TRADE : U.S. Trade Mission Set for South Africa

Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown said the mission he will lead this week will help stabilize Pretoria’s emerging democracy and open a valuable new market for U.S. exporters. “Economic growth is the single most effective path to political stability,” Brown told reporters. On Tuesday, President Clinton lifted the last of the U.S. economic sanctions against South Africa and urged state and local governments to do the same. The federal sanctions were put in place in 1986 after the white minority government implemented a new constitution that failed to extend voting rights to blacks.