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BRITISH COLUMBIA

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South Africa purchase

The Southern Africa Action Coalition
has been successful in getting government
action to prevent a B.C. high-tech firm from
exporting electronic equipment that could
have military application to South Africa.

William J. Botha, a member of South
Africa’s Council for Scientific and Indus-
tnal Research, which handles procurement
for the military, was at MacDonald Dett-
wiler’s electronics plant in Richmond earlier
this month, apparently to discuss the pur-
ie of a sophisticated radar imaging sys-
em.

But’ following SAAC’s protest, NDP
external affairs critic Pauline Jewett was able
to ©xtract a promise from External Affairs
Minister Joe Clark that MacDonald Det-
twiler would be denied an export permit,
Preventing the company from delivering
any equipment to South Africa, said SAAC
Tepresentative Basil Freeman.

In July, Clark imposed new restrictions
on exports to South Africa of electronics
and computer equipment, expanding the
embargo that already exists on arms sale.

But Botha’s visit prompted concern that
the embargo wouldn’t have been enforced

had it not been for SAAC publicizing the
issue,

SAAC only learned of Botha’s planned
meeting with MacDonald Dettwiler when a
detailed itinerary was leaked to the organi-
zation. It indicated that he was to discuss
the purchase of the radar system.

Freeman said that SAAC staged a dem-
onstration outside MacDonald Dettwiler’s
offices in Richmond Oct. 8, the day of
Botha’s scheduled visit, “‘and he definitely
appeared there.” :

Even his appearance at the plant should
prompt concern, said Freeman, because the
company sold South Africa an integrated
radar imaging system (IRIS) in 1977 and the
“uses to which that system has been put or
may be put have not been monitored.

“Who knows what information Botha
learned about the system when he was
here — certainly MacDonald Dettwiler
isn’t saying,” Freeman noted.

He emphasized that the IRIS system does
have military application.

“South Africa could use it to control its
coastline and use it to obtain high-
resolution photos of military locations in
the front-line states,” he said.

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