In February 1987, anticipating continued opposition to sanctions by the Reagan Administration and congressional conservatives, Rep. Ron Dellums and Senator Alan Cranston introduced HR 1580/S 556, legislation to impose comprehensive sanctions against South Africa. Comprehensive sanctions, rather than the limited measures passed by the Congress in 1986, are the needed to respond to the continuing apartheid violence in South Africa, to South Africa's illegal occupation of Namibia, and its economic and military assaults on neighboring states. The sanctions law enacted October 2, 1986 is limited and circumventable, and the Reagan Administration has exploited the loopholes in the law and weakened...
In February 1987, anticipating continued opposition to sanctions by the Reagan Administration and congressional conservatives, Rep. Ron Dellums and Senator Alan Cranston introduced HR 1580/S 556, legislation to impose comprehensive sanctions against South Africa. Comprehensive sanctions, rather than the limited measures passed by the Congress in 1986, are the needed to respond to the continuing apartheid violence in South Africa, to South Africa's illegal occupation of Namibia, and its economic and military assaults on neighboring states. The sanctions law enacted October 2, 1986 is limited and circumventable, and the Reagan Administration has exploited the loopholes in the law and weakened some of its stronger provisions by implementing loose regulations which permit business as usual in many sections of the South African economy. The June 16th National Anti-Apartheid Lobby Day will include lobbying, demonstrations, vigils, church services, and other activities commemorating the massacre of Soweto schoolchildren in 1976, and calling for the passage of HR 1580/S 556. Please recruit cosponsors for HR 1580 and S 556, contact members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The mailing mentions Africa Subcommittees of the House am Senate, Reps. James Bilbray James Clarke, and Fofo Sunia, and Senators Daniel P. Moynihan, Terry Sanford, and Nancy Kassebaum.
