European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday january 25,19b7 columns William Safire 10-year Cycle brings turmoil to China again a chinese pundit examining the political tur Moil in the United states could Advance a dozen year while House foul up this i How he a Whf Cycle works in 1949,Hany Truman began to permit the series of ethically Blind predation by hit cronies that led to the mess i Washington and the collapse of his poll ratings. A dozen Yean later John f. Kennedy eschewing air Rover went along with the scheme to overthrow Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigi. A dozen years alter that Richard Nixon enmeshed himself in the cover up that capped watergate. And 12 years later the Comet came roaring Back to the White House with Ronald Reagan s 1985 scheme to Swap arms for hostages. In the same Kondrati cutian Way an american Pun Dit looking Al the regular upheavals in China would Chart the ten year chinese Dong Tang Cycle Dang Tang Means turmoil. In 1946-48, the communists overthrew the Kuomintang 10 Yean later Mao clobbered the Economy with his great leap Forward in 1966, maoists hot to purge the revolution of its capitalistic element brought on the cultural revolution in 1976, when Mao died Hii gang of four was ousted by the same crowd thrown out a decade before. Now 10 years and a few month later the t Yudt Cycle works belter on a chinese Cale Darthe Man who led the Light against the maoist gang of four is himself tottering. Deng Xiaoping 82 and no longer universally described As feisty had to throw his chosen successor he Yanbang to the wolves. But who Are the wolves in the year of the Rabbit were Mere student demonstrators and intellectuals Able to bring on the yellow perils of Pauline or will the aftershock be More severe and Wilt Deng and his capitalist Road philosophy be Able to survive the tumult predicted by the dread Dong Tang Cycle student unrest is not Deng s problem. He has been forced into the Mao Mold that of an aged Leader striking Down his heir apparent by fears of far More powerful factions. Reacting against his Rule is the generation that he Defeated 10 years ago All the red guards and their maoist friends who rampaged at will to enforce revolutionary Equality joined by All the people who resent the Progress that others have made under the unfair inequalities of Market economies. We hear that crowd referred to now As conserva Tives opposing Deng s economic reforms but they Are really the Radical activists who have been driven William f. Buckley & we60wrdng? Down along with the million of peasants and workers who have not fared As Well in the free ish Enterprise a their More industrious neighbors. Add to that some red army generals angry at the dominance of their officer corps by the bureaucrats and you have the tinder for the to Yudt Cycle. Those old radicals do not want what the student Sand some intellectuals want democracy is not what is stirring in China. On Trie contrary the Freedom yearning of a few Brave souls is seen by radicals As proof that Deng sold out the revolution. Deng beating a Retreat is castigating the protesters serving up Hus political head on a Platter pretending he has been against the loosening of Central political authority Alt along As if to show the radicals that Pina need not fear the Onset of real democracy and individual Freedom from him or his successors. But Deng now has As Little to say about who will run China in a few years As Reagan has to say about who will run the tinned states. Our system will not change with the change offices modern China s has. Why is Deng failing for the same reason that soviet general Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev reforming his system even More slowly wiil fail you cannot fix the economic stagnation inherent in communism by adopting Only a Little bit of capitalism. A free Market works Well with free people it cannot work Well with unfree people. Marx was right about the link Between politics and economics but to Stop eco nomic exploitation of workers by investors he substituted political exploitation of workers by party members that system has failed in the soviet Union and in China. Because communism s leaders cannot find an incentive As effective As the Pursuit of self interest in a free society they try Semi Freedom. But no place is As dangerous As hallway. China must move quickly Forward or Back and Deng s weakness plus the cyclical Chart suggests bad news ahead. My counterpart in China can counter with the pre diction of a terrible Blunder in the White House in 1997. George w/7/ off the Mark in Israel Vatican affair my esteemed Friend George will has gone not quite right on the matter Isrell Tfaye Vatican Cardinal o Connor history. It All began with a vituperative attack on the Vatican at the end of this week with David Brink will referred to the Vatican s contemptible behaviour toward the Holo Caust and its continuing contemptible behaviour toward he voiced his suspicion that there is a residual anti semitism at work in Vatican policy and suggested that the appropriate remedy was for the United states instantly to establish its embassy not just in Jerusa Lem but in East Jerusalem. Hereby underscoring the fact that a United Jeru Salem is and forever shall be the capital and then in his syndicated column for Jan. 15 he ripped into Cardinal John o Connor s innocent tribute to the holocaust museum the Cardinal whose emotions Are copiously expressed had said reverently that the holocaust May be an enormous gift hat Judaism has Given the will transformed those words into an endorsement of the holocaust on the grounds that it gives us something to Grieve Over. Such perverse readings of the meaning of in impulsive response by a transparently Good Man should Bear in mind that Christendom celebrates As its primary Day of Joy the Day of the resurrection which could not have happened save for Christ crucified. If the analogy was inappropriate the sentiments clearly were not. But George will is losing sight of rather a Tot of things the first of them that it was Israel that invited Cardinal o Connor to the Mideast encouraging him to use his resources As a cleric in order to Advance the possibility of peace. The problem with devising peaceful solutions in the Mideast where George will is concerned is that there he sees Only a single position Israel s at All limes in All places. George sometimes sounds a Little like rabbi Rashane who is properly scorned by the majority of the shells Fortis anti palestinian fundamentalism. If Progress of any kind is going to be made in that part of the world you Don t begin by siding with Israel on Ever single Point. The overwhelming majority of the governments of the world do not recognize Jerusalem As the capital of Israel this is not a collective venture in anti semitism. A has to do with the . Resolution that gave birth to the state of Israel. That Resolution which the United states and much of the world backed called for the internationalization of Jerusalem. In the ensuing hostilities the Western half of Jerusalem was occupied by the israelis the Eastern half by Jor Dan and 19 years later Israel won be Eastern half by Force of arms there is no pressing need for the United states or for the Vatican to overrule the . Verdict when dealing with the most sacred acreage in the world sacred to moslem jew and Christian. On the matter of recognition of Israel by the Vatican or. Will is simply incorrect. According to going rules set Down in Salow s guide to diplomatic practice Section 199the formal exchanges be own the Vatican and Israel Over the years amount to de Facto diplomatic recognition. In 1963. Rolf Hochhuth s play the Deputy accused Pope Pius Xii of indifference to the holocaust. Ever since scholars have probed to define his role. We know thai in his Christmas message in 1942 the Pope urged All catholics to give shelter wherever they could humanity should help the jews who for Rea son of their Faith have been marked for when Pius Xii died israeli and future prime minister Golda Meir said of him on the floor of the United nations during the 10years of nazi terror when our people i went through the horrors of martyrdom the Pope raised his voice to condemn the persecutors and to commiserate with their there was one line the final line in will s column that causes True pain concerning Cardinal o Connor s statement that obviously he needed to obey the Vatican on the matter of where he could meet with israeli officials George will commented israelis have heard his Alibi before he was Only obey ing George will seems to be say ing that at the next Nuernberg trial car Dinal o con nor would be up for a crime against humanity. 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