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Among the provisions in the bill, which was passed by large majorities in both houses of Congress, are a ban on new public or private loans, investments or extensions of credit and an embargo on the import of South African uranium, coal, textiles, iron and steel, arms, ammunition, military vehicles, agricultural products and Krugerrand gold coins. The legislation would also prohibit the export to South Africa of crude oil, petroleum products, munitions, nuclear-energy equipment and computers, and cut off direct air travel between the two countries...
...Brussels, voted to ban new investments and halt the import of South African iron and steel and Krugerrands, as proposed at a summit in the Hague three months ago. But the foreign ministers rejected the most serious proposal of all, a ban on the import of South African coal, as a result of strenuous opposition from the West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. That decision effectively reduced by two-thirds the impact of measures considered at the meeting...
...days after the Brussels meeting the Japanese announced a ban on South African steel and iron. But they did not cut off the import of coal and various strategic metals...
...addition to banning U.S. investment and bank loans, the new legislation would terminate landing rights in this country for South African aircraft and prohibit U.S. imports of South African uranium, coal, steel, textiles, military vehicles, agricultural products and food...
...that developed, lived for many centuries and was overtaken by floods of sediments that killed the roots," he says. "They must have been killed off relatively quickly for the roots not to decay, and buried deeply enough to exclude oxygen but not so deeply as to turn them into coal. That process repeated and repeated itself over several hundreds of thousands of years...