European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns Flora Lewis the stars and stripes july 1985 time for of speak up firmly on South Africa the slow burning fuse of racism in South Africa is getting it is hard to determine whether the Reagan administrations policy of constructive engagement has made the deteriorating situation it Hast made anything the state of emergency proclaimed in Black town ships May be a Oliver the exiled acting head of the african National has called for a general offensive to make apartheid impracticable and South Africa even he still Speaks of a Day when Blacks and Whites can both live in their generously endowed country in common peace and militant Blacks accept South africans of european descent As a White people who belong to the land As much As they it May still be not too late to reverse direction and begin the hard process of though explosive pressures arc clearly the sorry state in the rest of Africa can neither justify nor mitigate South Africa attempt to maintain a nation of two not really separate As apart Heid but one atop the a crust of democracy and Well being supported by rank servitude and mis president Pieter Botha echoes the familiar african lament that what is wrong is the fault of out in his he blames not of course imperialists and multinationals who Are the usual butt in other parts of the but it was South Africa aggressive policy to drive the Anc out of bordering states that provoked greater Defiance within the the tone of desperation in the appeals of Bishop Desmond Tutu to end violence should be taken As a serious he threatened to emigrate if Blacks continue to murder Blacks considered to be almost an admission that modern leadership is losing its base and the voice of reason and tolerance is losing its White South africans risk being caught Between their own extremists and rising Black the police measures have destroyed the last shreds of pretence that the system aimed for Independent development for James Kilpatrick endless the Whites have the the Blacks Only Power is their but if confrontation is allowed to there wont be much room for accustomed Security and Comfort in just because it is a Western because it has a capacity to produce Well and has the infrastructure of a modern South Africa has a responsibility to a continent that is foundering in but it seems to be scurrying Lemming style into its own constructive engagement was advanced by Washington on the premise that the regime really did want to find a Way out of its self made there was no historic inevitability about it was imposed in Steps of increasing severity after world War South Africa could have evolved in another but it the recent Steps to modify the system have been too wide of the realities of everyday too reluctant to address the Central Issue of Legal to be taken As a sign of regret and a desire to Correct the terrible so Washington and the democratic West now have the unhappy task of making Clear to South Africa leaders what they dont want to see for they Are on a path to sanctions Are a poor tool of International relations As a general their effect is Seldom More than Symbol but symbolism remains of critical importance in the South african there is nothing beyond it but so the symbols should be Given a the United states should support the Resolution sponsored by France against South Africa in the United nations Security it does not go very suspending new Export Pur Chase of Gold coins and the but american endorse ment would be a powerful message that Western patience is also running Black militants have noted wryly that the democracies Only seem to get worked up about South Africa when there is they dont really want violence Blacks would Hurt but they Haven been Given much evidence of consistent interest in the cause of Justice without need to hear the United states speak up this is said in much sympathy and awareness of the dreadful dangers ahead of South will Nilly the United states is it must act to head off the York times a compelling chronicle of madness and murder hey said my she was knee deep in four of whom Are under the tender age of and i was not being for two Days youve had your nose in that i but what a Book and Shana my old sparring partner on 60 has indeed written a wholly mesmerizing it is called it is the Story of a murder that occurred in Utah seven years ago and of the trials that followed Long after the yet she provides much More than a retelling of a news this is biography of the very first Shanas subjects Are the Bradshaw family of Salt Lake a mormon fam an industrious and outwardly conventional behind a facade of uninteresting respectability was a crumbling Berenice Jewett Bradshaw was a neglected Franklin James Bradshaw a Workaholic married in they would achieve substantial he would make millions through a Chain of Auto parts stores and through shrewd investments in they would live a penurious and they would have three one of the three figures in this Story As the lady Macbeth of the born in Frances began in the Cradle to establish a reputation As a tempestuous no one could Ever say no to married in she gave birth to two Larry and they were born 10 months apart in Larry would wind up for evaluation at a Pennsylvania Hospital for the criminally insane Marc would wind up in prison for the principal figure is the demented she had much in common not Only with lady but also with As euripides told the medea began her career by killing her she fell in with to hold his she tricked the daughters of King Pelias into murdering their sent into exile in she winds up by hating in revenge for his deserting she poisons jasons daughter by his new wife and completes the horror by murder ing their own two Frances living a dissolute life in new was possessed by the same she alternately babied and abused her children she bound son Marc to her Side in a barbed wire she commissioned the boys to steal from their Grandfather she forged checks she raved pathetically that her Sisters were conspiring to disinherit fearing that her father might make a will that would Cut her she ordered Marc to murder the obedient flew from new York to where he bought a hand thence to Salt Lake there he committed murder most nine years before this act of Pat Frances had taken a second Hus Frederik she was known As the wealthy Benefactor of the new York City at time of her arrest and i sup pose the Schreuder Case was big news in new and certainly big news in but the Story never reached the Boondocks in i will not spoil the in6r6at Canapa my 1 1 by in America we a lava suspense uninformed readers by revealing How the trial of Frances turned i have said it a Good Many times pub and remark it again that my beloved adversary of 60 minutes was out of her element in Shana is a she is the Best court reporter in the the Best anywhere since re Becca West covered the Nuernberg her previous books on the Patty Hearst Case and the trial of Jean Harris Are Clas sics in their Nutcracker is the Best of the her narrative builds to a shattering Cli Max with the then it regains a driving and builds to a final few pages with the certainly of the Eroica last the Book is ornamented with Shanas insights and with Shanas Beautiful in matters of family she there is no such thing As a statute of she Speaks of who Seldom went out except to Graze the aisles of expensive department this is a super i write about it because at the moment i am weary of writing or thinking about terrorists and supreme court i have been loafing Over Shanas superlative and having finished will now see Why a granddaughter is c Universal press Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing those of the stars and stripes or the United slates