European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes february 1981 Anthony Lewis peace brings troubles to Zimbabwe Zimbabwe in lonely country 50 Miles East of at the end of a rutted dirt you come to a sprawling tent in it arc men and women who spent the years of the guerrilla War with Robert Mugabe mostly in they came Here a year at the time of the it is not an official Assembly Point of former guerrillas the men do not columns and comments have and they arc not scheduled to be retrained for the but what Are they going to do the question touches on a profound social and economic problem com Mon to developing countries but of partic ular political Acutt Ness in Zimbabwe or the families at Camp As it is Are free to go Back to the tribal areas that they left during the but they do not want to return to subsistence farming on exhausted the women seem especially reluctant to go Back to a life of seeking and carrying water and so they Are wailing in conditions that arc not exactly Small White provided by the High commissioner for hold six to eight men or four women and their Chil food comes from the government or Mugabe party the distinction is not Clear the Camp is on what was a commercial bought by the government from its White and the men have planted 450 acres of some of the women Lake classes at a nearby Camp Reading and Home the men say they would like secondary schooling or vocational training in agricultural methods or in a Trade that might get them a Job in a a Job in town theres the for the people in this Camp Are among vast numbers of zimbabweans who would like to get out of the tribal areas and into towns or at least into work on commercial the official estimate is that two million people now subsisting on peasant agriculture want to get into the Cash the pattern is familiar All Over Africa and in Asia and latin America a rap idly growing population strains the re sources of traditional it is drawn to the cities by the Hope of work and by what it hears of Urban and so masses of unemployed live in shacks around Nairobi and Bangkok and one of the Aims of the new Zimbabwe government is to improve conditions in the tribal peasant areas and thus reduce the pressure to but the teachers and health workers and agricultural advisers who Are needed to make those improvements Are reluctant to take jobs in places where there Are no paved no often no assurances of clean a another High priority is to buy up some of the vacant White owned Farmland for settlement of families from the tribal More than 11 million acres formerly Farmed Are not now in but the Money to buy and help the resettled Farmers with seed and tractors and can Only come from foreign there is great potential for Industrial development in with its efficient business Community and its substantial Iron and other Mineral but development fast enough to create Large numbers of new jobs also depends on an infusion of capital from outside in this Case More Likely private investment than but there Are ifs in that proposition investors Are attracted by the possibilities a prominent South african banker told me the other Day that this country could be the Switzerland of South but outsiders naturally wonder about the Lon term stability of that May turn on whether the Economy expands fast enough to forestall it is a if the frustrations Mugabe and his government will come under pressure to adopt a More drastic policy of redistributing White economic assets to the poor Black a but that would surely scare Many Whites into and Mugabe wants to avoid White he believes that keeping skilled Whites Here is economically and his reassuring policies have so far sue w soming ceded in that net White emigration since Independence last april is Only these Are Lon term right now Zimbabwe has peace and visible but the euphoria Over the end of a brutal War will not last you can see the problems the economic adviser to a leading local Bank said the other there like other countries but Here the expectations Are so if they cant increase if people wont go Back to the if Aid Doest came  turn on what there c new York times catch 1981 los Angeles times Syndicate George Mair time for Basic Reform of Federal income tax if Ronald Reagan really Means what he said about making decisions on the basis of what was Best for the american people without fear of the political 1 have the first of several modest the Federal income tax is inequitable and a disgrace to a democratic re Public like if Reagan is he should immediately propose a Radical Reform of the it is possible now for two families with the same income and other Basic Circum stances to pay a significantly different fed eral income it is possible for someone to make a million dollars and pay no income it is possible for a Reagan to make a six figure income and pay no income it is possible for the very wealthy to at tend inauguration festivities in flying in and out in private jets subsidized by the Ordinary it is possible for corporate executives to invite a passel of buddies to a High old time in new Orleans for the super bowl and have the common taxpayer subsidize most of the Federal income tax system makes Ordinary taxpayers pay As they earn their in but allows the Rich to pay their taxes months after the income has been the inequities go on and everyone you know has his own horror it is not necessary to be labor the Point More than i have the solution is As simple As the 35word Law creating the income it is a solution advocated by conservatives such As Milton former Treasury Secre tary William and Here it is tax All income from whatever source at the same no exempt no no everyone would pay that same percentage of earnings from whatever source and could file their income tax return on a postcard in less than a it is it is in the Best interest of the american it is do you have guts enough to do cow boy c los Angeles times 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