European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april columns comments William Safire undeclared runners warming up Tor 1988 race Only two years away from offi Cial announcement each of the 1988 presidential candidates is beginning to key on the other candidate most Likely to cause trouble for Gary the novelist and discs is the most certain to he feels the hand of destiny on his already has experienced and confident cadres in the and is taken much More seriously he must make a virtue of his need to announce which must take place As he spurns a Senate reelection run in Colorado in Over his shoulder looms Edward the Man who challenges incumbent presidents Only when they Are demo fresh from a publicity junket to South he has shed 19 pounds and even More Liberal a sure signal to Camelot Niks that he intends to reenter the the Boston centrist is distancing him self from organized labor and organized hoping to avoid the brickbats that were aimed at he is Duck ing All but Friendly Kennedy Hopes to make crime one of his major and As the newest Candi Date of change is moving onto Harts the Man Kennedy most Wor Ries about is new York Mario who can match him As a Conven Tion orator and who is taking Over the old Liberal constituency of the Cuomo preaches family values As he ruthlessly seizes the Powers of his family of new York state and he shrewdly cuts taxes and spending Between Anthony Lewis look Gimme a some of the Best compassionate speeches being Cuomo looks Over his shoulder at a Cloud no bigger than a mans at the Only other italia american with a Chance of becoming president next time that is Lee perennial time cover the democratic Wil a businessman whose heart and guts have been projected hundreds of times through everyone television screen and whose Book is outselling the Bible in in the party of the Popup George Bush has been touching every base from the hardliners very Strong for the contras to the jews helpful on the Airlift of ethiopian Refu gees to the legions of morticians the vice president has been to so Many Fune rals he to calling All diplomatic initiatives although the front running Bush must concern himself with inroads to be made in his moderate support by the relent Lessly responsible Bob Dole and everybody second Howard the Man who worries him most is Jack Kemp is Able to turn on the yuppies without turning off the self reliant Young Man in the designer Blue Joseph six pack Kemp is out organizing Bush in the Early primary but does not have the vice presidents Opportunity for the potential candidate who most worries Kemp is not the vice presi who will be saddled with the apol Ogia for the next but the woman who has topped Sarah Bern hardts record for Farewell appearances and Fprmer ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick will be burning up the lec Ture circuit in the coming year Mil lion in bookings has been guaranteed by her lecture agent and will be climbing the bestseller lists As Iacocca moves Over to paperback next when i first broached the possibility of a run to her two years her reaction youve got to be she now tells interviewers she has no plans to but just in she has changed her registration to Republican with some fan who will emerge As the nominees for president if you go by the Likely re sults of Early the choices will be Ted Kennedy versus George Bush with Bush the if you listen to the Washington it will be Mario Cuomo versus Jack Kemp with Cuomo the if you believe in and like to bet on dark it will be Lee Iacocca versus Jeane Kirkpatrick with everyone too stupefied to express a nothing is certain but this the Torch is destined to be passed from Ronald Reagan to someone about two decades that is Why the is looking Over his shoulder As the months Fly someone is gaining on c 1985 new York times Syndicate time Tor Columbia University to do Bright thing students concerned about the system of racial oppression in South Africa have been carrying out a protest at Columbia their demonstration raises questions of conscience and of Law hard questions but important Columbia was a scene of ugly confrontation in the so it is necessary to say at once that this is a very different kind of the several Hundred students involved in the protest Are making a Point of Novio their sincerity is and they have a defined aim they Are not trying to turn everything upside the students want within the next three to sell its shares in 26 companies that do business in South Africa million of the University million Columbia policy is to divest Only if a company operating in South Africa fails to give Black employees equal pay and a segregated working the protest has taken two a number of Stu dents fasted for 15 until columbian Michael met and the group has blockaded the main Entrance of a Campus Hamilton by camping there and chaining the door care fully leaving another Entrance alone so the building can still be when Columbia lawyers went to court and got an order forbidding the the students de fied there is no dispute Between the two sides about what Sovern Calls South Africa cruel and bar Barous three years ago Sovern went to Johan Nesburg to give Bishop Desmond Tutu an honorary degree because the Bishop could not then get a in a letter denouncing the Sovern said co Lumbia had done More than any other american univer sity to fight apartheid and said Tutu called it his the students feel that Sovern and his colleagues have not understood the urgency events in South Africa the police the political i talked with leaders of the and i sensed the 4eptb of their feeling that american institutions must do More to end the but i could they justify their violation of Law we May be breaking a lesser Law in the United states to end injustice in South Tony Glover Rosa Parks broke a Law when she refused to move to the Back of the Barbara Ransby sometimes doing the right thing Means breaking the she the civil rights movement was born out of civil Dis Obedi but Rosa Parks and the Black students who sat at lunch counters in the South violated unjust Laws without impinging on anyone else legitimate closing the doors of a University building offends values that matter its symbolism should be unwelcome at an institution of a student from South Africa who will return there said i find it very difficult for Columbia to say we must obey the court order when it has dealings with a South Africa that violates All sense of the whole Legal system offends human the use of Law to oppress and humiliate people is one of the worst horrors of South there is a hollow pretence of respect for Legal people accused of treason Are Able to ask a magistrate for bail the state forbids him to Grant defying the authority of american courts is an other they Are so often the last protectors of individuals against the judges in the South protected the civil rights and were defied by on the other Columbia cannot Salve its con science by saying that the companies whose shares it owns treat workers fairly not while the Black work ers have no rights in a racist and not when the companies presence lends legitimacy to the Columbia certainly cannot do so at a time when apart Heid is being entrenched by brutal Tutu has said that he will Call in foreign companies to leave South Africa in two years of apartheid has not been that suggests a Way for his american to exercise Sovern could commit himself now to working for an end to american economic support of South Africa unless the apartheid system has been fundamentally changed in two he and Columbia could play that role in Many ways voting pressing for Federal it is time to Send an unmistakable message to o1985 new York times Syndicate humanitarian air