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Nita Heimann organized this first meeting and said the committee in tends to educate the A&M commu nity about apartheid. She said Nelson Mandela, for whom the committee in named, is a leader of the African National Con gress and has been in prison for the past 20 years. Heimann, a junior chemical engi neering major, said she hopes to get the group organized during the summer and build membership this fall. “There is a broad base for anti apartheid action on campus,” Hei mann said. “It’s past time that we had some sort of organization like this on-campus.” Several anti-apartheid demonstra tions have taken place recently at other universities around the coun try. The largest demonstrations were held at Columbia University and the University of Calfornia at Berkley. The Steve Biko committee at the University of Texas at Austin is working to get the University of Texas Board of Regents to divest it self of investments in companies with ties to the South African gov ernment. Biko was a prominent leader in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa until his death. Texas A&M System Comptroller Bill Wasson said that the elimination of A&M investments in companies that might be doing large amounts of business in South Africa would not be in the best financial interests of A&M. “A&M’s position (on this matter) as a state agency is that students are ■asking for a policy decision that needs to be made at a state or federal level that says, ‘We will not invest in these companies’,” Wasson said. Wasson said he believes this type of policy decision “cannot be decen tralized down to individual institu tions, such as A&M or Columbia.” A bill calling for divestment for all Texas state schools is being consid ered in the Texas House of Rep resentatives. Two A&M students, Mike Cook and Dave McAlpin, recently at tended an anti-apartheid sit-in at the University of California at Berkley. Cook said, “What really struck me was when I got back (to A&M) and told people about the trip, nobody knew what apartheid was.” Heimann said apathy was a con cern of the committe. Another mem ber of the group, Hugh Stearns, said, “It’s not easy to wake students on this campus out of their comatose state.” The committee plans to 'distribute anti-apartheid literature during summer school registration. “This issue could gather a lot of support at A&M,” Cook said. The Nelson Mandela committee is not recognized by the University, but plans to go through the recogni tion process soon. The group’s next meeting will be June 12 at 7:30 p.m. U.S. House group votes for sanctions against apartheid Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Demo- craticTControlled House Foreign Af fairs Committee voted 26-6 on Thursday to impose new economic sanctions against South Africa and its system of racial apartheid. The legislation — opposed by the Reagan administration — would prohibit new U.S. investment and loans in South Africa. It would also suspend the sale of American computers to South Af rica and shut off imports to the United States of an estimated $600 million in South African gold coins called Krugerrands. All six “no” votes came from Re publicans who argued that rather than encourage improved race rela tions in South Africa, the sanctions would wbrsen conditions for the black miyority there. A watered-down Republican ver sion condemning apartheid and set ting up a commission to investigate conditions in South Africa was re jected 19-4. The Democratic measure now goes to the House floor. Similar legislation is pending in the Republican-controlled Senate, which is likely to debate the issue by mid-summer. The United States has previously cut off military sales to South Africa, and the country is ineligible for loans from the Export-Import Bank. 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