European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday february 5,1987 co Lunins James Kilpatrick he who lies Down with dogs gets up with fleas Secretary of state George Shutlz now has Sci with Oliver Tambo president of the african National Congress and one has to ask in despair and mystification Why Why has the Reagan administration thus compounded the Folly of our stupid policy toward South Africa Tambo is a terrorist and the Anc is a terrorist organization. He does no1 use these terms of course but his defense of violence Speaks for itself. I is the Anc that has invented and repeatedly employed inc dreaded necklace to intimidate Blacks who oppose is tactics. The for the uninitiated is an old automobile tire. It is filled with kerosene or Gaso line and placed Over the head of the Anc s victim. Then the lire and inc victim Are set afire. The intimate relationship Between the soviet Union and the african National Congress is freely acknowledged. The Ancs official publication Schaba could not be More candid we recognize that the soviet Union and other socialist countries Are our dependable allies from whom no Force is going to succeed in Sepa rating Slid Tambo writing in african communist a monthly journal of the South african communist party sap the members of the Anc fully under stand Why both the Anc and the sap Are two hands of inc same body Why they Are two pillars of our Tambo has said that ours is not merely a paper Alliance it is a living organism that has grown Oul of roughly half of the member of the Anc s Board of directors arc openly uffizi acid with the Softli Jim Fain african communist party. Tambo himself evades identification. In a press conference at Howard University in 1981, John Heminway of accuracy in Media put the Blunt question Are you a terrorist or Are you a communist Tambo s reply what do you think Allan Ryskind of human events picked up the questioning would you deny that you Are a communist Tambo "1 would say i am what i Ryskind is that your response la s a Ingi Simale question because you have been accused of being a Tambo if they have proof t suppose i am Ryskind what i m asking you is if you consider yourself a Tambo we will have to discuss what is a communist. What does a communist want what would he like to see perhaps i am a certainly Tambo s published speeches Parrot the Moscow line. At every Opportunity prior to his meet ing with Secretary Shutlz Tambo has denounced ". he has praised communist Cuba As a Model. He has Allied the Anc with the Fale sinian liberation organization. In Zambia in 1985, he boasted thai inc democratic anti Feudal and anti imperialist revolution in Afghanistan has been saved with the support of the soviet in Schaba in 1984 he lashed out at the imperialists led by the Reagan administration for launching the criminal invasion of Grenada what in the world was Shultz s purpose in signifying this Man is the communist Ridden Anc truly he Only available vehicle for reaching the mass of South african Blacks Why do we not make official overtures through so respected a Leader As . Bulyc Iii chief of the zulus the largest of All african tribes Over the protest of preside in Reagan. Congress recklessly insisted upon imposing certain economic sanctions on South Africa. For members of Congress seeking to Curry favor with their Black constituents the sanctions provided a marvelous Opportunity. Look at How fiercely we oppose apartheid in theory the sanctions were supposed to push the South african govern ment toward further relaxation of racist Laws. The sanctions have done nothing of the sort. On the con Crary they have contributed to Ever More repressive censorship of the press they have solidified he most determined White leaders and though they have imposed some economic damage on the country the sanctions also have fallen most harshly upon Black workers themselves. Now by endowing Tambo with a new legitimacy the administration has made bad matters worse. A few years ago the United states and strategic Ami communist South Africa enjoyed Friendly relations. Through moral suasion and constructive negotiations. South Africa steadily was eliminating the most noxious aspects of apartheid. Our influence today is greatly diminished and we witness the sad spectacle of George Shutlz shaking hands with Oliver Tambo. Truly it is written that he who lies Down with dogs will got up with fleas. . Efforts to Aid contras counterproductive the problem with president Rea Gan s policy in Nicaragua is not criminality though it now seems Clear at least some Laws were broken. The greater sin is stupidity. The fantasizing of two old men Ria in and then Cia director Willi Amisey turned the . Government in Side out in a quixotic Effort to overthrow the Sand Nisu regime. No credible Mili tary Man gave the policy the slightest Chance. The latest to testify is retired Gen Paul Gorman who formerly commanded . Forces in the Region. Being retired Gorman is Able to speak a bit More freely. You re not going to Knock off the sandinista with a conventional armed Force and that s what the contras Are be told the Senate armed services com Mittee. I would not put up a great Deal of Hope the contras will yet . Foreign policy has had no higher goal during the Reagan years than to support inc contras by whatever Means. Casey whose resignation for health reasons was announced this week cherished the ambition of reviving Cov Ert operations so As 10 recreate the glory Days he romanticized from his youth in the world War ii office of strategic services. What intrigued Reagan is less Clear but he became so enamoured that the cause took on messianic overtones with in Vokic norths of the White House staff who came actually to believe the hapless Contra troops Are Akin 1o the founding fathers. In truth Nicaragua represents not much of a threat As the other govern ments of Central America Well know. They have been trying to reach a negotiated Tellic mini. A process we repeatedly thwart. By negotiating Hmidi on Nicaragua s ability to Export violence we probably could find ways of weaning it from the communist connection. No one looks
