European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 08, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes Jesse l. Jackson wednesday june 8, 1977 real work must be part of All education one of the Mast dangerous by products of Progress is the unemployable worker. A worker becomes unemployable when his or her Job is eliminated because eco nomic storms ravage the land As they have for the last decade. Or the worker be comes unemployable because automation finally makes his or her Job first the worker and the rest of us Only Sec him As one of the unemployed Butin time it becomes Clear that his skills and education Are Only sufficient to hold jobs that Don t exist any More. The unemployable is a sacrificial victim eliminated in a tribute to efficiency or to economic necessity or to both. So cast adrift the unemployable soon is economically dependent. The costs of keeping him alive put a new Strain on the Sam system that s already sacrificed him be cause it could t afford him any longer. As the Pool of unemployable a deepens the economic system becomes Ever More vulnerable to drastic damage when the next economic storm strikes something that s As inevitable As death and unemployable person finds life has become a living death. His existence adds to the tax Burden. He is Cut off from the economic mainstream and so undercuts personal despair grows. It spreads a Poison of defeatism hostility and resent ment first within his own family and then through his Community. If the nation shared equally in the dilemma of the unemployable a just and humane approach to dealing him Back int society might have evolved by now. But that s not the Way it and Browns because they disproportionately suffer the Wrath of unemployment do More than their share of drowning in the growing Pool of Unzem Fate infects their children whose wills to succeed and learn Wither. The resentment builds the groundwork is Laid for society to split into factions and ignite uses to the same time bombs that shattered the 60s.there Are ways to yank the fuses and to Drain the Pool of unemployable. What must be done is this we must identify the jobs that will become extinct and the Menand women who hold them. Those who Are not equipped to move on must be give Means and inspiration to train for growth in the already know who the next unemployable will be. We know that disproportionate numbers of them Are Black and Brown. We know where the new jobs will be. We know this because the United state census carefully charts the growth and de Cline births and deaths of jobs and those who hold them. We have to Recycle the workers that eco nomic cycles make obsolete. Our schools have to open their doors and minds to adults. That Means a fundamental change in education thinking. Kor the future Well being of us All. We must realize that adult education is no More a frill than the second Grade. Similarly vocational education mus become a part of the curriculum of every High school Public parochial and Pri vate inner City and suburbs Rich and poor. The future Well being and economic health of the country have been under mined by a combination of social forces the problem is simple the will to work has been weakened. It has become an american Rule of life that to get what you want before you turn 18. You cry. When the Day comes when intakes sweat instead of tears the transition is too traumatic for Many. The answer has to be that every Youn person must have a taste of real work As part of his or her education. If the army can use society s dropout and push outs to build Bridges and operate the world s most sophisticated weaponry a High school Stu Dent can comprehend the idea and fact of work. The idea that the country s future is bes served by trying to prepare every Young Man and woman for College is a bust. What we need now is a Boom in vocational and adult education. The key to the future has As much to do with Well trained hands As i does Heads. Tom Wicker Vietnam Cuba fes make sense the slowly improving relationship the. Carter administration is developing with Cuba and Vietnam Are symbolically satisfying and politically sensible. The estrangement now being cautiously re paired Date Back nearly 20 years in the Case of Cuba 30 in the Case of. Vietnam. The one rupture resulted in the sorry Bay of pigs episode and the gravest soviet american crisis of the nuclear Era theother produced the most tragic and sense less War in american traumatic history cannot be easily forgotten on either Side no wonder there fore that negotiations toward full Diplo Matic relations Are proceeding tentatively although with the cubans at a faster Pace than might have been expected. The important thing is that the ice has Bee broken and a degree of agreement reached in each Case that should make it difficult for any one of the parties to break Oft the , however two major difficulties remain in the difficulty of final agree ment with Vietnam the americans still missing in Vietnam and the american refusal to Honor former president Nixon pledge of postwar Aid. In the latest round of talks the vietnamese have turned Over information about 20 More missing Ameri cans. But hundreds perhaps More Are still unaccounted for and that the Viet namese keep producing these Small lists after protesting that they have no More in formation both hurts their credibility and prolongs the agony of the families of the missing for american Aid to Vietnam Washington s representatives insist that neither Congress nor the Public would stand for it. Perhaps not if it had to be labelled Repa rations or were pictured As the expiation of War guilt but Aid might be far More acceptable if it could be seen As a sound american investment in asian stability and a peaceful re entry of american influence to a strategically important part of the world where so Little now exists. From this distance in tact the elements of a useful arrangement seem present substantial american Aid commitment perhaps arranged partially through Trade credits and International agencies and an Rug uart alb Tijam Cashm-1v. American presence on a joint commission to carry out a conclusive search for the missing americans and make a final report in which everyone could believe. The new cuban american agreement that each will have an interest Section Small scale diplomatic representation to the other s capital is a Welcome full relations. Here too however the presence of the cuban expeditionary Force in Angola and possibly in Ethiopia has been labelled by president Carter As a major obstacle. But Washington hardly will be Able to 2�command Fidel Castro to bring his troops Home even in return for diplomatic re a tons Cuba after All has been getting of along without american recognition since if the Eisenhower administration. A better 3 approach might be to re open relations with Havana and develop a cuban Ameri i can tie that would give Washington s views on the expeditionary Force As Well As other issues More Force and influence j with Castro. The Basic Point is that it is in most cases far better to have diplomatic relations even with adversary nations than to relations. Withholding diplomatic cognition is sometimes a useful and need sary step some regimes might be hostile or repugnant or both As to make relations undesirable or impossible but neither Vietnam nor Cuba is any More hostile or repugnant than the rest of the communist bloc nations. We fought a War with one but wars have to come to an end sometime the other if on our Doorstep All right but the Days of Imperial american control of the head sphere Are past. Neither country is a Para gon of concern for human rights it Carter has made it Clear that be can he with that As in South Korea if there is a sufficient american interest in doing so. Former president Nixon who was Pranc magically willing to sign a pledge of my War Aid to Vietnam tried in one Bis broadcast interviews to distinguish dictatorial regimes of the left and of the right. The former he said attempted to Export their revolutions while in latter usually did not in his View. Terr fore authoritarian states of the right Cottle be More nearly tolerated and even assist i that is not Only an ironic doctrine for,1 country that has so often tried to Export a own views not least to Vietnam and the Bay of pigs it also overlooks the mobility that a decent and mutually beneficial cuban american relationship might bet protect the hemisphere from the the Estifa communism than a Cuba isolated hostile. Embittered and dependent on Moscow. U new York times j,1.�1"1""" n if Cui Imron and from izzxir.x%Tx\TTrjrjs8 dict lne " "
