ACAS Newsletter

Contents: ACAS urges no aid to UNITA and TIAA-CREF CAMPAIGN TAKES OFF by ACAS Political Action Co-chair Christine Root • TIAA-CREF AND SOUTH AFRICA TIME FOR DIVESTMENT • Should the United States Give Support to Jonas Savimbi and the UNITA Movement in Angola? by David S. Wiley • FACT SHEET: ANGOLA (Reprinted courtesy of the Washington Office on Africa Educational Fund) • OVER 500 U.S. AFRICAN SPECIALISTS PROTEST PROPOSALS TO AID ANGOLA INSURGENTS • ANGOLANS DEEMED EXPENDABLE PAWNS IN ANTI-SOVIET CRUSADE, THE CASE FOR AMENDMENT NO. 1399 • DRAFT COMMUNIQUE ON ANGOLA BY MOVEMENT OF NONALIGNED COUNTRIES • ACOA PUBLICATION ON U.S. INVESTORS IN S.A. • RESEARCH ON OIL AND AFRICA • OAU AIDE MEMOIRE ON ANGOLA by Executive Secretariat of the Organization of African Unity to the United Nations • "Stakes are so high" by Rep. Mark D. Siljander • "It's just a diversion" by Jean Sindab • STATEMENT OF DR. JEAN SINDAB, ACAS Co-Chair • THE IMMEDIATE PROSPECTS OF THE STRUGGLE IN SOUTH AFRICA by Immanuel Wallerstein, ACAS Co-Chair • NEW FILM ON DENNIS BRUTUS • ACAS ACTIVITIES AT ASA MEETING, NOVEMBER 1985 by ACAS Executive Secretary Henry Bucher • SAN-ROC DEPLORES S.A. ATHLETES AT U.S. COLLEGES • "MUSLIMS ARE CHALLENGING THE FORCES OF REPRESSION'' by Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na'im • WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANISTS • PETITION TO SUSPEND ALL AMERICAN AID TO LIBERIA • The newsletter includes an advertisement and order form by the Poster Project of anti-apartheid art. The newsletter discusses the Select Committee on Intelligence, the CIA, President Reagan, covert aid, Representative Lee Hamilton, Senators David Durenberger, Robert Dole, and David Durenberger, James Breeden, Greg Finger, the African Studies Association (ASA), Chevron, Texaco, Gulf Oil, the USSR, Chester Crocker, Zaire, FAPLA, MPLA, FNLA, China, the Clark Amendment, House Africa Subcommittee Chair Howard Wolpe, David Rockefeller, the Export-Import Bank, Kwacha-Angola, the Rockefeller Foundation, SWAPO, the Western Contact Group (U.S., Canada, UK, France, and West Germany), President Dos Santos, Cuban troop, UN Resolution 435, Congress, Gerald J. Bender, the Ford Foundation, Elliott Skinner, Donald Easum, Gwendolen Carter, Robert Cummings, Richard Sklar, M. Crawford Young, Hunt Davis, John Harris, Patrick O'Meara, John Paden, military supplies, mercenaries, illegally occupied Namibia, developing countries, the United Nations Charter, Coordinating Bureau of the Movement of Nonaligned Countries, the Luanda Declaration, the Conference of Foreign Ministers of Nonaligned Countries, American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Terisa Turner, the Organization of African Trade Union Unity, Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, Rameschand Seereekissoon, the Free South Africa Movement, African National Congress (ANC), Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Bishop Tutu, Pat Schroeder, multinational corporations, Anglo-American, Stubborn Hope, Peggy Stern, South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee, TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund), the United Democratic Front (UDF), political prisoners, and Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU). New ACAS Board members Willard Johnson, Ned Alpers, William Bigelow, Goler Butcher, and Ntalaja Nzongola.