European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes Roy Wilkins Friday August 11, 1978 Miyoung s background made him speak ouf our official America s in. Ambassador an Drew Young is in trouble again for speak ing up for Justice in America when the so Viet Union is parading its maltreatment of dissidents. Judging from the Stream of criticism of Young s comment that there Are political prisoners in the United states you would think he had renounced his citizenship and loyalty to the american con denunciations have been vociferous an impeachment Resolution was even introduced in the Congress. Republican and do Moratick leaders rebuked the ambassador publicly calling for his ouster or Resig nation then there was the nol so private columns comments reprimand from Secretary of state Cyrus Vance who it is now known to All , is Andrew Young s president Carter s personal criticism was gentle but firm. Through it All or. Young has is not the first controversial storm or. Young will weather but it May very Well be the last. The hour of Andrew. Young s departure seems imminent As the Public pressure mounts for his ouster. Either he is to be silenced or fired. And it is dear that ambassador Young will refuse to be silenced. Neither will or. Young quit under fire or during peace. He is a civil rights activist and the training is just that ambassador Young is to leave he will be hounded out of office and for no Good. Reason or no better reason than his truth Ful Don t seem to get As excited about the routine lies of their politicians air much As they Are angered by the unabashed Candor of their diplomats. Plain speech in America is undiplomatic or so it has , in any dose is hard to Swallow. But truth that exposes dirty american. Linen to is just not palatable. Like bad meat it is to be thrown out. Black americans who were Active in or remember the civil rights movement do not accept the fuss Over Young s have known for some time that there have been and still Are Many political prisoners in the United Young s remarks were in the con text of the civil rights movement in Russia and compared to civil rights struggles i America seem wholly defensible understandable and , the . Ambassador was not suggesting a Lack of concern for the rus Sia dissidents. It was his High regard for their courage and his optimism that truth will overcome All injustice that motivated him to president of the Harlem lawyers association made some pointed observations about Andrew Young s remarks in an open letter to president Carter which read 111 arc we to believe that Andy Young did not really go to jail during the civil right movement. Are we to believe that Martin Luther King jr., Bobby scale. Stokely car Michael Angela Davis and so Many oth ers did not in fact go to jail because their political beliefs were Are at a variance with the View of the prevailing majority Are we to believe that recent revelations dealing with the harassment of Black political groups by the Cia and the Fri did not really happen after All with All the reports of wiretapping and illegal government surveillance Man persons who Are civil rights and Community activists who have never been accused even of a crime feel like political prison ers in their own Homes and on their , have we already forgotten the tra vails of Paul Robeson. Medgar Evers an the Wilmington ten if we have then americans memories Are Short and ambassador Young s optimism that truth will prevail Over injustice seems a bit incredulous. Let the Eailler ant furl 12$&& of James j. Kilpatrick Ceta a sheer waste of fax fun sometime soon if Evo thing goes on schedule the House will take up the Ceta reauthorization Bill. The Bill ought to be shouted Down and stomped on. Instead itis Likely to be wafted toward the Senate on Waves of hot air and Good intentions. Bar ring a full scale revolt another $10 billionth $12 billion of your Money is about to Gur Gle Down the Drain. Ceta is the comprehensive employ ment and training act of 1973. It is now set to expire sept. 30. The pending Bill would rewrite portions of the original act i a Effort to prevent multiple abuses and would extend the program for four More authors of this grotesque imposition on the taxpayers could not prevent abuses if they kept at the rewriting Job till Christ Mas. Nothing in my experience not food Stamps nor foreign Aid. Nor the old Job corps nor the follies of the arts and humanities people nothing has approached the sheer mind boggling Boondo gling waste and corruption of the Ceta billions. That is not even the worst that can be said of the program. The original idea was to train the hardcore unemployed for productive jobs in the private sector. The orig Inal idea was to rely upon Public service jobs in local government Only As Tempo Rary expedients. Those original ideas have been reduced to imbecility. The act has done virtually nothing to Ward solving the problems of the hardcore unemployed their plight is As pathetic As Ever but the act has provided some Glo rious new Revenue sharing for the municipalities. What Ceta has accomplished Boutall it has accomplished is to Transfer a few Hundred thousand jobs from the Pri vate sector of our Economy to the Public sector. This is marvelous is it not in Massachusetts newsman Warren t s01"8 reported Between july 1974and january 1978, government employment is Tes or Vale 8eclor actually lost 28.-700 jobs the effect of the program is to damage the very private employers who in toe past have supplied the most employ ment to marginal workers. Niz sir a cures m ce1 employment in Public service. In May i�77 Tor example. Boston had 1.221 Ceta lobs of Nulf u l Stern men in ulc Numier hurl do Quin old could get in private
