European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 12 the stars and stripes William f. Buckley or. Tuesday. June 10, 1980 let s have human rights panel to keep slate clean editor s Oak to Iii is a tvo part column based i an article or. Buckley Cru Tryor the Jour nil a to reign affairs. I the Spring Issue of foreign affairs the Quarter publication of the Council on i foreign relation which de Nurek advertises itself Ashe most influential journal in inc world and May Verv Well be. Carries an essay called human rights and foreign policy a proposal by me. The proposal. I Hope to establish is both relevant and  news is that Henry Kissinger has endorsed that proposal in private conversations. That As a former Secretary of state he should have done so makes his endorse ment especially interesting inasmuch As it is unusual when men who have presided Over major institutional reservations agree to cede sovereignty Over what was formerly their turf which has traditionally been thought integral to their station and responsibility. Or. Kissinger is prepared to permit designated officials of the United states government to speak out on human rights without submitting their reports or subordinating them to the architecture of United slates foreign policy. There arc those who will say but in t this already soit is Correct that Congress has mandated that a division of the depart ment of stale headed by an assistant Secre tary of slate Patricia Dorian is the incumbent is required to report on the status of human rights in various countries of the world with which the United slates has re lations which can be conceived of As in any Way philanthropic. If the report of the slate department panel declares that a particular country regularly abuses human rights then says Congress in a Cluster of Laws passed in the Vietnam and Post Vietnam season that country cannot qualify for favors by the in lieu states unless. Unless Whytall the relevant legislation has quite properly escape clauses most of them asserting the right of the president or the Secretary of stale to waive objections if the interests of inc United states require said waiver or if the denial of economic philanthropy would result in distressing not inc tyrant but the l Ranni cd. With the exception of a few countries specifically named by Congress Cambodia Cuba and South Africa Are example the president retains the discretion to recommend Aid with exclusive reference to what he. As principal architect and executor of . Foreign policy decides. An easy example is president Carter s decision a year Afler he came to Power to continue to Patronie the Philippines and South Korea because to do so was consist ent with the requirements of . Foreign policy while activating sanctions against Argentina and Chile because tie considered the governments of these countries not More offensive than those of Manila and Seoul but less important to inc United slates. As things now land. However agents of the executive Branch tailor their remarks on human rights to the foreign policy of the United slates. An egregious example would be. Let us say. The Delegate of the unite states to the general Assembly of the ignited nations who sit on the third commit tee ostensibly devoted to furthering human rights As enunciated by inc . S various covenants on inc subject. I was in 197. The Delegate in question and i was not permitted to make any observations Aboul the repression of human rights by the governors of China. Or of inc soviet Union. Or. For that matter of any soviet satellite wild the single exception of Cuba. The . Mission to the United nations also sends an ambassador to Geneva to participate in the meetings of inc human rights commission. For Over 25 years our representatives there were instructed not to critics a soviet behaviour in the Field of human rights on the grounds that doing so fell athwart Oiher considerations of . Foreign policy co existence peaceful negotiations Etc. The proposal before inc House is to detach inc two functions. Permit . Foreign policy logo Forward with exclusive reference to . Interests. But liberate . Representatives from subordination to that policy when their Job is simply to hold High the Banner for human rights. Per voice of experience George Mair 2 ing when president Carter look his oath of office he declared that the . Commitment to human rights was  obviously he did not understand what he was say or if he did he was using language loosely la is nol a Good idea to use language loosely. Because when precision trophies before you know it. Language can be made to say thai War is peace ignorance is knowl Edge suppression is Liberty. What Jimmy Carter walked into Afler those Heady Days when he celebrated human rights and even permitted a diplomatically provocative meeting Between himself and Vladimir Bukovsky. The celebrated so Viet dissident was reality. Aboul the Lime he reached adolescence in the while House he found himself hailing human rights while complimenting dictators in Poland Romania and Yugoslavia on their joint con Cern for human rights. In Short he did nothing to Advance human rights the Helsinki accords Are a grisly joke and his excuse is that inc interest of the United Stales Good relations with Poland Romania. Yugoslavia and. For that matter the soviet Union and China supersedes our concern for human rights. The difficulty faced by or. Carter in  Dunkirk an Retreat from the Wilsonia ism of John f. Kennedy we shall pay any Price Bear any Burden meet any hard ship support an Friend oppose any foe in Njo uld you vant Zage Arvize order to assure the survival and the Success of Liberty Hal marked our withdrawal from Vietnam is Hal in attempting to har Ness our foreign policy to the uncomfortable realities of our planet where most countries Are governed by men who give Little thought to human rights. Carter found himself nol merely adjusting to reality but debasing inc verbal currency of Freedom. Thus his representatives in the United nations and at the voice of America found themselves required by and Large to harness their declarations to the imperatives of . Foreign policy. The axioms have been Hal you need logo the one route or inc other. If the interests of the United Stales require route no. I Hal you make common Watts Miami it s a scary analogy la was like seeing the same tragic movie Over again and ii left the same sick feeling in my Gul. The videotape and film i saw of inc recent Miami riots was for me like re living inc Watts riots of 1965 that i covered in person. There were inc same Black rage inc same cries of frustration inc same haired of the while dominated system and the same mindless violence visited mostly against one s own  reasons for Miami 19x0 Are essentially Lac same As the reasons for Walts 1965 a White controlled society Hal denies de cent schools housing and employment and Hal keeps the Blacks under control through insensitive police  Walls riot was triggered by the tray Fie arrest of a Black Man named Donald cops and the National guard do the dirty fryc on a hoi night in August 1965. The work. Thai s exactly whal happened in " " " in nor Miami most politicians or so called Lead ers Black or while did nothing. If Miami follows the Walls analogy the next Slep is to find out who the leaders of. " Black rioting were and gel them on the Miami stir Avion was made worse by some government payroll at a fal salary e influx of cuban and haitian refugees thai co opts them out of the Community and renders them impotent to Challenge the while run system. Most of inc Black riot leaders of inc 1960s arc now in big govern ment positions and part of the problem in Miami riot was triggered by the acquittal of four while cops one of cuban descent who had arrested Arthur Mcduffie for speeding and were charged with scaling him Lodeal. The f because the cubans arc Given special privileges and immediate help by Washington. By contrast the Black haitian refugees have been jerked around by Washington treated differently from other refugees an denied help of any kind. Mead of being pan of the solution. Nied help of any kind. Of. Inc Walls Miami analogy May not during the Walls riot almost All the hold up on every com but it is close White politicians stayed away from the area enough to be scary and Lac explosive situation. They ice Lac t to san calf cause with Josef Stalin in order to fight against Adolf Hitler Why then All government personnel carefully adapt them selves mostly by the Art of studied neglect to avoid criticism of Josef Stalin. If in the interest of human rights route no. 2you write foreign policy in such a Way Aslo show hostility to All nations that do not and Here to some version or other of our own Bill of rights Thop you diminish your participation in world affairs and. In Pursuit of political Angl list find yourself in due course isolated. The proposal with which former Sec Reary of state Henry Kissinger concurs is. By Law to distinguish Lac functions. Let the president nominate from a list to which representatives of the american civil lib erties Union inc International commission on jurists amnesty International. Freedom House it Al contribute members who would constitute a United Stales commis Sion on human rights. These commission ers would occupy those chairs in the United nations that devote themselves to questions of human rights. The commission would re port annually to the nation and to the world via the voice of America its findings on human rights. But these commissioner would never under any circumstances recommend . Policy. That policy would necessarily reflect . Interests. If Congress or the executive chose to be guided by the commission s findings so be it. But the commission s principal function would be to keep the tablets clean to say the truth Aboul the stale of human rights in every country in the world with which we Deal. Because unless official representatives in the United nations and elsewhere Tell the Ruih about human rights we stand to lose that which is left of Wilsonia ism the adv a by of human rights uncomplicated by the by an inc requirements of foreign poll  Pron Sarto Kilt