[Dear Friend, we won a tremendous victory when Rep. Dellum's bill calling for a complete end to U.S. investment and bank loans to South Africa passed the House of Representatives]
[Dear Friend, we won a tremendous victory when Rep. Dellum's bill calling for a complete end to U.S. investment and bank loans to South Africa passed the House of Representatives]
The mailing cover letter says as you know, we won a tremendous victory when Rep. Dellum's bill calling for a complete end to U.S. investment and bank loans to South Africa passed the House of Representatives; the fight for effective sanctions legislation now shifts to the Senate; it is very important that every Senator urged to support strong, effective sanctions legislation. The mailing cover letter says the actions taken in the next weeks could decide whether meaningful sanctions will pass in this session of Congress; this is why we hope you will immediately write or call your Senators to say that you want a complete end to U.S. investments and loans that are subsidizing apartheid; sanctions...
The mailing cover letter says as you know, we won a tremendous victory when Rep. Dellum's bill calling for a complete end to U.S. investment and bank loans to South Africa passed the House of Representatives; the fight for effective sanctions legislation now shifts to the Senate; it is very important that every Senator urged to support strong, effective sanctions legislation. The mailing cover letter says the actions taken in the next weeks could decide whether meaningful sanctions will pass in this session of Congress; this is why we hope you will immediately write or call your Senators to say that you want a complete end to U.S. investments and loans that are subsidizing apartheid; sanctions like this are included in S. 2570 introduced by Senators Kennedy, Weicker, and Cranston and your Senators should be urged to co-sponsor this legislation and push for passage of its provisions. The mailing cover letter says every day brings new revelations of death, detentions, and suffering in South Africa; if the U.S. does not respond by imposing sanctions, the apartheid regime will have received a license to commit even greater atrocities. The mailing cover letter says we expect action in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee no later than July 25, so please don't let another day go by without calling or writing your Senators. The mailing cover letter says we are also encouraging people to arrange delegations to Senators' home offices; if you would like more information, please feel free to get in touch with us; if I am out of the office you can speak with Rob Jones or Jim Cason. The mailing includes SANCTIONS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA with Background and Talking Points. SANCTIONS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA says the legislation that best responds to black South Africans' call for effective sanctions was introduced in late June by Senators Kennedy, Weicker and Cranston as S. 2570; this legislation would prohibit US investment in and bank loans to South Africa or Namibia and require US companies to withdraw within six months, ban US trade with South Africa, except for certain strategic minerals, prohibit South African aircraft from landing in the US. The mailing discusses Senator Nancy Kassebaum, the struggle for freedom, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Black South Africans, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and the Anti-Apartheid Act.
