European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 12 the stars and stripes 1981 Anthony Lewis Reagan attitude vital to Zimbabwe future whats he trying to p0 bring Back the Law of j Tup settlement that brought Rob Ert Mugabe to office last april in an inde pendent Zimbabwe was a remarkably Happy outcome for Western it ended a Bill or racial and it opened the possibility of a stable and prosperous oriented to the in a troubled Region of nine months after Independence the Hopes for Are More the Economy is despite occasional i peace has taken the multiracial government is and Mugabe has established his personal authority among Whites and but it could All still depend on what the outside world does in relation to this new that became Clear in an interview columns with the prime minister the other me spoke in his almost academic but he made Clear How much foreign attitudes especially those of the new american the Reagan administrations attitude to Ward Southern Africa would be judged Mugabe by what it did about the Carter administration joined West Germany and Canada in trying to persuade South Africa to let that territory become Independent after elections supervised by the United but last month South Africa said one would want to Mugabe that there will be a continuation of the he said the namibian problem could still be solved if the Western five used their influence with South Africa and the applied he agreed with Gen eral african Calls for sanctions but added candidly that Zimbabwe was not in a Posi Tion to implement to the full those sanctions because of our present dependence on South Mugabe said he would expect that the presence of cuban troops in Angola would not become a Factor in the Reagan administrations attitude toward which has helped in the diplomatic efforts on the cubans had been invited by the angolan he and had helped it resist a South african inva he added that his governments relations with angolan were As close As can he was asked what he thought the effect would be if the United states now supported the Unita guerrillas that have operated in Angola with South african Mugabe that would be a most hostile act not Only to Angola but certainly to the african states in this Africa would obviously condemn but i dont want to imagine that the Reagan re Gime would be that in keeping with the pragmatic View of Zimbabwe economic South Africa continues to have a Trade Mission in but Mugabe charged that South Africa was training former Rhode Sian soldiers and supporting dissident move ments not Only in Angola but in Mozambique and South Africa is destabilizing the situation from the Indian Ocean to the he Secretary of state in his Confirma Tion said he would like to make an Early visit to Southern Mugabe said he would be such a he would help the United states understand Zimbabwe problems and development As to people of All from politicians to speak of their disappointment at Western Aid so the prime minister said it was far from the billion or billion that Kissinger spoke about in i Hope he will speak about it the Carter administration had proposed million in Aid to Zimbabwe for the next fiscal one Early question on american policy is whether the Reagan administration will go ahead with that we need funds badly for Rural devel Mugabe to acquire land for to buy the necessary implements of to establish diplomats also emphasize the urgency of Steps to resettle some african peasant farm ers on unused White owned and to help them with modern the urgency is one of the main pressures on the Mugabe government is to show Early benefits not Only for Black civil servants and City people but for the Large farming the danger is that the government will be pushed into More drastic land measures or into looking to the East for As Mugabe has so far flatly refused to Western investment May be a More significant potential source of needed capital than Mugabe said his government would shortly announce measures that he was sure would encourage lots of assurances will be he we do not want to sound As if we Are being dishonest and luring people into a situation where they cant get we be Lieve in speaking c new York times Howard Kleinberg is it time with scant hours before the former hos tages arrived in word began to come out that some businesses were making statements and inquiries about re sumption of Trade with you remember dont you a spokesman from Exxon said that his company is exploring the possibility of re suming Oil purchases from other businessmen arc interested in getting Back to their old stands in Tehran and wherever else in that country they did business so much for yellow dead soldiers in the iranian blindfolded and abused Brave american flags being used As garbage carriers and the Ayatollah will record that the United states involvement in Iran inter Nal affairs Over the past three decades has the prisoner of shark Island been questionable at the but that International lawlessness is supported by Kho Meini and his fanatics is beyond a Shadow of a How incongruous All this appears to be How the iranians must be laughing at us release the hostages and everything will be As it was is All this renewed business interest a significant statement about our capitalistic society the european common Market coun tries made their statement the very Day the hostages left they fell All Over each other in announcing immediate resumption of Trade with How did we get from nuke the Ayatollah to buying Oil from Iran so quickly no reasonable person should have expected a civilized United states to actually Send its response to iranian terrorism through the bomb Bays of a although it is probably True that Many of us fanta sized about such an but int this sudden spate of forgive and forget just As extreme while one of the conditions to which for Mer president Jimmy Carter agreed was a lifting of the Trade embargo with everyone knows it came about under there is nothing which says we have to Trade with the United states has had a Trade embargo on Cuba since 1961 imposed by president Eisenhower and continued through the Ford and Carter administrations for slightly More than 20 that embargo came after Fidel Castro nationalized property in Cuba owned by citizens and business publicly embraced a Book by Karl Marx and began a career of verbally abusing the United what Iran did was More certainly More and yet we sought to Trade again with that country almost immediately after the wheels lifted off the runway on the hostage flight from dont fool yourself into believing that the Trade embargo we had on Iran was fool just As it Hast been with those plastic containers of pitted dates which previously sat on supermarket shelves stamped product of Iran still Are Selling on those same they Are just stamped imported from where British Columbia anyone who believes that not a drop of iranian Oil has gotten into our Gas tanks in the past 14 months would also believe in the tooth the slippage and seepage is there All right you just dont know about As Money can be so can but to legitimize Trade with a govern ment As whacked out As that which rules the people of Iran would be to legitimize what happened in Tehran on and the 443 Days subsequent to even the iranians today Are telling us they dont want our business yet we have businessmen in this country despite cast aside their Pride in Pursuit of better Profita Dloss As simplistically tempting As it appeared to bombs were not the civilized response to the deeds of the iranians but economie retribution certainly can somewhere along the Iran must be punished for its and immediate resumption of Trade with that country is not exactly my Conception of c Cox news service the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As represents the views of the stars and stripes or the 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