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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 24, 1978

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 the stars and stripes Roy Wilkins april 1978 first too Plant a tiny reforms Ore big to proud afrikaners South Africa has announced for Are some pretty sweeping reforms in the treatment of the the re forms make it possible for wealthy Black South africans to attend theatrical performances with to apply for member ship in exclusive recreation clubs and to have their children join White children at the expensive private the Bantu education act that sparked massive Street protests several months ago has been re and some Blacks will now be Able to own their in their segregated South intent on its promotion of separate development for will pro vide for self government in Black town the reforms will not alter the doctrine of White As one journalist put behind every Reform is a de termination not to cede the Overall control that the five million Whites exercise Over 87 percent of the i the headlines May not Tell the full imply of this new turn of v few months the world was totally elected by any prospects for peaceful in South the White us Cist afrikaners of the nationalist were resoundingly returned to Rule e heels of that governments repress measures against tube incredibly termed Acci of Black Leader Stephen Biko sent Waves around the the mass of Blacks in the streets was just As and the shutting of Ilion newspapers and jailing of Edi i convinced the world that the White of i were Bent on and 8 oblivious to world outrage about their Kilpatrick immoral the South african reforms do not alter the system of and do not threaten the seat of White but they signal that White control can be if not eventually by the pressure of moral South Africa can no longer pretend that the View the civilized world Community takes of it is not being weighed in the formulation of Domestic we May have come to the end of a senseless and foolish Era in South Africa response to Black after these tiny reforms for the proud major racial barriers and classifications which have existed for generations have suddenly been Blacks in America can recount their own arduous struggle to defeat the Legal isms cunningly devised to segregate and to place them in a condition of Legal inferior for Black americans it was Legal Segre gation and were subjected to the whims and fancies of White individually and collective they went to Back doors and were forced to live in hollows and alleys and Back if schools were Black children went to shanties and Whites to Blacks in America could not they were and and no White was punished for what he did to a step by halting re fusing to filled with the burning spirit for attained Legal and so change must come to South each and every South african shares the heavy Burden of the transition to Black majority or Cerf gatsby shame on Yale Fudd Duddie Vone the word from new Haven hat the part planned by Alex the l of a korean steel has been 1 the spirit of great gatsby Suc to stuffiness Purita rides perhaps you saw the Story it seems that Young a senior at decided to throw a firs class hear ranged for the use of Yale the largest dining and planned to turn it into a gambling Casino Tor the he had fake French 500franc notes printed up he ordered Blackjack and Baccarat tables from new his very important guests were to be Given francs As they came in others were to be handed francs Kwon let it be known that if any guest managed to win a million francs in play Kwon would give him a Mercedes or a Cadillac As a the Young gentleman also arranged for a prodigious his menu called for roast pig and broiled prepared by 10 japanese a dozen bartenders were to preside at four where two truckloads of imported Beer and chateau la Fitte Rothschild Champagne would be the party was to Cost once the invitations had gone out to a thousand gossip about this sumptuous nonsense could no longer be con Zales Barrett had the Good sense to Wash his hands of the matter completely i have nothing to do with the party and i Don t want to have anything to do with other authorities Felt compelled to pontificate yales Secretary Henry Chauncey found kaons party it is from the and there is no longer any place Siler and k d about this in i would have asked is this really the Way you want to Mark at Yale All that Money could have been used to help people less fortunate than these murmurs of disapproval proved too much for he had wanted Only to do the extraordinary in an unusual fashion in an unlikely nothing of e it could the condoned at Yale he i cant take running from  in Flea Ridden we got it quit the Fri what about All this the Story provokes some melancholy brother Muncey s homiletic exposition is at least As old As Mathew Wetther one is Deal ing with precious ointment in an Alabaster Box or with a barrel of Good German some Pieti Stic fellow is certain to in i never to occur to the critics that kaons was not to vanish s thin it would have Wilt to persons less fortunate Oil musicians to the suppliers sters and suckling pigs nations to dozens of labourers who earn their living brother Chauncey May not underlying our puritanical extravagance is the Calv Latouc pleasure and sin Are closely j notion is deep rooted in it dominates m welfare Public Are designed to be lest the Beauty of gardens of the food Stamps pay for Beer or off the two Martini there Are Bon when the country loses its and takes itself much too into spasms of morality and complacent pleasure of on Tutti tout at the goo time but it is the or who provide the delicious Folly that Sparks the around doubtless there Are better senior student to make but there is something to by i one superlative memory the mind returns to Thi Sion to the one one t one perfect Day of Fieldor unforgettable explosion of summer remember Alex kaons 78 it might have been and More Walies will Ever remember president of the  
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