African Activist Archive

This Action Alert mailing to ACOA contacts asks people to wire, mailgram, or write their Senators urging them to withhold confirmation of the nomination of Nathanial Davis as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. The mailing reprints newspaper articles including: "Role in Chile Haunts Pick For State Job" by Murrey Marder, "South Africa Supports Davis For State Department Post", "Appointment Is Questioned", "Africans Formally Express Concern at U.S. Choice of Davis" by David Ottaway, and "NAMING OF DAVIS ATTACKED AGAIN"). The mailing reprints a newspaper editorial, "Africa Policy in Disrepair". The mailing discusses the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Salvador Allende government, Chile, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Andrew Young, Rep. Michael J. Harrington, CIA Director William E. Colby, John J. Sparkman, Frank Church, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Senator Dick Clark, Senator Joseph Biden, Senator Claiborne Pell, Thomas D. Boyatt, the American Foreign Service Association, Edgar Lockwood of the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), Peter Weiss of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Dean Hinton, Zaire, Sister Janice McLaughlin of the Maryknoll Sisters, President Mobutu Sese Seko, Sierra Leone, Desmond Luke, John Vorster, P.K. Leballo, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), apartheid, homelands, the African Development Bank, Representative Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Donald Easum, and Congress.

African Activist Archive

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee expected to recommend confirmation Nathaniel P. Davis to be Assistant Sectary of State for African Affairs]

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