European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday. October 24, 1985 Carl Rowan pastoral letter about poverty goes against the tide Viii t1ikir proposed pastoral idler bout to Erly Anil economic injustice in America the roman c a Holic Bishops Are paddling against a mighty Lilic at indifference and Reed but they arc doing this country a great sen tempt Lor Llic poor the Bishops arc providiih1 tic kind of moral leadership from which so mans politicians run. The draft of this pastoral letter to he Dit is cd by All 300 Cal Holie Bishops Al their  meeting in Vash. In ton in november expresses astonishment that Wein making poverty a matter of Paramount concern at have become so callously inured m the reality Phil a Lime when his nation s officials show mostly am s.274.000 americans Are seeking jobs but cannot find Myna them. It is a cruel trip to that while some politicians boast of economic  almost one of every six Black Job seekers one of it Llis panics. Two Black to can auers out of five and one hispanic teen Ager out of four cannot find a legitimate Way to earn a living. Al a time when s300 billion a year is being spent on military programs and social programs arc being Cut the Bishops dare 10 say that having 3.1 million Ameri cans living in Peverly Ami another 20 million to 30 million classified As needy is a social and moral scandal that must not be  the committee drafting Lam pastoral letter led by archbishop Kim hurl g. Weakland of Milwaukee does not hide the fact that in our society poverty strikes hardest at those who Are of the wrong race sex or National origin. In iw3, 35.7 percent of Black Ameri cans 9.9 million people lived in poverty. So the Bish Ops Are calling for the removal of discriminatory barriers against women and members of minority groups and for expanding affirmative action programs. But attorney general Edwin Meese i and his jus Tice department assistant William Bradford Reynolds Iii. Are campaigning mightily against affirmative action programs and just about everything else the Bishops say is necessary for the creation of an order that Guaran tees the minimum conditions of human dignity in the economic sphere for every  i wish thai i could escape cynicism about the Likely Impact of this pastoral letter. But 1 know that the eco nomic ideologues in the Reagan administration will View ii As just a Case of a Bunch of bleeding heart preachers asking for a return to the failed programs of the great  not enough members of con Gress will have the guts to Vole for the kind of economic Justice and social morality that is embodied in this pastoral idler. The Bishops express a minority viewpoint in the America of 1985. But then How Many times have 1 used the line that one on god s Side is a majority 1c news ami.ttc.1 Syndicate William Buckley the soviets have no one but themselves to blame w , what do you know soviet victims of terrorism. I or years those soviet Citi cons allowed to roam the world have done so with the equivalent of the  sign that 2.000 years ago permitted a roman Citi in to go anywhere in the world certain that he would not be molested sum Romanus "1 am a  that was it the passport to Security. Papers showed upper Torso pictures of four soviet diplomats somewhere in Leb anon. There is nothing like undressing a Diplomat to make your squalid Point. One of the victims was dressed in what looked like fatigue pyjamas. Two had on t Shirls. The fourth had on nothing. All of Ihm had pistols pointed at their Heads. None was smiling. Not one but two moslem fundamentalist Scols claim responsibility for abducting the soviet diplomats. Both cite  their reason the soviet backed syrian attacks on the lebanese port of Tripoli. Whether the event the error Isle com Plain of is actually a soviet operation is not the Point of this inquiry. Rather inc Point is thai for the first time in memory the soviet Union is facing up to he kind of thing non soviets have been facing up to for years and years never at soviet gunpoint but almost always at the gun Point of those who without soviet backing would have no guns to Point. The mind turned to a rundown 6 years old of inc activities of the soviet Union involving terrorism. The study was done by Brian Crozier. The director of Lon Don s Institute for the study of conflict. Just to begin with the two wars in Indochina were for the most part fought by acts of terrorism i.e., the use of Vio Lence Lor political ends. It was so in the War against South Vietnam and subsequently in the War within Cambodia. Libya s khad Afy gave Refuge to the world s most wanted terrorist Carlos the  Carlos it was alleged was Given s2 million As Reward Money for kid napping the open Oil ministers in Vienna. Carlos was recruited by the Kab in . Trained in Cuba and received Solo speak graduate training in Moscow before being turned Loose on the world Arafat who narrowly missed the Retalia tory bombings of Israel in Tunisia was invited by Moscow to open an office there in August 1974. Ten years earlier the Viet Cong s political Wing had been is sued a similar inv ipalion. Anguring the soviet commitment to the final drive against the non communist vietnamese. On and on it goes the most spectacular recent terrorist events including the at tack on our marines the killing of the novelist Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge by a bulgarian Assassin the at tempted assassination of Pope John Paul ii. One would not be surprised to learn that judge Crater was whisked off i i a Soviel freighter. The programming must have been done by the great impresario in the sky. Con Sider Ever since our marines were slaughtered in 1983 in Beirut. Washing ton has been saying you watch now you watch. We watched nothing happened. Then came the great june 1985 Cir i Airport to slag crisis and Washington Lold us you Walch now you watch. All America watched and nothing happened. On Cpl. 25, Ihrck Holiday minded israelis on a  Sailboat in Cyprus were killed by palestinian error Isle. It required exactly six Days for a Squadron of israeli fighters to go a huge 1.500 Miles to the Headquarters of the  in Tunisia and destroy those Headquarters killing up Ward of 60 people. And that happened within 24 hours of the abduction of the soviet diplomats together with inc Ulii mature concerning Tripoli. How has the soviet Union responded As expected. The terrorists arc counter revolutionary reactionaries Etc. Etc. Bui if we have Learned anything about the psychology of modern terrorists ii is that Only Sticks and stones will break their Bones. There arc no words in the soviet inventory that will fright in Ihm in the least. We even tried to drum up some moslem holy words with which to scare off the error Isle who held our to slags in inc . Embassy in Iran to no effect. These people listen Only to dive bombers. Who will the soviets bomb one of their problems is thai they arc being asked to bomb their own children be cause terrorism As we know it is not the Bastard child of communism. Quite the contrary it is the Beautiful child of communism the Flower