ACOA NOTES

Contents: ACOA TESTIFIES AGAINST PACT WITH PORTUGAL • ACOA SUPPORT PROTESTS AT NEWMONT MINING ON NAMIBIA STRIKE • ACOA URGES U.N. ACTION ON NAMIBIA • ROBERT VAN LIEROP REPORTS ON TRIP TO FREE MOZAMBIQUE WITH FRELIMO • ACOA STAFF JOINS PROTEST OF BRITISH SELL-OUT OF ZIMBABWE • ACOA AT THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEETING • JUDGE BOOTH TO GIVE EYE-WITNESS REPORT ON NAMIBIA • ACOA SUPPORTING CONFERENCE ON U.S. AND SOUTHERN AFRICA • RECENT VISITORS • • Bishop Abel Muzorewa • Gil Fernandes • Thami Mhalabiso • Ngodozi Machirori • NEW LITERATURE FROM ACOA • The newsletter says George Houser and Robert Van Lierop testified against President Nixon's $436 million executive agreement with Portugal for the Azores military base at Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The newsletter says ACOA joined the Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa and the Southern Africa Committee to support a rally and press conference at Newmont Mining Corporation's offices in New York on February 4, and to back a common Namibia Support Coalition effort to publicize the Namibian cause. The newsletter says George Houser testified before the United Nations Council for Namibia and urged that the Council take positive action to support the striking contract workers. The newsletter says at Hunter College, Bob Van Lierop and photographer Bob Fletcher gave a presentation of slides and commentary on their journey with FRELIMO in Niassa Province. The newsletter says ACOA staff members joined in a demonstration at the British Mission to the U.N. which was jointly organized by ZAPU and ZANU. The newsletter says the Nixon Administration's 1972-73 budget formalized the earlier Congressional vote breaching the U.N. sanctions against the Smith regime by allowing the import of 72 different raw materials from Rhodesia into the U.S. The newsletter says Jennifer Davis and ACOA Board members Elizabeth Landis and Timothy Smith delivered papers at the meeting of the African Studies Association. The newsletter says Judge William Booth is returning from Namibia, where he was an official observer for the International Commission of Jurists at the trial of 12 Namibian strike leaders. The newsletter says ACOA is one of more than 15 organizational sponsors of a conference on "The United States and Southern Africa" in Washington, D.C., which is being coordinated by the African Heritage Studies Association and Council for Christian Social Action of the United Church of Christ. The newsletter discusses Senator Clifford Case, SWAPO, Ben Gurirab, Al Hubbard, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Ken Williams, the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, Joel Carlson, Congressmen Diggs, Rangel, Conyers, and Stokes, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, the World Council of Churches, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), the Hunter College Black Student Union, the military struggle, PAIGC, the Fourth Committee, new ACOA Fact Sheets, Dr. Willard Johnson, the African Heritage Studies Association, Harry Applewhite, the United Church of Christ (UCC), Bill Johnston, stockholder resolutions, American Metal Climax (Amex), the World Court (International Court), no independence before majority rule, the Heath government, Tsumeb mine, the contract labor system, illegal occupation Namibia, The Africa Fund. [Note: The correct spelling of the name is Thami Mhlambiso.]