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LEGISLATION INTR DUCED TO RE-INSTATE RHODESI N SANCTIONS MY 23, 1973 On MY 22nd, bill we~e intro duced in both hou e f Co ress to re-in tate United St tes compll nee with United.Nations s netio ag inst Rhode i . BILLS ·.·R •. '.8005 ADS. 1868 To en tb tiOD P rticip tiOD Act of 1945 t h It th i por t ti 'f _- chro e nd to re tore the'United St t s to it po it! 1 Y .. bid1'D me er ot the' intern tlon l' ·c'bmmunity. ~ 11 en cted !?Z i.-' Sen te ...!!.!! Hou e _ ..... of ill u ....... .....--._ ..!i. Congr -----bled, Th t section 5( ) of t e Unite tioD P rt1cipation Ac·t of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287c(' » 1 e de y dd~ g t the' end thereof the roJ-lowi ng new entence: "S etio 10 ot the, tr tegie nd Critic 1 .M teri 1 St ck Pilin Act (60 St t. 596; 50 u.s.c. 98-99h) h 11 not pply to prohibition or re ul tio e t bIt ped und.er the a.uthority ot this ection. tt -t.r . tf ct r- th1. legi- 1 tion, U pas-sed, wil-r b ~. to exempt--regu- 1 ti u d by the President to implement Un~ted Nation' ncti n . fro er ti n t th o-c lIed yrd A nd -ent ( ectio . 10 of"the Str "d'Critic 1 M terl l' Stock Piling Act), which forbid e- of'~ r . i pc>.rt tio 1 tr t 1e d critic 1 ter! 1 "fro y c u try which·fs not Co uri! t-domin ted 0 long s th import tio of uch ter1 1 tr Co un! t countries i not embargoe. Tbi will effect! 17 It i port tion at materials from Rhode i which b been occurri since J nu ry 1972 in viol tion ot Unit~d N tion m ndatory etion g inst the white minority regime in outh r Afric Washingt n frice on Africa: 11 Maryland Ave•• N. E •. : W shingt n. • C. 2 2 202-546-7961 In the Senate, leadership is being taken by Senator Hubert Humphrey, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign'Relations Com mittee. He is join d by 23 co-sponsors. In the House, Congressman Donald Fraser (~!inn~) and Congressman Charles Diggs (Mich.) are the primary sponsors, i~ their respective positions as chairmen of the Sub committee on Intern tional Organizations and Movemeh~s and o£ the Subcom mittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee. They are joined by 51 additional spons rs. SENATE SPONSORS: Hubert Humphrey (Minn.), Gale McGee (Wyo.), Edward Kennedy (Mass.), Clifford Case (N.J.), Jacob Javits (N.Y.), Edward Brooke' (Mass.), James Abourezk (S.D.), Birch Bayh (Ind.), Alan Cranston (Calif.), Thomas Eagleton (Mo.), Philip Hart (Mich.), Harold Hughes (Iowa), Daniel Inouye (Haw.), Henry Jackson (Wash.), Charles Mathias (Md.), George McGovern (S.D.), Walter Mondale (Minn.), Frank Moss (Utah), Edmund Muskie (Me.), Gaylord Nelson (Wise.), Claiborne Pell (R.I.), Adlai Stevenson (Ill.) John Tunney (Calif.), Harrison Williams (N.J.). HOUSE SPONSORS: William Mailliard (Calif.), Peter Frelinghuysen (N.J.) Dante Fascell (Fla.), Charles Diggs (Mich.), Robert Nix (Pa.), Donald Fraser (Minn ), Paul Findley (Ill.), Benjamin Rosenthal (N.Y.), John Culver (Iowa), Lee Hamilton (Ind.), Lester Wolff (N.Y.), Charles Whalen (Chio), Ogden Reid (N.Y.), Michael Harrington (Mass.), Leo Ryan (Calif.), Donald Riegle (Mich.), Herman Badillo (N.Y.), Walter Fauntroy (D.C.), Augustus Hawkins (C lif.), Frank Brasco (N.Y.), William Green (Pa.), Ralph Metcalfe (Ill.), William Hungate (Mo.), Ronald Dellums (Calif.), Patsy Mink (Haw.), Frank Horton (N.Y.), Bella Abzug (N.Y.), Howard Robison (N.Y.), Thaddeus Dulski (N.Y.), Claude Pepper (Fla.), William Lehman (Fla), Richardson Preyer (N.C.), Parren Mitchell (Md.), Lloyd Meeds (Wash), Charles Mosher (Ohio), Antonio Borja Won Pat (Guam), Shirley Chisholm (N.Y.) Pete Stark (Ca:if.), Don Edwards (Pa.), Robert Kastenmeier (Wise.), Gilbert Gudc (Md.), Robert Drinan (Mass.), Bill Clay (Mo.), John Conyers (Mich.), . Charles Rangel (N.Y.), Les Aspin (Wise.), John Seiberling (OhiQ), Robert Tiernan (R.I.), Paul McCloskey (Calif.), Jonathan Bingham (N.Y.), Alphonzo' Bell (Calif.), Geor e Brown (Calif.), Edward Biester (Pa.). It is likely that these bills will come to the floor of the House and Senete as e~eLdment to legislation from the Foreign Relations and Foreign Affcirs Com~ittees, with a vote in either July or September. Another possibility is that they will be voted on as independent bills..In either case, it is cr~cial to begin now to communicate public support for the sanctions prograc from national and local groups to members of Congress. Contact the Washington Office on Africa for further materials and information..