European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns William Buckley the stars and stripes wednesday August 6. 1986 to Black South africans nothing will be enough we Are engaged in reliving the Vietnam experience. Whatever or. Reagan Gas it is not enough. What Ever or. Botha docs it will not prove to be enough. The militants in South Africa will Settle at this Point for nothing less than the federalist papers the Constitution the Bill of rights the emancipation proclamation. Brown is. The Board of education the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965. And inc latest affirmative action decision of the supreme court. Otherwise the West can go to hell or to quote Bishop Tutu More exactly " president Reagan is the pits As far As Blacks arc concerned. He sits there like the great big White chief of  and i am so angry. I found it quite nauseating. I think the West for my pan. Can go to  that was a speech in which the president of the United states four separate times condemned apartheid condemned the emergency Laws promulgated by South Afri can president . Botha asked for a timetable for the elimination of apartheid Laws called for the release of political prisoners for the release of Nelson Mandela and for a Nanning Black political movements. One concludes that Only if or. Reagan had said that he would Send the . Navy to blockade South african ports unless his recommendations were acted on would Bishop Tutu s disgust with the West have mitigated. Or. Tutu s complement in the United states was rep. William h. Gray Iii. Who. Representing the democratic party spoke the official answer to or. Reagan. He was preceded by sen. Edward Kennedy who announced that the United states had become the last Best Hope for  or. Gray said that the United Stales must demand a timetable for full democracy which is one person one  or. Gray went on to say that it hardly mattered if those South african Blacks who arc employed by american capital should lose their jobs since they amount to a Mere 47,000 people or one tenth of i percent of the work Force. So that simultaneously we Are told that Only sanctions will bring the White government to its Knees and that sanctions can Only affect one tenth of i percent of the working Force. If that is so then obviously something More than merely economic sanctions is desired in order that we succeed with our  what Well we know that the Commonwealth nations did their Best to change the mind of Margaret Thatcher whose position had been exactly that of Ronald Reagan and Alan Paton namely that economic growth in South Africa is the surest Means of effecting the loosening of controls and the granting of civil rights. But there was even talk of the Commonwealth disintegrating if mrs. Thatcher did not go along and there were rumours that Flora Lewis  Queen Elizabeth has said that she had not accepted the throne of England in order to preside Over the liquidation of the Commonwealth. I swear if we generated such pres sure against the soviet Union Gorbachev would be sleep ing in the cellar of the Kremlin. What is Clear beyond the Vietnam syn drome which specifics that no Concession will Gener ate anything other than the demand for More conces Sions is that before we knew it one Man one vote which not even the progressive Federal party in South Africa has traditionally favored is suddenly the commonly accepted objective. What in t Clear but ought to be is that one Man one vote in South Africa in t going to happen in any meaningful sense. Why it is one thing to vote in order to secure one s civil rights another to vote in order to seize one neighbor s property. And that is what the militants want. Or. Mandela whom the president wishes re leased is the Ben Bella of the liberation movement in South Africa and he is a self proclaimed marxist whose interest in one Man one vote would be As transitory As the sandinista proved to be. The african National Congress which he effectively Heads is Jaco Finical in spirit and its chosen instrument is the mod Ern counterpart of the Guillotine the  Well chief Butch Loczi of the zulus in t going to yield tothe Anc nor will the indians nor will the coloured nor will the Boers. No one clamouring for the collapse of the White government can cogently describe what would come after. But rather a Vietnam Type Victory even if it is followed by boat people and to Chi Minh cities than Botha and his grudging reforms. So what that the sandinista have militarized Nicaragua stripped the people of their civil liberties reduced real per capita Gnu by More than 40 percent we got rid of Somoza did we not Bishop Tutu s formulation was off. He said the West can go to hell. More Likely the West will simply go to hell. Unborn us pret syndic Reagan in t communicating message of peace the United United states is losing now on the two most crucial emotional issues that stir opinion around the world arms control and South Africa. This was evident at a meeting in mexi co City leading up to a six nation sum Mil conference on peace and disarmament. It has been evident in Europe lately and it is Likely to be Thunder ugly evident at the huge meeting of the non aligned nations in Zimbabwe at the end of this month. The Summit meeting will be the second of leaders of countries in five continents Argentina India Tanzania Sweden and Greece As Well As Mexico. In their new Delhi declaration last year they called for a ban on nuclear testing and space arms. Predictably Mikhail Gorbachev of the soviet Union answered their Appeal with a War endorsement. President Reagan did not reply. That did not make great Waves at the time. Since then though Gorbachev has announced his moratorium on testing publicized a series of proposals for arms reduction and showed some willingness to permit new measures for verification. Gorbachev has convinced a lot of Wor ried people that he wants to Cut Back on the arms race. Reagan has not. The mexican Summit meeting opens at i Tapa on wednesday deliberately to coincide with the anniversary of the aug. 6 Hiroshima bombing. It is also the Day the soviet moratorium is due to expire. Some of the diplomats preparing the i Tapa declaration arc concerned at inc Way developments almost inevitably make their position look pro soviet and anti american. The document repeats earlier demands adding a Call for Freez ing All production and deployment of nuclear weapons and launchers safeguard ing existing arms control treaties and a cutback on weapons spending. But it welcomes recent proposals from both the United states and the russians. To look More balanced and cooperative the six will try to put major emphasis on the test ban verification proposals. They will offer to set up underground monitoring stations in their own countries and help to create a world wide net supplemented with reciprocal monitors whom they Hope the United states and soviet Union will accept on their own territory. The argument is that the rest of the world has to push the superpowers into accepting that their rivalry could deter mine everybody s Fate. Mexican officials said the initiative stemmed from the period when Moscow and the United states suspended All negotiations and the sense was Strong that somebody had to break the deadlock. That in t the current situation. But frustration remains and the United states Isnow taking most of the blame. Everybody knows about the quarrels within the administration and that Reagan has been reluctant to Settle the internal Issue. By con Trast Gorbachev looks daringly decisive to people who feel like hostages to a crisis that is beyond them and that they must do All they Tun to influence. Many of the people at the three Day preparatory meeting Are militants of Var ious types. Passive its nuclear , third world campaigners. Their perceptions Are obviously coloured by their political activism. Some Are out spokely anti american though occasionally careful to criticize the soviet Union too. The Rev. Allan Loesak flew in from South Africa to link the issues of peace and their fight against apartheid. The and that big Power disarmament would bring development were widely accepted. What matters however in t their fuzzy talk but shifting attitudes. The United Stales in t giving the world the kind of Clear answers about its intention that americans thought they had made obvious in the july 4 extravaganza for miss Liberty s anniversary. For All his Mastery in getting his Good cheer Good Guy message through to americans Reagan has i communicated an american desire for peace to Many in other parts of the world. It is going to take More than speeches and his promises that Sta wars will save Mankind from the nuclear  there need to be unmistakable signals from Washington that Reagan has made up his mind about seeking agreements and that he in t afraid to test Moscow s offers. Washington has been reacting to Moscow dragging its heels using the old soviet Sion Walf tac tic just when Moscow has Learned the advantage of taking the initiative. The United states does better at what it knows Best standing on its traditional highly dubious propositions that the big posture of being bold confident and Powers Over armament is the cause of  deprivation in poor countries a Yolk tis