ACOA NOTES

Contents: ACOA PLANS FOR GULF CAMPAIGN • ACOA PRESSES CONGRESSIONAL ACTION TO OPPOSE SALE OF 707'S TO PORTUGAL • ACOA AND POLAROID WORKERS TESTIFY AT THE UN • STOP THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR QUOTA • ACOA LITERATURE BANNED IN SOUTH AFRICA AS SUBVERSIVE • ACOA STAFF JOINS IN FFRENCH-BEYTAGH PROTEST • RECENT VISITORS • IN CHICAGO • MEETING ON SOUTHERN AFRICA HELD AT INTERCHURCH CENTER • STOP CAMPUS RECRUITERS WITH SOUTH AFRICAN • NEW LITERATURE FROM ACOA • NEW FILMS • The newsletter says ACOA, along with church and student groups is working on the Gull Campaign again, organizing publicity and public pressure to get Gulf to withdraw its operations from Portugal's colonies. The newsletter says George Houser and Bob Gore joined Washington Director Charles Hightower on March 3rd in contacting members on Congress about possible actions to oppose the sale of two Boeing 707's to Portugal, which has been approved by the Nixon Administration. The newsletter says the 707's are expected to be used to transport troops to the African colonies for the wars against the liberation movements. The State Department has denied that the sale will contravene the embargo on materials that might aid Portugal in its colonial wars. The newsletter says George Houser joined Ken Williams and Caroline Hunter of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement in testifying before the Special Committee on Apartheid at the United Nations; George supported the Polaroid Workers call for a boycott on all Polaroid products. The newsletter Charles Hightower has also been working on the Sugar Quota issue, preparing testimony to present before the House Agriculture Committee to urge that the South African quota be revoked. The newsletter says ACOA's information sheet on U.S. aid to South Africa's nuclear development program ("Would You Give South Africa Nuclear Power? -- The U.S., Did.") has been banned by the South African Government. The newsletter says ACOA staff joined in a demonstration at the South African Airways office on 5th Avenue organized by the Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa on February 26 to protest the detention of the Anglican Dean of the Johannesburg Cathedral. The newsletter says Prexy Nesbitt worked with a number of local groups in the Midwest Conference on Imperialism and Liberation in the 70's. The newsletter says Charles Hightower met with people from the National Council of Churches, the Church World Service, the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, and the United Presbyterian Church. The newsletter says last fall ACOA learned of efforts by students at the University of Michigan to prevent campus recruiting by corporations which deal with South Africa. The newsletter discusses the Unity Movement, Janet Mondlane, FRELIMO, Dr. Eduardo Mondlane, the Mozambique Institute, Andreas Shipanga, SWAPO, herbicides, South African security police, Mozambique 1970, Edward Koch, Bella Abzug, Alan Cranston, Edward Kennedy, Clifford Chase, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, End of the Dialogue, Nana Mahomo, Ken Carstens, the Terrorism Act, the Suppression of Communism Act, Chicago Theological Seminary, Jonathan Bingham, Ogden Reid, a stockholders' meeting, and the Southern Africa Committee. [Note: the correct spelling of the name is Matthew Meselson.]