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...that plant's ore originates is problematical. AMAX has invested in one of the largest Namibian mining companies, Tsumeb, together with other American and South African companies, Falconbridge, a Canadian subsidiary of Superior Oil, owns the Oamites copper mine together with a South African government corporation. Black miners in Namibia are paid even less than miners in South Africa. Fur-thermore, investments there break the mandatory boycott imposed because of South Africa's continued colonization of the country...
...think they will willingly oppose a system which, like apartheid, has given them profit at a rate of 16-20 per cent--almost twice the average rate of profit in the U.S. Realizing this, black organizations have long called for a total boycott of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The wages foreign investors pay South African blacks are so low, and the aid they give the apartheid regimes so great, that southern Africans fighting for freedom prefer to forego the small benefits of the firms' presence. Steve Biko, the South African leader who died recently in prison, called...
...Administration, a head-on collision was all but inevitable. Vorster remains firmly committed to apartheid and a policy of "separate development" for blacks, based on the creation of quasi-independent tribal homelands inside South Africa. Jimmy Carter is committed to progress toward majority rule not only in Rhodesia and Namibia (South West Africa) but in South Africa as well. Last year, when he was trying to achieve a Rhodesian settlement, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was prepared to settle for majority rule in Rhodesia and Namibia, and worry about South Africa later; Carter believes all three must move together. Even...
Next morning, after a final session, Mondale read a statement that summarized the meeting and crisply stated U.S. policy. It was utterly devoid of diplomatic euphemism. On both Rhodesia and Namibia, he said, there had been some slight progress, though "the significance of that progress will depend on future developments." On Rhodesia, Vorster had reluctantly agreed to press for an agreement leading to an independent Zimbabwe (the African nationalists' name for Rhodesia) during 1978. On Namibia, the U.N. trust territory that South Africa has administered since 1920, Vorster had made several concessions, Mondale declared, though the two countries disagreed...
...Mondale flew on to Belgrade to pay a call on Yugoslav Communist Leader Josip Broz Tito, Washington's U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young was preparing to go from the Mozambican capital of Maputo to South Africa. In Mozambique, where he attended a 92-nation U.N. conference on Rhodesia and Namibia, Young had held private talks with Mozambican President Samora Machel and other African leaders. He irritated some delegates by comparing southern Africa to the American South and by advocating peaceful transition to African majority rule. Robert Mugabe, a leader of Rhodesia's militant Patriotic Front, found the speech "hollow...