European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Tom Wicker wednesday september 20, 1978 Kissinger s review of Angola events faulty Farmer Secretary of state Henry Kissinger recently deplored what he called the loss of nerve of the establishment that ran foreign policy in the postwar period and then conspicuously failed in  in a conversation with sen. . Moy Nihan transcribed for Public opinion mag Azine Kissinger went on to say in every confrontation with the soviet Union we could have had the upper hand. We had them Defeated in Angola and then we Defeated  Kissinger obviously was referring to1975, when three angolan forces were com Peting for control after Independence from Portugal the Fla led by Holden Roberto and Long supported by the United states Unita under the direction of Monassa Zimbi which also received some Ameri can backing in 1975, and the Mola led by Agustinho Neto and armed by the soviet Union. The Mola ultimately triumphed and organized the government in Power today. But that came about Only after powerful iban military intervention which threw Back a South african strike Force support ing Sav Imbi and after the . Senate on dec. 19,1975, approved legislation prevent ing further Covert Aid to any of the Force sin Angola. Is Kissinger Correct then that in Ango la the United states Defeated itself in a j m Afred we 301 the whole so James Kilpatrick some half baked bureaucracy a compulsive Reader will read any thing. The other morning waiting on a slice of Arnold s Granola bread to finish toasting i fell to Reading the bread wrap per. The toaster was toasting among other things thiamine Mon nitrate Mono and Glycerides Calcium sulfite ammonium Sulf ate and potassium bromate. The Label on a loaf of Safeway Rye was even More extensive. This wrapper advised the presence of ferrous sulfite Thi Marine Hydro Chloride Calcium Propios Nafe Mono Calcium phosphate Calcium Carbonate ammonium Chloride and potassium Iodate. It was impressive. In theory at least such meticulously de tailed labels also Are informative. They Are the consequence of rules and regulations imposed by the food and drug administration that became effective july 1as to bakery products. A comprehensive review of All food Labelling requirements Isnow in Progress. Eventually we will be knee keep in ethos plated a Glycerides a homemakers will be rattling on like chemistry majors. Yes the newly required labels do in form and it is hard to quarrel with that function. But the recently published report of a House subcommittee on Small Busi Ness raises some sobering questions about the Cost and value of these  we have Here is one More Case of Well intentioned bureaucratic overkill. In order to provide some doubtful and speculative benefits to a tiny minority of con Sumers the Fra has imposed new Bur Dens and risks upon a  if the requirements had anything to do with health or safety they could be ration ally defended. If the rules were aimed at preventing fraud in the marketplace no one could object. If there were a Demon Strable overwhelming demand from the buying Public to know of enzymes in a loaf of bread a political justification could reclaimed. None of these factors is present. Bakery products present no threat to health or safety the Labelling requirements that had been in effect for 38 years were quite sufficient to prevent fraud and As the subcommittee hearings made Clear the vast con suming bread buying Public has raised no columns comments clamor whatever for chemical Labelling. Afew activist consumer outfits made noises and the Fra s bureaucracy eager for new rules to administer leaped into action. The House subcommittee directed it principal concern to the Impact upon Small bakeries. Evidently the Little Fellows have been having a hard time. Over the past 40 years the number of Independent Bakers has declined from More than 10,000 to fewer than 1,000. The independents to digress for a moment have made great contributions to the Industry. It was an Independent Smith s bakery in Mobile that introduced wrapped bread in 1922 another Independent Zinsmaster bakery in Minne Apolis stunned the baking world with sliced bread in 1931. When the Fra first plunged into the for mation of new Labelling requirements the Small bakeries saw visions of bankruptcy ahead. The government s original proposal would have required every bakery to Stock a tremendous inventory of different wrap pers. Every ingredient was to be listed in order of predominance. Technically Baker would have risked a heavy Fine if at some Point he changed his formula eve slightly without changing his wrapper also. Last april responding to Industry objections the Fra relented. The new Rule effective in july does not demand an Iron Clad listing by order of predominance. It also is anticipated that the Fra will take reasonable View of the printing problem involved in getting All this stuff on the Label of a Cupcake sold in a vending machine. On other Points the Fra retreated not at All. Under the rules it will be difficult and expensive for bakeries to Experiment wit new products. They will risk bureaucratic harassment whenever they make seasonal adjustments in their dough  benefits from All this printers packagers and bureaucrats and an infinitesimal minority of highly educated con Sumers who know an ethos plated dig Lyce ride when they see one. A few persons who suffer from various allergies also May Benefit. The general Public is not truly in formed but merely bewildered. And the new bread labels May be Only the beginning. Hearings Are now under Way they Are scheduled for Little Rock and Washington in september for Bosto nand san Francisco in october on even More extensive requirements for All Foo products. From such overweening solicitude May Calcium prop Onate preserve us. M Washington Star Battle it should have won a remarkable article by Nathaniel Davis the assistant Secretary of state for african affairs in1975, suggests that if so the reason was bad policy choices by the Ford administration not a failure of american nerve. Writing in the current Issue of foreign affairs Davis offers Strong evidence not Only that at no Point did we have the Mola the cubans or the soviets Defeated in Angola but also that a $32 million Cia Effort on behalf of the Roberto and Sav Imbi forces was undertaken by presi Dent Ford and Kissinger after Strong warn Ings from Davis and others that it probably would not work and might Well make mat ters worse. Davis chaired for example a National Security Council task Force on Angola that recommended on june 13, 1975, against Covert military intervention. Such a step the report said would commit . Resources and prestige in a situation Over which the nation had Little control and where the outcome was doubtful it would cause increased involvement by the soviet Union in response it would run a High risk of exposure with Adverse effect on Ameri can relations with the Mola in the event that group should come to Power and with a number of african and third world states and it would necessarily increase the level of violence with no guarantee of accompanying Success. The task Force recommended instead a diplomatic option of intensive private efforts with Portugal interested african governments and the soviet Union to shift the angolan struggle from the military to the political Arena where the task Force believed the Roberto Sav Imbi factions rather than soviet arms would prove dominant. But at the direction of the National Security Council staff the task Force recommendation was presented to the Csc As Only one of three options the others were a hands off policy or Covert military intervention. Davis pressed his Case with Secretary Kissinger in numerous memoranda. But in the end the president and the Secretary chose Covert intervention anyway first$6 million in guns and Cash for the Roberto and Sav Imbi forces then $14 million finally $32 million before the Senate called a halt. At that Point six months after the task Force report every one of its dire predictions As to the results of military intervention had come True. What might have happened had the diplomatic option Bee chosen will never be known but Davis still thinks we would have done better at least to try that other  As to whether the intervention was Amajor reason for the later arrival of cuban troops in Angola Davis is cautious but he does observe that major interventions by Zaire Cuba and South Africa All took place in the last half of 1975, and he concludes that the answer seems to be that the Esca lations mutually produced counter Escala  by december 1975, in any Case when the Ford administration was calling for further intervention and scolding Congress for its Lack of Resolution and nerve which Kissinger apparently still was doing three year later in the Public opinion Tran script it was Clear Davis writes that a Large and rapidly escalating military and financial commitment would have been necessary to have any Hope of blocking an Mola  six months earlier he had warned kiss Inger that if we go in we must go in quickly massively and decisively enough to avoid the tempting gradual Mutual escalation that characterized Vietnam but it was just that tempting course that Henry Kissinger and Gerald for tried to follow that Congress blocked an for the Lack of which Kissinger now com Plains that we Defeated ourselves in an Gola. 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