European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday january 13. 1986 columns Cor merits William Buckley what will his critics do if Marcos is re elected Cora on Aquino he candidate of Tinli Marcos clip Linus has declared that she will allow communists into her Cabinet if she is defied president. She has in mind. She told reporters in what was in obvious Appeal for the l of Munsil vote a coalition government. You Art not in gather from this that she is a communist. I soul in be that last person in the world to be a Ami inn  she said. But Aquino who is running As a Law Anil to incr candidate in opposition to i tic excesses of president Marcos which May or May not have included the a miss nation if her husband wants filipinos and the world id know the it she has in mind n very special kind of communist namely communists who renounce All forms of  if Aquino cult produce communists who fit that description she should get u Nobel Prie for Alchemy. The big Debute about the filipino engagement has Bruun not Only there but also in the United Slater. Jeanc Kirkpatrick has written thai american prism is causing difficulty in viewing the filipino election realistically we arc asking of Marcos the kind of behaviour we Don t ask of other world leaders Wilh whom we have Normal relations find this notwithstanding that Marcos Heads n government Friendly to the United Stales in n country so situated go politically As to be critical to american interests in inc area. Of 15 j member states of the United nation lit Lens my Are probably governed Mure poorly than the Phil  says Kirk Wilrick who did plenty of observing Tif other nations while in the United nations. And arou1nc the dump Marcos position we have Arthur Schlesinger or. In the Wai slice i journal. He very much dislikes the argument that we lost Iran by failing to Back the Shah and lost Nicaragua by failing 10 Back Somoza. And he acknowledges that Ren fan in criticizing Marcus As he has done through Var ious representatives we have sen there most conspicuously St a. Paul Laxalt r-ncv., is in fact exercising exactly the role we criticised Carter for exercising when he criticized the Shah and later Somo a. Moreover says Schlesinger Here in t any other course we could realistically take because u failure to observe neutrality hits the effect of Pula i ing internal divisions and what then happens is that Radical and , forces come in. So Send Marcos packing his column is titled. New Here is something american critics have Given insufficient attention to which is that democratic proce dures by no Means guarantee , hygienic and Law abiding governments. What Are we going Tajo by be i mean the Schluc singers and the solar pcs and the americans for democratic action if what Hap pens in the Philippines is thai Marcus is returned returned moreover in in ejection judged by observers to have Jeen fairly conducted suicide hotline  Wosh 7h/aikw6 of runnin6 a6ainst Marcos we should begin by reminding ourselves i tin i in our Lime people voting freely have made disastrous political mistakes to Germany in 1932, if you add the votes for the communists to the votes for Hitler you have very nearly a majority of German voters going for a totalitarian government. Now let us assume that if Hitler had run again in 1936, enough germans would have cum to their senses and voted him out that would have satisfied us trial sober democratic reflection erases occasional impetus Sites. But How a we Cape Wilh pc run in Argentina not Only was lie a despot and a plundered who Wam cd the capital infrastructure of a prosperous country he was beloved even in exile and 20 years later was re elected. And when he died in office his cuckoo wife the instrument of a soothsayer was elected. It was unhappily impossible to say that Pron was anything other than the people s Choice. And we May discover in the Philippines thut Marcos is the genuine Choice of inc majority of the philippine pc pie. We Are entitled to go on to say that in is a pity choices were so limited but then we can say As much about the choices available in Many countries including from Lime to Lime the United states. Aquino would admit communists into her govern ment. She has said she would nol renew the , bases when inc existing treaties expire unless u plebiscite desires a renewal. Salvador Laurel her vice presidential candidate has said that lie would not renew them under any circumstances. If you were a filipino feeling the hot breath of a communist insurgency and Given the Choice of Marcos or a Juino Are you absolutely certain you would Vole for Aquino i m not. Sch Csinger and his friends should do a few push  to put Idem in shape for that awful possibility a free election won by Marcos cd univ real Feii Syndicate Anthony Lewis . Must adjust policy to shitting Power structures one of the most difficult Chal Lenges fur . Foreign policy in this age is to understand and adjust when the ground of Power begins to shift in u third world country. One example Iran is enough to show How seriously american interests May be hurl if we gel it wrong today the tremors of change arc Shak ing a author country of great economic and strategic importance South Africa. The White government still has physical control but its psychological grip is slip Ping. The sensed question is not whether but when Power will shift Ami How re Wiliom with the majority in South Africa is a matter of critical future interest to the United slates. Conservatives in Washington have come up with u Brilliant strategy to make sure thai when change docs come in South Africa the United states will be a hated enemy. That is the real meaning of the Campaign to have this country join South Africa in support of the uni la guerrilla forces fighting the government of Angola. Voices All across the american right Are talking up uni la and denouncing As Sofi on communism anyone who opposes . Intervention in Angola. Unita s Leader. Jonas Sav Imbi is to be guest of Honor at a conservative political action conference in Washington at the end of this month. It is an extraordinary Campaign in one respect. The various broadsides never men Tion what would be inc gravest consequence of . Aid. To uni la the massive alienation of Blacks in South Africa indeed in most of Africa. That strange oversight can be seen in the words of two of the most strident advocates of Aid Jeane Kirkpatrick and rep. Jack Kemp . Kirkpatrick inn newspaper column excoriated the state department for blocking american Aid to  she ridiculed the Depin men s Effort to arrange a regional settlement that would see cuban forces leave Angola and South Africa end its illegal occupation of neighbouring Namibia. The state sponsored Accord to achieve peace in the re Gion she said has broken Down completely jul Virk Patrick did nol say who broke the Accord South Africa. Its forces broke a .-arranged cease fire with Angola they have invaded that country Many times in recent years and Are there now. South Africa has also admitted breaking in agreement with Mozambique to Stop aiding terrorists there. Jack Kemp in a letter to the new y Jet times said the United states had to prevent the communication of the Southern african  the marxist government of Angola he noted had spent billions on soviet military equip Mcnello help fight the Sav Imbi forces. Again Kemp did nol mention South Africa s Rule in the angolan conflict going Back 10 Independence in 1975. When South african troops tried to Insull Sav Imbi Umil the cubans blocked them. Nor did he mention what the reaction of africans would be if the United slates joined South Africa in aiding Nilu. Why do people like Kirkpatrick and Kemp never say anything about South Africa s responsibility for the chaos in the Region Why do they fail to mention Bouin Africa s broken promises in Nami Bia and Angola and Mozambique Why do they speak not a whisper about the Hale that we would arouse for America if we helped the War an Angol ignorance is one reason. 1 suspect that few of the conservatives crying for War in Angola have acc a near the place have been anywhere in Southern Africa. The simply to not know How deeply africans s a ".aT"1 Plhal look Bough Africa s Side. Bui ideology is another reason Kirkpa Rick was so mesmerized by the threat of communism in South America thai she Wal prepared to cozy up to he tyrants and torturers of that Region. She and Kemp Are so eager to fight communism in Angola that they do not care at All about association will the racists in South Africa. The irony is thut apartheid is the single Mosi important engine for the co Mattiza lion of the Southern african Region to Knip s phrase. For America logo into an Gola As Pretoria s ally would signal those Irv ing 10 throw off the Yoke of apartheid Hal they must look to Moscow for help the Blacks who Are going to inherit the future will not easily forgive an America Hal was so stupid or so Mson Siplive As u collaborate with the while regime. Anti americanism is already rift among younger South african Blacks be cause of their perception that the Reagan administration has nol helped the struggle against apartheid. But a vision of Ameri can idealism does remain one on which but scr relations Wilh the Black Community could be built. Intervention in Angola would cripple thai Hope