European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A study in ambiguity in face of apartheid shifting a photo Blacks recently have killed fellow Blacks suspected of collaborating with South Africa White by Gregory Nokes associated press South Africa enemy or something i Between because successive administrations have been unable to policy toward the segregationist White government has been ambiguous and almost always fallen Short of its stated the Reagan administrations which it Calls constructive is the latest to pay the aimed above All at fostering peaceful the policy is unravelling in the face of a growing climate of violence in South Africa where 5 million Whites try to maintain Iron isted Rule Over 22 million South Africa rigid segregationist is not new it became official policy in when Blacks were barred from any participation in the National gov president in reversing the confrontational stance of the Carter has tried the approach of a muting criticism of the White leadership while quietly encouraging it to relax its oppression of the 73 percent of its population that is the alone among Security Council abstained from a Resolution condemn ing apartheid As recently As last the administration insists its policy has contributed to some easing of apartheid but whose numbers Are say the Basic plight of Blacks is unchanged and in some ways has grown Chester the assistant Secretary of state who helped forge the admits to but says the South african government is moving in the right he argues that american influence is limited and should be focused on fostering peaceful which Means giving the White government More South Africa is not a communist for gods he said in an is not our South Africa is a very important regional part in a speech earlier in the he said South Africa is a Friend of the United but Randall a Black critic who has helped organize the demonstrations outside the South african embassy in said constructive engagement has become an excuse to do nothing South Africa understands it to mean hands off their Domestic of were there any Progress to be the credit for it could not be claimed by this he Laid in an the fact there is no there Are Steps he warns of a blood Bath if meaningful Steps to 16 the stars and stripes dismantle apartheid Arent soon a concern of informed americans on both sides of the Issue is that events could get out of plunging South Africa into violence has become almost a daily occur with More than 200 Blacks killed since August in brutal government suppression of Black Blacks have also engaged in a recent the Black surrogates for the country White leaders have become prey for Black mobs unable to Challenge directly an overwhelmingly powerful government and police Black crowds Burn the Homes of Black township councillors and policemen and prowl the streets for col in some cases they have hacked and burned to death those working within the Blacks still Lack the right to vote or be represented in their National sixteen Black leaders were recently jailed on unspecified charges of Lead ing South african Church White and have been Black townships have been routinely surrounded and searched by police in the Middle of the the few existing Blac oriented publications Are sometimes censored or the repression descends to the the music of american Singer Stevie wonder was banned from South african airwaves after wonder dedicated his Academy award to imprisoned opposition Leader Nelson South Africa Bernardus insisted in an interview that conditions Are he cited a new Constitution that gives the million persons of Indian descent and mixed blood but not the Black majority parliamentary representation for the first he said the government has halted forced removals of Blacks from their South Africa is in a state of change and he he declared that american pressure  accelerate the Pace of change because his government is not going to accept dictation from but the situation has become an Issue in american even some conservative republicans Are bailing out on constructive engagement and calling for a More forthright administration stand against thir to five gop congressmen wrote Fourie late last demanding urgent measures to dismantle legislation to impose limited economic sanctions stands a Good Chance of being enacted by Congress Over administration the House voted sanctions in the last session and is certain to act again this the Senate foreign relations committee voted unanimously on March 27 to require Reagan to impose sanctions if significant Progress int made within two sanctions would be limited aimed at halting new april 1985 a photo Stevie wonder arrested at South african investment by american while leaving existing investment intact but would be seen As a warning of More severe measures to come if South Africa fails to dismantle to Many in the United states and South Africa is an enemy treating its 22 million Blacks As denying them the right to forcing them to live on reservations known As arresting their and even denying them the right to Donald former ambassador under president says reagans policy shows racial while he agrees the United states cant compel he argues the administration has made matters worse by signalling its desire for very warm As warm As the administration can politically get away it is placing a higher priority on on so called strategic than on human than on human Mchenry said in an Howard chairman of the House subcommittee on says the administrations policy will come Back to haunt it because South Africa itself is an open invitation to As Long As the system of apartheid is in there will be a liberation struggle to overthrow and if the United states is unwilling to lend support to those struggles for Independence and then the liberation movements will turn to wherever they can get and that is exactly what has been Wolpe said in an reagans policy toward South Africa appears to contradict his policies toward other the president is Quick to denounce the Marx Stori enter government of Nicaragua in the harshest but his infrequent criticisms of South Africa practices Are usually made under pressure and even then Are by any the mistreatment of South Afri Cas Black majority is much More harsh than anything the sandinista have and while the sandinista came to Power Only in apartheid has been an official government practice in South Africa for nearly 40 at a March 21 press Reagan denounced apartheid As repugnant when asked about the actions of South african police who that Day killed 19 Blacks preparing to March to a funeral for other slain but he suggested that police fired in even though the Blacks we rent and he referred to police As the Lawa Dorder ignoring that the Law and order is imposed by a White government in which the Blacks Are not