandeyar, Fanyana Mazibuko, the South African Council for Higher Education (SACHED), Herman Wilhelm Nickel, sanctions, Chester Crocker, the National Party, Report of the Study Commission of U.S. Policy toward Southern Africa, the Carter presidency, Vice President Walter Mondale, Donald McHenry, the Biko case, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP), the African National Congress (ANC), Hannchen Koornhof, the Transkei, the Ciskei, the Anglican Board of Social Responsibility, the MPLA, Rui Xavier, the Front Line States, SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization), Nelson Mandela, Pollsmore, Hannchen Koornholf-Fitzgerald, the Steyn Commission, the Protection of Information Bill, the Laws of Cooperation and Development Bill, Cuban forces, and the Security Council.