Break All Ties with Apartheid, Isolate South African Reginte!

Kiko Martinez on trial again • • • • • • .5 TH£ Sandinistas on recruitment drive . 9 Honduras: springboard for U.S. war 11 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 50/NO. 39 OCTOBER 17, 1986 75 CENTS Break all ties with apartheid, isolate South African reginte! New act passed October 10-11 by Congress protests demand targets ANC full sanctions "Sanctions now!" "Boycott South Af BY ERNEST HARSCH rica!" and "Break all ties with apartheid!" Under the guise of opposing apartheid, a are demands that are being heard more and new law has been added to the U.S. statute more across the United States. books targeting the very organization that Demonstrations, picket lines, and teach is leading the freedom struggle in South ins have been organized to focus attention Africa - the African National Congress on the cozy relationship that the U.S. gov- (ANC). Known as the Comprehensive Anti Apartheid Act of 1986, it became law on October 2, after both houses of Congress EDITORIAL voted to override President Reagan's veto of the bill. Reagan had objected to the act's ernment and big business maintain with the inclusion of some economic sanctions oppressive apartheid regime. Students against the apartheid regime. have erected shanties to symbolize the According to the drafters of the act, its plight of South Africa's Black majority and purpose is to "guide the efforts of the student demands for divestment from Anti-apartheid protest at University of California, Berkeley. United States in helping to bring an end to South Africa. Trade unionists have ex apartheid in South Africa." But scattered tended solidarity to their South African throughout the text are repeated attacks on brothers and sisters fighting to organize London to demand "Sanctions now!" Cur American Committee on Africa, one of the the ANC and provisions that give the unions. rently, British trade unions are stepping up organizations helping to build the actions, White House legal authority to embark on a The deep sentiment among the U.S. a campaign to press for a complete em "Protesters will gather on Wall Street in broad witch-hunt against the group and its people against apartheid was shown by the bargo on trade, commercial, financial, cul New York, at the White House in Wash supporters. June action in New York City, when some tural, and sporting activities with South Af- ington, outside Coca-Cola headquarters in While objecting to the sanctions, 100,000 people marched and rallied in the nca. Atlanta, and in state capitols from Wiscon Reagan, in his veto message, hailed these largest anti-apartheid protest ever held in On October 10 and 11 , a new round of sin to California to Hawaii on October 10. "useful and realistic provisions" of the act. the United States. anti-apartheid actions is being held in cities Campuses, from Yale to Kalamazoo to the South African officials have likewise That sentiment is international. Demon and on campuses across the United States. University of Utah, will be the site of dem praised what they consider the act's "posi strations and other actions have been held They are demanding divestment and sanc onstrations demanding divestment of stoc tive" aspects. But these provisions have in many countries of Western Europe, de tions against South Africa, and will express kholdings in U.S. corporations aiding otherwise received little public attention so manding that those governments sever ties solidarity with South African and Nami apartheid and for full sanctions by the fed far. with apartheid. bian political prisoners. eral government." To the drafters of the act, the African In June, 250,000 people demonstrated in According to a news release from the Continued on Page 14 National Congress is guilty of "promoting terrorism" and of engaging in "unprovoked violence." But to millions of South Africans, the ANC is not a terrorist organization. Rather, Nicaraguans capture U.S. 'adviser,' it is fighting against terrorism, the day-to day terrorist methods of rule employed by the apartheid regime. The activists of Um point to Vietnam War parallel khonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), the ANC's armed wing, are thus widely re garded as freedom fighters. BY CINDY JAQUITH fore the press. "My name is Eugene Hasen into Costa Rican territory, and then north The ANC's growing support - both MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 8 - A fus. I come from Marinette, Wisconsin, again into Nicaragua. U.S. military "adviser" based in El Sal and I was captured yesterday in southern within South Africa and among opponents Hasenfus's job was throwing the vador was presented to reporters here last Nicaragua," he said. of apartheid around the world- is a matter supplies out the plane door as it passed night after he had been captured by San of concern to the U.S. rulers. Despite Lt. Col. Roberto Calderon of the San over the mercenary camps. He said there dinista troops while trying to supply mer routine public pronouncements abhorring dinista People's Army explained to the are five planes at Ilopango conducting cenaries inside Nicaragua. apartheid, they have long collaborated with press that on October 5 his troops fired on a these supply missions. Continued on Page 6 Eugene Hasenfus appeared briefly be- camouflaged plane that violated Nicara Hasenfus also offered information on guan airspace in the southern Nicaraguan two of three men killed when the plane province of Rio San Juan. The plane crashed, said Calderon. The pilot was crashed and three bodies were found in Capt. William Cooper, also a U.S. citizen. Horntel workers tour Britain side. A fourth man was seen parachuting Calderon held up an ID card identifying out before the crash. Cooper as working for Southern Air Trans BY KIPP DAWSON United Food and Commercial Workers On October 6, Sandinista soldiers cap port, a Florida-based outfit with connec SOUTH YORKSHIRE, England-"On Local P-9 at the Austin plant. He is one of tured Hasenfus, who admitted being on the tions to the CIA. behalf of the miners of Silverwood Col 850 workers who are being deprived of em flight. The co-pilot, according to Hasenfus, liery, let me say that much of what you told ployment because of their participation in In the plane's wreckage, soldiers found was Wallace Blaine Sawyer, also a U.S. us here about your struggle is identical to the strike that began at that plant in August more than 100,000 rifle cartridges; RPG-7 citizen. He carried an ID card like Hasen what happened to us. We too faced the 1985. The contract that Hormel imposed grenade launchers; dozens of AK assault fus's, listing him as a U.S. adviser with army in police clothes, we appreciate the on the Austin plant in early September this rifles; and military boots. All were destined special rights at the Ilopango Airport. position you're in." year made no provision for reinstating for CIA-organized mercenaries, or con Calderon said the third dead man was of Those remarks were made by Granville these workers. tras, who are operating in the Rio San Juan Latin American nationality but has not Richardson, president of the Silverwood Collette is active in the Austin United region. been identified. Colliery branch of the National Union of Support Group. Cook is a meatpacker from Calderon showed reporters a Salvadoran This morning's Barricada, newspaper Mineworkers (NUM). Richardson and the Hormel's Ottumwa, Iowa, plant, and air force ID card with Hasenfus' s name and of the Sandinista National Liberation Front other members of the Silverwood branch Langemeier is from the Fremont, Neb photo, identifying him as from the "USA" in Nicaragua, featured a back-page photo .committee (the equivalent of a union local raska, Hormel plant. with the capacity of "adviser." The card display with the headline "Just like in Viet- executive board in the United States) had Both Cook and Langemeier were fired admitted Hasenfus to restricted areas of El nam." just heard the story of the more than 1 ,200 for honoring picket lines set up by Austin Salvador's Ilopango Airport. It listed his It showed a 1965 photo of a U.S. pilot workers who are fighting to get their jobs strikers. An arbitrator has ordered Cook's ID number as 4122. captured in Vietnam by a 17-year-old mili back at three Geo. A. Hormel & Co. pack reinstatement, but the company instead de Calderon said that in initial interrogation tia woman almost half his size. Above it ing plants in the United States. clared him laid off. by the Sandinistas, Hasenfus has admitted was a similar photo of Hasenfus and 19- Jim Guyette, Barbara Collette, Bill The Silverwood meeting was the first to participating in four flights from El Sal year-old Nicaraguan soldier, Jose Fer Cook, and Bob Langemeier had all made stop by the meatpackers on a trip to the vador to Nicaragua to drop weapons and nando Corrales Aleman, who fired the presentations to the mine workers' meet Yorkshire coalfields. other supplies to the CIA-paid terrorists. land-air missile that downed the U.S. plane ing. Alfredo Represa, European representa His route was from the Ilopango Airport, here three days ago. Corrales has been in Guyette is the suspended president of Continued on Page 2 down the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua, east the Sandinista army for just five months. Support group for British miners hears internat'l fighters BY NORTON SANDLER Salvador, was the next to speak. Represa ROTHERHAM, England- "This room was jailed for four years by the Salvadoran on a Monday night is the best forum you government.

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