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Letter from George M. Houser, Executive Director, American Committee on Africa to the Financial Editor of The New York Times. In the letter Houser says he believes United States business should pull out of South Africa and that he differs sharply with Ulric Haynes Jr. who criticized the Episcopal Church's resolution to end its work there. The letter says American investments have grown over the last 20 years from $148 million to about $800 million and as the South African economy has expanded apartheid practices have worsened. The laws make any fundamental change in the status of the African, such as the right to collective bargaining and striking, impossible. The letter cites the case of Polaroid Corporation, and says apartheid is designed to keep the African people in a permanent state of subservience. The letter quotes Chief Albert J. Luthuli, Nobel Prize winner and president of the banned African National Congress. [Note: This document is a reprint by the American Committee on Africa of the letter that it circulated shortly after the letter appeared in The New York Times on Sunday, April 18, 1971.]

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Investment Dollars Bolster Apartheid

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