European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes tuesday. September 30. 19h6 William Buckley do s. Africa s Blacks have any other Choice Tiik of sikh Day. On a elision facing three gun to Lumen of the run Ileau left. 1 was asked would you if you were a Black in ugh african join the african Congress i after pausing 1 do nol remember answered. Neil question. Would you re sort to violent answer suddenly the pro Gram was Over. No Opportunity to pursue inc Story line. Umi n is Worth pursuing by american who wish to know Hak Ful word a Pathi i ally whal in is like Tobe a Black South african. To the extent possible let us set aside any special knowledge we have for instance of the kind of life led i by Niosi Black africans. If the average Black South african were taken on a Lour of inc nations to inc North he would discover few oases of personal Liberty. The dark continent continues very dark. I Lindy Pomr. Corrupt peril Colial. Perhaps after such a Lour inc Black South african would ruminate on the advantages of the relative political stability in White run South Africa. Atka All. N lot of Black South africans Are in South m Rica he aus they fled their homelands. Hul Hal is to ignore inc argument really. Although there is Liberal movement by the while South african government and some Black intellectuals residing in Soulli Africa might conclude that so Long As there is movement there is Hope in fact while South Africa moves very slowly at the political level. The Black South african might understandably conclude Hal then is no Sustan Pijl ovum Cal. And Hal therefore inc Lime has come when civil disobedience leading Luciail War. Is justified. We Are bound to focus on our own experience. The declaration of Independence is viewed by some scholars As an expression of resin Mcm by colonists Over inc Diacri Malion against them by contrast with inc liberties enjoyed by englishmen who lived in their Homeland. Such scan litre hold that the declaration did not therefore enunciate metaphysical absolutes about Liberty and Equality. Bui there Are others who. While admitting that any author of a declaration calling for Equality who also owned slaves and had no i mention of getting rid of Ihm. Faced philosophical difficulties that nevertheless the universalism of the declaration inspires Peoples everywhere. And it is not easily maintained that inc offences of George ii against the american colonies were greater than Hose of the White government of South Africa against the Black population. So then docs that add up to a summons to join in african nations Congress Here one asks about alternatives and in is Unfong William 5afire howawrthslsfttawpe5irable neighbourhood Paley the Case that there arc l any solid alternatives in South Africa. It is merely one More country in which inc Iofi has succeeded in consolidating the effective Power of the opposition even its in is happening in Chile and has happened All Over the world. When those disgusted with Chiang Kai Shek and the corrupt entourage that gave the nationalists so bad a name until they thrived themselves in Taiwan sought to rebel they had very Little alternative than to join up with Mao tse Tung. It was so in Cuba when moderates made the awful mistake of encouraging Fidel Castro and to an extent in Nicaragua where the sandinista succeeded in obscuring their strategic design for a militarized marxist stale. But what else does one do in South Africa if one is Black and As resentful As our forefathers the african National Congress is most certainly directed by communists but that is not whal Black africans Are focusing on today. No doubt i Host who hold sem Inars on the subject in the shanties arc asking whal is in the communists can do id the Black africans thai would be worse than whal the while government is doing the communists can do no worse than 10 deny us rights we do not enjoy they will say. They would be wrong of course and if the Anc in its present ideological composition ends up running Black Africa misery will increase nol diminish. But that docs nol answer the question can you reasonably expect a desperate Black South african to do lome thing else Given existing alternatives but if i had had More time on that television pro Gram i think i d have said that i d join inc Anc be cause to do so harmonizes with an impulsive nature. If 1 had resources As a Black South african what i would do is leave the country. But it is hard to expect of those who do nol the overwhelming majority indefinite docility to a government that will not give them whal no american would agree to do without. 0 press s Sinatra political contributions buy respectability a script of a rift Annc Rirl Fernl we Rinir Fly Nyrl ,nmai4 a i in a i.-. of _ transcripts of wiretaps ordered by courts and directed at suspected leaders of organized crime help us Cross the Bridge from fiction to fact. A conversation Between Anthony fat Tony Saler no of inc Gino Csc mafia family and Anthony Tony ducks Caralto of inc Lucchese family was played in coun the other Day by a Federal prosecutor seeking to break the Back of the Syndicate. The aging dons of the underworld were complaining about inc Lack of respect from the younger hoodlums. If in was t for me said fat Tony la Tony ducks there would t be no mob left i made All the in mafia Lingo to make someone is to bring them into inc brotherhood of blood often after the Candi Date has carried Oul a murder. Shoot him sympathized Tony ducks adding Wilh a heavy heart that you could get rid of Ihm shool them kill them but Ihen you can t go on it s and soil is. I read this in the Light of other Fri transcripts of murdered mob Leader Salvatore Momo Giancana published in my Way the unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra by Kilty Kelley. Let s hit Sinatra and the rat pack said an angry gangster in the Early 60s to Giancana. Apparently be cause the Singer had not been Able to get his Friend newly appointed a Ilomay general Robert Kennedy to reduce the heal from Federal agents no replied he Chicago mafia Boss who was associated with Sinatra in the Cal Neva Lodge in Nevada. I have other plans for the Fri Learned Hal the mob Boss Laier spoke to Sinatra in new York and met with him in los Angl is to Book entertainment 11 a mob owned nightclub Dean mar tin Eddie Fisher Sammy Davis or. And Sinatra Al performed there inc Fri was old without fee. An illegal gambling operation lied in to the nightclub reaped a million in Rafil during Hal run of celebrated entertainment according Lokel icy s thoroughly Law Rcd research. Frank Lent him self and Dean and Sammy and Eddie Fisher As bait to bring in the High rollers pier Lawford is quoted As explaining while Sam and the boys fleeced them 1guess in was cipher Hal or Lawford inc movie Meior was a Kennedy in Law and the link to show business Lor thai political clan when the president and his brother Learned the extent of inc Sinatra association with the Fischelli Brothers and Giancana the Kennedy distanced themselves from the Singer slaying nol at his Palm Springs Home but that of Bing Crosby. Lawford was then ostracized by the pads his career suffered and he was a valuable source in Hisook. No wonder Frank Sinatra went to coun three years ago to Stop the writer from pursuing his Way which turns oui 10 be the most Eye opening act eerily biography of our Lime. Under derision in this space an elsewhere old Blue eyes dropped the suit. The Book will be a Best seller for All the wrong Rea sons from revelations of family secrets Good for him rising from Humble origins to his Macho conquests of famous actresses Cut making in his emotional defeat by Ava Gardner Good for her and for us because Ilg ave new depth o his singing. However a few of us will study this work for the evidence assembled to support its underlying theme hat a celebrity Wmk supreme arrogance and inc ability to raise funds for politicians can succeed in buying respectability if not from one president from an Omer. The transcript of the Sinatra hearing before the Memar my i i i inc i Vej with com Contrad Reader s Gorge to Rise. A ners Perse weary by biographer Kelley pointing to evidence Iraj fitting that testimony Wilt cause an anti mafia not president read amps of course. In inc name of fighting crime he is willing to subject million Sot inn Iceni americans to the most intrusive and de intrusive and de undermine i anti mafia the most obscene act of the Reagan presidency was wiihaml0f to Medat of freed � Frank Sinatra with Mother Teresa at the same ceremony. His love Clit for those ibs fortunate gushed the president ". Make him one of our mos remarkable and distinguished americans " kill pm i a Sam Gianna. H Rcd by the Cia in 1961 10 has friends
