European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Tom Wicker August 1978 escapes linkage to Ian Smiths regime new York by the surprisingly close vote of 54 to the United states has just escaped forced identification with the interim government of Ian Smith in Rhode that the margin by which the Senate Defeated an amendment by Danforth of Missouri that would have lifted economic sanctions against Rhodesia for the last three months of since that exactly the period when the Smith regime says it will hold presumably leading to a Black majority Rule adoption of the Danforth amendment could hardly have been read in any other Way than As american encouragement to Smith and his colleagues and their the trouble with that would have been at least twofold in Black the Smith interim even with its Black Partick is regarded As a front for the same old White Power and its Promise of majority Rule is seen As a Means of maintaining White dominance under Black so even limited american support for it would have been badly received in Africa and might Well have encouraged the very Cuba soviet intervention in Rhode Sia that americans of All persuasions would like to backing the interim government would have been backing a with every week that the news makes it clearer that the combination of Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa who witnessed defeat of the Danforth amendment from the Senate gallery has not been to bring about a ceasefire in guerrilla War fare in Rhodesia or to Cut off popular sup port for the quite the the guerrillas seem to be gaining strength and extending their reach militarily just last the rhodesian police announced for the first time in the six year they had clashed with guerrillas within Salisbury and in a Muzorewa stronghold and they appear stronger politically than because once acknowledged As Rhodesia most popular Black has been tarnished by his association with even Smith complains that the Bishop has not been Able to persuade the guerrillas much less their Rob Ert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo to accept a general amnesty proclaimed by the Smith some May argue that the Danforth or even the Complete lifting of sanctions advocated by that great sup Porter of Black majority Jesse Helms of North would give Smith and Muzorewa the support they need to be Able to carry through their aside from the question whether that would produce real majority Vietnam should have taught us that outside support can rarely do More than prop up an unpopular government Ana probably not even that except by for a Good closet Rhodesia the Neto government in Angola is learning that cuban troops there can help fight Jon As Savi Bis guerrillas to a but that the governments dependence on out Side forces works against its efforts to gain the kind of popular support in the face of which Savi Bis forces could not Long sur the Cas javits which the Senate did May risk some american identification with the Smith regime but it makes any lifting of the sanctions dependent upon the establishment of a majority Rule government by internationally monitored elections and the commitment of that government to negotiate in Good Faith with the guerrilla movements of Mugabe and two is a double requirement that seems most unlikely to be the spread of the fighting the government is now having to run Daylight truck convoys to maintain and the Washington Post has re ported that More guerrillas moved in from Zambia last month raises the ques Tion whether the Smith regime has enough control of the Countryside to conduct its promised Smith has publicly voiced his and the manpower ministers who outlined last week a proposed timetable leading to elections Between 4 and 6 cautioned that it was dependent on the course of the guerrilla nor do american officials really believe that the tenuous settlement by which South Africa and guerrilla forces in Namibia have agreed to Independence for that re Gion formerly Southwest Africa will Nave much effect in neighbouring both sides in Namibia had reasons for agreeing to a negotiated How Ever reluctantly in the Strong est of the guerrilla appears to Nave less to gain from negotiations than from continuing his both sides seem Adamant in reject ing the British american plan for negotiations Between All Many who voted for the Danforth amendment or backed Helms More extreme plan apparently did so from reluctance to support armed guerrillas and Ter but that misses the real which is not to oppose what the guerrillas Are fighting for in this True Black majority that is what the United in its own must stand for too and there is no Way to do As Bishop Muzorewa is finding in bed with Ian Jesse l Jackson the first time was Only a warning summer of the cold heart is Here ten years the nations concerns were a hot summer and the desire to bring ourselves to unite and make the american dream every Ameri cans this there is a different kind of a sudden chill has spread across the nations there Are More people looking in their mirrors than looking out their while the Kun flux klan is stirring hate again in the while nazis threaten jews and Blacks in the White Ameri Ca is worrying More about property tax Bills than the Bill of ten years there was a growing in Terest in protecting our National to the concern is my health insure there was concern in the nation about the future of our children today its my the summer of the cold heart is it has been moving closer for a Long the Early signs were in places like news week and new times magazines which Dis cussed evidence that americans were turning to the that the farsighted columns and comments drive of 60s soda Equality had detoured into myopic preoccupation with then the Early warning signs became cold facts the equal rights amendment was stalled on ant progressive grounds and some states affirmed their re treat from the future by rescinding adoption of polls and elections confirmed the con Cern for self society in voters re fused schools the Money needed to do the Basic Job of educating the rehabilitation and Rescue became less important than retribution and incarceration the death sentence and most came the Bakke decision by the supreme court and the Advent of Bakk ism the Elevation of the fraudulent claim of reverse discrimination to the status of Legal but the final Nail in the coffin of Ameri Cas social conscience was driven in Cali where More than 4 million voters put Public education and welfare on the line in order to Cut their property the Victory of proposition 13 in califor Nia has driven voters All Over the country to reach for their the Blind ignorance that is the soil in which hate and bigotry grow is making a big Howard the millionaire Cosow Sor of proposition didst see a 57 per cent property tax Cut As a threat to people and were hot going to permit people to go broke White the government gets he he didst say anything about the people who already Are and of ways have been its them or us and were for he in the there was a time when the nation began to think All of us As us when its them or you and i know who is not among us the the the we who Are not White and property hold ers face a cold season in american but the Challenge is to All of us and what hangs in the balance is the coun try not a tax cd urn Chi Gnu sym Cut