European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday october a 1986 columns James Kilpatrick monster took his seat and the sky did t fall so the monster William h. Rich Nuisl has taken his Seal As chief Justice of the United states. If you believe sen. Howard obnoxious a ship my grandchildren thus arc doomed forever. They will live in a world in which an iniquitous chief Justice Wilt wipe out their civil liberties. Every civil Liberty poor kids Rich Nuisl will do them in. His  voir was 65-33 and disappointed common Maiors on lbs Lei us know that More Voles had been Casl against sch minist than had been cast against any previous chief Justice nominee in history. What a stain Jisc of relinquish 15 predecessors Only is were confirmed by Roll Call Voles. Oliver Ellsworth 21-1. Morrison r. Wail 63-0 and Warren e. Burger 7j-3 were shoo ins. What of the other Roger h. Tancy won Confirma Tion 29-15. With 66 percent of the Vole. Melville w. Fuller won 41-20 with 67 percent. Charles e. Hughes won 52-26 Wilh 6fi percent. If you will run Rehnquist i 65-33 through your pocket calculator you will understand Why some of us believe that lbs is. Well biased. The Campaign waged Nua Insl Kahn Quill was disgraceful. No other word win suffice. One looks Back on the past three months Wilh disbelief. What would his enemies have us believe the monster was a drug addict. Suffering from a painful Back ailment. Rehnquist had taken pharmaceutical drugs prescribed by his physician and he had reacted badly to them that was All there was to this Story. The monster was unethical. At the department of Justice. 15 years ago he had provided Legal advice on a Short lived program of army surveillance of civil ians. When a Case thai challenged the program reached the supreme court Rehnquist declined to disqualify himself. This upset a Gaggle of Law professors but the professors had not done their Homework. Rehnquist s decision was firmly in line with supreme court Prece dents from John Marshall to Hugo Black. So much for that charge. The monster was a racist. As a Young Republican activist in Phoenix a Quarter of a Century ago. Rehnquist had dared to question the eligibility of a Black voter. The evidence on this Point was so shaky that Rehnquist s accusers could Noi even remember the year in which the dreadful incident had occurred. The its Park and unav Job or somebody Mas Ropo m nominee denied thai he had harassed anyone Al the polls. The monster had purchased property encumbered by ethnic covenant. Sens. Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden found this outrageous. Then it transpired thai Alden s family had also been so tainted. So s your old Man. Said the monster s friends and the horror Story was shelved pianissimo. The monster was insensitive to women. That is to say As a private citizen Rehnquist opposed the equal rights amendment what a beast what a scoundrel the monster was an evil deceiver. While in private practice in Arizona 30 years ago he had drawn up a Trust agreement for his father in Law. Al the specific direction of his client he had kept the details to him self. Was this not scandalous behaviour there was More much More hut at Bottom was one charge More grievous than All the rest Rochn Quill was he really was a conservative Bool Hiss the Washington Post summed up this he Inonu offence in a telling sentence Justice Rehnquist is a forthright proponent of legislative Over judicial Deci Sion mating did you Ever hear of such a thing it boggles the mind. Rehnquist s opinions said the Post consistently adhere to this wicked notion. Rehnquist actually believes that Congress should make decision. He will not bestir himself to re Grilc Federal statutes to the Post s desires. He will not take advantage of the considerable discretion that the Constitution affords supreme court justices for precisely such  who could vote for so vile a creature let us weep for the Washington Post and let us Grieve for Kennedy obnoxious and Biden. They did their Best to smear the reputation of a decent and honorable Man who happens also to possess a keen intellect and a Fine sense of jurisprudence. Those of us who cover the supreme court have known Rehnquist Over Ifica past 15 years As a Workhorse a Fine writer a charming human being who is genuinely liked even by fellow justices who dissent from his opinions. Rehnquist probably will not take the keen interest in judicial administration that was evidenced by William h. Taft and Burger. He May not prove a consensus builder in the fashion of Earl Warren but he will do a superlative Job. C in rial Pia Syndicate to opinion Nepf Iid in a c04wnni in air Usu on Mil pm nor i in Thom i vow uth and am to Flat if to to Conj did w  in of tto Lar us strip Tom fur Ilij Suth gown wet Carl Rowan plight of Oil Africa cries for More . Attention when John k. Kennedy named in Michigan gov. G. Mennen Williams As his assistant Secretary of stale for Afri Ca he said the appointment would be second o none in his administration. Some of us laughed aloud at what we thought was outrageous hyperbole de signed 10 soothe Williams ego. But it turned oui that Kennedy really believed that he and Williams could fashion relations with the dark continent that would Light the Way to a Primacy of american ideas and ideals in Africa an the rest of inc third world. Those Kennedy and Williams dreams Long ago disintegrated into a Witch s cauldron of disappointments and trag Edies. And the situation is worsened every Day by our preoccupation with a grotesque crisis in South Africa resulting in Little attention being Given to the eco nomic needs and social problems of theother 44 nations of a continent that is the second largest on Earth and has a rapidly growing population of 600 Mil lion More than the United slates and the soviet Union combined. Most americans see Africa today As flies crawling on the eyeballs of famine plagued children or As deaths in the War Over apartheid in South Africa. The Little thought most americans give to the rest of Africa goes like this Black africans have mucked up in dependence. They weren t and Aren t ready for it. White people have made South Africa a great nation Why turn ii Over 1o Blacks who will turn the sky scrapers into shanties if Blacks were equal and ready to Rule Zambia Tanzania Zimbabwe Bot Swana and other Black ruled countries would not be so dependent economically on South Africa. The Normal White american does not know that South Africa destroys Bridges bombs out highways and uses other tac tics to ensure thai its Black neighbors must Trade through South Africa instead of say through Mozambique and an Gola economic Aid to Black african countries Only subsidizes corruption and political oppression. This is the most devastating of the arguments that help president Reagan to rationalize his refusal to commit the United states to a genuine attack on South african apartheid. Last week the Wall Street journal car ried an article saying that the govern ments of sub saharan Africa May fairly be described us  that article referred to obligatory graft police and army harassment serious restrictions an personal Freedom government instigated atrocities and worse a being endemic in Black Africa. The reality is that enough of these things exist in most of sub saharan Africa to make the journal article seem anything but racist the thrust of that article was that . Economic Aid to african regimes Only provide Money that the oppressors can use to hire More goons to squelch More yearnings Tor Freedom. I hear the cries of those who say this is a racist View of Africa articulated Ven ally by people who won t look at Pakistan the soviet Union Chile South Africa Ghana and conclude that no race no continent has a monopoly on the greed the hunger for Power that create outrageous police slates having said this 1 want to repeal my earlier Appeal to Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia Julius Nyerere in Tanzania Mobutu sese so in Zaire and others please walk away from Best Irreg and notions of Leader for life these endless grasping for Power because you arc casting ugly shadows Over inc  the africans you profess to love. I Don t expect Black african Strong men to give up Power any faster than will Pinochet in Chile the members of inc ruling party in Mexico us a Atola Khomeini in Iran or Kabob Bourguiba in Tunisia. Democracy in t Bunting out All Over. All that aside we american have con Cerns for human Well being and commit ments to human Freedom we have vital Geo political interests in Tail woefully neglected continent Africa. It in time we wised up to our expressed moral con Cerns and our important Security inter ests and did Whai is right by Africa and Best for us. H��Ti1c syndic