European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                12 the stars and stripes july 1977 Conid Brezhnev knows human Nihls Paa Leur knew from combating the spread of he co Sld ers it rude of president Carter to comment on the absence of such rights in the soviet but Brezhnev must approve of car ters reticence about soviet of the fourth amendment privacy rights of toe soviet Union is intercepting millions of Telephone conversations of Public and private but like ids Muiir Nettale seems so fitted to extending the sour season of de Tente that he will not Slop this violation of the Only human rights that Are his direct Washington and sophisticated equipment unopened crates under lege of the diplomatic Pouch  transmissions from William Safire looting new Yorks Bastille Day in White letters on a Black Back the headline of new Yorks Span Ishel demanded to know torque Why when the cites tights went was there a billion Dollar orgy of looting and pillaging by tens of thousands of the occupants of the Ilys slums nothing like the rampage of 1977s Baa title Day has happened to an american City this was not a raw riot no discrimination was shown Between Mack or White race relations have surely suffered televisions projection of exultant Black looters wiped put the gains of the Tele bed Root but no civil rights cause motivated the blackouts  nor was this an example of people driven by desperation to reach out for be they took not bread not milk More sports shirts for the sporty Dun shoes for the one of the participants aptly called the evil Carni Val atmosphere Oziri Strosin Why the Standard Liberal answer is that this was a a for economic an expression of despair by ten it u our fault for abandoning the great for not making certain that each ghetto resident has Ajob or welfare payment to keep him the Standard hard Fine answer is just As foolishly  that the militia was not called out in Tine to keep Law and or thai the cops were not equipped with shoot4okill More farfetched answers come from people in the looting area who were neither criminals nor the blackout itself was described As an act of As consolidated Edison promptly called which suspended the rules of lawful or thai cooed pulled the plug on to dramatize its need for More Power and that such a conspiracy juju led Gleeful participation in its none of these nor All satisfy they Are not people do not become a thieving mob be cause they cannot afford booze or new they do not refrain from stealing because of the presence of glinting they do not break the Law be cause of Stagni in the sky or ant establish Mett conspiracy the looters looted because of us spread ing Ron ethic anal stealing is of if you can get away with As you usually can that Only a Jerk passes up an Opportunity to rip off his neighbor that society not Only owes you a but the Good millions of Black and hispanic new yorkers were the worst victims of the loot ing and arson on Bastille and do not deserve the shudders directed their Way in its Many of them called the looters and in a no racial sense were right the attached no guilt to their they what was in the stores As their right it was freestyle Christmas in what is the basis for that newly wide spread Altitude of a right to rip off the economic despair excuse will not hold because poverty in the ghettos was greater in the last and the Standard of living was lower in the past one reason for the  want attitude is the philosophy that Wel fare is a right to be expanded and not a condition to be avoided by the ate bodied another reason is the claim that because minorities have suffered discrimination in the they Are now entitled to reparations in the form of special treatment and some carry that claim to another reason is the argument that a Job is something to be provided and not searched and that menial work lit to be a pumped As not a decent another reason is the excuse that crime u the result of poverty and that poverty is no body fault but the systems u follows that in this no fault society is to blame for what a poor person does when the lights Are heresy of most of As prefer a much More palatable  Ridi exploitation of resentment or a get  not Many Are willing to get Lough minded about the prevailing Pou cat philosophy and to face up to the consequences of the overweening Assumption of responsibility surely there Are other and More conv plot reasons for the suspension of Ordinary go Hwy and morality by so Many new yorkers during the cites ordeal but that the beginning of the hard answer to Ella Rio Parque soon the so Villas will build y w one of the highest Hills to w As a the higher you Urit United Stales has a limited my cause of soviet county Masurat ing Etc microwave of the location of the by and the fact that the Utt microwave transmissions United states is primarily seeking info nation of the sort the soviets can without electronics in our open by in effect american gather much military and including economic dust for Grain and Nodily thereby making posse we memorable Grain the Carter administration is devising a secret plan to protect classified convert Saimons but the fourth amendment not say that Only senior government offer dais shall be secure against unreasonable searches and plan May Cort a billion dollars the president should understand that it would be less in dollars and dig nity and would be More efficient and More in Accord with his oath of to Square shoulders and Tell tile soviets to the United slates would have to Stop us him cd intercepting in but that Trade off would be a rarity one advantageous in the United the new York times reports thai Secre tary of state Kissinger opposed disclosure of the soviet eavesdropping because u might harm relations and Block the policy of president Nixon wan notoriously unimpressed the fourth Amend under president foreign policy was in Kissinger and Kissinger was in what a Sterton called the Well lit prison of pm the Kissinger idea was that nothing at All must complicate the thoroughly syn thetic atmosphere of the Carter administration Baa continued the refusing Alert americans to the sweeping soviet invasion of their this says Daniel conforms entirely to other manifestations of what i have fell to be a failure of carve on the Parton americans faring the mounting a Gres tons and arrogance of soviet not Long ago7 says it White House commenting on the Impact of president Carters human rights initiative on soviet american stated what few have said but Many have which is that the soviet Union has regarded american Prucy Over the past that the present administration As pm of disguised what better evidence Wou they have than the Beha Tor of our government in this particular matter Here Are standing around the Rose Garden pinning on one another for having discovered that the Fri is tapping somebody while secretly aware but unwilling to state that the soviet Union 1 doing the same thing on a scale of what 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