European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse 41 Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday August 10, 1978 James j. Kilpatrick school dispute in Raleigh is a classic drama Man s Stahl fur religious free Dom a struggle thai must have begun be fore zeus took up residence on Olympus continued recently in Raleigh. there the Power of the state was filled again Lihe rights of the individual ultimately the to s supreme court May have to Settle the Issue the Case that was tried in a Raleigh Superior court involves the authority of Testate department of education Over 63 non Public Christian schools in some respects the litigation tracks Esrher cases in Wisconsin and ohm. But the North Caro Lina lawsuit contains some slightly differ ent element this is the situation "0-Odd a. In a desperate Effort in Salvage racial segregated education in some la bion North Carolina adopted a number f Lav. Having of do with per. Ale schools must of these Laws were ruled unconstitutional but some of them that were racially Neutral remained on the books among them was a statute giving the stale department of a Deucalion Power to enforce certain minimum standards of instruction and teacher certification within the non Public schools the intent was sound enough in con Junction with what was known As the pier sail plan of tuition Grants the statute was designed to prevent Public Money from to Fly by night theres a broader rationale also. The state of North Carolina has an obligation to quote " Law. To supervise All forms of education to the end that All children shall become citizens who possess certain Basic compe Tes necessary to properly discharge responsibilities of american citizen he regulatory act Lay largely dormant i the books until about 1974. The various Istian schools voluntarily cooperated provisions having to do with safety and sanitation then the Public school lob j y came to life with new proposals do with the certification of teachers and " a Battle was joined. This year the Christian Schoolsky refused to file certain statistical re s. Their principal spokesman the Rev. Kelly of Southern Pines publicly re i the whole plan of state approval. T week the state look or Kelly and his pendants to court he Christian schools contend that our columns comments nation s fundamental Law protects their fundamental Faith. The first amendment As extended to the Stales says there shall be no Law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. To the Christian pastors their schools Are an intrinsic inseparable Parton their Church. Our Church educational program is a establishment of or. Kelly says. On sunday we have sunday school in which we teach Only the Bible. Through the week we have Day school in which we teach science history geography read ing literature social studies and every other subject As religious instruction witha firm foundation in the word of god. Our teachers Are exclusively the instruments of our religious instruction. To regulate them is to regulate our religious instruction. Both our sunday school and our Day school Are owned operated governed and staffed exclusively by the Mem Bers of our Church the defendants Are nut Balking it safety and health regulations these they con cede but they refuse absolutely to accept the principle that the state of North Carolina can approve or disapprove their teach ers curriculum textbooks or program of instruction especially resist the growing trend toward state supervised competency tests intended to deter mine whal children actually have Learned Richmond Baltimore. The poet and translator once defined the essential Dif Ference Between Western drama and greek drama the one ordinarily pits ngh against wrong the other pits right against Richl. In this sense the confrontation at Raleigh is indeed a classic drama the justifications for state regulations cannot he dismissed out of Handset my own sympathies lie with the defendants i have visited some of the Chris Tian schools examined their leaching materials talked with their teachers and ministers. Beyond any me. These schools Are pre exercise of religion. I do nol see How North Carolina to validly License and certify a a leather any More than North could License and certify a Catholic 1 the North Carolina regulatory solves a massive entanglement of d and stale. The requested injunction own View. Ought to be denied. Tel san Dickett Vono the Jet Tetras get Moid of a a 06ajfs just a the William f. Buckley George Bush s policy on China in to columns end a Toons on hip eve represent nost try authors Tea Ore in emr to by constr Oft representing int Vawl a the surs and strip Tsor int unite us the progressive collapse of Jimm Carter stimulates the political not to say the patriotic appetite. And when last week George Bush spoke before the world affairs Council in san Francisco it was Clear that the audience was listening to a Candi Date for president of the United states. Concerning his formal qualifications there is simply no question. It in t widely known that when Gerry Ford ascended tothe presidency he worked out a Point sys tem to help him in the selection of a vice president. At the top of the list with mos Points after his name was George Bush. Nelson Rockefeller was nevertheless selected for complicated but by no Means inscrutable political reasons. The Point system undoubtedly acknowledged the wide experience of George Bush who is the other Elliott Richardson of the Republican party. George Bush has Man aged in a fairly Young lifetime to serve As congressman As United states ambassador to the United nations As chairman of the Republican National committee Andas representative of the United slates government to the people s Republic of China notwithstanding these qualifications his principal asset is his Genius for making friends one would sooner look for a Needle in a Haystack than for someone who hav ing been exposed to Bush dislikes him he spoke on the subject of the people Republic of China and what he said was mostly reassuring to those who believe that the United states must stand by its commitments to Taiwan. Or. Bush believes thai we should gel As close to China As we reasonably can. Buthe also believes thai in order to gel close to China it is required Hal we behave in such a Way Aslo be both feared and admired by China. Feared in the sense of maintain ing the military might necessary to prevail in any world Confron Lalion. Admired in the sense of a disposition to use that might in the National interest. History has obliged us. For the time being by merging our National interest with that of China ins Faras the soviet Union is concerned. But not insofar As Taiwan is concerned Here George Bush is unequivocal. The three conditions of normalization that we withdraw our representative from Tai wan withdraw our remaining troops and renounce our defense treaty Are Inyol " the the Tacti i. Foist Erable. And yet in one sense providential the Paradox is explained As simply this provided we continue to Appel Etc communists by agreeing that i part of China after All East get fat is a part of German your refusal act ally to turn Taiwan Over to China it accepted As testimony to our Tough for our National interest. " in asserting that interest. We a respect of the governors of China.1wf emotional need is not for the Ocena Tad Taiwan but for an abstract Reclaw that the two Are a single country. Thirty pens also to be the View of the gov Enow of China in Taiwan so that there is not flick there. Bush illustrated the intensity of in Ion Nese feeling in the matter by reciting Tual reception Given to athletes trom various provinces of China by the Ciffo a sports event contrasted with the we my ovation Given to the taiwanese Tion where they dug up the Tai Wim athletes i cannot a the Bush line is a plausible i ate realpolitik. It would face a crwm1 Taiwan began to feel an isolation Erable As to impel it to do one of to p tither approach the soviet Untamo Clare its Independence either of 11 measures would destabilize a. Theoretical equilibrium. Neither to in and certainly neither is president Carter with a diction to ineptitude will take me a dissociate us from Taiwan in time Jujj this a major Campaign Issue is to Pygeorge Bush is among the tenders ready for such a move. Cal Washington sur Syfel dam
