European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday. October 15, 1985 James resign fanatics May give ., Sov efs common cause Al the t mtg i nations As elsewhere there was admiration fur the i a. Political decision and tech Nical skill plucked the palestinian terrorists from the so Over the . However the capture of a few demolition i hugs obviously is no answer to the problem of International anarchy. The Secretary general of the ., Javier pert / de Uellar. Came into his mule hideaway in Back of the Security c Sunol chamber in the midst of this latest outrage looking very Gray and sad. We Are living in another age til he said and we Don t know what to do about he was expressing a general feeling even than the endless conflicts Here Between nations some thing deeper and in a Way More troubling namely that not Only helpless individuals but Sovereign slates arc threat ened by the tyranny of fanatical minorities. Outside the Secretary general s room the delegates were arguing endlessly about the tangles of Angola but at least they represented governments and were in charge of what Ever nonsense their governments instructed them to say. The with fanatics who Hijack planes and ships blow up embassies murder diplomats and toss hand grenades Itice confetti into restaurants is that no body knows who they arc or who s in charge. The Clear lesson of this latest rash of terrorism is that nobody to secure. Even the soviet diplomats Are no longer immune to the fanatics i our russians were taken hostage m Beirut. And one of them was killed forcing Mikhail for Bacev in Moscow to order Many of his diplomats Back Home. The reaction of the soviet government to president Reagan s decision to intercept the palestinian hijackers is interesting. The official Tass news Agency called it understandable and just. This suggests to some observers Here at the Including the Secretary general that something useful might come out of this latest crisis maybe not much but something. It s unlikely that the United states and the can resolve at their Summit meeting in Fien Coj net month All the conflicts Over the control of nuclear weapons on Earth let alone in outer space but they have a few things in common and one of them is the control of terrorism. If there is one thing the soviet Union fears with it different nationalities its Large moslem population along its Southern Border and its other restless minorities it is that regionalism or fanatical religious dissent might spread through its astern european Empire or even among its own Peoples. To Ikka is Hope at the in that Ciorba Chev would give up the policy of the russians Call wars of National liberation but uncontrolled terror by goons armed not Only with machine guns but with More sophisticated modern Uca Pons is another thing. Besides looking to the future it s not unreasonable to suppose that these wild fanatics Many of whom think death is a Welcome sacrifice fur i hair cause could gel hold of atomic wastes if nol weapons and dump them into harbours and hold not a few people but whole cities hostage to their demands. Aside from the big questions of nuclear terror be tween states on which Moscow and Washington Dij agree. The feeling among Many thoughtful Delegate at the Is thai Reagan and Gorbachev might at least agree to study together this common problem of factional and fanatic warfare. Something is happening Al the Thai in my experience since ils creation is new. Ii is a numb unformed yet persistent sense Hal while the nations cannot agree on Many things. They have one thing in common. This is Hal As they approach the end of the 20th Century with ils mindless violence its faceless Slaugh ters its struggling new nations ils fabulous triumphs or space and time and Mailer they face the danger not so much of War Between the atomic slates but of anarchy in the world beyond their Borders where live the majority of he human race in misery and violence. The Secretary general thought in might help if the merely kept their commitments to the principles of the i jailed nations Charier but that he feared was Bey and his dreams. He would not seek another term in office he said Bill would keep hoping for the Best. U new Vork Tell William Safire Must hold consistent hard line against terrorism a of i thought the Reagan policy toward terrorism had sunk to Rock Bottom in a display of moral cowardice and Legal ineptitude our slate depart ment enabled the , to Brand Israel an aggressor because Israel had the will and Means to strike Back at the terrorism Center in Tunisia. I was mistaken worse was yet to come Ai Era i Ging bound for murder in Israel panicked and took Over an italian cruise ship. Italians and egyptians arranged for the hijackers to be safely returned to their head quarters in Tunis. President Reagan incredibly did not condemn this Deal despite widespread reports of murder aboard the ship. The egyptians later pointed to his seem ing approval As endorsement of their complicity in arranging Forth hijackers escape. That display of confused Wim lishness was Rock Bottom. At that Point with the ., in effect Recagni ing the i o As a government capable of punishing its own hit men hotter prevailed in Washington Reagan announced he had Misso Ken and demands were made on Egypt to hold us Plo killers. That was when the United slates found out what Aid recipient it could nol Trust. For 10 hours. President Hosni Mubarak of of Gyp lied to the press and personally lied to the american government claim ing the killers had left Egypt. Evidently it took him All Day to gel president i Surgui a of Tunisia to agree to accept the return of the Plo team. That easily expo ski deceit did not set Well with Reagan especially in View of the outrage in the Of the Slaughter of an old Man in a wheelchair for the double crime of being an Ameri can and a jew. Reagan called on Tunisia. Whose government he supposedly saved by abandoning Israel in tie i a. To refuse tile escapees Safe Haven in Lungi. Hour Guiba. More Oul of tear of a return of the israeli bombers than out of gratitude agreed therein double crossing s Mubarak. Keagan then dispatched the Planes to intercept the airborne killers. That was the first overt Al against terrorism by an american president since the disaster in Iran. We can Hope it will not be the last. Mysteries remain. Why did the italian ship s Captain who knew of the murder conceal thai Central fad for hours after the hijackers surrendered Why did Mubarak despite broadcast reports of the death of one or two american hostages pretend no knowledge of murder when la agreed to turn Over the killers to Yasser of we a bulletin Bomar if it s men in i i yet. Who obviously controlled hie1 bit suggests Italy. and the conspired to ignore the fact of the Immler until the murderers were set free. Now the go Ali ins arc saying if we had Only known we would never have permitted the killers to return to hut they did know. Doubly damning is the Incontro Verible evidence that the killers sat in a Egypt Long after the murder was publicly revealed As Mubarak tried to get the killers Home to Arafat. Triply damning is the frantic Effort i Egypt made to coerce Italy into re turning the Arafat negotiators the Plo men who planned the Mission who worked out the Deal to peril the killers Back to base and who could spill embarrassing Beans in an italian court about the duplicity of governments. As the drama continues to unfold we Are basking in the glory of finally having done something against terrorists Ana Reagan is in his Grenada Mode evoking memories of Joe Louis telling Billy Conn he can run but he can t hide. Cut the Iii Bris. We shall Sec How Italy reacts to future Plo hostage heal and How Reagan reacts to the vicious bombing murder of an Arab american in California liven Israel terrorism s prime target has Antcil stupidly in swapping murderers for its nationals thereby inviting More violence. One daring intercept docs not an anti terrorism policy make. Let us turn our attention to the ., where recently four minutes before our veto was to he cast Cgeorge Sulu ordered ambassador vermin Walters to allow for the first Lime the word aggressor to be attached to Israel in the Security Council. That Laid Legal ground work for a move in the general Assembly to expel Israel. The president of the United slates is scheduled to address the Assembly. My Lions Hal collaborate with error Isle Are seeking to invite Arafat to appear As Well. Reagan should make Clear thai in Mem Ory of the murdered americans Robert Secl him Leon Klinghoffer Alex Onieh and perhaps William Buckley he will nol speak to any forum tainted by terrorism. C new York time
