The World - News from Oct. 28, 1985
Fifty-two U.S. corporate leaders with interests in South Africa pledged in a Johannesburg newspaper advertisement to “play an active role” in ending apartheid. The ads, by the U.S. Corporate Council on South Africa, were signed by the council’s co-chairmen--former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, chairman of the Burroughs Corp., and General Motors Chairman Roger B. Smith. Similar to ads placed in U.S. papers, they endorsed a recent initiative by 91 South African industrialists who urged an end to racial discrimination.
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