Africa and the Middle East, 1971-1976

This series contains speeches, correspondence, proposals, reports, press releases, periodicals, interviews, and newspaper clippings. The records date from 1971-1976, but most fall within the period 1972-1976. Topics include the African-American Labor Center; African drought relief; financial and material assistance to AFL-CIO sponsored or supported projects and activities; civil war in Angola and Rhodesia; Turkey's invasion of Cyprus; Kurdish independence; government repression of trade unions in Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran, and South Africa; Arab/Israeli conflicts; Soviet and Syrian Jews; AFL-CIO support of the General Federation of Labor In Israel (Histadrut); Histadrut's Afro-Asian Institute; refugees in Somalia; and apartheid in South Africa.

Major correspondents include: Uzi Bloch (American Representative, Histadrut); Michael Boggs; Irving Brown; Moshe Deeter (Conference Coordinator, Conference on the Plight of Soviet Jewry); Dale Good (Special Assistant to the Secretary and Coordinator of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of State); J.A. Grobbelaar (General Secretary, Trade Union Council of South Africa); numerous Histadrut officers; John Hutchinson (Professor, University of California, Los Angeles); M. Ioannou (General Secretary, Cyprus Workers' Confederation); Lane Kirkland (Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO); Ernest Lee; Jay Lovestone; George Meany (President, AFL-CIO); and George Sacre (President, Federation of Petroleum Trade Unions in Lebanon).