ACAS Bulletin

Contents: NOTES FROM THE EDITOR • I. WESTERN SAHARA • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUGGLE by Anne Lippert • LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE DISPUTE by Anthony G. Pazzanita • U.S. SUPPORT FOR MOROCCO AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR AFRICAN UNITY by Stephen Zunes • THE SOVIET UNION AND CONFLICT IN WESTERN SAHARA by Yahia H. Zoubir • HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE WESTERN SAHARA War and INTERNATIONAL APARTHEID AND WESTERN SAHARA by Teresa K. Smith, Western Sahara Campaign • II. THE CONTINUING STRUGGLE IN THE U.S. • SOUTHERN AFRICA CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE and LEGAL CHALLENGES TO DIVESTMENT BRING MIXED RESULTS by Christine Root • SOUTHERN AFRICA: THE CRISIS DEEPENS, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES • GRASS-ROOTS ORGANIZING • THE SULLIVAN PRINCIPLES ARE DEAD! LONG LIVE THE SULLIVAN PRINCIPLES! A Critique of the Coalition on Southern Africa by Elizabeth Schmidt • TIAA-CREF SHARPEN SOUTH AFRICA INVESTMENT POLICY by Christine Root • NECC LEADERS DETAINED • THE SHARPEVILLE SIX • PROFESSOR FRED DUBE • FOCUS ON ZAIRE • THE DANCING MASKS OF AFRICAN LITERATURE • 1987/88 STUDY GROUP ON SOUTHERN AFRICA • RESEARCH ON APARTHEID - SURVEY by Harold Wolpe • III. ACAS - TEN YEARS ON...NOW • HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING OF ACAS, DENVER, NOVEMBER 29, 1987 by ACAS Executive Secretary David Groff • REFLECTIONS ON A DECADE OR SO by Immanuel Wallerstein • ON SCHOLAR ACTIVISM by John S. Saul • ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP by James H. Mittelman • EVERY MEMBER GET A MEMBER • The newsletter mentions Polisario, Javier Perez de Cuellar, King Hassan II, Mohammed Abdelaziz, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), OAU (Organization of African Unity), prisoners, USSR, ASA (African Studies Association), UNITA, the Clark Amendment, liberation struggles, the Rangel amendment, Representatives Ronald Dellums and John Conyers, Senators Alan Cranston and Carl Levin, HR 1580, S 556, sanctions, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), United Nations Resolution 435, Renamo (MNR), Jonas Savimbi, UNITA, ANC (African National Congress), SWAPO, Second Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium on Southern Africa, Robert Mazur, Lina Magaia, the Mozambique Support Network, the South Africa Foundation, pension funds, the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, Michigan, General Motors (GM), Unisys, higher education, Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Ian Smith, Rhodesia, Coalition on Southern Africa (COSA), President Reagan, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Shell Oil, Eric Molobi, the National Education Crisis Committee, Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa, Mojalefa Sefatsa, Oupa Moses Diniso, Reid Malebo Mokoena, Theresa Ramashamola, Duma Joshua Khumalo, Francis Don Mokhesi, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Clough, the International Defense and Aid Fund (IDAF), Pallo Jordan, UNESCO, Mata Lopez, Bill Martin, presidential candidates, Ann Seidman, Africa World Press, Allen Isaacman, Jacques Depelchin, Bill Minter, Bob Edgar, Candice Goucher, United Democratic Front (UDF), Govan Mbeki, disinvestment, the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (TCLSAC). The newsletter reprints a newspaper op-ed "Apartheid Is Poisoning Southern Africa" by Nancy Klepper.