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LA SI G Anti-apart-
heid forces have their eyes on
Michigan as the January 1, 1989
enforcement date of the state's
new divestment law ap­
proaches.
ARC America, a leading
u.s. construction and building
materials manufacturer and the
object of a take over effort by
South African interests, has
urged State Treasurer Robert
Bowman to enforce the law ban­
ning investment in South
African-linked companies.
ARC America is the target of
a take-over by Minorco, a
Luxembourg-based company
controlled by South Africa's
largest and most powerful busi­
ness entity, the Oppenheimer­
DeBeers syndicate, according
to ARC President Keith Orell­
Jones.
Michigan has over nine mi1-
lion shares valued at close to
$100 million of Minorco,
making the tate "the largest in­
stitutional investor in South
African-controlled Minorco,"
Orell-Jones said' a letter to
Bowman.
With close to a million shares
valued at $30 million, Michigan
is also the eighth largest institu­
tional investor in Chemical
Bank, the financiDg agent for
the buy-o deal, Orrell-Jones
id
"KIlo' of your stong feel­
ings against Apartheid and the
new sate law banning' invest­
ment in rompanies with South
African exposure, you cannot
be pleased with Michigian'
large holdings in what is by any
test, the quintessential South
African rompany," said Orrell­
Jones in a letter dated Dec. 2 to
Bowman.
Bowman could not be
reached for comment as he bad
no . returned Michigan Citizen
phone calls by press tim .
Orrell-J ones said that
Minorco has attempted to min­
imize its South Afric n
parentage. However, Harry Op­
penheimer himself has ad­
mitted, in an Anglo American
company publication, that
Minorro is the Anglo Groups's
'major vehicle for investment in
the United states and elsewhere,
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Abortion battle
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not 0 veTi yet
. said the state is alreadv expect- births that we should be
By AlIce L mg to lace economic fOnse- prepared to deal with." .
Capital News Servia . quences ot e ban. She added the average co t
LANSING - The battle I "The Senate FIScal Agency of a Medicaid abortion was be­
over Proposal A did not end has already . d there will be a tween $150 and $300, whereas
with the do e of the polls. dramatic inp-ease to th state comprehensive pre-natal care
Since the passage of budget one way or a other, for Medicaid mother costs
Proposal A, abortion op- whether i� � taxes � other about $6,000. Taking care of the
ponents and supporters, as well pr�ams, � People Cam- dependent children after that
as state agencies, are rushing to pugn for Cllotee spa rson can run into the thousands,
predict what effect the ban will Judith Frey. I I W'ener said.
have on Michigan. SAY B TO COST But pro-life forces are point-
Opponents of the an against The acting director of the ing to the records of other states
Medicaid- funded bortions Michigan Department of�blic with similar bans on tax-funded
continuo to pre ict the Health, Raj Wiener, agreed the abortions as evidence that
proposal's passage . make ban is going to have a financial Michigan's new ban will n add
taxes or welfare costs soar. impact on the state. up to a bigger bill for the state.
Supporters clai similar "(Proposal A) will create a Both Pennsylvania nd
bans in other tates have not lot of complications, Wiener Colorado have bans similar to
caused significant problems and said. "(Abou ) 36 percent oftb Michigan's Proposal A and
predict Michigan's ban will not Medicaid pregnancies in this neither state has faced major
be an economic or social state chose to have an abortion financial difficulties, said Barb
problem for the state. before th proposal ... That Listing; chairperson of the
. A pro-choi ee representative ; means there' that many more C Dlled 0 3
