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Article: African National Congress - is it a Communist front?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 31, 1986
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President Reagan, in an Aug. 12 press conference, suggested that
the African National Congress, South Africa's major black nationalist
movement, is a Communist front. Here is a background report:
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa It is an increasingly crucial question as
the West looks ahead to South Africa's future: How influential are
the Communists within the African National Congress?
The South African government, alarmed by the ANC's new
prominence in Washington and London, has given its answer. It says
Communists comprise two-thirds of the outlawed organization's top
leadership, direct its sabotage war against apartheid and aspire to
establish a Marxist regime.
The ANC, too, has ...