European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments William Buckley is breaking Down All around us we were Able to blame the break Down of inc Vietnam peace accords on the demoralization of the executive Branch of government caused by water we tended to blame the impotence of the government during the iranian hos Tage crisis on the impending National Here we often got one version saying Carter could do nothing because of the risk to his the other that because he did nothing he lost the but no one is going to succeed in blam ing the fiscal crisis on president reagans which one has prayerful reason to believe will be but which caused him not even an itch when he was told he needed an the fact of it is that self government under the pre sent rules appears to be breaking and All we can hear now is the awful drone unless we do something meaning within the next month or we will not be Able to do anything until after the congressional elections of consider president Reagan wants an item so that he can More clinically than otherwise Cut the pork from a Money on the other he Doest use the veto he has to dispose of Money Bills unrelated to the survival of the the presidents most recent caverns on the matter of social Security Colas has caused great and succeeded in antagonizing those few legislators who had fortified their kidneys to the extent of saying that reductions in expenditures had to include a reduction in expenditures on social Reagan has had an awful time with social and if i were his i would slip onto the prescription right under one Tab three times per the additional do not mention the words social Security until five years after taking in 1981 Reagan haphazardly endorsed what turned out to be a hypothetical idea for social Security Reform and in doing notwithstanding that he re versed himself in a matter of gave to democratic critics grist for three elec Reagan then endorsed a bipartisan social Security measure that missed the entire Point on social Securi which is As simple As that americans live longer now than they did in then during the Campaign he mistakenly promised never to touch social Security if James Kilpatrick dont just lie upon he agreed to a plan to postpone social Security and it is this he has now agreed to Back up we Are better if Reagan from now on would simply pretend that he knows nothing about so Cial Security the last candidate of the democratic party for president ran a Campaign based largely on the need to reduce the but the Only idea any Democrat has for reducing the deficit is to tax Rich this sounds to be sure not to Rich but every now and then a spoilsport will Point out that if you abolished Rich you would take care of about two weeks Worth of the the Assumption that to Cut military costs is to reduce the deficit is Only Correct in the sense that it is Correct to say that if the soviet Union were to there would be no leaving us just where it is fashionable to scorn the idea of a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced it brings raised eyebrows from academic types who warn you that if a constitutional convention is called by the 34 states required to Cal you would end up at Philadelphia rewriting the whole and probably repealing the Bill of the formidable Legal scholar John Noonan of Berkeley has accosted these and other professor Noonan reminds us that any recommendation issuing from a constitutional convention would need to be ratified by three quarters of the and there int anybody around who is persuasively saying that three quarters of the states want to do away with the Bill of the most devastating Point of professor Noonan also Points out that what we have in our government is what amounts to a standing constitutional the supreme for instance in its ant prayer Rul ing of in its Oneman Onecote Rul ing in and in its abortion ruling in substantively amended the constr and did so without the acquiescence of three let alone 34 at this moment we need Only two states to achieve the magic number 34 needed to and the vote is coming up in Ohio and in Why not pass a get Well present to As also to the Republic Universal press Syndicate taking a look at we Are holier than thou act let this be said for the record the racial poli cies of South while they May be understandable in terms of history and human Are morally let this also be said the South african Bill that sailed through the Senate is a thoroughly bad the Best that can be said of it is that the Senate Bill is not quite us offensive As the Bill that passed the House on june the Senate measure is denominated the ant apart Heid action act of it might better be titled the we Are holier than thou or an act to enshrine hypocrisy among the values of foreign the authors of this misbegotten legislation have forgotten 350 years of american they have turned Blind eyes to contemporary history As both Bills begin with a Long recital of the evils of those Are indeed the system consigns the mass of South african citizens to lives of economic and educational the system denies Blacks the right freely to it results in the confiscation of private property it denies democratic participation to the majority of the apartheid is repugnant to the moral and political values of democratic and free very this is All but when these portentous recitals Are read in the Light of our own the stomach who Are we to preach to the South africans shall we talk of our own moral the United states of America was founded upon poli cies that avowedly sanctioned human there would have been no Constitution of 1787 without provi Sions that specifically protected the what about educational until 30 years ago just 30 years ago Congress maintained racially segregated schools in the very capital of our what about this denial of a right to vote in South Africa we ourselves denied the Black Man a right to vote until the 15th amendment grudgingly was ratified in such states As new new Ohio and California actually rejected the for the Century Southern states employed every de vice that ingenious minds could contrive to suppress a negro and while All this was going our grandfathers and great grandfathers were engaged in acts of appalling genocide against the Indian we looted the Indi ans of their slaughtered them without and consigned them to homelands and does it All sound familiar the pending Bills Are acts of breathtaking a they Are Over one provision would set aside tax funds to investigate the killing of protesters and to provide Legal assistance to South african a Long Section would prescribe in minute detail the requirements for corporations doing business in South in these employers must abide in South Africa by All the provisions of our own civil rights and Labo relations the Bills go on to impose no nuclear mate rials May be exported to South no computers May be exported for governmental use no Loans May be made to the South african it is is it that a Congress so Fero Cious toward South Africa should be so remarkably silent about the soviet Union every recital made about South Africa would apply with equal accuracy to the communist but who would vote sanctions against Moscow South Africa is our anticommunist ally one Day we May sorely need its tactical and strategic assist press Syndicate