ACAS Bulletin

Contents: Letter from Interim Editor Allan D. Cooper • RESOURCES and CONFERENCES • INSIDE AFRICA NEWS: A RESOURCE FOR ACAS MEMBERS • Lutherans Plan Conference on Namibia • New Films on Southern Africa • NEWS and EVENTS • NEH Disowns "The Africans" • Congress Overrides Reagan's Veto of Sanctions • ACAS Panels at ASA 1986 • Divestment Update • THE GREAT COOK-IN • TIAA-CREF Campaign Wins Partial Victory by Christine Root • ITEM RECEIVED FROM UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM ACADEMIC STAFF ASSEMBLY (U.D.A.S.A.) • ARTICLES • Law And The State In Tanzania by Ed Ferguson, Department of History, Oregon State University • New Publications From Nigeria by Ed Ferguson • Southern Africa: Who Is The "Dependent" One? By Carol Thompson • '"Sanctions Worked in Rhodesia,' White Businessmen Say" by Elizabeth Schmidt • Zimbabwean Independence - Not For Sale by Warren "Bud" Day • The newsletter mentions Bill Derman, Jesse Helms, Dave Wiley, the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in America College Task Force on Peace and Justice Education, Gustavus Adolphus College, National Namibia Concerns, Solveig Kjeseth, California Newsreel's Southern Africa Media Center, Winnie and Nelson Mandela, apartheid, Anthony Lewis, the Soweto uprisings, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Lynne Cheney, Ali A. Mazrui, Muammar Qaddafi, Charles Krauthammer, the Senate, imports, iron, steel, arms, ammunition, military vehicles, farm products, South African state-owned companies, petroleum products, crude oil, munitions, nuclear technology or materials, computers, software, the South African military, police, new public or private loans and investments, landing rights, South African Airways, Jean Sindab, the Program to Combat Racism, the World Council of Churches (WCC), Jennifer Davis, ACOA (American Committee on Africa), Willard Johnson, Bereket Habte Selassie, Goran Hyden, Ntalaja Nzongola, Bill Minter, Elizabeth S. Landis, John Chettle, Teresa K. Smith, Thomas Franck, Anne Lippert, Phillip Naylor, Ulric Haynes, Oumarou G. Youssoufou, OAU (Organization of African Unity), Clark University, Brandeis University, Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Coca-Cola Company, Catholics, California, Japan, Harvard University, Texaco, Mobil Oil, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa, June A. Archibald, James MacDonald, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund, James Breeden, Greg Finger, Y.M. Kihore, the University of Dar es Salaam, Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, Bala Usman, Ahmadu Bello University, IMF (International Monetary Fund), Vanguard Printers and Publishers Ltd., the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), Robert Mugabe, corporations, subsidiaries, corn, drought, food supplies, migrant workers, transport of goods, South African military attacks, Rhodesia, Thatcher, trade embargo, the Tobacco Export Promotion Council, John Graylin, Ruth Weiss, OPEC, the liberation war, Eddie Cross, Cold Storage Commission, black unemployment, the rand, transnational corporations, capital flight, the Sharpeville Massacre, foreign banks, escalating trade union and community action, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), ungovernability, black townships, white minority rule, white settlers, peasant farmers, the Non-Aligned Movement, ZANU, and "constructive engagement."