European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday february 3,1986 Sis anti item prejudice could slow him Down. Miami -t2?i Tom Wicker Republican fac pics against Cuomo might backfire republicans have been doing nov. Mario m. Cuomo of new York the favor of suggesting in Alt sorts of Way that they believe he will be the democratic presidential nominee in 1988. That s Given them some Early licks at him. But this dubious lactic could backfire particularly on vice president George Bush the Republican front runner. First. White House political operators urged new York republicans to make a Issue of the governor s Grant of clemency to Ciary Mcc Vivern. Who is serving a Pris on term for the murder of a policeman. Mcgivern s supporters including Williamf. A Luckley jr., for years had been assert ing his innocence and waging a Campaign for his release. Next Bush attacked Cuomo on the Gover nor s Home turf albeit at a dinner of new York s conservative party in a splendid example of tortured political reasoning he said that Siomo s recent denunciation of ethnic slurs is telling us to ignore the millions of Blacks. Jews Irish italians latins and poles who shattered the Bonds of discrimination and built this great country through their William f. Buckley hard work and  How s that again then Frank Fahrnkopf the Republican National chairman told a semiannual meeting of the party s National commit tee that Cuomo had become the heir apparent to the left Wing of the democratic  of that Wing such As it is used to be assigned routinely by republicans to sen. Edward Kennedy a mass. When he recently took the pledge against running for president in 1988, All sorts of republicans expressed their disappoint ment Kennedy they said would have been the easiest Democrat to  s not Likely that they now see Cuomo As the Man they d most like to run  face is As fresh As any other the democrats might nominate. He does thave Kennedy s history of personal prob lems. He s favored to win overwhelming re election in the second most populous state and he s already shown Lough National leadership in his successful fight against president Reagan s proposal trend the deductibility of stale and local  attention being paid Cuomo suggests instead an Early Republican Effort to categorize him As a soft headed Liberal and to. Minimize the inroads he might make As an italian Catholic presidential candidate on recent Republican gains among ethnic voters. The no doubt calculated risk is that this Early Republican focus on Cuomo May help persuade democrats that he is their natural Leader for1988. Meanwhile. Bush is taking what May be greater risks in his efforts to persuade the Republican right and religious fundamentalists that he George Bush of Yule and voodoo economics really is a right Winger and a fundamentalist too. The polls apparently Tell him that that what he has to do to win the Republican nomination. He May think the safest Waylo do it is to make Early obeisance to the memory of he late Arch conservative Wil Liam lock publisher of the Manchester . Union Leader and to the blandly smiling face of inc Rev. Jerry Falwell Champion of such moral values As apartheid and Ferdinand Marcos. Bush s new subservience to these icons not Only belies his moderate 1980 Campaign against Ronald Reagan. Because it such a turnabout it May not be convincing to right Wing voters who will anyway have More natural claimants to their affection in rep. Jack Kemp and the Rev. Pat Robertson. In the warm embrace of Falwell More Over Bush May appear to the More centrist republicans who supported him in1980 like that least appealing of All Politi Cal creatures a candidate who will do anything including abandoning his own principles for votes. That inevitably raise the question of whether or not he Ever had any  Bush docs to win his Par by s nomination finally will not always be helpful in winning the presidency it self. And of All possible democratic opponents Mario Cuomo a ferocious debater with a Long memory is least Likely to let anyone forget in 1988 what George Bush is doing and saying in 1986.1c new York Tymn worrying about Public opinion and often losing it we have  been made familiar with the prob Lem of South Africa but there is also the matter of Southern Africa and that Means Namibia. Mozambique and Angola the last being the most conspicuous because Congress has not yet decided what to a helps Zimbi or Don t help Sav Imbi Jonas Sav Imbi the Leader of unit a., you will recall is the angolan equivalent of the contras in Nicaragua. I or years he fought for Independence from Portugal pursuing democratic government arid civil liberties. And then at the moment of Victory in 1975, the coup d Eta happened. This was a marxist Leninist operation made possible by cuban soldiers who continue to reside i Angola approximately 35,000 of them. There is a Nice piquancy Here by inc Way Cuba charge sic government of Angola $1,000 per month per Soldier. How on Earth docs Little Angola gel that kind of dough Courtesy of an american Oil company a subsidiary of Chev Ron which is Busy pulling Oil out of offshore Beds netting$800 million per year for the angolan communists. The arms the government the Mola receives Are Courtesy of Moscow but they need their other income to stay alive. Angola which used to Export Grain has become another workers Paradise there in t enough to cat and they need therefore to import  s position is different from that of the con Las who fought for their Independence and civil rights losing them at the moment of Victory Over Somoza to the sandinista. Because although the contras Don t hold Down substantial parts of Nicaragua. Sav Imbi is very much in control of 30 percent of Angola where he run schools and even hospitals. And who has made possible Sav Imbi s survival soul Africa. Opp onnis of Aid to Sav Imbi stress that such a thing would contaminate us because South Africa Andich United slates would then be partners in the same Enterprise. Having touched pitch we would Ever after be defiled. This is an argument we never did hear not even retroactively when we joined hands with Josef Stalin to fight Adolph Hitler but it rests these Days on mischievous presumptions that Don t have an Analou in the second world War. We arc being told thai if in deed our goal is to keep Southern african from communication then we must recognize that collaboration wit the apartheid government of South Africa in the matter of Angola would so antagonize the Black population of South Africa As to drive them into the arms of the communists. Two observations become relevant. The first is that i helping Sav Imbi fight the marxists in Angola South a1jcaj? engaging. M to speak in exporting apart Heid. Whatever one thinks of South Africa s govern ment there can hardly be any dispute Over its anxiety to help anti communist forces in surrounding areas i tomorrow South Africa became an All Black country no one in Washington would dispute the Wisdom of such governments sending support to Sav Imbi to Knock out the cubans who squat Down in Luanda with the inline Nous communists. In Short what is Good for any govern ment in South Africa is the Success of  argument that we stand to lose the Good will of Black South africans requires us to be prepared to Sarto such Folk if you gentlemen Don t understand that fraternal opposition to communism is an Enterprise Phil anthropic m character then you simply do not know enough to formulate foreign  Sec the same questions beginning to arise in the Philippines. If we help Marcos in his War against the communist insurgents we will lose the Good will of the philippine  is continually astonishing thai we worry so much about the Good opinion of Mankind while losing wat Good opinion As witness vote after Vole in the United nations in which the third world or much of it Side with the totalitarians. And All the while the soviet Union cares not a Fig for Public opinion and i lionized All Over the world. Do not underestimate the importance of your decision Jonas Sav Imbi writes in the current Issue of policy review. For Angola is the Munich of Africa. Hesitation the refusal to Aid Unita in i fight against the cubans and soviets will be taken Aii signal by All the countries in the Region that the Umstea states has abandoned them to the soviets As the West abandoned Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe to hit Ler in 1938. Do not suppose that Zaire Zambia Bot Swana and Namibia will remain of the West own faced with an unopposed base in  enough said c Una Vetrul Preu synd not