European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns Williamf. Buckley the stars and stripes monday May 5,1988 time for a soviet declaration on terrorism but will there be Post Libya less terrorism they Are asking. This is the Point the europeans Are dwelling on. F there is a Remote complication in the Library Slacks our european critics will find it and enter it into the argument to reinforce their objections to or. Reagan s having taken finally some Concrete Steps to persuade one terrorist Rin conster that killing americans Here and there is not a Good i Lousy coping guaranty cd Safe activity. Now Odirone or two Points then can be Little argument. Terrorists flow in and out of other countries than Libya notably Syria and Iran. But attacking Syria and Iran is Mare difficult than attacking Libya which is relatively exposed. Moreover tics Between he soviet Union and Syria ate pretty inti mate and the seduction of Iran by the soviet Union proceeds with some Diligence europeans wonder about the risk of pro com nos he soviet Union if we were to uni verbalize our libyan response. And even some americans wonder whether the soviet Union in protest against our libyan foray might not take the excuse to cancel the Summit meeting. The missing ingredients at most of our Summit meetings Over the past Genera Tion has been he common purpose. When we Sil across the table from the soviet Union we Are looking for one thing Pri Marily they for another. We want peace and Wcur ily they want advantage. The time surely Lias come to flush out the offi Cial soviet position on terrorism and there has never been a brighter moment for just Chi. Thirteen years ago serving in the United nations it fell to me to give n couple at speeches in the third committee trained to explore human rights on the subject of terrorism. The . Goat a to bring on Universal declarations against terrorism. The trouble would always come when third world nations would seek to exclude from the category of terrorism any move designed to liberate a country from colonialism or what these countries desired was do Jure immunity from prosecution far terrorism if the objective of the terrorist in question was what William Safire file jmj Woof w \ deprived. American f Ijiri Isy Ifie Tosh turn to insulting Ever Vas desired or popular in the third world. For instance any act against any israeli would not by that reasoning count As terrorism because it would be classified As an act against the Neo colonialism of zionism. Any act aimed at any South african or for that matter Al anyone dealing with South Africa would not be counted As terrorism. By the same line of argument Ira members would be free to blow up More Mumbai tens and it would not take too much of a historical memory to authorize mexicans to blow up californians or Iroquois to blow up new yorkers in Short at the 2blh general Assembly of the United nation., the anti terrorism movement came Down to nothing. Now the soviet Union is always inter ested in making lift complicated for the West and terrorism Don exactly that is ranging us As it has most recently done from even moderates in the Arab world whose tribal Solidarity lines them up with khad Afy. Even As african tribal Solidarity lined most of Africa up with Idi Amir but the soviet Union docs not believe in free Enterprise terrorism it is frowned on by Leninist ideology which classifies it As infantilism. The Narod Niki who blew up or arises on a catch As catch can basis before the rus Sian revolution were denounced by the bolsheviks As undisciplined. Surely the Lime has come for the United states to demand that the soviet Union Lay on the table its position on tourism. How by agreeing to cooperate in Boycotts against any nations that give Sanctuary
