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Reporters at the scene in
Uitenh e tirnated that more
than 50 other marchers ere
wounded, many cri1ically, hen
a con . gent of 19 police offl­
opened fire on the crowd
ott pointb range with
u omatic rifle, pi tols and
otguns.
Senator Edward Kennedy an­
nounced on n tional television
that he had receiv d reports
from church official in South
Africa that at I a 40 per om
h d beensho.
The incident w one of
the bloodi t since 69 Blacks
ere killed 25 years 0 arch
21, in an aniti-go mment pro­
test at Sharpeville - a mas­
er th t f used orId out-
range on South Africa's
partheid system of r cial gre­
gation.
Louis Le Grange South
Afi· 's mini ter for d
ord r, told Parliament in Cape
Town that the police t Uiten­
hage, near the indu trial center
of Port Elizabeth, acted
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only one
EWS
A ALYS S
out - bile doing 0 can still
be percei d in a po . tive light.
The United State today is
the large t trader, cond larg
foreign investor, and the ource
of one-third of all international
credi in South Africa. Tho
who argue that disinvestrn nt
ould hurt more than help
the oppre ed 8 c South Afri­
cans mi perceive the fundam n­
tal nature of our inve tment
e
y
frica
in that country.
U.s. FI S employ ppro ,­
mately 66,000 BI c South
African - Ie than 1 p rcent of
the entire Blac South African
population. At the sam time
they control 70 percent of th
computer mar et, 45 percent of
th oil market, and 33 percent
of the automotiv and true
mar et, all of hich to ether
constitute the jugul rein of
thi highly phisticated ani-
n t teo hil Ll.S, inve t-
ment may provide emp oyment
for re ti fe, million
upon millio of South fri-
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