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...sides will go on "covering their tails," Pogrund projects, and he cites the number of U.S. allies that have heavy trade and shipping ties to South Africa: Japan, France, Israel and particularly Britain, which, he points out, "is in appalling financial straits and can hardly afford to abandon its commerce with South Africa...
...black front-line nations, Pogrund cites a New York Times report last week that black nationalists had blown up a train carrying "minerals" over the border from Zaire...
...Minerals,'" Pogrund says, "that means copper. Kaunda [Kenneth D. Kaunda, the president of Zambia, which shares the same rail line] depends on copper for his survival. The railway through Angola was destroyed during the war; he has to send the copper through South Africa. He may be distressed that his black brothers are being discriminated against, but he'll strike a deal with Vorster...
Even the Marxist government in Mozambique, where any protracted guerilla war against the Afrikaaner government would place its base, Pogrund says, will find itself hard pressed to break all links with South Africa, from which 80 per cent of Mozambiquan income derives...
...very cynical," Pogrund says...