Report Card
Doenges, Judy
REPORT CARD Judy Doenges A Gentle Agreement SEIZING THE INITIATIVE: FIRST STEPS TO DISARMAMENT by Paul Walker The Fellowship of Reconciliation and the American Friends Service Committee, 1501...
...U.S...
...But with the Reagan Administration firmly allied with South Africa, pressure on the apartheid government to relinquish its control over Namibia is unlikely to prevail, and American and Canadian companies will continue to drain wealth out of Namibia for some time to come...
...multinational corporations are waging a war of sorts against Namibia...
...Occupation by South Africa's armies, existence of a large pool of cheap labor, and intervention by South Africa's government have created a hospitable environment for foreign investment...
...Walker proposes a unilateral reciprocal agreement, and discusses the philosophy of unilateral initiatives...
...mining companies as Bethlehem Steel, Nord Resources, Standard Oil, and Texaco...
...REPORT CARD Judy Doenges A Gentle Agreement SEIZING THE INITIATIVE: FIRST STEPS TO DISARMAMENT by Paul Walker The Fellowship of Reconciliation and the American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102...
...In return for a favorable investment climate, foreign multinationals assist the South African government, says Hovey...
...2.00...
...Their economic and military support enables the apartheid regime to wage its war on the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the indigenous guerrilla movement...
...This concise discussion of disarmament options is designed to energize an antinuclear movement formed "out of love...
...Most of Namibia's wealth derives from mineral resources being siphoned off by such U.S...
...But the report does not overlook political realities...
...Hovey offers profiles of major American corporations and explains how they have affected Namibia's economy and people...
...Paul Walker cites many reasons for this "awakening of the nuclear age," including the fact that "nuclear war fighting strategies have supplanted nuclear deterrence...
...Corporate Theft NAMIBIA'S STOLEN WEALTH: NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENT AND SOUTH AFRICAN OCCUPATION by Gail Hovey The Africa Fund, 198 Broadway, New York, NY 10038...
...Rossing, for instance, has formed its own security force to put out any sparks of rebellion among black workers...
...The report concludes with a discussion of the Namibians' struggle for independence, SWAPO's role, and United Nations efforts to curb foreign interference...
...Why, then, the sudden flood of public concern over nuclear bombs...
...Hovey begins by reviewing the recent political and social history of Namibia...
...Today, Namibia's manufacturing output is one of the highest in Africa but its black population is among the world's poorest...
...Perhaps the strongest catalyst behind the revitalized peace movement, though, is "public moral revulsion" over the number of weapons, fueled by hypocritical official statements—on both sides of the ocean— that arms escalation is "necessary" and "stabilizing...
...Rossing's pit uranium mine is exposing its workers to radiation, contaminating a nearby water supply, and producing a mass of radioactive garbage...
...The study reviews major arms control agreements to emphasize that they are "most striking not in what they accomplish, but rather in what they omit...
...He raises thirteen possible options, from a complete nuclear freeze to "genuine confidence-building measures...
...Moreover, the companies themselves are preparing to repress black uprisings...
...All require the superpowers to act in good faith and, one hopes, out of love for humanity...
...In Namibia's Stolen Wealth, Gail Hovey details the conditions that allow foreign investors to reap huge profits from that embattled country...
...2.50...
...The United States and the Soviet Union have signed sixteen nuclear and conventional weapons agreements since 1959, and warnings about the dangers of the arms race have been voiced for decades...
...New to Namibia is Rossing, a Canadian uranium concern that began investing in 1977 and now controls 42 per cent of the country's mining industry...
...She contends that because outsiders hold the upper hand economically, they wield excessive political influence...
Vol. 47 • May 1983 • No. 6
