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-- USSouth Africa House Study Probes Arms Embargo r Breakdown r AN A staff study for .'arms embargo and let it. the House Subcommittee1 - continue even after the on Africa released late first reports of suspected , last month, focusing on,?' violations . appearcu in i arms embargo violations 'the press.v In , their, in-. by the Space Research vestigation tne suocom-- 4'' SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1322-THE CAf.CLINA I 5' mittee staff interyiewed,,; fifty individuals and ob-.: - i tained information fronwii six government agencies, In hearings held by the 1 subcommittee' on March '- . corporation,; has con i .- eluded that arms shipped illegally to South Africa. . made major contribu-: Hons to that country's - defense capabilities. The . study-also asserts that. 30,; WilliafflBrrRobin- ' the Space Research case son", director of the State shows" the failure of Department's .Office of government agencies! to Munitions ' " Control, implement the embargo sought to ' defend his effectively, even though . agency's, procedures in ; V it has been official policy for nearly two decades. - It was in August 1963 that President John Ken nedy first committed the " government to ban the export of combat equip- ': ment to South Africa . a voluntary siep oy ine . ii c r,, u '.Ur.- " j.t3. out, uic , ciiiuai jju has been binding on all United Nations members ever since Security Coun cil Resolution 418 in , 1977, for which the, United States voted. The case considered by ; the subcommittee wasi ' -the export, between 1976 h V; and 1978, of approx imately 60,000 155 mm . extended range artillery shells, at least four 155 mm' guns, and technical assistance by tne space Research Corporation, a Vermont-based company with facilities straddling' the U.S.-Canadian! ,,. ; border. The equipment ; ) was sought by ' South , ' Africa oft or tUrn. nrtnfrrtn. . tation in Angola with . Cuban troops, and was . used by South Africa to I . develop its own G-5 ar . tillery gun, billed as the ,,most advanced in the world. The weapon may evei . have been used to fire a test South African 5 nuclear device over the 1 South Atlantic in September 1979, accor ding to charges t in a . British television special, , "World in Action", in October 1980. ' mittee stafAepbrt does " . not mention the possible , nuclear connection, which was the subject of an inconclusive White House investigation. Its .jp focus, rather, is the ', government machinery that permitted such a ' massive evasion of the SWAPO On The Attack In Namibia AN In a series of guerrilla raids beginning .in mid-April, the Nami bian independence movement SWAPO has launched a major military action' that has surprised many observers by penetrating some 150 miles inside the heavily fortified ter ritory. About 100 guerrillas were reported to . have crossed the well-guarded Angolan border with Namibia in the north and to have reached the white farming district around the mining town of Tsumeb, 200 miles north of the. capital Windhoek. As of April 22, the South African Defense Force said nine of its soldiers had died in the raids, along with four civilians and 19 guerrillas. No in dependent confirmation of any of the figures is available. After a series of raids deep into Angola in cluding a major invasion last November and a large incursion last month the South . Africans suggested they had contained the guer-j rilla threat. Facing sharp questioning " in Parlia-', ment, Defense Minister ' Oen. Magnus Malan called the SWAPO ac tions "suicide missions" : and hinted at additional: attacks in Angola in retaliation. The guerrillas were said to have attacked South African troops, firing . -- Soviet-made ' 4 RPG7 rockets at an ar ' mored troop transport: ; Raids on several white .' farms, where SWAPO troops planted land ..mines, . were also , (Continued on Page 16) passing on , bpace Research Corporation's"; applications. Represen- tative Howard Wolpe (D-Mich.), however, criticized the legalistic" , character of Robinson's approach, stressing that , the purpose of the hear? . : ings was not to assess' blame but to learn how the system could be cor- rected. WASHINGTON Argentina's Ambassador to OAS Raul Qui Jano, (I) talks with St. Lucia's Ambassador Barry Auguste (r) during OAS debate on resolu tion on Faulkland Islands crisis. Talks between Argentina and Great Britian arr feared on their last leg before fighting starts. mn : mmmmmmrmwmrmmmmmmmammm, i-ummmjBimjMtiniiiMwiiimii wiiiimmiiw mumii n niiuiinii wiiw mm.iw im ii i i h i ir i i n n i in I tTX I J I Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined I rCfN I ! That Cigarette Smoking IsDangerous to Your Health. . sata I ffV?f 1 ; SMOOTH LOW TAR 1003 '" r i If l PkA , ifeyfia Jj'l j r a I' 9 ma. tar .0.7 mo. mcotii.e av. oer ciQarene by FTC method. l. ,v -tin rw :A , 4 41 J'-'- -; , - - -
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