Contents: ANGOLAN INTRIGUE AND THE IRAN-CONTRA HEARING • SANCTIONS, DIVESTMENT AND BLACK TRADE UNIONS • BUSINESS AND BANKS HELP PLUG GAPS • IN BRIEF... • A cover letter says the first edition of LINK was published in February 1986 and distributed to legislators, activists, reporters, and others. The publication focuses on economic and political events of Southern Africa. The first article reports on U.S. aid to UNITA by the Reagan administration during the period of June 1976 to August 1985, when it was illegal under provisions of the Clark Amendment. A Wall Street Journal report included that Oliver North had been involved in aid to UNITA in Angola. The article about Angola also...
Contents: ANGOLAN INTRIGUE AND THE IRAN-CONTRA HEARING • SANCTIONS, DIVESTMENT AND BLACK TRADE UNIONS • BUSINESS AND BANKS HELP PLUG GAPS • IN BRIEF... • A cover letter says the first edition of LINK was published in February 1986 and distributed to legislators, activists, reporters, and others. The publication focuses on economic and political events of Southern Africa. The first article reports on U.S. aid to UNITA by the Reagan administration during the period of June 1976 to August 1985, when it was illegal under provisions of the Clark Amendment. A Wall Street Journal report included that Oliver North had been involved in aid to UNITA in Angola. The article about Angola also mentions Samuel J. Bamieh, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, William Casey, and Admiral John Poindexter. The second article reports that, in July, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) concluded its first national conference with calls for a "living wage" for all South Africans, consolidation of worker unity under a "one industry, one union" policy, intensified struggle for pollical justice and continued economic pressure. This article also mentions the South African Railway and Harbor Workers' Union (SARHWU), the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), a miners' strike, coal, iron, steel, companies, South Africa's budget deficit, high military and police expenditure, international debt repayments, Finance Minister Barend Du Plessis, Reserve Bank Chairman Gerhard de Kok, and the National Security Management System.
