Contents: SANCTIONS • OTHER ANT-APARTHEID LEGISLATION •AID TO THE SOUTHERN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION CONFERENCE (SADCC) • The 1987 Supplemental Appropriations Bill • 1) Exclusion of Mozambique and Angola. • 2) Exclusion of nations not preventing "terrorism." • NAMIBIA • ANGOLA • The report says the Comprehensive Sanctions bill, introduced Feb. 19 by Rep. Ron Dellums and Senator Alan Cranston, would impose a total trade embargo and require complete withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa. Senate Resolution 176, introduced by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D--MD) and Representative Cardiss Collins (D-IL), would condemn South Africa for its inhuman detention and torture...
Contents: SANCTIONS • OTHER ANT-APARTHEID LEGISLATION •AID TO THE SOUTHERN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION CONFERENCE (SADCC) • The 1987 Supplemental Appropriations Bill • 1) Exclusion of Mozambique and Angola. • 2) Exclusion of nations not preventing "terrorism." • NAMIBIA • ANGOLA • The report says the Comprehensive Sanctions bill, introduced Feb. 19 by Rep. Ron Dellums and Senator Alan Cranston, would impose a total trade embargo and require complete withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa. Senate Resolution 176, introduced by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D--MD) and Representative Cardiss Collins (D-IL), would condemn South Africa for its inhuman detention and torture of thousands of children. The House version of the 1987 Supplemental Foreign Assistance Act provides no aid for SADCC; all foreign aid was deleted in a swift Republican-led legislative maneuver. The Senate version of the Supplemental bill stipulates that no U.S. money for SADCC can go to projects for Mozambique and Angola. During the Conference Committee, Senate Conferees refused to accept substitute language by Senator Paul Simon (D-IL) and supported by a bi-partisan Senate coalition; instead, the Conferees agreed to change a few words in the Pressler Amendment to refer to "persons" instead of "organizations" that support necklacing. House Resolution 131, sponsored by Rep. Mervyn Dymally, expresses the sense of Congress regarding U.S. policy in Namibia; among other provisions, the Resolution condemns U.S./South African insistence on removal of Cuban troops from Angola as a pre-condition for the implementation of UN Resolution 435, the internationally accepted plan for Namibian independence. Senate Resolution 174, introduced by Senator Dennis DeConcini in a "sense of the Senate" non-binding resolution that condemns the Angolan government for alleged human rights violations and calls for an end to all U.S. imports from Angola. The report mentions HR 1580/S 556, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Senators Daniel Inouye, Robert Kasten, Robert Dole, and Pressler, and Representatives David Obey, Mickey Edwards, and Matthew McHugh, S 1228, HR 2112, the Intelligence Authorization Bill, House Intelligence Committee, UNITA, and covert funding.
