European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns comments Carl Rowan excuses for defending apartheid Are nothing new in the sharing debate Over whether and How the United states ought to press for an end to apartheid in South f have heard some notable excuses for shameful inaction on the part of the United states economic sanctions and other pressures on South Africa would do More harm than hurting the very people we want to Blacks Arent so Why let a country that is being run in order and Prosperity be taken Over by Blacks who Are sure to bring on disorder and starvation the anti apartheid movement is being masterminded by the soviet unions so it would be foolish for the government to help the communists take Over South the survival of South More or less As it is essential if the United states is to have Access to strategic minerals vital to the free worlds that do More harm than Good Alibi was common during the fight against racial segregation in the United the argument was and bought by Many that the Only Way Blacks could be school police chiefs and College presidents was to continue racially separate but integration and Black voting rights have produced not Only a Host of Black school police and fire but 287 Black a Black Clifton is Chancellor of the state University of new presiding Over 64 campuses with students and a budget of billion a Blacks in South Africa know what is Best for them namely an end to White supremacy a Man who is denied the is forced to work in slave conditions where he May Sec his children but twice a who must carry a pass and is forbidden to live in White who is being arrested on whim and held without and even Mur dered by the is hardly impressed by an american who id impose or do but i dont want to make things worse for africans Arent ready is Only a galling Echo of the niggers aint ready line that i heard so often in the William Buckley the emer6emcy 0rper is 70 Ensuke that a Normal Community life is reestablished 1940s As America cranked up the civil rights apologists for like the righting Washington Tell us that the Blackmun countries of Africa represent starvation and despair while South Africa is an enclave of Prosperity and the author of this racist Arnaud de would never Tell americans the truth about the country often cited As a horrible example of what happens when Blacks take despite South african attempts at including efforts to foment civil War despite three years of Zimbabwe is finding renewed Prosperity and exporting Corn to other the american embassy in Harare recently re ported to Washington that White flight not Only has but More Whites Are moving to Zimbabwe than Are Robert Zimbabwe is no communist tool he in been so suspicious of the russians that he would not establish an embassy in mos cow until last de who sees the Kab duping almost everyone but headlined his article with his theme in soviets turn invisible even Deborchgrave must understand that Blacks suffering the repression and brutalities that i mentioned above do not need a russian to Tell them that they dont like South Africa May in some Distant Day become a soviet but not because the Brave Whites and Blacks who Are fighting an evil sense of racism Are agents or dupes the it will be because the United states behaved so stupidly that it alienated the ultimate winners the Black a Man As de moderate and Brave As Bishop Desmond Tutu has said we will not forget what has happened to our people and where the american administration stood at a time when we needed them As for strategic they will be in the ground and mines of South Africa for All America need not worry about Access to them if she has not listened to racists and fools and lost every semblance of Friendship with the people who sooner or later will control those c news America Syndicate people against Pepski fight double standards Lowell who is roving science editor for readers has a group that Calls itself people against a valiant Effort to Vernac the organizations it is to a National Boycott of Pepsi cola on the grounds that the company is striving diligently to increase production in the soviet Union from the current level of million per year to double that Fig ure in Pontic could of course adduce any number of reasons Why we should have moral qualms about trading with the so Viet but he elects in his fliers to Point to just More or less by Way of recently the soviet Union has taken to dropping from in resistance areas in toy Little children pick these and guess what happens they Leav ing the children without Ponte takes the position that in trading with the soviet Union we however involved in blowing up the hands of afghan those who Tell you that the Joiner work in that logic is just a Little too attenuated to stand up will have a problem telling us How it is that we Are responsible for apartheid in South Africa to the extent that we Trade he Points to the wonderful exam ple of Geraldine you will re member her As the lady who went from promoting the democratic National plat form to promoting unquestionably a higher she was accosted last May about the complaint of the questioner being that Pepsi had u Plant in South in glad you asked me that Ferraro said in because i have news for which is that Pepsi is going to sell its Plant in South if it we rent for Kes marketing you can bet your Bottom Dollar that i would have nothing to do with so that we had Here the same person re Quiring divestment in South Africa and tac itly encouraging vigorous expansion of activity in the soviet but of course the hypocrisy is of and we owe it to those who engage in it to try to understand their to make out the Best Case we can for i suppose the rationale would be somewhat As follows look they the fact of it is that there int anything we can do about what the soviet Union unless we wage a nuclear which we Arent about to what can we do about Afghanistan for that what can we do about martial Law in Poland for that what can we do about the persecution of the jews inside the soviet Union now South Africa is just Plain for one very simple reason South Africa is a country run by 5 million and 5 million Whites Arent much of a if you add up All the pressure that can be exerted by a couple of Hundred million a like number of and a like number of the 15yearold who takes on the 13 year old bully is guided by both idealism and the 15yearold who takes on another 15yearold bully is taking on something he cant and what exactly is the Point of doing that but just be cause you dont take on the Brawny equal Doest mean you should suspend your idealistic instincts by ignoring the puny 13 year old so beat him in the arguments Here Are not you do not suspend your Obliga Tion to Cope with minor problems by merely reciting your inability to Cope with major Pontes organization has some Harry Truman confessed that he liked old Joe a remark that must have struck the 10 Mil lion residents of gulag in the same Way that the 6 million transient visitors to the liquidation Camps would have been struck if Churchill had i like old the people against Pepski Are trying to Tell us that even if we cant Cope with stains we have some Obliga Tion to continue to remind ourselves what we Are and what we Are not 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 states