and some the left. there was this movement, even entertainers, athletes that were called on to shun south africa and successfully built that movement with transafricans and others and reagan became the picture to us of opposing that where he was really trying to deal with balancing, even leon sullivan. so it wasn t a black and white kind of issue, it was a lot of gray areas. reagan even said you must release mandela. he made a statement to that effect he gave a speech to the united nations to call for immediate withdrawal of apartheid. the first foreign policy trip by bill clark was to south africa and he said the united states government the reagan government finds apartheid repugnant and urged a change over as quickly as possible and the reagan administration put pressure on the south african government to