The World - News from Jan. 30, 1985

Declaring that U.S. companies have played an “important, positive role in encouraging change away from apartheid,” the State Department expressed renewed opposition to proposals that would require U.S. firms to pull out of South Africa. Department spokesman Bernard Kalb, reporting that American companies have spent more than $100 million on projects outside the workplace designed to assist South African blacks, said, “This type of activity needs to be encouraged, not punished.” During a recent visit to South Africa, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) recommended corporate disinvestment there.