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The press release announces a demonstration organized by the Minnesota African Liberation Support Committee at the Minneapolis Federal Building, with other support committees throughout the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, to demand that Congress repeal the Byrd Amendment. Congress adopted this amendment in 1971, to permit the U.S. to import chrome from the illegal white minority regime in Rhodesia in violation of a United Nations embargo. The amendment has not accomplished what its proponents claimed it would; however, it has permitted the U.S. to import Rhodesian goods and has given $13.3 million in foreign exchange to the Ian Smith regime. Without this 20 percent share of Rhodesian trade going to the U.S., Rhodesia's exports probably would have stagnated. Bills to repeal the amendment are pending in Congress, sponsored by Senators Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey and Representatives Donald Fraser and William Frenzel. From the Minnesota Congressional delegation, the only known opponents to the repeal effort are Reps. Joseph Karth and John Blatnik.

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[THE MINNESOTA AFRICAN LIBERATION SUPPORT COMMITTEE IS STAGING A DEMONSTRATION TODAY, …]

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