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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer New York Times
Coverage 1982-1988
Works using it 5

Debates

Debate Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 3
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 3
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bowman (n.d.) New York Times, Jonathan Fuerbringer, 'House Votes Sanctions Against South Africa' (6 June 1985) June 1985 Documents the 295-127 House vote for sanctions, used to argue that sanctions momentum preceded Chase Manhattan's August 1985 refusal to roll over loans.
Hirsch (1989) New York Times and Wall Street Journal (various issues, Aug-Sept 1985; July 1988) 1985-1988 Documents the sequence of US banks refusing to roll over loans in August 1985 and later debt-repayment fears.
Padayachee (1988) New York Times (21 Oct 1982; 1 Aug 1985) 1982-1985 Reports the UN study on the IMF loan and Chase Manhattan's cessation of credit in August 1985.
Rodman (1994) New York Times articles on divestment (Cowell 31 Dec 1986; Levin 22 Oct 1986; Hammond 17 Aug 1986) 1986 Evidence that disinvesting firms sold to local management and kept licensing and technology ties.
Sisk (1989) The New York Times, 28 October 1988, p. 1 (municipal election results) October 1988 Supports the claim that the CP won 67 of 110 contested white Transvaal town councils.