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American firms constitute only 17 percent of all foreign investment in South Africa, but they are dominant suppliers of strategic goods like computers, petroleum, heavy tracks and mining and energy technology, according to U.S. Department of Commerce statistics. South Africa can obtain crucial goods like these from other sources only...
Mining Harbors
The mining of Nicaraguan ports [NATION, April 23] is just another example of the Reagan Administration's selective morality. We must think twice before we support the Nicaraguan contras and condemn the Salvadoran rebels. Both groups are fighting for representation in the governments of their respective countries. The difference...
It should also be noted that, while U.S. firms employ less than 1 percent of the black work force in South Africa and account for only 17 percent of foreign investment there, they dominate several strategic sectors: energy, computers, motor vehicles, and mining. In a critical way, then, some of...
On Capitol Hill, the Reagan Administration was engaged in some belated fence mending with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings. In two hours of closed-door hearings, CIA Director William Casey conceded that the Senate...