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NANCY BURTON

C.aptaL Dtfict Coalitiott Against Apaytheid, and RacismP.

As we begin a new year and prepare ourselves for the

'IThe protest demonstration and

civil disobedience action whichtook place on January 17, 1985

.at the Leo F . O'Brien FederalBuilding In Albany was held inconjunction with the nationwideFree South Africa Movement . Thelocal action, co-sponsored bythe Albany NAACP and the CapitalDistrict Coalition AgainstApartheid and Racism, receivedthe support of many groups andindividuals.

NAI,IKS TO ALL WHO MADE THISEVENT OF' PROTEST A, SUCCESS

The main goal of the anti-,apartheid movement is an end tothe racist anartheid system ofSouth Africa . Other demands arefor the release f XTelson t ?andela,and all political prisoners andL

for an end to the U .S . govern-ment's policy of " constructiveengagement" with South Africa.

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NO TO APARTHEID

NO To RACISM

African National Congress Of South Africa

Observer Mission to the United Nations and Representation to the U .S.

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Capital District Coalition AgainstAparcneia and t .acism,c/o Vera Michaelson,P .O . Box 3002, Pinehill Station,Albany, N .Y . 12203.

Dear Friends,

struggles ahead, we take this occassion to extend to you, the

warmest fraternal greetings and best wishes of success in all your

endeavours on behalf of our people and all people in general . We

trust that the cordial relations that bind our organisations due

to our common committment to the struggle against all forms of

opression and exploitation of man by man and for freedom, will thrive

even more as the struggle advances.

We welcome the renewed upsurge in the U .S .A . of solidarity

with our struggle, thanks to the American people . This is no doubt

due to the initiatives of organisations like yours . It is in this

important context that we welcome the Action at the Federal Building

slated for the 17th January, co-sponsored by the NAACP and your

organisation . We wish this initiative all the success it deserves .Th

Neo MnumzanaANC-SA Representative to theUnited Nations.

Once more thank you for all your endeavours on behalf

f of our struggle, I remain

10 seized in anti-apartheidprotestBy Quinces+ R. JohnsonStaff writer

A protest against U.S

. policies onSouth Africa ended . Thursday with thearrest of 10 area civic and religiousleaders at the Leo W . O'Brien FederalBuilding in Albany.

The 10 demonstrators were arrestedand charged with disorderly conductafter they refused to leave the buildinglobby.

As the 10 disobeyed orders to leaveand sat down in the lobby, more than200 protesters walked a picket lineoutside . the building in sub-freezingweather . Pickets included AlbanyCounty Legislator Sandra Rose Tetn-ple and Alice Green of the Americ'hn'Civil Liberties Union.

They yelled and chanted slogansagainst Reagan administration policiesthat they said did not do enough toforce changes in South Africa's aparth-

eid system, which they said unfairlydiscriminates against the country'sblack majority.

eMartin Manley, a Schenectady resi-dent—and member of the CoalitionAgainst Aparthied, said he was notworried about being arrested . "Not atall," he said . "I think this ii the righttime carry on this activity . When it isdone in an organized group, it's a niceway to work for justice."

He said be has been working againstaparthied since the SouthAfricanSpringbok rugby team came to Albanyin - 1981 . ., "It's, my usual ,inclination , toavoid being arrested," Manley said.

Albany 6th Ward Alderman NancyBurton, who also was arrested; said thewanted to enlighten people about theReagan administration's policy towardSouth Africa. "This administration putseconomics over human tights. This is adrastic shift over the last administra-

tion," Burton said.The Reagan policy, described by

administration officials as construc-tive engagement, calls for behind-the-scenes diplomacy without public criti-cism of the South African governmentpolicies involving treatment of blacks.

Vera Michelson, one of the organiz-ers of the protest, said the administra-tion's policy of constructive engage-ment is "a hideous coverup for actuallysupporting aparthied South Africa ."

Trevor Abrahams of the AfricanNational Congress, one of the picketsmarching outside the building, saidpeople all over the world are protest-ing minority rule in South Africa . Hesaid the regime is repressive to blacksin the country.

Abrahams said protesters wantedthe release of people imprisioned

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WASHINGTON, D .C .—A wave -of .anti-apartheid civic disobedience is buildinginto anunprecedently powerful challenge to the'Reagan administration 's policy of "construc-tive engagement" with the white supremacistregime in South Africa.

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.The congruence_ of the two events is not

coincidental . . " We saw that the oppression [inSouth Africa] directly intensified as the result

(Continued on page 6)(Continued from page 1)of the reelection of Ronald Reagan," ex-plains Randall Robinson, director of TransAf-rica, a Black lobbying group which has helpedcoordinate the embassy protests.

Apartheid's enforcers came down hard fol-lowing a Nov . 5-6 general strike by a millionblack South African workers and students.They arrested 21 trade union leaders, whohave not been charged or heard from sincethen, and carried out a series of military raidson black townships, with scores of protestersbeing killed and thousands detained ..

At the same time, the Reagan administra-tion ignored the mounting repression andstood by its policy of cooperation with SouthAfrican authorities . In the midst of this bloodycrackdown, U .S . officials were claiming tosee evidence of "progress" in South Africa.

Earlier this fall, the White House succeededin easily blocking anti-apartheid legislationwhich had been drafted by members of theCongressional Black Caucus . Black leaderswere further angered by Democrat WalterMondale's failure to make South Africa amajor presidential campaign issue or to force-fully condemn Reagan's "constructive en-gagement" approach.

Conversely, many U .S . Blacks were greatlyheartened when Bishop Desmond Tutu, alongtime foe of the Pretoria regime, wasawarded the Nobel peace prize in October.Tutu made a deep impression when he toldBlack leaders here two months ago, "Forgoodness sake, put your act together ."

The act is now indeed being put togetherunder the banner of the Free South AfricaMovement, which is led by Robinson ofTransAfrica, the Congressional Black Caucus,the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and theSouthern Christian Leadership Conference.

Many of the activists involved in this re-cently formed campaign are veterans of the

Fro" the Gua(eiitsnDec. iz, 19ss

civil rights movement which spread across theSouth like a prairie fire in the early 1960s.Memories of those sit-ins, which broke downthe walls of segregation in the U .S ., are fre-quently invoked now by speakers at the SouthAfrican embassy picketlines , here. TheWashington Post has likewise seen a parallel,noting recently : "The anti-apartheid move -ment, in the space of a few weeks, appears tohave galvanized Black support like no othersocial issue since the civil rights movement of20 years ago .''

District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry,a former Student Nonviolent CoordinatingCommittee member, notes a "big differ-ence," however . This time, Barry says,"we're in charge ."

Bruised by the punch of the protests, theReagan administration is meanwhile flailingaway at the demonstrators . The movement ' scharge that the U .S . aids and abets apartheid isangrily denounced as "rubbish" by ChesterCrocker, assistant secretary of state for Afri-can affairs . Crocker maintains that Reagan ' spolicy of "quiet diplomacy" and "construc-tive engagement" is bringing about "a pro-cess of change" in South Africa.

—Constructive engagement has given a badname to democracy," 'countered Bishop Tutuat a Dec . 3 benefit in New York City for theAfrican-American Institute . "Coast tive en-2a2ement is an abomination, an unmitigateddisaster .' ' Tutu told the audience at the Wal-dorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan . "Whams

, the anger?' ,' he asked his listeners.The anger is plainly evident at the embassy

demonstrations here and at South African con-sulates in New York, Boston, Chicago, LosAngeles, Houston and Seattle . In New York,seven civil rights leaders and Black politicianswere arrested Dec . 3 and 4 as daily protestsgot underway there ; a major demonstration isplanned for Dec . 10 . In Beverly Hills, Calif .,200 joined the picketline Dec . 4.

In San Francisco, demonstrators have fo-cused on a dock where workers have refusedto unload South African cargo for nearly twoweeks . One person was arrested Dec . 4 whileattempting to block a truck there.

The AFL-CIO has begun to play an activepart in the embassy and consulate protests.Several union leaders have been arrested sofar, and Black and white union members werea major component of the crowd of over 500 atthe embassy here Dec . 4, the largest yet of thedaily protests . The president of the NewspaperGuild and the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO were among those arrested that day.

"We already have enough people commit-ted to being arrested to let us continue theseprotests indefinitely," declares Robinson.

The mostly Black District of Columbia

Harry Belafonte on the D .C . picketline.

ByJACK COLTJOUNGuardian Correspondent

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10 held in anti-apartheid protestcontinued from B-1~because of their opposition ~o SouthAfrican government policies.

Arrested and released for appear-ance in Albany Police Court 9 :30 a.m.today were:

Manley, of.216 Front St., Schenecta-dy; Burton, of 213 Elm St ., Albany;Rersin Adams, - 112 Chestnut St., Al-bany, of the Coalition Against Aparth-eid; Isaac Bracey, Old Hickory Drive,Albany; of the National Association forthe Advancement of ' Colored People;' the Rev W. 'Alan Delamater, . pastor ofCalvary United ' Methodist Church,Albany; the Rev. Robert W. Dixon,pastor of Calvarry 'baptist Church,Albany; John Funicello of the AlbanyCentral Labor, Council; the Rev. Brian

O'Shaughnessy, a priest in the AlbanyRoman Catholic Diocese; the Rev.Alvin C. Porteous, pastor of 1JmmanuelBaptist Church, Albany; and Dr . Lawr-ence S . ~ Wittner, vice president of theUnited Universjty Professors.

Officers of the Federal ProtectiveService, which handles security for theGeneral Services Administration, stoodin a small office off the lobby while the10 people talked for . more than 46minutes.

The federal of f iciers told the protes .ters that they . would - be asked to leavethe building at 6 p .m. At that time, afederal officer said: "This building isclosed at this time."~' Federal officers requested that . thenews media leave the building at that

time. Moments later, officers from theArbor Hill Neighorhood unit of theAlbany Police Department came to thescene to assist the federal officers intransporting the protesters to vision IIheadquarters on Morton Avenue.

At Division -II headquarters, thepeople arrested were charged one at atime and , released. The protesters weremet by a group of attorneys who hadvolunteered to represent them . Attor-ney Anita Thayer organized the group,which includes Joan Byalin, ThomasKeefe, Mary Jo Long, Mark Mishler,Gasper Castillo and Frank Anderson.

Thayer said the 10 will meet inpolice court today before the proceed-ings before deciding what their courseof action would be.

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By CARLO WOLFFGazette Reporter

ALBANY -- Alderman Nancy Burton wasamong 10 people arrested in the lobby of theLeo W. O'Brien Federal Building in a sit-down protest against South Africa's policyof racial separation.

Federal law enforcement officers and Al-bany police took into the protesters intocustody shortly after 6 last night . The pro-testers, charged with disorderly conduct,were released without bail last. night and aredue in city Police Court this morning.

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state Penal Law that carries a maximumpenalty of 15 days in jail, a $250-fine or bothfor a conviction.

Anita Thayer, spokesman for a legal com-mittee representing the defendants in thecivil disobedience case, said the group willmeet this morning in the Public SafetyBuilding at Morton Avenue to discuss strate-

Besides Burton, police arrested the Rev.Alvin C . Porteous,, pastor of EmmanueBaptist Church; the. Rev . Robert W . Dixon .,

for of Mount Calvary Baptist Church;saac Bracey. of the Albany branch of theational Association for the Advancement

of Colored People;, Lawrence S . Wittner, anAlbany State University history professorand vice president of United University Pro-cessions; J hg Funic_ iello . chairman of theSolidarity Committee of the Capital Dis-trict, a committee of the Albany CentralLabor Council; Reszin Adams andManley, of the Albany Coalition AgainstApartheid and Racism ; the Rev . W. AlanDelaroater . ,pastor of Calvary United Meth-odist Church, and the Rev . Brian O'Shaug:nessy, a minister in the Albany RomanCatholic Diocese.

While about 180 demonstrators represent-ing various civic and political groups andparishes chanted and walked outside, the 10who were to be arrested formed a semicir-cle inside, delivering short speeches againstapartheid and occasionally breaking intosong.

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"One, two, three, four, no apartheid any-more," the demonstrators chanted, alongwith pleas to free Nelson Mandela, the f or-mer leader of the African National Congresswhom South African authorities have held inprison for nearly 20 years.

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line at first, by the end the- crowd hadswelled to nearly four times that number.

As the clock approached the scheduled 6p m. closing of the federal building, mem-bers of the Federal Protective Service toldthe 10 protesters inside they would have toleave at 6 on the dot.

At 5 :45, a federal law enforcement officerwarned the group it would have to leave at 6.

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At 6, a city police paddy wagon arrived,discharging three officers from the ArborHill Neighborhood Police Unit to assist theirfederal counterparts.

"Please leave now," a federal officer toldthe group . "The same goes for the newsmedia ."

But the protesters sat their ground, whilethe demonstration outside increased in vol-ume.

Finally, law enforcement officers tookthe protesters from the building, one by one.The first out was Wittner.

"The people! United! Will never be def eat-ed!" was the chant as Wittner was escortedto the paddy wagon, to great applause.

Shouts of encouragement and support alsogreeted the others, in order : Dixon, Por-teous, Bracey, Delamater, Funiciello, Man-ley, O'Shaughnessy, Burton and Adams.

The women were transported to the pub-lic safety building in a cruiser, the men inthe paddy wagon.

Processing at downtown police headquar-ters took about 45 minutes.

The first to be released, O'Shaughnessysaid he'd been the last in the paddy wagon."The last shall be the first," he quipped.

"I learned they don't have night courthere, and everyone was nice," Braceysaid.

Burton said she felt she'd "needed to beout front" on the apartheid issue, a leader ofher constituency. Like the others, she de-ferred comment on strategy to counsel.

Thayer said the group will meet at 8 :30this morning to prepare for court appear-ances starting at 9 . Besides Thayer, attor-neys involved in the civil disobedience caseare Thomas Keefe, Mary Jo Long, MarkMishler., Joan Byalin, Lanny Walter, GasparCastillo and Francis Anderson.

E.J . Josey~president of the local NAACP ,chapter, said the demonstration was de-, signed "to show our disdain for the `con- ,§tructive engagement' policies of theReagan administration , regarding SouthAfrica.

Coalition spokesman Vera Michelson saidprotests against apartheid have grown inAlbany since the fall of 1981, when the coali-tion organized demonstrations against theSouth African rugby team known as theSpringboks.

The protests failed to prevent that teamfrom playing in the Albany area, after for-mer Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd led a suc-cessful defense of one game onconstitutional issues, following a state at-tempt to ban the games that landed the issuein court.

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h one police official recently told . thew u.,iiington Post . "Here ' s the mayor standingup saying he may get arrested . He 's the chieflaw enforcement figu. in the District . Youcan figure it out ."

Many of the arrested demonstrators aremeanwhile either not being arraigned or arehaving the charges against , them dismissed incourt . Rep . George Crockett (D-Mich .), oneof those released after spending a night in -jai! ,considers these actions by the U .S .. attorney ' s

, office to be "part of an effort by the Reaganadministration . . to belittle the importance ofwhat we're doing ."

ADMINISTRATION FEARS PUBLICITYThat charge by Crockett, a former judge,

was indirectly confirmed by sources close tothe U .S . attorney's office who were , quotecllast week in the Washington Post . They voicedfear that charges against persons arrested at theembassy could result in "show trials : " Theadministration is apparently worried that thepublicity surrounding such trials would furtherhighlight South Africa's racist system andWashington 's collaboration with it.

Mary Berry, a member of the U .S . CivilRights Commission and one of those arrestedat the embassy here, stresses the way in which

Washington 's support for apartheid harms theintersts of U .S . workers . South ' Africa ' s"_sly abor pools" lead to unemployment inthis Luuntry, Berry stated at -a Capitol Hillpress conference shortly after her "release fromjail . "When American corporations can relo-cate to places where there is a cheap labor sup-ply, jobs are lost to America, " she explained.

The protests were also hailed by JesseJackson as "a magnificent n2nXiolgnt y~itnes ,a ' nst the U .S . artnershi• with the racist apartheid regime . " Jackson also ,announced

last week that he has obtained a long-soughtvisa to visit South Africa and would thereforenot be among those getting arrested at the em-bassy . Such an action might result in revoca-r,tion of his permission to enter South Africa,Jackson explained_

The Free South Africa Movement is mean-while demanding the release of the 21 tradeunion leaders jailed in early November andheld incommunicado since then .by the apart-heid state . The movement also calls forcharges to - be dropped against three otherblacks who have sought refuge in the Britishconsulate in Durban, South Africa . U .S . pro-testers further insist that all political prisonersin South Africa's jails be set free, includingAfrican National Congress leaders WalterSisulu and Nelson Mandela who have beenimprisoned since the early 1960s.

The Reagan administration should sever allties with the apartheid state, movement leaderssay,

should apply strong economic andpolit . pressures to force power-sharingnegotiations between the Pretoria governmentand its black opposition.

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want, Mary Berry was asked last week.ust want our overnment to be on the side of ,ree om, not oppression ;" she responed t l

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"The ;-Reagan administration hasbeen pursuing a policy they ; callconstructive engagement," said VeraMichelson, chairman of the CapitalDistrict Coalition Against Apartheidand Racism

"Those words are really a coverup. for a policy of collaboration, and U.S.collaboration with South Africa meansmilitary and nuclear exchange; itmeans diplomatic exchange ; it meansan increased presence of South African

..officials in the U.S .; it means theUnited . States does' not condemn SouthAfrica for its ,tyranny; it means thatReagan considers Prime Minister PikBotha an "ally; and finally it meanscontinued investment of multinationalcorporations in South-Africa"

Michelson said' the United-Nationshas called on member nations toenforce sanctions against Sotit#f'Africa,a policy the United States - has notfollowed .' She contrasted the UnitedStates' willingness to do business withSouth Africa with the sanctions thiscountry imposed against Poland be-cause of its civil rights violations.

The anti-apartheid ` groups plan arally at 5 p.m. Thursday at .the.FederalBuilding, North ' Pearl StreAt andClinton Avenue. Michelson would notidentify the people who would partici-pate in the civil disobedience, norwould shed say what, where or when theaction'will be.

"The civil disobedience will beseparate from the demonstration,"Michelson said. "We're not going 'topublicly say what they're going to do ."

Michelson was asked if those partici-pating in the civil disobedience intendto get arrested.

"Our statement is — acts of civildisobedience will be committed,"Michelson added . "We would invite you

,to be there to see the outcome of these` acts."

Brace said he would introduce aresolution in the Albany - CommonCouncil condemning apartheid . Brace,who represents the largely black ArborHill community, said the' resolutionwill also call on the city to rid itself ofinvestments that involve, interests 'inSouth Africa.

Brace said the legislation will be co-sponsored by Aldermen Nancy Burton,Arthur T . Scott and Joseph Buechs. Hesaid he hoped to introduce the legisla-tion at the Jan . 24 council meeting. Headded that he was optimistic it wouldpass.

In, addLt;on . to those LtSftL ahote, the ressC,o„4ereAce was attended, b' 4 : Ed Block lamer thjidMtefor Cant res s, Sr2ne Cz,r r, st~teuJ icie S~.cy , of cc, e. A .Elaine Dva,z: Fv ied min of file_ Great'er n1 ba"y4e~ish ~ederation, r?e~ . Jo e Cafes of ~+e Co~ci(

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tdttuti3,qtgit :Ysl D iatfict Cwl;xcanC *0is%, , mostly giru d AsC Apartheid b Racism &I.arlpICUM410W, to Hon Wilkins and Unity inAction Network/Los Angeles . After many hours,says and energies spent on organizing, talk-ing and writing letters, this west coastgroup convinced the Hollywood/Beverly HillsNAACP to w thdraw Danibelle Hall and TinaTurner from its list of nominees and Bob Hopeas honorary chairperson for the annual NAACPImage awards . (Image awards honor entertain-ers who present positive images of Blacks).

Hall and Turner were disqualified and Hoperepudiated by the Hod l.ywood/Beverly HillsNAACP which also pledged to reveal the " con-nections " of the three performers daring theshow . (The :1AAC P rer , ;ed on this part of theagreement) In the future, the NAACP vowed toscreen each nominee's performance history morethoroughly to avoid this problem again.

In an area of the country where entertain-ment is the Industry, 7nity in Action has amonar ental task in remaining vigilant and inexposing entertainers who have collaboratedwith apartheid . The Cap-1tal District CorThLonAgainst Ar;artheid and Racism salutes you;

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Declaring that she would neverentertain in South Africa again untilsegregation barriers against the Blackmajority population are removed, singerMillie Jackson 's statement was warmlyapplauded by a number of United NationsAmbassadors here at the UN.

Had No IdeaConfessing that she had no idea that

when she entered the country she auto-matically became an "honorary whiteperson, " Jackson, a singer of sassy andrisque songs whose lyrics titillate her vastfemale following, promised to join anygroup of performers aiming to do a benefitto aid the Blacks of South Africa.

Now that her name is removed from anynationwide boycott list, she joins HarryBelafonte, Lena Horne, Stevie Wonder,The Jacksons and Diana Ross who 'veturned down millions of dollars to appear inSun City, a separate homeland setup by thegovernment, but not recognized by anycountry in the world.

Actor Ossie Davis, a member of theanti-apartheid group, said the intention ofthe organization fighting racism in SouthAfrica was not to deprive Jackson of herright to work, but to have her realize theseriousness of the situation . Now that thishas been done, she can be forgiven, headded.

4404Utbe-- Andrae Crouch Iss-Issued a statement In August,1994 after a meeting betweenElome Brath of the PatriceLumumba Coalition/Uni.ty inAction Network and DavidNdaba of the African MationalCongress . As a result of themeeting with these two men,Crouch said he was made tomore fully understand thecultural boycott imposed bythe united Nations on SouthAfrica.

He further stated that hedid not i ntand for his pres-ence there to mean he approv-ed of a thy . " I ar def in-ate Ly opposed to a , the d.Furthermore, unless the pre-sent circumstances in SouthAfrica show sincere evidenceof change, I will not return . "(His statements were contain-ed in a letter to T.:r . IbrahimNoor, of the U .N . CentreAgainst Apartheid.

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At a United Nations Conference in New York, singer, Millie Jackson told AmbassadorOumarou Youssoufou, left, of the Organization of African Unity, and GhanianAmbassador James Victor Gbeho, right, that she would never entertain again in SouthAfrica until that government removes segregation against the Black majority . Severalyears ago she worked there and was on a boycott list until it was removed by theinfluential UN anti-apartheid committee.

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Michelson, chair of the CapitalDistrict Coalition AgainstApartheid and Racism, and DanKahn, a Lutheran minister work-ing with ?Taw Fork Divest, attend-ed a meeting of New York Divestir- e .1 York City with many otherdivestment activists from aroundthe state.strategies for lobbying for the

d3 vestment legislation beforethe New York State Assembly dur-ing this session were discussed.Assembly Bill A-250 has been in-

troduced as " an act to amend thebanking law, the retirement andsocial security lay ,1,d the statefinance law, in relation to estab-lishing certain investment re-strictions regarding F'oath Africa.Craig Johnson of the Capital

District Coalition Against Apart-heid and Racism will be our rep-resentative to !Zew York Divesta'- will keep us updated on thes -tus of the legislation .

. . . and. some cultural boycott bael news

MORE ENTERTAINERS PERFORMIN SOUTH AFRICA, REPORT SAYS

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NITED NATIONS--Despitea U.N. cultural boycott ofSouth Africa, the number of

entertainers and groups perform-ing in the ,white-ruled countrygrew in a year from 211 to 388,according to a report issuedWednesday.

The U.N. report said that 14▪ names had been deleted from the

original list published in October,1983, because the entertainers andactors had pledged that they would

• no longer perform in South Africa.• Britain had the highest number

of names on the list with 127,including singers Shirley Bassey,Elton John, Rod Stewart and actorEmlyn Williams.

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• Prom Associated Press There were 103 names from theUnited States including those ofPaul Anka, the Beach Boys, GlenCampbell, Ray Charles, Chicago,Goldie Hawn, Liza Minnelli, KennyRogers, Sha Na Na and FrankSinatra.

There were names from 26 othercountries on the new list includingSpanish singer Julio Iglesias.

The 1983 list had 211 names from23 countries who had performed inSouth Africa since 1981.

Despite the growth in the list, theU .N. Center Against Apartheid,which issued it, said : "Hundreds ofprominent actors, entertainers andmusicians have joined the cam-paign against apartheid," SouthAfrica's system of legal race sepa-ration.

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Castro ,losley and Vera:Naichelsorl attended a rallyand reception for BishopDesmond T .uttil at HunterCollege in New York Cityon December 22, 1984.

Vivian made the followingstatement about the speechgiven by Bishop Tutu, the1984 Nobel Peace . Prize re-cipient . " I was so movedby his talk and by thestrength he shows in hisstruggle ngainst the apart-heid regime . "

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HINYANGERWA ASHEEKE. . . gives SWAPO's story

black) is situated on Africa's southwestcoast between Angola and South Afri-

S ea . It was formerly called South West

our people . In fact, the reality is thatAfrica .

they are killing our people," he said.

SWAPO. the South West fricail

Asheeke denounced the Reagan ad-People's Organization, has been recog .-_ ministration's policy of "constructivenized by the U .N. as the legitimate

engagement," under which trade andrepresentative of the Namibian people

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other links with South Africa aremaintained in order to maintain U .S.

SWAPO and South African forces

leverage in the region's political af-have been fighting a guerrilla war for

fairs.the last 18 years .

"The U .S . is becoming more and

Although many representatives of , more involved in the conflict with itsthe international diplomatic communi- ever growing collaboration with Southty have sharply denounced South Africa in the political, military, andAfrica's armed presence in Namibia, economic spheres" Asheeke said, "It

helps strengthen South Africa, precise- athe troops remain in place . According l the opposite effect 'constructiveto Asheeke, they number more than ena ement' is su osed to have . "100,000 .

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"denouce the fascistic government" ofSouth Africa and spell( out for aneconomic boycott aimed at isolatingthat nation.

By Peter Tarr rimesStaff writer

/.L/,z/24The Reagan administration policies

regarding southern Africa are helpingto strengthen the aparthied govern-ment of South Africa, a Namibianambassador to the United Nations toldan Albany audience Sunday.

About 75 people gathered at MountPleasant Baptist Church to hear thespeech by Hinyangerwa Asheeke, dep-uty U .N. representative for SWAPO,the Namibian independence move-ment.

Asheeke said the Reagan adminis-tration's decision to trade openly with'South Africa made that nation strong-er, while jeopardizing Namibia's questfor independence.

Namibia, with a population of abouttwo million (more than 90 percent are

Asheeke stated SWAPO's side of thestory Sunday.

"They (South Africa) have neverbeen concerned about the security of

,sentative for SWAPO, the .?amibian, inde pendence movement, ,

The success of the SWAPO even-ing was due to many factors butthere are some special people IN_u

should be thanked:Welcomers:Odell Winfield, Jim McCoy,John Funicello, Dr . VivianGordon, and the M .C ., VijayMacwan - an made our speakerfeel the warmth and solidar-ity of the Capital District.

Thank you to Sandra Rose Templewho welcomed Hinyangerwa atthe bus stop.

Rev . Roland for the use of yourchurch.

Jim Wright for the lovely re-ception at your home beforethe program.

Bill Carr from MSA for thepoetry reading.

Martin Manley for your con-sistent, continued efforts.

Naomi Jaffe for your thorough-ness and fresh ideas.

Bill Ritchie, Charles Bostic,and Malcolm Carter for " man-ning " the literature table.

Diane Burrus for arrangingfood for after the program,

and the editor of this paper,Eileen Kawola, who is alwaysgetting the word out .