The World - News from May 22, 1985

The House defeated an attempt to delete a major economic sanction against South Africa from legislation designed to force the white-minority regime to abandon apartheid. An amendment by California Rep. Ed Zschau (R-Los Altos), rejected 256 to 148, would have dropped a ban on new bank loans to the Pretoria government. Votes on other major economic sanctions are pending. At the United Nations, meanwhile, the United States cast the only negative vote as the Economic and Social Council approved plans for hearings on multinational companies operating in South Africa and Namibia.