European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april columns comments Anthony Lewis seems Faesy Way to tight apartheid events in South Africa confront american Public and with hard for it is no longer possible to maintain seriously that presi Dent Botha and his government Are on the Way to end ing apartheid and need Only be gently they have with that they accept no change in the system of White the most immediate choices May be the United states is now South Africa largest trading supplying nearly 20 percent of its american investment there exceeds the Anold one made More is whether americans should continue to do business in a country gripped by a policy of state american challenged on the Issue in recent have come to argue that they do More Good for the abused majority in South Africa by staying they cite the Sullivan accepted by some which Call for desegregation of work places and other Steps toward just treatment of Black that argument has just been ably restated by the president of John in an article for the new York its Black employees in South Africa get equal he and some Are ism officials there speak out for change one recently called for ending the pass Laws and bringing Blacks into the constitutional we can do business in a Way that provides a Akers for a society in which asian and coloured might someday enjoy peace and that was ibis rather than to Wash our hands of no doubt ism is a Model but Akers is quite unrealistic in his View of apartheid and of what his or other american companies can do about a business can order its own practices in a decent promoting Black eliminating Segre gated lunch rooms and the in those respects Amer ican companies can set an example for others in South to the extent that the Sullivan principles have William Safire apartheid study in Black and we wite encouraged such behaviour and Many companies in South Africa in fact do not comply with them the principles have been a Good the gains Are of very modest the Ameri can companies that substantially comply with the Sulli Van principles about Black pm that is in a country with a Black population of More than 22 whatever american companies May accomplish on matters such As factory their Chance of being effective is infinitesimal when they move on to that when they Challenge As Akers and others say they will apartheid premise that Blacks have no political rights in South As Akers wrote business people Are not social reformers in the notion that Botha will be moved by their political exhortations what does move the South african government is no secret it is the threat of disinvestment of american companies pulling in words and in officials have made obvious their fear of the american disinvestment and its significance has also been acknowledged by on March the major business associations of South Africa called on government to make re visible Progress on this they would have a positive Impact on overseas opinion and especially on the current disinvestment debate in United the american chamber of Commerce in South Africa has also spoken out for Reform with an Eye to heading off the disinvestment Over the years that disinvestment has been i have found it a difficult question with fair arguments on both the relentless refusal of the South Africa government to admit the political existence of its Black or their equal has by now tipped the it is time to Stop lending that by our pres an appearance of the Point missed by ism and other american companies do a relatively Small part of their business in South but their presence is an immensely important Symbol to South it gives them a sense of belonging to the Western world a sense of legitimacy for which they for ism and others to leave would not be to Wash our hands of it would be a powerful statement of the limits of american toleration for institutionalized and i think it will happen if things go on As they Are in South no matter what the companies say c 1985 new York times Syndicate american handouts Only serve to weaken Israel a strange anomaly can be detected in the reaction to israels request for emergency economic some arabists who usually resist Aid to Israel or demand it be linked to equivalent Money for Egypt Are curiously muted or mechanical in their opposition this some of israels staun Chest supporters in and out of the government Are speaking out forcefully Peres likes the rising popularity irresponsibility has against providing the requested infusion of Money until certain conditions Are whats going on the reason for the role reversal has to do with the creation of National which is a dangerous mistake for any America is not Selling out Israel it seems to be buying the once proud israeli government is Selling its political Independence for a permanent line of economic americans must writes the former labor party press Secretary in the new York that their Aid is an investment in the future of israels mod Erate political prime min ister Peres and his labor party col leagues Are also eager for Washington to play an Active role in the peace in other if we continue to finance the welfare state in the grateful moderates there will put into effect Washington evenhanded imposition of a settlement with the Arab that is Why supporters of the Arab cause in Washington want to see Israel get its Quick financial fix that is Why Many of israels usual defenders resist the Tempo Rary Relief of a debilitating Secretary of state Shultz chose two american economists known to be firm friends of Israel for advice on a response to israels financial the Mit pro Fessor Stanley Fischer told Congress that Israel must first come up with an unambiguous plan to Cut government spending thai is ruining the country if the likelihood is Strong that two years from now she will still be growing still fighting High and More than Ever reliant on outside Herbert a Strong voice for Israel in the Nixon Ford said that the announcement of such a plan would not be enough Steps for As Suring execution of the should be and milestones designated for measuring the economists Are right israeli budgets have Long been made to be and now to bring discipline to Knesset chaos the flow of economic Aid should be tied strictly to a demonstration of is that requirement demeaning for a Sovereign a proven democratic ally you bet it is but not As demean ing As the failure of the government of National Unity to fire to abolish to Cut out and to Peg its currency to something More stable than a printing to postpone the Day of reckon the Craven coalition of right wingers who caused the crisis and left wingers fearful of dealing with the crisis has chosen the least painful and most damaging approach More statism in the form of wage and Price the prime minister knows what has to be done the solution is no secret in Washington or Jerusalem but Peres does not want to be blamed for unemployment and real he likes the rising popularity that irresponsibility has and his partisans pass the word that his seeming lassitude is to Avert a rebellion in the labor Union elections com ing up next that a feeble excuse for paralysis in the face of israelis must face the realities to which their present leaders seem Blind political free Dom is inseparable from economic free the welfare state ultimately cripples a nations ability to compete and to and that outmoded socialist philosophy now worsened by wage and Price controls is the truck bomb parked outside the nations diplomatic Independence is inseparable from economic israels enemies sense that weakness in one begets weakness in the other when papa pays the papa Calls the israels Independence should never be for until some economic Elijah appears to magnify the still Small voice de manding this message must come from its friends abroad no transfusion should begin in the United states until the Haemorrhage is stopped c 1985 new York times Syndicate 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