Demonstrators demand release of Nelson Mandela Take out a years islan ON MONDAY the Reagan administration handed down another ultimatum against any real economic summit between the African frontline states and Reagan, the US State department declared this would be pointless without a commitment of the frontline states to: 'restraint and a negotiated settlement.' In other words no dismantling of apartheid is acceptable unless US interests are preserved. And the United States for 40 years has refused to take one meaningful step against apartheid. This US approach ison and US governments, in with position short, were directly hoping taken by Thatcher at the that Botha's policy Commonwealth mini- repression would work. summit during the summer The press at which she blocked all aided them in that by meaningful sanctions scrupulously observing against It South African censorship was also in with laws. An attempt was speech at the made to present the picbeginning of August in ture that black resistance which he declared: 'Sanc- had ceased tions destroy America's But leaks in the censorflexibility, discard diplo- ship laws, and the activity the criser this was ren of some courageous interthe crisis. was res- national journalists, ponded to by Bishop Des- allowing the real 110W mond Tutu with the situation to become clear. words: 'I found the speech Despite the repression, nauseating ... I think the COLLIS West, for my part, can g, high level. Only five of the the hell. Reagan's hundreds of 'urban counhypocrisy is shown up by cils' set up by the regime i the fact that throughout the black township al c the summer he has been now functioning Mass tightening sanctions unrest has spread into against Nicaragua three of the 'bantustans.
of Britain Armed attack ANCs the United States cluding by the the summer military wing Umkhonto have been to hope that We Sizwe (Spear STING repression in South Africa Nation) have continued. under the of Natal two armed atEmergency would smash tacks on the houses of black collaborators took hack Cresse thereby reduce the interna- place on Friday and Monpublicity South day.
Africa was getting. This major would reduce the pressure boycott has also been takfor sanctions. The British ing place in Sowetc where the army has been opened killing one person and in- • 011 Monday juring others in a crowd of The clamp down on the trade unions has been temporarily more effective with the South African Unions (COSATU) unable to repeat the successfu calls for general strikes or the townships campaign by the ANC continues The ANC has repeated its calls for inter national sanctions against the apartheid regime.
Six unions have submitted resolutions to thi year's TUC congress on The NUN particular, has forward stating: plauds the black working Africa struggling to throv off the twin yokes of apartheid capitalist exploitation and pledges its total support for the liberation movements of Southern Africa.
the ANC TU, UDF, and SWAPO. The NUM calls for total sanctions against South Africa.
The TUC must adopt as one of its top priorities the demand for sanctions must force four ayer men omic, off economic diplomatic, s with South cultural ties with Africa and pledge full support to the frontline states facing South Africa's reprisals.
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