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SATURDAY, MARCfi 27, 1982-THE CAROLINA TIMES -17. U. S. Africa, Gulf Oil Under Fire; Again For Angola Business - GREENVILLE AN1 : R- Marshall Helms, a retired professor . of,, physics at East Carolina, Uiuversity was reading' through his mail on ''January' 5 when he came across an item' that pro- mpted him to sponsor,; "that evening, 'A Resolu- tion Against Recognition f Communist Angola After purchasing ten the activities ot pumiciy-, f rJits -sort stkated 1'" We "have ecutive - officers of all Oulf shares last year, the gowned corporatwiis; -fJ1 SSStaf Trade Council submitted Calling the statements client, the ""L" KPWtfnSnSS Every Important leader- churcffleaders. chief ex- biweekly American Sen- ' facilities," tnree resolutions to me . - iaisc unu uiuiMuiug , fnmnanv for inclusion in ; Gulf areued "that ' the the oroxy . statement distributed to stock ; owner!" before each an nual meeting: Gulf decided to omit the proposed resolutions and explained its reasons Council : is engaged through the proxy solicitation procession propagandizing political positions on behalf of its client, ; Namibia, oresumably for On January 8. the Council contested Gulfs action in a suit filed in federal district court in Washington. J The- court has not acted, and the1 SEC has refrained from here 130,000 names , and addresses of what we call the leadership group in. the U.S.," said Marion Smoak, presi dent." of the U.S. -Namibia Council, ruling in the case since it ' during an interview in -..,' Ka.'nn iA. th orrtim's Washington 15 !' MUW ' UW111K v o. r " a at the regular monthly Mn a December 22 letter remuneration." meeting of Pitt County to the Securities and Ex- Republicans. The resoiu- change commission, tne tion singled out Gulf Oil government regulatory Corporation for special agency responsible for criticism. " " ' ' 1 The statement was adopted and sent to Gulf f hMdrmarters in Pitt1 ' sburgh, where over the -past several months, a steady flow of similar protests has been receiv ed. For the fifth largest U.S. oil producer, this is the second time in aK decade that its activities In sotitherh'Africa haver caused public outcry. I In the earl 1970's, when ; Angola -was still a Por-.i; . fuguese colony s Gulf was the target of a campaign ' organized by supporters of ' - - Angolan :, . in-' "'dependence. That effort, which in- eluded credit card turn-; ins, shareholder resolu tionsv and picketing, was spearheaded : by a church-spons6red Gulf Boycott Coalition in Dayton, Ohio and thd; Pan African Liberation Committee of Boston, headed by Randall . Robinson, who is now executive director of the black lobby Tran sAfrica. ; The current campaign against Gulf comes from the other side of the; political spectrum. Critics on the right ac cusing Gulf of lobbying to soften U.S. policy "toward Angola, and of ' aiding the- country's Marxist government ; , have filed stockholder1 ' ' resolutions, brdught law . suits, and called for "iMihHnThallftficMirv T .. ( .:, : ...f - : "-vl-i':-.' example or wose wmc, protests were induced by calls to action in conser vative magazines and special mailings "I have a great fear of the U.S. becoming com munist," he said in an interview in his study. "I think it's very probable that we in North Carolina and the other states will have a com munistic government before this century's over. And so this is something, in Angola, that is maybe not real vital but is sure to be an important step toward the United States being communist." Helms has conveyed his views to both of the state's conservative ' Republic senators his former campus colleague John East and Jesse Helms, who may be a j"distant cousin". Americans; for a Sound Foreign Policy in Washington, : D.C., has sponsored several mail-; ings on the issue. "An American company, in open defiance of our president, F? allied with i Communists reads the I teaser on the envelope of a letter signed by New York Republican Rep. John ,. LeBoutillier. Another mailing from the foreign policy group is signed by retired Ad miral B.N. Streen. . ; Recipients are asked to ' return a pledge card to Gulf threatening to boycott the company's, products if it does not "Stop paying the Com munists of Angola." Leading the shareholder campaign is the U.S.-Namibia (South' iWest Africa) Trade and, Cultural Council, which is registered with the U.S. Justice Department as a foreign agent for the South ' African-, sanctioned administra tion in Namibia. The resolutions filed by the Council would! prohibit expansion of1 Gulf's operations in Angola as long as the government 'there sup-, ports thi South . West African Peace's i Organization of Namibia. - (SWAPO), whose guer rilla wing is, fighting Snth African control of! position that the Coun- j cil's proposals relate to i the enforcement of a per- iudicated. Unlike the earlier boycott, the attack on Gulf from the right is well-financed and office. "It Has all libraries, all college presidents, all daily papers, all weekly papers, ft has principal ' ' ' 2l , .-yV. life tl ship position in this country we've entered in to this computer," he said.iv-avCJ - "We send especially directed letters couched in different terms to various groups depen ding on who they are, and so this word has got ten out." Phillip Abbott Luce,' founder of Americans' for a Sound ' Foreign Policy and editor of the tinel, is "also . trying to build miblic pressure on Gulf. He has appealed for - support to" such groups as the "Young Americans for Freedom, which is currently holding a series of regional conferences around the nation. In a telephone inter view, Luce accused Gulf of "aiding the enemy" by providing "hard cur rency" indirectly to the Soviet Union, while the company has "Cuban troops guarding their Gulf senior executive Charles Wooten chuckl- ed when asked about this frequently-voiced charge. "That's just not; the case. We don't really see the Cohans ourselves. We're way up in little enclave to the north. There certainly are not Cubans protec ting Gulf installations in Cabinda. There simply aren't any." Wooten said Gulf has found the Angolans to' be "pragmatic" part (Continued on Page 20) WASHINGTON President Reagan shares light moment with President Mohamad Siad Barre of ... i . rk .. . .a iL . ra-l4 II - f L. 11 Somalia they meet mine uvaiuiuceai men nue nous marcii n. UPirkolo 4 You Can Make Money Now!!! - Writing for State, Regional and National Magazines As w as Local Newspapers LET US SHOW YOU HOW!!! Enroll now in our 10-week Free-Lance Writing Program. We Guarantee Results! This hardhitting, straight-from-the-shoulder course is taught by a top free-' lance writer, with more than 12 years experience writing for newspapers and magazines. ' ': His by-line has appeared in publications such as Newsweek, Jet, Black Enferf ' prise, American Education, The New York Times, The Carolina Times. 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