European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday. June 1, 1986 columns & comments William Safire were Waldheim Honoraya a he would withdraw what i am accused of arc lies says Kurt . Lit items to enjoy calling cumin people liar. He once charged Yehuda Blum then Israel s . Delegate Wilh a palpable false Bill never directed a charge so undiplomatic As lying against Albasi Xidous or the so Viet bloc or Arab nations who were inc main sources of his u a. Support. In Rulh Kurl Waldheim s entire postwar life has been a lie. For 40 years including a decade undermining Israel As the United nations lop official he has pretended la be doing something else in another place when nazis were shipping Jen s la Auschwitz for extermination and murdering yugoslav partisan hostages if anything can be labelled a Nap acc falsehood that lifelong Waldheim cover up was it. He now admits being the g-2 officer to a convicted War criminal and has stopped pleading ignorance of the atrocities committed How in the face of his admission of mis leading the world about his nazi military past can he claim to be the victim of false accusations simple he ignores the Central Points of the cover up he cannot deny Anil instead hires an american Public relations firm to help him complain about Lack of proof of added specific charges not yet proven. More details of nazi involvement arc sure to come hut diplomats Are More interested in this what nations knew of he past during his Rise to Power was he tube eco id blackmail i remember at a Bermuda conference in the Early 70s the american and British foreign secretaries discussing ways o Slop was brim s appointment As Secretary Gen eral to their embarrassment through some soviet and third world complicity Wald Heim was pushed through before Trie West tin Alliance could act. It seemed strange that the russians went along so easily Wilh someone not identified Wilh their bloc. Was he then an agent of influence ? certainly the yugoslavs knew of their own War crimes reports accusing the German staff Coffi cer in the Balkans of complicity in the murder of hostages marshal Tito certainly had a Han dle on Waldheim. Our Cia evidently failed to compile b dossier for our use but the Kab might not have been so lax. Intelligence agencies Are now walking the cat reconstructing events and decisions in Light of his Nan past and who might have known and made use of in. An Carl Rowan tint s for sure. Sec Rebry Genekh irn Ponall West German business Leader who has pressed for years for Trade Wilh he soviet Union and is suspected of a nazi pan ill find his activities scrutinized More carefully a More profound question is being privately debated by jewish groups was it Wise far the usually soft line world jewish Congress to blow the whistle on this Man at this time Afler All nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal has shown unusual lassitude in this Case. Be practical say some committed zionists the revelations Only help candidate Wald Heim in his i isl for Power in Austria. The anti semites have chosen the slogan we austrians will decide sending the message Don t it the jews decide for docs l the breaking of the Story with an upfront jewish source play into anti semitic Han res and encourage bigots and longtime nazi sym a this cars to elect the Man whom they my see As one of heir own no sometimes practicality asks too much. The Waldheim candidacy is an outrage to Western values and a sickening referendum on nostalgia for nazism. Jews should feel proud of. And not sheepish about their role in the exposure of his hidden roil and should resist with passion the bit by Pitburg Campaign to persuade a new generation that everybody in Europe suffered during the War and nobody was to blame. Because warnings of world reaction u a Waldheim win might be counterproductive few outsiders talk of boycotting the Salz Burg festival or denying . Entry to Trie first head of slate suspected of passive participation in atrocities. Let it be said How Ever that Vienna would cease to be the City of our dreams. If Kurt Waldheim were a nun of Honor he would recognize the shame he ii bringing to his country and withdraw that would be some atonement for hiding my past to austrian and the rest of us for 40 years. But that is Loo much to expect if lie had been a Man of Honor he would not have lived the life of a lie. Now it is up to the austrian voter. They can resist the temptation to bail the jews and please the russians and stick u to the West. Or the nation hat brought the world Adolf Hitler can through be election of one of his secret followers Lay to the world thai it is proud of its most infamous son. Him Vork to Rel education task Force cure won f help ailing schools a task Force of the Carnegie forum on education and the Economy has Given us a complicated and controversial formula for producing the numbers and kinds of teachers needed to make America a nation prepared in inc 21s Century. The report gives me unease because he Best Tate her i pc Ever known would never have been Able to help children like me under the terms of this proposed overhaul of education. The Carnegie task Force proposes to professionalize the teacher corps meaning that anyone wanting to teach must forget the traditional four year undergraduate course in education get a Broad Bachelor of arts degree get a Maser i degree in education and then Pas a National examination. This person could then be certified and might even be designated u a Lead teacher one earning double what a Good teacher earns today. I think the nation is going overboard in wallowing the idea that bad teachers Are the primary cause of the nation s educational shortcomings and that specified degree requirements and some kind of National certification will produce a Supply of markedly better teachers. Miss Bessie Gwynn whom t have a tolled in this column and Reader s digest had no College degree at All. Given her impoverished Jim Crow schooling in a Little Alabama town and Only a Short time at fisc Normal she probably would have failed National examination. But she was one marvelous teacher. On the other hand i know a lot of people with advanced certification would mean thai teachers in every state would have the same qualifications and schools in each suite would have the same educational nonsense nothing in the task Force proposal would equalize inc Quality of teachers or facilities in Jackson miss., Jackson tcnn., and Jackson mich., Stales where average teacher pay ranged respectively from Sis,fll5 to 517,900 to s26,140 in the 83- 4 school year. The but of the certified teachers would still want to work in the most plus ant schools in jurisdictions paying the most Money. Only a massive Federal equalization pro Gram is going to guarantee excellence of educational Opportunity to All the nation s schoolchildren and the Reagan adminis Iraklion has been committed 10 less Federal spending on Public school not More. The task Force took Rote of the danger thai heavy Reliance on degree earned and certification tests will slum the doors to teaching in the faces of Blacks hispanics and other minorities. We cannot tolerate a future in which both White and minority children Are confronted Wilh almost exclusively White figures in the schools the report said. So. To ensure the presence of Black and hispanic Rote models and authority figures the task Force proposes a major National program of counselling recruiting and scholarships to lure the brightest Young minority students into teaching. This is a dreamer s proposal. The brightest minority and White students can find Ca Reers in already glamorous Fields where their standing future Progress and pay will not depend an such d it Ous things u certification scor or the Overall performance of students in a Given school. Bright students will not be recruited easily into a teaching profession that he been blamed for the dereliction of parents and the astigmatism and indifference of slate and National leaders not when the Stu dents Are offered Only the Gnu okie of reputations and salaries comparable to those enjoyed by doctors dentists and it Wynn. F slates local jurisdictions and Uncle Sam were to Pony up some Earnest Money regarding higher pay per Bap a lot of youngsters would take their Chance on teachers being looked at with greater respect Ai same paint in tie 2 111 Century. As for now i m sceptical. The kit farce offers Medicine that May not cure by thing but surely will produce Tome Dis agreeable Side effects
