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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, December William Ka thorn 29, 1975 A 15 U.S. Blundering in Angola? The Washington Post The United States, in its ai Communist idiocy, seems hell b "it on malung another of the color sal blunders that brought us Vietnam. The reference, WASHINGTON - obviously, is to Angola, and if we dont get bogged down there (and on the wrong side -- again) the thanks will be dye the Senate, which voted last week to limit CIA activity in Angola, 'The following blast is brought to you by the lovin' donations our loyal American cousins in the Irish Northern Aid Committee. May their names be blessed!' c. t, rather than administration, which would love to jump in with both feet. The idiocy is not in being anticommunist but in supposing that the rest of the world looks at communism and capitalism through our eyes, with our judgments of good and evil. And it is idiocy of a most painful sort that has the United States straining to make league, in black .Africa, with the most racist regime in creation, the l Sulzberger South Africa White Hope Has Black Skin "But there is no ethnic division among whites. The only problem is racial, not ethnic. If there were no racism in South Africa there would be a single state the embracing everybody. homeland of Kwazulu and "Racism started with slavery when himself of royal the Dutch first colonized the Hottentot Zulu blood. He region of the cape. It was formalized sees the destiny when the British took over. The Boer of all people in Republics proclaimed there was no this huge, rich racial equality in either church or state. state as a single "Now the government is trying to destiny, regarddivide the black people by tribal groups of less pigmentaand geographic barriers. This produces tion. bad reactions and many youngsters go Buthelezi. a abroad for Communist guerrilla trainlt man of ing. J blame the West. The West talks 47 with glasses and closely trimmed about democracy but does very little in beard, believes In nonviolent civil terms of action. disobedience as the way to achieve his Contemporary South Africa has a aims and insists that South Africans of about 25 million of whom population themselves must gain their liberation, less than 20 percent are white. Yet 87 without recourse to foreign friends. percent of the land is held by whites, Liberation is our business," be says. apart from all powers and privileges. This situation produces an obvious "Angola illustrates where friends involvement can sometimes land us. That dynamic of its own and only strong-artragic squabble has pushed things rule prevents explosion into change. backward. It puts decisions into the Moment of Truth hands of those who oppose African have "We reached the moment of fulfillment." Buthelezi warns, "and things truth," area The Kwazulu are polarized. But re- increasingly is one of several "homelands" created the economic member that interdepen-- ' by Pretoria which arc eventually dedenee of the peoples of all southern d states Africa has not been stined to become disentangled even like Botswana and Lesotho. Most homeby the independence of many black lands are not only poor and backward countries. s but also divided into separate, We arent demanding the withsegments. Kwazulu comprises 10 district areas. drawal of the white man. We simply wish to end fragmentation of South Divide and Rule' Africas peoples, the Balkanization of "The government is trying to divide our common homeland. ! dont believe and rule by splitting up the black people in violence, only in nonviolent preson an ethnic basis," says Buthelezi. sures. CiviJ disobedience has great possibilities here. South PRETORIA, South Africa Africa's great white hope has a black skin: Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, head of well-bui- m black-governe- socially, politically, economically. It is ironic that the Afrikaners who were themselves victims of colonial arrogance should be guilty of this same evil toward us. Buthelezi seeks to inject life into a Zulu cultural movement, lnkatha. to attain his goals. And in the end it is i not inevitable they will be reached by peaceful methods, then by violence. A 20 percent white minority cannot indefinitely subordinate a nonwhite majority in a predominantly colored world. pariah of the continent: the Union of to see a vital U.S. interest in the South Africa establishment of an Our officials deny that we and South government in Angola. Africa are allies in the civil war in Seems a Worthy Goal Angola, insisting that we and they just It of course, be nice to have would, happen to support the same antimineral-ric- h and all of black Angola communist factions. But the subtleties for that matter Africa, friendly to the of the connections between the United States and the South Africa must be as United States, and that seems a worthy of U.S. diplomacy. But the goal confusing to black Africa as the goal cannot be achieved by embracing the d alphabet:jumbles involved in the losers in another civil war fighting ( e Soviet backed MPLA and probable while making common cause with the U.S. South African-supporte- d South Mrica. (South Africa's own FNLA and UN1TA) are to us. involvement is motivated by the desire to survive as a white-rule- d Ne Victim of Detente? regime in southern Africa, not by antiIt is very likely true that Americas communism). policymakers did not intend to link us At some point, the United States wili up with South Africa but wanted only to prove to the world in general and to the have to understand that it is possible to American electorate in particular that have friendly relations with countries the United States was not being victim- that choose not to embrace capitalism ized by detente. Indeed, insisting on anticommunism as Dr. Willard R. Johnson, professor of the price of friendly relations with us may be asking too much. political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has offered this Particularly is this true in the case of analysis: Angola. In an article written for the New York Times (Dec. It), George M. "iSecretary of State Henry A.) Kissinger seems to want to demonstrate Uouscr, executive director of the that his commitment to detente does American Committee on Africa, pointed out the fallacy of making not mean that he is soft on the Soviet a sine qua non for Union, or that the United States is a procapitalism American friendship. to act unable anywhere. helpless giant, This is probably loss a response to An Accepted Norm serious threats to our real national a "In continent where there i$ little interests ui Angola than to threats to lie seems private accumulation of capital, he Kissingers prestige . w rote, "socialism of one sort or another willing to sacrifice the lives of Angois an accepted norm. Capitalism is a lans, and jeopardize our future relareality in most of Africa only through to in much of with order tions Africa, show him sell taking a hard lme against the interests of foreign corporations and enterprises. So organizing a society the Russians somewhere." along socialist lines is to be expected." Kissinger, naturally, would not acBut. he might also have pointed out. cept such an analysis, lie would profess being socialist doesn't necessarily put a struggling country in the Russian cump unless the United States insists on requiring that kind of choice. . without the involvement of "friends as in .Angola, and in time to assure the success of Buthelezi's peaceful formula. by itself, 'Copyright) The Way It Was Uere are briefs of uews in The Salt Lake Tribune 25, 50 and 100 years ago today: Doc. 29, 1875 ' Must Face Facts WASHINGTON It is asserted in Some day this must be acknowledged prominent circles that if as reported by a white population which hi other from London, there is a near advent of respects than race is notably Democra-- ' European intervention in Cuba, our tie, decent and courageous. It lias Government would inform such powers simply been so isolated in distance that as might combine for this purpose, that it became also isolated in time. their course would be highly offensive to the United States, as it would imply a After all. that great American demoof controlling the affairs in crat, Thomas Jefferson, whose long- design time mistreos was a quadroon slave, localities contiguous to this country. Dec. 29, 1925 wrote in 1820: The two races" (white and black) "equally tree, cannot live in The "rainy daisies" NEW YORK the same government. Nature, habit, who thirty years ago organized to opinion, have drawn indelible lines of shorten womens skirts, are now laughdistinction between them." ing at the efforts of Mrs. John B. It took generations, but the United Henderson. Washington's "grand old States in the end learned that on this woman." to lengiheu them again and to issue Jefferson was wholly wrong. stop the flapper from smoking cigarets. The "Daisies are members of the South Africa is fated to learn the same lesson. One may only hope it will do so Rainy Day club. Us president. Mrs. oi the world to w ar on short skirts and cigarets will eliminate them. Dec. 29, 1950 appeal to club and society Incidentally, the United States might have had a larger reservoir of Angolan goodwill to draw upon if we had given some small measure of support to the struggle to Angolans in thejr overthrow their Portuguese colonizers. WASHINGTON Stepping up its drive to gear the nation's economy to g defense needs, the government Thursday made it more difficult for Air. 'fans to get bank loans, took over Hie importation and distribution of natural rubber, and forbade the hoarding of 55 essential materials. Instead, we chose to maintain our alliance with Portugal. And now that the Portuguese are gone, we arc throwing in with the South Africans. Maybe thats what comes of devising foreign policy based only on what we are against. (Copyright' Louis Ralston, doubts that Mrs. Hen- derson's women rapidly-mountin- For Those Who Rid and id Not nonoon-tinguou- We The Family Lawyer What Decides Defamation Of Character? By Will Bernard American Bar Assn. received a letter from his accusing him of cheating on his income tax return. Suspicious that the letter had been tampered with, be put some questions to his butler. Finally the butler acknowledged that he had opened the letter and read the contents. Algernon not only fired the butler 'out also sued his former spouse fe; tefa naAlgernon e, tion of character. Her accusation about my income tax was libelous," he told the court. "Since the butler read it, obviously my good name has been latsmirched. Rules Against Claim But the court decided Algernon had no claim, since the letter writer could no) have foreseen that it would bo road by another person. It is no part of a butler's duty, said the court, "to open letters addressed to his employer)." In the eyes of the law, defamation occurs only when the false accusation is "made public" by coming to the attention of a third party. Ordinarily, sending a letter in a sealed envelope is not considered making it public. Still, there may be circumstances that should make the writer foresee that his letter wont remain private, hi another case a merchant sent a letter to a boy threatening to prosecute him tor burglary. Terrified (and innocent), he showed it to his parents. Duly Held Liable In this situation the merchant was duly hold liable for defamation. The court said he should have expected that a bov so young would take the letter to an older person tor advice. What about defamation written on a postcard? A few courts have called this sufficiently public to create liability. They see the strong possibility that at some point before the card reaches the addressee, it will be read by somebody else. step up pressures. Economic action is the only tool. South African society is particularly vulnerable because it needs to increase production but doesnt have enough skilled white workers. "Some people talk of federation of white and black states. You can have that as an interim measure but hi the end there must be one state with equal citizens. We are not racist. We need the whites. Second-Clas- s Living "But our own roads remain untarred. Our streets have no lamps, our houses no electricity. Our classrooms are overcrowded, our teachers underpaid. Our black community is boycotted Dr. T. R. Van Dellm Receive Gilts from Heartburn? No, Hernia "For several months I have been bothered by indigestion, especially at night. Also, I get terrible pains H 1 be down after eat- - ing. My doctor said 1 have a hiatus hernia, but he didnt tell me what this means. So I am writing you for information. "Just where is the hiatus located ? lieruia What are sonic of the symptoms? My doctor has told me to take antacids, but are there any other medications that might help my symptoms? Does the condition seem to be more prevalent in women? Can it be treated surgically? I am in my 70s and dont want to undergo an operation unless I have to or am assured of a cure. Is this condition ever related to cancer?" Hiatus hernia gets its iiame from its location. The hiatus is the opening in the diaphragm through which the esophagus (Gullet) joins the top of the stomach. A hernia occurs when the opening is relaxed and a part of the stomach moves upward, above the diaphragm. Heartburn and indigestion, the most common symptoms, are most noticeable after eating a heavy meal, especially if you lie dow n or bend over. It is ad isable to avoid these positions. doom nr to fashion Monday EmiromiientalLt Energy Crunch Helps to Keep Landmarks By Ernest II. Linford situaThe sagging economic-energ- y tion lias combined with a grow ing sense ot history to save many fine, old buildings the throughout U.S. And in several metropolitan areas the costly and wasteful rush to the suburbs has been slowed or reversed as historic landmarks are restored and put to beneficial use. Examples of rational "recycling" that contribute to urban landscape reclamation are the handsome Greek Revival City Hall at Baltimore and the Insurance Workers International Union headquarters building in downtown Washington, D.C. The city hall was rehabilitated for 46 percent of the cost of replacing it with a structure. An old typical concrete-stee- l town house, occupied by the union since 1958, was sandblasted and restored to its original appearance. The cost: less than $30,000, probably a 20th of what it would have cost to raze and replace the building. In New York it has been found cheaper to speud $1,200 boarding up brownstone houses until funds can be obtained for restoring them than to pay $3,000 to a wrecking firm to turn them into heaps of rubble, lost forever. Cheaper to Restore inflation has robbed architects and urbanists (who have more fun building new buildings than maintaining, re run-dow- n There are some who lcarthat manual calculators will cause children to be even worse at arithmetic than they already arc. Just as the match caused many of us to forget how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together. must . pairing and restoring old ones) of their most powerful argument." Woll You Eckardt wrote recent y in the Washington Post. "It is no longer cheaper to build the new than to restore the old." Pride in a great heritage probably played a greater part in the decision last March to save, for the present at LDS least, the handsome tabernacle at Bountiful, previously scheduled to be toru down. The Utah Heritage Foundation sparked a groundswell of opposition to razing the adobe edifice, oldest continually used Mormon meetinghouse in Utah. Also encouraging is the knowledge that AJlen Roberts, Utah state architectural historian, and Paul Anderson, another young architect, have made a survey under an LDS church grant ol the churchs historical buildings. They have drawn up a list of 20 structures, including the beautiful St. George Tabernacle, other tabernacles, temples and meceting houses in Utah, Idaho and Canada, which they consider "untouchable." Points M ay When Zions First National Bank moved into the stately old Abram Hatch home in Heber City last AprU another important step was taken in preserving memorials to Utah's heritage. Bitter disappointment over the LDS churchs decision to go ahead wih the destruction of the florid Gothic tabernacle at Coalville in 1971 lent impetus to the formation of groups dedicated to saving historic church buildings. The handsome structure was replaced with a modern one which from the freeway looks identical to hundreds of other contemporary Mormon stakchouses. Although bankers continue to draw-ren circles around neighborhoods. depriving owners of loans for BanJk run-dow- repair of old houses, urban reclamation is expanding through the efforts ol historic restoration societies and borhood associations. neigh- Recycling Saves logical inexpensive way to cope the energy shortage is to "recycle" sound old buildings, the National Trust for Historic preservation emphasizes. It takes energy to demolish a sturdy old building and to erect a new one, the organization points out. And massive amounts ol energy are consumed keeping sealed glass boxes lighted, heated and cooled. Natural resources are saved by using existing wood, brick, steel and glass. Mark Lalus, winner of the Historic Preservation Journalism Award, reports in the National Trust's magazine that older structures were designed to use natural energy. Newer structures with their sealed windows or windowless rooms, beating units and air conditioners, use excessive amounts of electricity. A free and readily available light source, the sun, is too often ignored. The principle of natural air How and convection currents for ventilation is also often disregarded. Whatever the temperature outside, many buildings, without access to the open air, need permanent dally heating or air conditioning. Older buildings, however, are often natural energy savers roofs to conserve heat with attie-lik- e and large movable windows and central open light shafts around which the buildings are constructed, for ventilaA with tion. A few cities, notably Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, San Francisco. 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