Mailing to anti-apartheid activists asking for help in securing passage in the House of Representative) of H.R. 1580, the South African sanctions bill. Organizations are asked to send letters from national and local affiliates to swing members of the House and to ask individual members to contact their representatives in their district offices. The letter lists the detailed provisions of the bill. They involve a trade embargo of South Africa, full disinvestment, U.S. assistance for disadvantaged South Africans, South African/Namibian-origin uranium hexachloride and fish, illegal occupation of Namibia and implement U.N. Resolution 435 for the independence of Namibia, U.S. intelligence and...
Mailing to anti-apartheid activists asking for help in securing passage in the House of Representative) of H.R. 1580, the South African sanctions bill. Organizations are asked to send letters from national and local affiliates to swing members of the House and to ask individual members to contact their representatives in their district offices. The letter lists the detailed provisions of the bill. They involve a trade embargo of South Africa, full disinvestment, U.S. assistance for disadvantaged South Africans, South African/Namibian-origin uranium hexachloride and fish, illegal occupation of Namibia and implement U.N. Resolution 435 for the independence of Namibia, U.S. intelligence and military cooperation with South Africa, multilateralization of sanctions through international agreements, production of special nuclear material, an antitrust investigation of the South Africa-controlled international diamond cartel, South Africa's foreign exchange earnings from gold, South African consulates and honorary consulates, State Department report as to whether South Africa is engaged in state terrorism, U.S. ships transporting oil to South Africa, exporting oil to South Africa's oil industry, and requiring that departing U.S. companies negotiate with representatives of trade unions or other workers' associations. The bill also adds to existing conditions for lifting sanctions. The National Foreign Trade Council Inc. has launched a vigorous lobbying campaign to defeat the bill. The mailing includes possible House supporters of the bill.
