ACAS Bulletin

Contents: NOTES FROM THE EDITOR by Warren 'Bud' Day, outgoing editor • I. SOUTHERN AFRICA - DESTABILIZATION and NEGOTIATION • Namibia: Peace After Failure by Gerald J. Bender • CASTRO REPORTS TO CUBANS ON MISSION IN ANGOLA - excerpts from speech in Havana, December 5, 1988 • CROCKER'S PEACE IN BASED ON VIOLENCE by Kevin Danaher • ANGOLA PASSES LAW OFFERING BROAD AMNESTY by Charles Marshall, U.S.-Angola Friendship Society • Operation Timber: Pages From the Savimbi Dossier reviewed by Charles Marshall • INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM MINTER by Charles Marshall (September, 1988) • NAMIBIA - IMPLICATIONS OF UNSCR 435 excerpts from paper by Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law • MOZAMBIQUE - FOOD FOR RELIEF: FOOD FOR DEVELOPMENT by Sam Barnes, UNDP Information Officer, Maputo • MOZAMBICAN DIGNITARY TO TOUR U.S. by Lisa January, National Coordinator, Mozambique Support Network • II. APARTHEID'S ECONOMIC LINKS • BREAKING THE TIES: THE CALL FOR CORPORATE WITHDRAWAL by Donna Katzin, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility • III. THE CONTINUING STRUGGLE • MORE JURISDICTIONS ADOPT COMPREHENSIVE DIVESTMENT LAWS by Christine Root • BOSTON DECLARED "SHELL FREE" excerpted from press release, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) • SOUTH AFRICA AND THE 101st CONGRESS by Bud Day • Position Available - Executive Director, Washington Office on Africa • ACTION ALERT by the Washington Office on Africa • WHAT IS THE RELIGIOUS ACTION NETWORK? by Dumisani Kumalo, American Committee on Africa • "Changing the Country," reviewed by Christine Root • NEW PROGRAMS AND RESOURCE MATERIALS • "Out From Underdevelopment: Prospects for the Third World" reviewed by Jack Parson • IV. UPDATE ON ACAS • MINUTES OF THE ACAS BUSINESS MEETING CHICAGO, OCTOBER 28, 1988 • EXECUTIVE SECRETARY'S CORNER by David Groff • The newsletter mentions Allan Cooper, Ahmed Samatar, the Reagan Administration, Chester Crocker, the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), UNITA, Cuito Cuanavale, aerial bombing, commando raids, imprisonment without trial, MPLA, anti-colonial struggle, beeswax, puma skins, Craig Van Nout, Conservation, Environmental and Animal Welfare Consortium, Gay McDougall, Africa Exchange, SWAPO, the Administrator-General (A-G), SWATF (South West Africa Territorial Force), RECCE, 32 Battalion, Koevoet, Special Branch, Special Police, World Food Program (WFP), refugees, Dieter Hannusch, Graca Machel, Mozambican Children's Organization, "Continuadores," UNESCO, Mozambique National Resistance, shareholder resolutions, corporate withdrawal, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, "constructive engagement," right-wing organizations, the Anti-Apartheid Act, loopholes, Royal Dutch/Shell, taxes, technology, trade credits, non-equity ties, Ford, GM (General Motors), the South African Reserve Bank, franchise agreements, Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, Frank Chikane, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Chase Manhattan Bank, loans, disinvestment, IRRC, Merle Lipton, oil imports, the Anti-Apartheid Petroleum Sanctions Act, the Shipping Research Bureau, Trust Bank of Africa Ltd., Chris van Wyk, Minorco, the Anglo American group, TIAA-CREF, Mayor Raymond Flynn, Richard Trumka, Ed Asner, disc jockey Charles Laquidara, detainees, COSATU, Carol Thompson, Peter Davis, Peter Kjeseth, Ann Lippert, UPA/FNLA, OAU, Mobil Oil, foreign debt, and the National Labor Boycott Shell Committee.