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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejected an attempt by Democrats to approve a sweeping, near total trade embargo on South Africa as passed by the House. But Republican Senators Charles Mathias of Maryland and Daniel Evans of Washington succeeded in persuading the committee and its chairman, Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, to ask the Senate to take tougher steps than even Lugar had proposed. By a vote of 15 to 2, the committee approved a bill that would ban all new investments in South Africa by U.S. companies and prevent any U.S. banks from making new loans to any private companies operating...
...announcing that it had reached an agreement with Pretoria to increase U.S. imports of South African textiles by 4% a year. The unfortunate timing managed to outrage the advocates of protectionist legislation in the depressed U.S. textile industry even as it angered supporters of sanctions. The mild-mannered Lugar called the textile deal "hard to believe." Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray termed it "lunacy." Protested Democratic Congressman Butler Derrick, of textile-producing South Carolina: "We're wrapping ourselves in % the misery of that country's black majority. It's downright idiotic...
...Lugar began work on the plan he will present to the Senate committee this week, he was considering adding sanctions on new investments by U.S. companies in South Africa and a ban on imports from South Africa's state-owned steel and coal industries. If he seems calm about the policy storm looming, it may be because he is confident that his plan will receive serious attention. Says Lugar in a deceptively mild tone: "I'm not the kind of person who is easily rebuffed...
What worried the White House more was the revolt among moderate Republicans, who saw the President as being out of step with Congress and perhaps the voters. Republican Senator Richard Lugar, a consistent ally of the President's and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had urged Reagan to propose a new tack. He was clearly discouraged by the result. "I think the President needs to do more," he said afterward. "I had hoped the President would take this occasion for an extraordinary message to the world." Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, a respected voice on African policy...
Senate Democrats, led by Ted Kennedy and Alan Cranston, have offered a slightly less drastic measure that includes relief for black South Africans and neighboring countries. Although it has little chance of being passed intact, it has forced moderate Senators to seek a compromise. Lugar, who pledged to work with both Shultz and Senate Democrats, expected to spend part of the weekend finishing a plan directed at putting maximum pressure on the white ruling class while sparing the black majority unnecessary economic repercussions. It expands on the limited measure imposed by Reagan last September, which prohibited the purchase of Krugerrands...