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think they dare let Mandela die in prison or come out a very sick man.

“violence let loose before, but if they were to do that to Mandela, anything

 pefore will look like a children’s tea party.

. such stature in the eyes of the South African people that Botha would
“wind if he were to sow that seed.

y a problem. I know Nelson Mandela will come out of prison and he will

med struggle must continue.’ And he’s the leader. He was Commander-

@ Unkhonoto we Sizwe. 7

4s WaS once speculated, they would release him, put him ona plane and fly
bia, if he couldn’t get a plane back, I think he’d walk. He’s that sort of a

,’s Botha’s dilemma.”

th Africa:
inag white South Africans must never say is that they didn’t know what was
Many have deliberately shut their eyes and ears.

est single category of employed Black women is as domestic servants.

me that white employers don’t know that these women have children
can’t by law have with them in the white areas; that they don’t know that
J ts have children who get ill, and the mother can’t be with them; that the
. iy n't come to work because of the uprisings in the townships.

v know. More than that — their husbands and sons are the white soldiers
‘who are doing the repressing, the shooting, the killing of children and old
“eople of all ages. Do they not talk about it at home?”

ationals:

nationals are required by law to provide protection for their factories in

‘vil unrest. They create their own private armies. These corporations,

fight apartheid, pay soldiers of apartheid.

Yorations make up the pay difference when’ their white employees are

y military service. It is not required by law, but they do it. They pay

jers.

j om provide housing for Black workers, but by law it must be in Black

y- say they provide education for Black workers and their families — but
cation. Thus they uphold apartheid laws.

we say to them: get out. You're part of the problem. If you want to be

olution and help us rebuild our country afterwards, you'd better get out

Chicago now N-W free zone

CHICAGO — Mayor
Harold Washington said re-
cently he welcomes the So-
viet Union’s moratorium on
nuclear testing and would
like to see it extended and
the U.S. to do the same.

‘‘Tn an age of nuclear cri-
sis, when the nuclear Sword
of Damocles hangs over us
all, even though we become
wrapped up in our priorities
at home, we must never
allow ourselves to lose sight,
of the common danger we
face in the obscene buildup
of weapons of nuclear ter-
ror,” he said.

The mayor’s remarks fol-
lowed the commissioning
last week of the USS Chica-
go, a U.S. Navy nuclear-
powered submarine.

“‘We must continue to
work towards the day when
there will be no nuclear
weapons, anywhere, so that
not only the USS Chicago,
but no implements of war,
anywhere in the world, are
capable of such mass de-
struction,’ Washington
said.

He called upon those °

present to reflect upon the
‘paradoxes’ of a govern-
ment policy that provides
money for the military, but
not social needs.

‘*For example, while the
USS Chicago is defending
our shores, we must renew
our commitment to defend
our cities from the enemies
within — poverty, disease,
infant mortality, hunger,
homelessness,’’ Washing-
ton said.

WASHINGTON: We face an obscene arms build up...

Washington criticized the
Reagan administration’s
cutting of $70 million from
general revenue sharing in
Chicago and called for it to
be restored.

“In a nation where we
can find the money to builda
submarine that costs half a
billion dollars, we can also
find the means to restore
general revenue sharing to
Chicago,’ he said.

—Peoples Daily World

International focus/Tom Morris

ig Bean is so concerned with what he calls the ‘evil empire’ that he’d
“partheid continue than take risks about the future. The real independence
s and central Africa is dependent on the defeat of the apartheid system.
sthing Reagan can’t bear to see come about.

js unacceptable. It means taking the same component and re-forming it;
,. dismantling, rooting out. Apartheid’s destruction is all that is accept-
"t be left, or toned down.

isplaying for time. They’ve lost control of the situation. Botha the puppet
sh. The liberation movement can’t be stopped. Reagan, Thatcher, Kohl
y are seeking a way back in.”

amental issue is that of full, equal political rights in a united, democratic,
th Africa.

Jutions’ have been advanced to maintain the bantustan system; that
ntly-declared states will remain as puppets of the ruling group. That’s
2, There will be no leaving power in the hands of those who have
lives of millions.

re talking about is the transfer of power from the minority group to the
h Africa — majority rule. That’s what democracy is.”’

enough to be anti-apartheid. It’s excellent, but it’s not enough. You have
sport of the liberation movement. And that means the ANC in South

in Namibia it means the Southwest Africa People’s Organization

ity means strengthening the liberation movement with political, diplo-
nancial support. The ANC has launched a Freedom in South Africa Fund
with a $250,000 target in the first year. Give to the fund.

ns building the strength of the liberation movement by weakening the
s cutting all ties. It means mandatory, comprehensive sanctions.”’

d Black jobs:

how that up to SO per cent of Black workers are structurally jobless
eid. Of the 18 to 26 year-old group, 80 per cent have never worked
will never work. That’s apartheid.

out lost jobs in the process of destroying the system is to misstate reality
y have no concern about workers and never did have. For Margaret
xpress concern for workers when British unemployment is running at 13

of such talk is to protect investments.”

Heeeeeeeere’s -

Uncle Tom!

It was a long, frustrating
search.

But finally the U.S. State
Department has found one
Black American willing to
be Washington’s am-
bassador to the racist Botha
regime.

One man, Edward J. Per-
kins, former ambassador to
Liberia, agreed
Reagan’s Uncle Tom and
explain his master’s policy
of racism and imperialism to
the courageous people of
South Africa.

The search took months.
You can imagine how many,
more principled people, re-
fused. One man who did
agree was a petty crook and
couldn’t pass scrutiny.

Now they’ve got some-
one the U.S. press calls a
‘career diplomat’’. He’s

-also a traitor to African-

Americans and a very sorry
speciman ...

... Which makes him a
perfect ambassador for
Ronald Reagan.

Trying to
veto history

Both the U.S. House of
Representatives and Con-
gress have overwhelmingly
passed bills favoring sanc-
tions against Pretoria. Pres-
ident Ronald Reagan swiftly
vetoed them.

Senator Edward Ken-
nedy called the veto ‘‘an in-
decent act’’, while Reagan’s
own Republican Senate
Majority leader Robert Dole
said ‘“‘It might have been

to be -

easier ... if the President
had just swallowed hard and
signed (the sanctions bill) it

What we're witnessing is
this: Congress now knows
there is no way anymore to
evade imposing Sanctions.
It knows that the American
people want action. And it’s
mid-term election year for
the Republican-controlled
Senate.

Reagan, on the other
hand, knows sanctions will
hurt Botha. He knows the
ANC is the alternative. He
must have nightmares as he
sees power slipping from
the white racist regime to-
ward the people.

Murders, tortures, deten-
tions — all the structural

“Congress to

People’s wrath iS stronger
than Reagan’s veto.

genocide of apartheid don’t
interest Reagan. He mouths
“reforms” and ‘‘construc-
tive engagement’? — any-
thing but people’s power
which will shake imperial-
ism in Africa to its very
core.

He, Thatcher, Kohl and
others manoeuvering for a
deal over piles of African
bodies are also racists.
We're seeing a decrepit, ig-
norant president, living with
his self-centered, jingoist il-
lusions, playing out some of
his last acts.

Cutting the
umbilical chord
Zimbabwean PM Robert
Mugabe’s call for the U.S.
override
Reagan’s veto of the sanc-
tions bill must come as yet
another thorn in Reagan’s
already bruised side.
Mugabe, speaking at the
University of Mas-
sachusetts, which had just
awarded him an honorary
doctorate of laws degree,

made the demand which hits ~

at the heart of the U.S.
administration's hypo-
critical policy towards
South Africa.

The well-deserved award
must be double troublesome
for Reagan. Not only is it
another sign of the growing
isolation of Reagan's stance
but it also serves as a re-
minder that the ““puppet
strings’’ have been cut.

Just this summer Reagan
ended all aid to Zimbabwe
when the Zimbabwe
government had the audac-
ity to criticize U.S. policy.

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