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ecognition of the PAIGC as the legitimate government of
Guinea-Bissau. (Congressional Record, July 6, 1972) For
campaign position paper on Southern Africa, contact
ACOA, 164 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.
DIGGS' BILL ON FAIR EMPLOYMENT
House Joint Resolution 1139, introduced by Rep.
Diggs and cosponsored by 23 other Congressmen, would
forbid government contracts to major investors in South
Africa unless they do business there in accordance with
fair employment practices (equal pay for comparable
work, equal fringe benefits, equal hiring and tra:,iing
opportunities, equal opportunity for advancement to
supervisory and higher positions, all without regard to
race or color). It has been assigned to Rep. Celler's
Judiciary Committee. (ACOA Legislative Bulletin, June
22, 1972)
ENVOYS AND VISITORS
In correspondence with Senator Javits (N.Y.),
Assistant Secretary of State Abshire revealed that three
Black American foreign service officers-Frenise Logan,
Amos Jones, and Mal Whitfield-had been sent to South
Africa on temporary assignment and that the State
Department plans to send a fourth. The three envoys have
completed their mission without incident, and Abshire
said: "We will make the assignment routinely and have no
plans to exploit or capitalize on the appointment." (Star,
Johannesburg, June 3, 1972)
Singer Eartha Kitt, while enjoying champagne and
caviar in a plush Durban Hotel, was nonetheless ousted
from a bump-car amusement park by an Indian attendant
for "being non-white." She later said: "But I'm glad it
happened. It's made me feel the pain that the people here
have ..
The State Department annouhced that the first Black
American was to be assigned on a full-tour basis to South
Africa. He is James E. Baker, 37, a graduate of Haverford
and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, with
,experience in Africa, Tokyo, and Washington. He will
'become an economic and commercial officer in Pretoria.
The State Department said that Baker would not be
subject to any restrictions, but South Africa has resisted
the assigning of Black Americans on a permanent basis.
(International Herald Tribune, July 7, 1972; The Kansas
City Star, July 7, 1972; The Washington Afro-American,
July 11, 1972)
THE DISCOMFORT OF THE "DIALOGUERS"
The revelation that South Africa's Bantustan leaders
are subject to severe and ongoing restrictions on their
freedom came as a shock to the proponents of the Nixon
policy of increased communication-postulated on a
perception of increased change and liberty. Coupled with
the tattack on students in Cape Town, the resignation of
verligte representative Gerdener from the Ministry of the
Interior and the announcement of the Ovambo Bantustan,
this revelation is seen as undermining the case of the
supporters of dialogue. Ms. Goler Butcher (Congressional
aide on African Affairs) was not at all surprised and said:
"This makes the whole lie of the Bantustans blatant. The
attack on the students at the [Cape Town] cathedral
might perhaps have been precipitate action by the police
but this-why it gives the lie to their own policy of
separate development. It was all nonsense anyway, but
now the mask is off." (The Star, Johannesburg, July 8,
1972)
CONSERVATIVE LOBBY
The American-Southern Africa Council (20 E Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001) made an urgent appeal on
March 23, 1972 for $30,000 minimum for the balance of
the calendar year. Chairman Jaffe closes his appeal thus:
"The stakes are high! The American-Southern Africa
Council has the potential to perform its functi an as the
only countervailing force to the massive'African policy
drive now being organized by powerful, moneyed
interests of the un-American left .... Join with us to help
build a powerful and effective force actively combatting
the Communist/liberal attack on Southern Africa." (From
Council letter of March 23, 1972)
Bruce Oudes of The Washington Post (March 19,
1972, p. B2) did a long study of the conservative lobby
behind the Byrd Amendment. Called by themselves the
"503 Club," 503 being the relevant section of the Military
Procurement Act of 1971 to which the Amendment was
attached, the group includes the following: Kenneth
Towsey and John Hooper of the Rhodesian Information
Service in Washington; Bliss, Chairman of Foote Minerals;
Andrews of Allegheny Ludlum Industries and Chairman
of the Critical Materials Committee of the Iron and Steel
Institute (visited Rhodesia early in 1970); lobbyist
Margaret Cox-Sullivan; John Moxon, ex-president of
Carpenter Technological Corporation of Reading, Pa.; and
commentator Fulton Lewis Ill. Among their friends in
Congress they count Rep. Collins (D-Tex.) and Senators
Cannon and, of course, Byrd; at the White House, their
sympathetic listener is Pat Buchanan, a special friend of
Union Carbide.
. Another supporter is Kenneth Rush, who taught Nixon
at Duke and later became president of Union Carbide and
Nixon's Ambassador to Bonn. The first indication of an
-Administration shift came in September, 1970 when a
Union Carbide request for an exemption Jo import
150,000 tons of chrome paid for in 1968 was granted.
The previous, administration had refused. The key
switches in the October, 1971 vote were Roth (R-Del.)
and Metcalf (D-Mont.; due to mining pressure).
THE U.S AND SOUTH AFRICAN MISSILES
North American Rockwell Corporation has announced
the signing of an agreement with the French company,
Thomson-CSF, concerning the Cactus or Crotale
ground-to-air missile which Thomson and South Africa
developed. If the U.S. Army, which has been "conducting
routine tests" on the Cactus for over a year, decides to
adopt the missile, Rockwell would produce it. (ACOA,
Urgent Bulletin, July 21, 1972; Star, Johannesburg, July
15, 1972)