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...proposed bill will set up an "apartheid list" of companies that are doing a large amount of business with South Africa, such as IBM, the Burroughs Corp., Control Data Corp., and Texaco, said Robert D. Slate '83, a legislative aide to Graham...
...bill will give an incentive and bonus to those companies that are not working with South Africa and will hurt those companies doing business with them," said Slate...
...bill states that the only contracts to be accepted from companies on the "apartheid list" are those that the agency determines to be an essential purchase, or when the company is the only bidder for the contract, or if the bid is necessary to ensure a competitive bidding process. All other contracts will go to companies without ties to South Africa...
...This bill is a good second step after the billthat was approved in 1984 to divest pension fundsfrom companies with activities with or in SouthAfrica," said Slate...
Graham said she first thought of this bill inKenya, where she talked with members of thatcountry's parliament about ways to fightapartheid...