Southern Africa

Contents: South Africa Gathers Nuclear Strength by Mike Shuster and Jennifer Davis • SPECIAL REPORT: Zaire Battlefront-West Stakes Fresh Claims in Africa by Mike Shuster and Whitney Schneidman • INTERVIEWS: 'Our War Will Continue' Says Gen. Mbumba • Exclusive Interview With Angola's Prime Minister • NAMIBIA • Still Waiting For Independence • Economic Interests In Namibia • South Africa's Presence Dominates Everywhere by Marja Liisa and Kimmo Kiljunen Overview • newsbriefs • update ANC Backs Muzorewa • US Votes on Rhodesian Embargo • Churches Aid Patriot Front • US, South Africa Set Nuclear Formula • Israel Warships For South Africa • Challenge to Zambia's Kaunda • SOUTH AFRICA • Soweto - Two Years After • ZIMBABWE • Salisbury Lies About Death of Missionaries • South African Troops in Rhodesia Says Mugabe • Dissidents Fail In Takeover • Oil Sanctions Busting: Uncovering the Cover-Up • UNITED STATES • Unions Map Apartheid Fight compiled from reports by Pippa Franks, William Allan and Lincoln Smith • Students Beware . . . Survey Aimed at Identifying Divestment Movement • washington notes • Progress on Ex-Im • Senate Conservatives Flex Muscles • Congress Loots At Investment • action news notes • U.S. BANK LOANS DENOUNCED • UNIVERSITY ACTIONS • N.A.A.C.P. TAKES STRONGER STAND • OMAHA ORGANIZES • TEXANS PICKET S.A. DIPLOMAT • TRADE UNION ACTIVITIES INCREASE • The newsletter discusses the National Front for the Liberation of the Congo (FNLC), General Nathaniel Mbumba, MPLA, FNLA, UNITA, Lopo do Nascimento, President Carter, Sam Nujoma, SWAPO, the Security Council, United Nations Commissioner for Namibia Martti Ahtisaari, United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Roman Catholic Church in SWA/Namibia, Anglican Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, the British computer company ICL, the United National Independence Party (UNDP), Kenneth Kaunda, Simon Kapwepwe, the Simonstown Naval Base, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the African National Council, ZANU, Byron Hove, Ian Smith, Ndabaningi Sithole, the World Council of Churches Program to Combat Racism, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), President Seretse Khama, the World Youth Festival in Cuba, FRELIMO, ISCOR, Francisco Mendes, Chico Te, Amilacar Cabral, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Giscard d'Estaing, Consolidated Diamond Mines (CDM), DeBeers, Tsumeb, mineral production. Rio Tinto Zinc, Rossing uranium, the Industrial Development Corporation, lead, zinc, wolfram, AMAX Newmont Mining, CFP-Total, BRGM, banks, Banque de l'Indochine, Paribas, Rothschild, Obasanjo, Rev. Edward Morrow, Rev. Heinz Hunke, the Anglican Church of Namibia, emergency legislation, the Moatize coal deposits, Katanga, Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, NATO, CIA Director Stansfield Turner, Robert Van Lierop, DTA (Democratic Turnhalle Alliance), Security Police, the Bantu Administration Office, Robert Mugabe, Mirages, Mobil Oil, Caltex, Jorge Jardim, sanctions, Prime Minister Salazar, UDI (Unilateral Declaration of Independence), SONAPMOC, the SONAREP refiner, Anglo-American Corporation, Shell, BP (British Petroleum), John Gaetsewe, the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Longshore Local 10,Warehouse Local 6 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), Krugerrand, the Clark amendment, US corporations. BOSS, Citibank, Chase Manhattan, the University of Michigan, Miami University, Amherst College, Columbia University, John D. De Butts, AT&T, divestment, Yale, Wesleyan University, the African Support Committee of Omaha (ASCO). The Rotary Club, Pieter Goosen, the South African Consul-General, the Southern African Liberation Support Committee, Stephen Solarz, and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFT).