AA News April 1977

A front-page picture showed the presentation of the AAM’s 60,000-signature petition against South African arms sales to British Foreign Secretary David Owen. AA News reported on the long prison sentences imposed on South African school students and the detention of former Robben Island prisoners. It exposed a smear campaign portraying the AAM as a narrow-based pro-Soviet organisation. Abdul Minty examined US Southern African policy under the country’s new president Jimmy Carter. A review of a pamphlet by Martin Bailey showed how British companies were busting Rhodesian sanctions.