European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday february 25,1986 William f. Buckley the trivial pursuits of american foreign policy if one can take leave of Manila and Johan Nesburg Cor Jusi a moment in search or a trivial Pursuit or two. I like he one Boul inc concert at Spaso House which is the residence of the american ambassador to the soviet Union. Arthur Harlman being the incumbent. In 1979. Vladimir Felts Man was 27 years old and was taking the music Loving world by storm As a Pinnisi. But in addition to being an artist he was also a jewish dissident who asked permission for him and his wife to leave the soviet Union and go to Israel. The soviet government answered this request by in effect closing the lid Over his piano. Suddenly there were no invitations to play. Ambassador Lla Linan recently organized a concert at Spaso House to which he invited a couple of Hundred people. And what do you know some vandals broke into Spaso House and Tore a Bunch of strings out of the piano. Now. If you know Spaso House As i happen to know Spaso House of will know that Spaso House plus soviet Security makes the possibility of a Vandal roaming into its living room to wreck the piano about As Likely As a Vandal Roan ing into tort  and leaving a few Graffiti on our Little Slock of Gold bricks. Nevertheless the concert went on a technician did emergency work on the piano and the starving artist  a night of the soul displaying his Covert Art. There were refreshments afterwards and the Fol Ismons departed Spaso House to drive Home but they could to  vandals  slashed the tires of their automobile. Two Days later we  one of those dramatic exchanges across the Gli Enicks Bridge that links East and West Berlin. Anatoly Shch Aransky got his Freedom after eight years in gulag. His crime was that he  publicly urged compliance by the soviet Union with the Helsinki pact that hopeless instrument we All signed in 1975, the terms of which vested legitimacy in soviet territorial acquisitions after the world War in return for the Promise of a Basket of freedoms for soviet Citi Zens. The agreement was hopeless in that it was instantly Clear that the soviet Union  no intention of living up to its commitments and not so silly in that we have International standing to protest internal soviet Viola Lions of human rights. Rut it was the singing of the Exchange on Glenic Mcbridge that caught the Eye. We gave up five legally convicted spies for the soviets. They gave us Scharan sky of yes. The prosecution  claimed that he was a Cia agent and three East europeans convicted of various offences in the Eastern bloc about whom one knows nothing from the press and therefore safely concludes that like Shch Aransky they were innocent. When a few weeks ago South african president , Botha flamboyantly offered to free Nelson Mandela in re turn for the soviet Union s freeing Andrei Sakharov Botha Carl Rowan was w idly and properly derided on the grounds that by equating the two he was in effect conceding that Mandela was a political prisoner rather than a terrorist paying out a life sentence. The net effect of the picture was As expected. The soviet Union is being Ever so obliging by giving us the Freedom of a Man who should never have lost his Freedom inthe first place. What do we do when we really gel mad my absolute All Lime favorite is the massive action we took against baby Doc when we agreed to lift that Little sadist out of his tortured country. I d like to have been on the scene when the american representative told the Palace that baby and mrs. Baby would be limited to two bags each i mean that is outward bound stuff. Two bags each would t accommodate baby Doc s Fingernail extractors let alone his portfolios of overseas investments or her 500 or 600 designer dresses. It is reported that when baby heard this he  a real Tantrum and said in that Case his abdication was All off. I mean history has not Hung on such a matter of protocol since i he 1870s, when the count of Chambord declined the throne of France because he could not get agreement to restore the All White Flag in place of the revolution s Tricolour. Did you notice How finally we handled that major problem baby was told by one of those problem smash ers. Look bring As much baggage As you want and inthe confusion nobody will notice. I note that the students of Stanford University have invited Mikhail Gorbachev an a commence ment Spaker. One Day Gorbachev pulls the strings from the piano of a jewish dissident next Day commence ment speaker at Stanford. Why not Marcos at Berke icy or docs the fact that mrs. Aquino is still around cause us to lose respect for him should he have treated her like Shch Aransky to earn the students respect c Universal press Syndicate administration playing Divide and conquer game from the time the first Black people arrived in America Well Over 3to centuries ago some while people have played a consistent game Divide them and keep them in slavery Divide them and keep them in poverty Divide them and keep them out of Power politically or otherwise. No administration has played the Divide and con Lucr game against Blacks with greater skill than president Reagan s. Attorney general Edwin Meese his assistant William Bradford Reynolds and other around this president have conned a few Black opportunists like Clarence Pendleton or. Civil rights commission and Clarence Thomas equal employ ment Opportunity commission into giving a dubious respectability to administration actions that would otherwise have been recognized As turning Back the clocks to the not Long ago Days of naked racism. But How could an administration be racist when it is Only doing what is approved by Pendleton and Thomas and Fay a few Black so called professors like Thomas Sowull Waller Williams and Glenn Loury the right Wing scholars Haven t Learned much about what this administration has done and is try ing to do to Black people but most Black republicans arc rising up. And the thing that is enlighten ing them is the a Csc Campaign to get Reagan to Reno acc a 20-year-old executive order mandating affirmative action that is that women Blacks and other minorities be Given a fair Chance at jobs i companies doing government business. The most prominent Black republicans in Ameri Ca Are outraged by the Meuse Campaign. So Blac business leaders who Are republicans the Council of 100 and the National Black Republican Council which is under the Wing of the Republican National committee have appealed to or. Reagan to leave alone an executive order that has been deemed to be Good for the nation by Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter. In a historic commencement address at How Ard University president Johnson said of affirmative action you do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saving now you re free to go where you want and do As you desire and choose the leaders you please. You do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him bring him up to the Starling line of a race and then say you re free to compete with All the others and still justly believe that you have been completely  like a Battery charged doll president Reagan has been programmed to say Over and Over i want a color Blind society even though he spent most of his life opposing the civil rights Laws that moved America in the direction of a non racist society a faithful Black Goldwater Republican like Elaine Jenkins the past president of the Council of 100 who is now struggling to convince Blacks to Sta faithful to the two party system is telling or. Rea Gan that a color Blind society is also her goal but that a racially Neutral society cannot be achieved without affirmative action programs. She has told Mccase and Reagan that Blacks who oppose affirmative action do not represent the 30 million Black people of this society not even those of decently conservative viewpoints who have tied their future to the gop. More and More Black republicans arc seeing and acknowledging the damage Hal has been done w Black families and youngsters and their dreams and aspirations Over the last five years. They Are becom ing outraged Over Blacks whatever their parly Label whom Jenkins describes As out of step and Whirt caned Quisling by those of us who Are Given to stronger language. I Don t think Reagan Meese Reynolds a co. Really have any respect for Black republicans. Jiey can t discern the difference Between Blacks who  without conscience and an Elaine Jenkins Wio embraces a Republican philosophy out of convict the until it becomes obvious to her that a decent America a Way from the youn8 Blackt � ,? pres Dent Reagan go on listening to Nanri mass Juhe Pond Lemons the new right hic professors or docs he finally hear the voices of re. Are appalled that they have Beer i  Orson Laine pc ruins and of her la republicans of conscience gel the ear of this president la Newt an Weka Syndicate