The World - News from June 3, 1988

The House Banking Committee voted 34 to 14 to approve a bill imposing sweeping new sanctions against South Africa to force the Pretoria government to abandon its apartheid policies. The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the same bill a month ago in a similar, largely party-line vote. Four other committees must consider parts of the measure before it goes to the full House. The measure, which is strongly opposed by the Reagan Administration, would virtually end U.S.-South African trade and require American businesses to pull out of South Africa. The proposed prohibitions would include not only products from other countries that contain components or parts made in South Africa.