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...beginning of 1980, a South African computer industry survey showed that U.S.-owned corporations sold 74 percent of all the computers in the country...Pretoria's battle to preserve white control in South Africa and Namibia is being fought with foreign-made computers as well as mines and artillery." (NARMIC/American Friends Service Committee. "Automating Apartheid...
...provisions, he said he would seek new legislation that would "enable the authorities to deal with continued incidents of unrest." The State President also set an Aug. 1 deadline to begin implementation of a United Nations independence plan for the South Africa-controlled territory of South West Africa, or Namibia. Botha made it clear, however, that the plan is still contingent on the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...
...years, South Africa has violated international law by refusing to withdraw its claim to sovereignty over Namibia--called South-West Africa by the Pretoria government. South Africa vehemently maintains that the aid it funnels to Savimbi, supplemented by occasional invasions of Angola by the South African army, is the only way to ensure that the Cubans and Marxists in Angola don't provide sanctuary and support for the rebels trying to kick the South African army out of Namibia...
...regime concede the withdrawal of all but 10,000 of the Cubans, who would be stationed more than 1000 miles north of the Namibian border. But by aggravating the Luanda government and thwarting the peace process, South Africa has fabricated a pretext for its colonialist extension of apartheid into Namibia...
Moreover, the fact that it can command the Cubans to leave represents a considerable degree of freedom. In Senator Stephen J. Solarz's (D-NY) words, "If, in the context of a Namibia settlement, they asked the Cubans to leave, there is every reason to believe they would do so." Clearly then, the Reagan Administration has the means with which to attain a diplomatic solution...