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...most countries would come to a halt. Western moral standards have often seemed as impenetrable to Africans as theirs have to us. "Early European missionaries," Mazrui notes, "found it easier to admit a slave owner to Communion than a member of a polygamous household." Meanwhile, Africa still has to import most of the manufactured goods made from its own abundant raw materials. For all its polemics, The Africans has a great deal to say, and it does so with eloquence and power...
...legislation, passed during an election year and at a time when American outrage against South Africa is on the rise, goes much farther. It bans all new American investment in and bank loans to South Africa, as well as air traffic between the two countries. It also prohibits the import of South African uranium, coal, steel, textiles, military vehicles and agricultural products...
Among the provisions in the bill, which was passed by large majorities in both houses of Congress, are a ban on new public or private loans, investments or extensions of credit and an embargo on the import of South African uranium, coal, textiles, iron and steel, arms, ammunition, military vehicles, agricultural products and Krugerrand gold coins. The legislation would also prohibit the export to South Africa of crude oil, petroleum products, munitions, nuclear-energy equipment and computers, and cut off direct air travel between the two countries...
While the Administration was pondering tactics, the Europeans and Japanese finally took action against South Africa after months of discussion. The twelve foreign ministers of the European Community, meeting last week in Brussels, voted to ban new investments and halt the import of South African iron and steel and Krugerrands, as proposed at a summit in the Hague three months ago. But the foreign ministers rejected the most serious proposal of all, a ban on the import of South African coal, as a result of strenuous opposition from the West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. That decision effectively reduced...
...days after the Brussels meeting the Japanese announced a ban on South African steel and iron. But they did not cut off the import of coal and various strategic metals...