Huge holes in sanctions ring

Press, 24 May 1977, Page 8

Huge holes in sanctions ring

NZPA-Reuter Washington Rhodesia has bought and sold millions of dollars worth of goods a year despite United Nations Economic sanctions, United States Congressional investigators have reported. The General Accounting Office, the investigating arm of Congress, said that U.N. records showed that in 1974 Rhodesia exported S6OOM worth of goods, nearly half of which reached world markets through South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, and Namibia (South West Africa). The report said that the United States had “not emphasised enforcement of the sanctions against Rhodesia.” Mr Andrew Young, the outspoken United States Ambassador to the United Nations, had breakfast in Lusaka yesterday with President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. Before the meeting, Mr Young said that he expected to receive a message for President Jimmy Carter from Dr Kaunda. Dr Kaunda was expected to seek support for his charges that the big Western

oil companies were breaking United Nations sanctions and illegally supplying Rhodesia.

Zambian mistrust of the present United States-British effort to solve the Rhodesia crisis has become evident. Zambian leaders have accused Britain of showing a lack of serious and genuine concern over Rhodesia, and of conniving with Mr lan Smith’s white-minority Salisbury regime. In Britain, anger was growing yesterday over a Government decision to expel Wing-Commander Frederick Simmonds, aged 55, a former wartime Royal Air Force pilot with a British passport who had come to Britain to visit his ailing 85-year-old mother. a Rhodesian member of Parliament and a supporter of Mr Smith. British Conservative M.P.s have attacked the decision to expel him as “monstrous.” In Rhodesia, 14 black civilians have been killed near Bmdura, and five others wounded, in the worst landmine incident of the four-year-old guerrilla war.