[Dear Friends: 1986 has been a challenging as well as exciting and production year of work and achievement for the Washington Office on Africa.]

Mailing seeking contributions to the Washington Office on Africa. The mailing says 1986 bas been a challenging as well as exciting and productive year of work am achievement for the Washington Office on Africa; however, South Africa's massive December crackdown on press freedom and against anti-apartheid leaders and organizations underscores the need for us to redouble our efforts in the new year to dismantle apartheid; Pretoria's latest round of repression is designed to wipe out the entire above ground anti-apartheid leadership, cripple major opposition groups such as the UDF and COSATU, and weaken support for the ANC; once again the South African government has demonstrated its unwillingness to negotiate a peaceful solution to the crisis in southern Africa. The mailing says I am writing to request your continued am invaluable support for the struggle for justice in southern Africa and for the work of our office; in view of South Africa's escalating repression, alternative sources of information like the Washington Office on Africa will play an important role in keeping the voice and image of the struggle audible and visible in the United States; we will continue to serve the growing information and lobbying needs of the anti-apartheid movement as it organizes to fight for comprehensive sanctions legislation, increased divestment and boycott campaigns, and an end to South Africa's regional war. The mailing says as a result of our intensive lobbying am education efforts in 1986, the Washington Office on Africa has been recognized as a major force in the successful effort to achieve significant anti-apartheid legislation in the 99th Congress; through our participation in crucial strategy meetings, our dissemination of timely legislative comparisons and information, our demonstrations protesting UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi 's visit to the United States and the "People's Witness for Senate Passage of Sanctions" in front of the Senate Office Buildings, our educational briefings concerning Namibian Independence, and our repeated appearances at Press Conferences, on radio and television programs, in the print media and at national and international anti-apartheid activities--WOA was able to greatly increase its visibility and effectiveness. The mailing says the passage of the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 over President Reagan's veto was a major victory for the anti-apartheid movement and helped to bury the already discredited policy of constructive engagement. The mailing says in conjunction with the Washington Office m Africa Educational Fund (WOAEF), WOA has already and will be producing a number of comprehensive written resources on southern Africa, including the Free Namibia Packet, the Southern Africa Information Packet, Apartheid Extended: The Illegal Occupation of Namibia, Destabilizing Angola: South Africa's War and U.S. Policy, and a number of audio-visual materials including Amandla, and a slide show and video on the effects of U.S. aid to UNITA. The mailing discusses the Anti-Apartheid Action Hotline, Action Alerts, Fact Sheets, legislative updates and analyses, RENAMO, development and security aid to the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) and the Frontline States, liberation movements, racist propaganda, disinformation campaigns, Shiloh Baptist Church, UDF (United Democratic Front), ANC (African National Congress), and COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions).