European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday july 29,1966 Anthony Lewis Fraser fears increasing violence in South Africa when a government Don not have the con sent of the governed you can t expert people to forswear inc Only strength they have the strength of their right arms. To think so is against american theology anyway Malcolm Fraser was in new York talking about South Africa. Everyone docs these Days. But he is Dif Ferent a former australian prime minister a conserva Tive sheep rancher who warns americans to under stand the South african situation in terms of our jct Crosman heritage and of our urgent National i merest. Fraser was co chairman of the Commonwealth mis Sion that tried unsuccessfully to move Pretoria toward negotiations with Black leaders. Now his trying to move the two governments that he and his colleagues believe could help avoid the worst if they put pressure on South Africa in the next few weeks Britain and the United states. He ii generally sympathetic to president Reagan s defense and foreign policies. But he president speech on South Africa last week dwelling on the dangers of communism and Black violence was a Sharp disappointment to him. Some people seem to think Fraser said in new York the other Day that the yearning for Freedom bums less fiercely in the breast of Black South africans than in others. Bui that s not True. It Burns fiercely and they Are not going to be put off by gestures. The situation there is totally different from what your civil rights movement faced in the United states. Here you have a framework of Law to which you could Appeal. Blacks in South Africa have no such Frame work no Constitution no political  in those circumstances Fraser suggested with tie Long years of Black patience running out increasing violence is inevitable unless Blacks can see he White government coming under effective pressure from outside the country. That is Why the common wealth Mission called for International economic Mea sures would sanctions work Fraser a realist said that chances were no better than 50-50 hat sanctions would persuade president Botha and his government to negotiate in the near future but he said it was still critically import am for the West meaning especially the United states to impose significant sanctions at once. If you Don t act now he said people around the William Buckley world will say in time if Only you d moved they will forget that America has been the great liberating Force in the world. As an australian i think that would be tragic. Even if sanctions Don t work at once you will have shown the world that you arc not on the Side of . Botha. You won t carry thai legacy. Sanctions will also enable the moderates among South african Blacks the Oliver Tat nos to say for the first time we have effective leverage. Give in time to work " Oliver tamp is president of the african National Congress. He is thought to be under heavy pres sure from younger figures inside and outside South Africa to broaden guerrilla attacks and for the firs Lime to hit soft targets namely civilians. The govern ment would then no doubt intensify its violence and South Africa would be on the path of horror Fraser fears the deaths could a in the millions. Fraser struck me As the kind of politician who thinks his function is to wive problems not to Lead crusades. How did be become so interested in Africa in 1979, he said i thought the Commonwealth would blow apart if Rhodesia weren t  he helped id persuade prime minister Margaret Thatcher that a settlement was possible Only if All the principal players particularly the guerrilla leaders were Bro Vijh in. Britain managed to do thai ending the rhodesian War and creating Independent Zimbabwe. South Africa in a far harder problem one in which outsiders have less leverage putting the common wealth and much More at risk Fraser knows the Odds but he thinks he roust try to bring the reality the urgency Home to the British and american govern ments. Can food Tiitus a serious writer makes an unserious suggestion in French and Spanish he word serious has a meaning that does t correspond with any of the synonyms Given for that word in English. In Means responsible reliable trustworthy reflective. The other Day James Jackson Kilpatrick who is a serious writer made an unserious suggestion about How we should Deal with dope traffickers. What we ought to do said or. Kilpatrick is catch a Bunch of dope traders try them convict them and then hang them in Public squares. Jack Kilpatrick really Means in. He has heard described and he has witnessed the tortures experienced by those taken in the biological and psychological death agonies of drug consumption. In is agony whether you go on to die or whether you go on 10 live. Kilpatrick s Point is that if Ever there was justification for executing a murderer there is justification for executing those Wanton murderers who Dis tribute narcotics. Now recently we saw almost exactly that happen in Malaysia the executions were not to my knowledge Public but Pilicy May As Well have been Given the attention Given them in the world press. To a australians caught with Merchan Uisu Blo quantities of heroin were tried convicted and after due process using up almost three years hanged. There was the usual outcry from the anti Capiali punishment Sci and even a few others but the government of Malaysia stood its ground pointing out that there were signs All Over the place warn ing potential drug merchants of the Fate that would befall them. It is of passing interest that the local equivalent of the american civil liberties Union which opposes capita punishment announced that drug merchandising was a crime so heinous that opposition to capital punishment was officially suspended when applied to thai crime. But or. Kilpatrick s suggestion is not serious ii is not responsible. It is not reputable it is not viable. Why because it surely will Noc happen. This has nothing whatever to do with the entirely different question should it happen if tomorrow i needed to Vole yes or no on a National plebiscite shall we adopt the Kitpatrick proposition i would unflinchingly Vole yes. And after of a couple of Hundred hangings there would be a very Sharp decrease in the merchandising of drugs. It would t cease any More than crime in great Britain ceased when they used to hang you for stealing sixpence. But in modern american death sentences Are taken much More seriously than they were 200 years ago when executions were commonplace and Public floggings a regular feature of City life. But it would be hard to find anyone who would dispute the conclusion that a lot of Public hangings would dry up the Assembly line of drugs passing under the eyes of the american Public on a vibrant Street Corner. But his is not going to happen. We Are too Frozen institutionally in our views about executions let alone Public executions. So then Why make the suggestion if it were done in the spirit of fantasy on Day they passed a Law. The next Day the consumption of drugs dropped by 90 percent that would be one thing. But or. Kil Patricic was being in the american usage serious. But not serious in the Continental sense. Coke consumption is up 600 percent in Many american cities. In Pak Stan the morning paper advises us the growth of poppies is up 400 percent Over last year. A lot of thai stuff is destined for american blood vessels. And we can t Slop it and Aren t stopping in. We Are subsidizing a criminal class overflowing our prisons corrupting the police Ana the courts depleting our reserves of detectives and judges and accomplishing nothing. Either bring on the scaffold which we Aren t going to door legalize which we probably Aren t going to do. We can then look for More of the same. Much More of the same. A uni Arul or