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Mailing from Damu Smith to Washington Office on Africa (WOA) Board members mentions WOA's increased visibility regarding the state of children under apartheid. For the WOA's 15th anniversary, the staff recommends a fundraising celebration, which board members could help to organize. Smith notes a Proclamation by the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas proclaiming March 21 to April 6, 1987 as National Weeks of Anti-Apartheid Action, which commends the outreach efforts of WOA's Jaqueline Wilson. Smith also mentions his new Executive Assistant, Beverly DeHoniesto. The mailing includes newspaper articles "Resolution Backs S. African Children" by Eric Pianin, "FRONTLINE STATES BACKED AT CONFERENCE" by Akinshiju C. Ola, and "Raising temperatures outside halls of Congress." The mailing mentions the Washington Office on Africa Educational Fund, cosponsors of Senator Barbara Mikulski's resolution calling for the release of South African children in detention, Adriaan Vlok, the Detainees' Parents Support Committee (DPSC), Secretary of State George P. Shultz, South African President Pieter W. Botha, the Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium on Southern Africa, Shiloh Baptist Church, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization), Rev. Jesse Jackson, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the African National Congress (ANC), Jennifer Davis, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Jerry Herman, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Lisa Crooms, the National Alliance of African Youth and Students, the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), UNITA, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Free South Africa Movement (FSAM), Presbyterian and Methodist churches, the National Progressive Baptist Convention, the United Church of Christ, Oumarou Youssoufou, Renamo (MNR), the Reagan doctrine, and Gatsha Buthelezi, Jonas Savimbi. [Note: The Proclamation by the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas, dated March 18, 1987, is on this website.]

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[Dear Board Member: I am enclosing, for your information, a recent article from The Washington Post in which the Washington Office on Africa was quoted.]

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