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From: jmm@bonnie.UUCP (Joe Mcghee)
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Subject: British Weapons Enforce Apartheit in South Africa
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 21:37:20 EST
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	An organization known as Episcopal Clergy for South Africa (ECSA)
recently received hundreds of pages of information on British-made plastic and
rubber bullets and the grenade launchers which fire them after reports appeared
in the press concerning the use of these weapons against striking mine workers
in South Africa where a six-year-old child was recently killed by government
forces.
	Rubber and plastic bullets are currently being manufactured by Brock's
Explosives Limited of Sanquhar, Dumphrieshire, Scotland. Formerly, they were
manufactured by Schermuly Limited, High Post, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
Schermuly is currently selling the grenade launchers which fire these rounds as
a marketing representative of the manufacturer, Webley and Scott Limited, Park
Lane, Handsworth, Birmingham, England B21 8LU. Schermuly is a subsidiary of
Wilkinson Sword Group in England and Allegheny International of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
	These weapons are the more recent versions of wooden bullets which
were first used against anti-British protesters in Hong Kong. By its use of
these weapons in Northern Ireland, Britain is currently defying the ban against
rubber and plastic bullets which was recently passed for a second time in the
European Parliament of the Common Market nations. The British government ruled
out the use of these weapons against protesters in England after a top
government minister stated "someone might be killed".

					bonnie!jmm
					J. M. McGhee