Southern Africa

Contents: update • Solomon Mahlangu Executed • Front-Line States Hail Amin Downfall • "Christian League" Linked to Info Scandal • South Africa/US Quarrel Over Spies • Rhodesia Times New Raid to Election • INTERVIEW • SWAPO Executive Member, Hidipo Hamutenya: SWAPO Ready to Continue the Struggle • SPECIAL REPORT: Right Turn in UK and US • NAMIBIA • South Africa Blocks Settlement • Corporate Interests Prepare for UDI • Uranium-Vital for Western Energy • ZIMBABWE • Voting at the Point of a Gun • SOUTH AFRICA • Information Scandal Revelations Continue • Running Interference in the US • MOZAMBIQUE • The Limpopo Valley: From Colonial Settlement to Socialization of the Countryside • UNITED STATES • House Kills Observer Plan • DEPARTMENTS • Update • Action News and Notes • Thousands Demand US Out Now by Paul Irish • Book Reviews • Letters • News Briefs • The newsletter includes a joint book review of Steve Biko, Black Consciousness in South Africa edited by Millard Arnold (Random House) and Biko by Donald Wood (Paddington Press, Vintage Books). The newsletter includes a review of the book The Emancipation of Wakefield Clay by Randall Robinson (Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications Ltd). The newsletter includes a letter from Baldwin Sjollema, World Council of Churches, Commission on the Programme to Combat Racism, Geneva, Switzerland. The newsletter discusses the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), Dirk Mudge, Administrator-General Justice M.T. Steyn, the Bantu Investment Corporation, the First National Development Corporation of SWA/Namibia, Brandeis University, Princeton University, Oberlin College, "Redline South Africa, Not New York", Citibank, the First National Bank of Boston, the United People's Campaign Against Apartheid and Racism, SUNY (State University of New York), Dumisani Kumalo, Rev. Fred Shaw, Rhodesia's Internal Settlement, Margaret Thatcher, Foreign Secretary David Owen, the Conservative Party, sanctions, liberation movements, Mishake Muyongo, the Western Five "contact group", Foreign Minister Roelof Botha, the Security Council, South African troops, "proximity talks", the 1, 969 South-West Africa Affairs Act, Rossing Uranium Ltd., the Windhoek Advertiser, De Beers, AMAX, Newmont, Rio Tinto Zinc, Falconbridge, Consolidated Gold Fields, British Nuclear Fuels, the Kansai Electric Power Company, Urenco Almelo, Callistus Ndlovu, ZAPU, Joshua Nkomo, Eschel Rhoodie, Connie Mulder, General van den Bergh, the South African Ministry of Information, John McGoff, the South African Foreign Trade Organization, S.I. Hayakawa, John Tunney, Richard Lapchick, the March 1978 Davis Cup tennis tournament, American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society (ACCESS), Senator Dick Clark, TransAfrica, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), the OAU (Organization of African Unity), Ian Smith, George McGovern, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Stephen Solarz, Representative Clement Zablocki, Representative Robert Bauman, Sam Ramsamy, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC), militant student strikes, sit-ins, demonstrations, pickets, public forums, People for Southern African Freedom, Harvard University, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boston U., Amherst, Williams, Smith, Dartmouth, Syracuse, Brown, the University of Rhode Island, the South Africa Catalyst Project, Gerry Ford (Gerald Ford), the National Party, the floodgates of the Massingir Dam, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Richard Moose, Senator Paul Tsongas, SASO (South African Students Organization), the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), Rhodes University, Prexy Nesbitt, Gail Morlan, hydro-electric power, South Africa's armed forces, pass law arrests, Influx Control, Professor Marius Wiechers, the University of South Africa, constitutional law, Viro Locks (SA), the Master Lock Company, Citibank, gold certificates, "Bantus", the U.S. Consulate in Johannesburg, the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, President Seretse Khama, Chinese advisors, making the military self-sufficient, weapons, and technology.