PRINTER'S NO. 887
No. 68 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY RICHARDSON, IRVIS, WIGGINS, DEAL, CARN, PRESTON,
WILLIAMS, D. R. WRIGHT, DeWEESE, FATTAH, WOZNIAK, LINTON,
TRUMAN, LEVIN AND R. C. WRIGHT, APRIL 13, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS,
APRIL 18, 1983
A RESOLUTION
1 Relating to the granting of credit to South Africa by the
2 Export-Import Bank.
3 WHEREAS, On October 19, 1977, South Africa cracked down
4 against all organized, legal opposition to apartheid. This is
5 only the latest brutality of a regime which has detained
6 thousands of its opponents and denied the most basic human,
7 economic and political rights to the majority black population;
8 and
9 WHEREAS, We believe that further loans to South Africa by
10 commercial and government-controlled banks in the United States
11 are morally wrong and undermine the interests and values of the
12 American people; and
13 WHEREAS, We believe that the continued granting of credit by
14 the Export-Import Bank, with the full backing of the United
15 States to help finance purchases by government and private
16 purchasers in South Africa, strengthens the apartheid system;
17 therefore be it
1 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania urge the President and memorialize
3 the Congress of the United States to forbid the use of all
4 Export-Import Bank facilities to support purchases of American
5 goods by the South African government, its agencies and any
6 private interests in the Republic of South Africa; and be it
7 further
8 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
9 the President of the United States, the presiding officers of
10 each house of Congress and to each member of Congress from
11 Pennsylvania.
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