CALL BY BLACKS
Nixon firm in denial (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 20. President Nixon yesterday rejected firmly, but in a conciliatory and sympathetic reply, a call by black congressmen for the United States to isolate South Africa because of het Government’s racial policies. A White House statement said: “Unilateral cutting of United States economic <‘”d diplomatic ties, while it would be regretted and a cause for concern in South Africa, would isolate the United States from the forces of change in South Africa. “Isolation, even if it were achievable, could well produce undesirable results. Not only would we be deprived of the means to influence development in a constructive manner, but we would be cut off from the people we wish to help the nonwhites. “The Administration considers that the maintenance of contact is essential if the United States is to exert a constructive influence on South Africa.”
Mr Nixon’s response to the call to sever ties with South Africa was included in the White House’s point-by-point reply to 60 recommendations and demands made to him by the 12 black congressmen in the House of Representatives, all Democrats.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32612, 21 May 1971, Page 9
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