United States-Southern Africa
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.-AN Buoyed by two
well-attended national
conferences in New York
last month, anti
apartheid activists are
gearing up for "Two
Weeks of Action in Sup
port of Southern African
Liberation Movements"?
next Spring. Organizers
want to mobilize the
diverse groups working
on southern : African
issues for a cooperative
effort to arouse public ,
concern.;
The largest of the two
New York gatherings -7
the Conference in
Solidarity with the
Liberation Struggles of
the Peoples of Southern
Africa, held October
9-11 at New , York's
Riverside Church at
tracted some 1,000
delegates from political,
religious, trade union,
and other organizations
across the country. The
National Student Anti
Apartheid, Strategy Con
ference at Hunter Col
lege a week earlier drew
participants from fifty
campuses in twenty
states.
The American Com
mittee on Africa, which
organic the .student
meeting, proposed the .
Spring action to both!
conferences, where it ;
won strong backing. The :
kick-off date for the two ;
weeks is March 21, the
anniversary ., of . the :
Sharpeville demonstra-'
tions in South Africa in,'
which 67 protesters werCi
killed by police. The end,
date is April 4, the an-i
niversary of Martin,
Luther King's assassina
tion. To prepare for the ac
tion, regional sessions
are being held in
California earlier this
month, in Amherst,
Massachusetts (for New
England), on November
21, and in New York Ci
ty (for New York,
Philadelphia, New
Jersey, and Washington,
D.C) on December 5.1 support clause Is notf
Northwest, mid-west,' limited toSWAPO and;
and southern regional the ANC, - but by im
meetings are planned for ; plication includes v the '
February, probably in fan Atricanist uongress
Eugene, 5 Oregon,-.
Champagne-Urbana, Il
linois and New Orleans.
. Much like the two:'
New York conferences, '
the; Spring action will:
mobilize around four !
political themes: support
for liberation
.movements in Namibia
and South Africa; calls
for the withdrawal of
U.S. corporations from
South Africa and for an
end to all academic,
cultural, and sporting
ties with that country;
opposition to the Reagan
administration's warmer
relations with the white
' government; and linkage
of the southern African
issues with opposition to
racism in the U.S.
Last'month's solidari
ty conference adopted
what is being called The
New York Declaration,
which outlines the three
purposes that brought
participants together:
"1) to expose the in
creasing collaboration of
the U.S. government and
corporations with the
South African apartheid
regime and its continued
illegal occupation of
Namibia; 2) to mobilize
the people of the U.S. to
compel our government
and corporations to in&
their collaboration with:
racism, colonialism and;
military aggression in
southern Africa; and 3)
to organize mass support
in the U.S. for the libera
tion movements of
southern Africa, led by
the African National
Congress (ANC) of
South Africa and the
South West Africa Peo
ple's Organization
(SWAPO) of Namibia."!
The Spring action pro-1
posal differs in one;
respect from the '
Solidarity conference.
The liberation movement
(PAC), the other outlaw-;
from participation., "We.-;
are inspired by the exam-
pie of the men and!
women of SWAPO and
the ANC, who having ;
exhausted all peaceful
ed South African move-l means, have been com-
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recognized by the
Organization of African :
Unity. . 1
The ANC andj
SWAPO were listed as
co-sponsors of the
Solidarity Conference,
while PAC was excluded
the New York Declara
tion says.
The conference docu
ment goes on the lambast
the American govern
. ment for ' forging a
deepening alliance with
'the criminal apartheid.
FranceAfrica
DIPLOMACY PAYS OFF
AN An
precedented thirty
African nations gatltered ;
in Paris last week for the '
un ' Mitterrand's low-key ap-t
proach to France's role
on the continent.
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annual Franco-African , tooer tne hrencn leader
summit, an event that
provided French Presi
dent Francois Mitterrand i
with a vote of confidence ',
in his foreign policy.
Nineteen African
received visits from
seven African heads of
state, not only from
former French colonies
Chad, Cameroon,
Benin, Comoros and'
heads of state attended . Madagascar, but also
NAACP Meets With St. Aug, Students
, Several student leaders at St. Agustine's collaborated during an All-college assembly which led lo a joint
interview with guest speaker Rev. Dr. Emmett Burns, Regional Director, NAACP. L-R: Ms. Sammic
Brown, editor, THE PEN, Student newspaper; Muhammed Jah, president. International Student Associa
tion; Rev. Dr. Emmett Burns, Regional Director, NAACP; and Austin Cooper, vice president. Student
Government Asociation (SGA). Rev. Dr. Burns spoke on "The Reagan Adminislraion: Impact and
Response of Blacks, Women, and The Poor."
the sessions, as well as '
delegations from non-French-speaking
African
countries such as Tan
zania and Zimbabwe.
France's Socialist
government, which took
office in May, has not
abandoned efforts to
maintain French in
fluence and economic
ties with its former col
onies and other African
' states. But it has sought
tb avoid the heavy
handed interventions of
the previous government
of Giscard d'Estaing,
and it has shied away
from the confrontational
stance now being ad
vocated in Washington.
In the view of many
observers, then, the high
turnout and amicable
tone of the discussions at 1
last week's summit
reflect a degreefofi
African enthusiasm for.
from Presidents Julius
Nyerere of Tanzania and
Jose Eduardo dos Santos
of, Angola. Earlier
visitors included Presi
dent Houphouet-Boigny
of Ivory Coast, Prime
Minister Habib Thiam of
Senegal, and Prime
Minister Seewoosagur
Ramgoolam of Maritius.
Among those leaders
not received earlier,
though in attendance at
the summit, is President
Mobutu Sese Seko of
Zaire, the head of state
originally slated to host
this year's Franco
African summit.
Mobutu was a close
friend of Mitterrand's
predecessor, Giscard
d'Estaing, who sent
paratroops to help sup
press the Shaba uprisings
in 1977 and 1978. Now,
however, Paris is con
cerned to distance itself
from Mobutu, and, in
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addition to moving the
summit site, the Socialist ,
government has refused
to pledge future military
support in the event of a
new crisis for the Zairian
leader.
A similar stance of
restraint in the use of
military power was evi
dent with respect to the
Central African Rep
bulic, where in 1979
French troops had
played a prominent role
in removing Emperor
Bokassa and replacing
him with President
David Dacko. As Dacko
moved this year to sup
press opposition, France
pointedly refrained from
signs of support, and in
September, when army
commander Andre Kil
ingba took over from
Dacko in a bloodless
coup, French troops in
the country stayed in
their barracks and made
no move to invervene.
North -South
economic issues and
V, Qad were; the1' major
K' ItemsSf disarssbrr ar
last week s summit. In
September, Mitterrand
hosted a United Nations
conference on the plight
of the "least developed
countries," including 22
nations in Africa. And in
talks with other world
powers, as in Cancun,
Mexico, last month,
France's conciliatory
stand toward negotia
tions on economic issues
has contrasted sharply
with that of the United
States.
On the Chad question,
France has shared the
American concern about
the expansion of Libyan
influence, especially into
French-speaking areas of
west Africa such as
Chad, whose President
Goukouni Oueddei call
ed in Libyan troops last
December. But while the
U.S. news media have
often portrayed Libyan
involvement as a 'take
over,' and while close
U.S. allies Egypt and
Sudan have supported
Hissein Habre's guerrilla
opposition to the Chad
central government,
France has sought to
eaable Ptesident
Goukouni to gain more
independence from his
Libyan ally.
Last week the strategy
appeared to pay off, as
Libyan troops began to
depart N'Djamena on
the eve of the Paris
meeting, following a re
quest from President
Goukouni.
The exodus was to
have been completed by'
the end of the week, and
Libyan troops have
already reportedly been
withdrawn from eastern
Chad, where they have
faced Habre's guerrillas.
Reportedly as a result
of French pressure,
Habre declared a cease
fire last week, and an
inter-African peacekeep
ing force-is envisaged to
help maintain order in
the country.
Organization of
African Unity Chairman
Daniel Arap Moi,
Kenya's president, is
overseeing preparations
for the deployment of
the neutral force in
Chad. The OAU has fail
ed in past attempts to
mediate the Chad con
flict, and the organiza
tion's prestige will be
boosted by a successful
effort now. A continua
tion of the Libyan
presence or a breakdown
of the cease-fire are seen
as likely obstacles to the
completion of the exercise.
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