ACOA NOTES

Contents: EARLY VICTORY: GE PULLS OUT OF CABORA BASSA DEAL • GULF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING, APRIL 27 • WASHINGTON NEWS • GM IN SOUTH AFRICA • SPECIAL UN SESSION ON APARTHEID • RECENT VISITORS • Sharfudine Khan • Basil Davidson • Mike Schuster • Gottfried Geingob • IN CHICAGO • SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS • OBERLIN RAISES MONEY FOR FRELIMO • INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE and AID • NEW LITERATURE AVAILABLE FROM ACOA • The newsletter reports that ACOA Washington Director Charles Hightower has been working on the South African sugar quota, testified before the House Subcommittee on Africa about U.S. business in South Africa, and will travel to Zambia soon. The newsletter reports George Houser, Bob Gore, and Tim Smith met with Rev. Leon Sullivan, the first black member of General Motor's Board of Directors. The newsletter reports on recent visitors, including Sharfudine Khan of FRELIMO, Gottfried Geingob of SWAPO, Basil Davidson on his trip into liberated Angola with MPLA, and Mike Schuster of Liberation News Service on his trip into Guinea-Bissau with the PAIGC. The newsletter includes a report of Prexy Nesbitt's activities as ACOA's Chicago representative includes his arrest while leafleting at a Portuguese-Polish soccer match, speaking engagements in Chicago and colleges in New Hampshire, and arranging speaking engagements in Chicago for Thami Mhlambiso of the African National Congress (ANC). The newsletter reports that Karen Whitmore attended the International Defense and Aid for Southern Africa annual conference in London. The newsletter discusses Jennifer Davis, a session organized by the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid, the Export-Import Bank (Eximbank), General Electric, Secretary of State Rogers, Congressmen Reuss, Diggs, Dellums, and Bingham, Congresswoman Abzug; Senators Javits and Hughes , the Gulf Campaign, the Southern Africa Task Force of the United Presbyterian Church, the Project on Corporate Responsibility, Janet Hooper, Dick Leonard, Portugal's African colonies, investor, Cabinda, university campuses with Gulf stock, Indiana University, Cornell, Oberlin, Emory, University of Illinois at Chicago, Michigan State University, the Africa group of the Committee of Returned Volunteers, E.D. Brockett, Gulf Oil Corporation, Abe Guimarres, the South African Sugar Quota, the Sugar Act, Jonathan Bingham, Ogdan Reid, Congressman John Dow, the Episcopal Church, Ulric Haynes, Jr., multinational oil corporations, Carolyn Hunter, Ken Williams, the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, Abdul Minty, the Anti-Apartheid Movement in London, Dr. Cranford Pratt, the Canadian Committee for a just Policy in Africa, Jean-Jaques de Felice, the Comite Francais contra L'Apartheid, the Southern Africa Committee, Holyoke Community College, Elisio Feguieredo, Mimi Edmunds, NATO, the Azores base, the sale to two 707's for troop transport, Liberation Support Movement (LSM), MPLA, Elizabeth Landis, Timothy H. Smith, Samora Machel, the Committee for a Free Mozambique, Rhodesia, the Riverside Church, American business involvement in South Africa, and the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa. [Note: Elisio Feguieredo is Elísio de Figueiredo.]