tions IN THE years to come it is likely that media pundits and the campus savants of the Left who now bow! for stiffer sanc- Soath Africa will sing a silent song, especially if we ‘‘win’’ the economic war we are waging against that country and it goes down. (Although there is no sign of that happening.) It was much the same pack, after all, that yelled for Uncle Ho in the Vietnam war. And where are they now? Like Jane Fonda, they have nothing to say. Which is Brian Mulroney and Joe Clark are bad enough, God knows. But John Turner, Sheila Copps and Ed Broadbent are worse. If they had won the election, what littic trade we have with South Africa would have been wiped out and diplomatic recognition would have The American politicians who forced so many companies to quit were looking for black votes in the U.S. But as far as exerting pressure on South Africa was concerned they were out to lunch.”’ The reason for their fervoz is their supposed desire to help the dlacks. But sanctions have had ex- actly the opposite effect. It is the blacks who have been precisely hartaed, and the South African right wing thai bas been helped, as Professor Tony Marais of Wit- watersrand University explained during a recent visit to Vancouver thet went unreported in our media. devastating proof of the trath of his cnse. Many American firms have more or fea: bees forced to get out of South Africa, for in- stance. And what has bees the result? “Of the 114 U.S. companies disinvested between thant Jan. 1, 1986 and Asai 30, 1988,°" states the IRRC, “45 sold their opera- agers and investors ended up own- ing assets ‘‘worth anywhere from two to five times what they paid for them.”” In the American Spectator, South African businessman Tony Bloom, 2 liberal, has been quoted as saying: ‘‘South African com- panies have been able to acquire technology, management skills, brand names and market share that would have taken years to bauild.”’ It was reported that at feast 100 new millionaires have been crewted. Did the South African govern- ment collapse? On the contrary. The liberal opposition in the South African parliament was replaced by a right-wing one. Why? Because a lot of voters thought President P.W. Botha was a wimp, on ac- count of his steady dismantling of forced so many companies to quit were looking for black votes in the U.S. Bun as far as exerting pressure on South Africa was concerned they were out to luach. While Management was in con- Amesican trol, Washington could get the companies to pay /xacks high wages. (The same uppiied in the Bata Cocporstion case, owned in Canadsz, which got out after our media mounted a campaign against it.) Union isflaence often lessens, too, witen the foreign company sells. Also, corporate contributions to education end other ‘social re- sponsibility’’ programs are cither reduced or cease. Anti-apartheid study: budget of the...former IBM sub- sidiary fell froma an annual 2.5 mil- Bon rands a year to 800,000."’ Does Joe Clark know about these things? Who knows what he knows? He doesn’t even seem to know chat the exiled African Na- tional Congress is a terrorist organization. He thinks it’s lovely, and allows it to have an office in Canada. 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