Show 'Bush Bravely Tells :I Americans What They Want to Hear -- - y i a to0 - e-- : - A lilt um ' — 1 r "Ri : ts Ity - 1 r- (la- - '2 Ari t:-- ' '1: Z - v4:44 I - i 73 ' ' -- -- - - -- - -- 4 --- ez4 : 4i :- 7 - ': - : -- -- —: - ei:11 At- : eawet- - - 4 - - 7t - - --: -- - 4 ev - - Including the one debvered by Pmident Bush There was of course a kernel of real news under all thkt fog in the presidents speech — the announcement that Bush was prepared to reduce United States troop levels in Central Europe to El5000 if the Soviet Union will do the same That announcement seemed dramatic enough to divert attention from the paucity of specifices and superfluIt) of misleading statements in the rest cif the speech But even that putatively bold proposal on conventional forte levels may have been partly a case of making a virtue of a eeeessity The bush administration is facing two distinct pressurts to bring snore - - V- ry:A —d lip lg i A 00-1"7- ' a ' - leo 166 1) o 164000Y'"10Voso V:19 if)k ' ' yLftt tip It State of the Union a In uort 4 ears bush kb VIZI teferadzt hy collapse of its adveraariet current spending levels for tte Strategic riefenst Initiative uteri the UmIted Suits supposedly cannot afford a algtificault ald program for POlEtti or a serious atukci on homelessness An our fiwn ctleb BtAbh it however enormously popular at the morkert v611 pprov recent 70 abole polls percent Arad that puLtical stature taittgb lt wit' reflected it the warmth of the reception he received from member' of Congress ac he delivered N speech thati y everi further Improve those poli ratings or tio the Democrats in the loyal oppositon have atly titn'AOtAb to make tu the electorate ad the moment In ink televised r oozier-offe- r respome Speaker Tom Foley With tu tpeeific and riered ully crisper arid 'briefer than Bush But nu &we voold accuse him of having offered a compelling vision of the future — perilep" au te2CptietlAt1Ot from any legiglative leaden So the State of the Union address seat no more thauj classic brAVI Tog But that lb protiaWy iAb mud kb Wkib necessary to meet tile pohtical requirements of the presIde11 today If there it airy temand out there for ti pontical visionary it Is: '1 apparent taIed eye ftA up ty Prttryrii nimt iirdy sin4 rinty through tht con tin utel Iminritt tupfort of tgyuth A! rift rot tht horntlaril birwroti thtry Itting Ill coull tz ett tul titie7) OfrAlmt ttkir4rt from Ifto 1Alit loo-t- tto tip Luf ' i9194 th It9L1 te9tgLito tfi0 I tf'! !tail rice) lit) etrve fltiori to no osh4 t tholeg tht fortdoetei L4 àth thot turtazo! t it tfrt fwgurl klbt it$ UM te4e1411 heAa:rg fortp lei omit T ft:41i Etti-!I- owht art ftI foryty Axotrvi è4 rt8817'Irotql kt potoOt rkh ts tha — It tu71g tta tor4dttrkt att:ha oppvtuoot wit row td lottl fty t4rx7of "'try unpopt167- tritfi Ckit hvithtr emr7 tbtrt m1- - otoo-- rt eAtheorrkey 411 rtioso)gxItt clrprit-it- t rktiOtr Trtaittei L4-11 ftki0itt ftrvn4rxf 7aA tdovl klitutT fw 4Jv r4 tI:Av!:b Ifr5tpt tumOy sNstti 4 Akt31e 4 1Qkt IkAt') Q Alt tit kre pmdetit ctiutttritl utotit Ito tieett ptle4iit of thobt regiont wert tiupptiutTC1y Ire L99 v)Ivklti fAvvtti Itorast11K rtorefure flif MIT:b wcrt tamp) eqattirei Itiert to stiv ILt I'to 'vI cj ItIou vetat ell Volt very coutltroke the liututiLude elat tith tkc) 1141- - mit: a lat '1$15fi4Vslit It Ilk ittvettitaf Latituuto upu'1lit14 Mut Ito kfri9:ex covertteLtlit wotild bet eip iit6t- la frt-e- Itoorti a it ')gf ?ender( totukiuttfts 'bj fk bawl of trotoortor a tht 'oho to tLM — —M ht Mkt ertl Vok01 )6 144 lit)torhikk ti 8 kier it inetven rtt 7 raui 411"1"fraik J lh thettrulott or 14 ft'l&tof Afro:4 'Mkt lotrtu:tt :$9 tot As gfJwylam41:4 uj Itit world rktttgtLizte Jt4 olitor eitkceitltd routtry to vith Girttfruptly ttitn ttkc tilt of good k lI 4t cgoit1-4- lic46rile4 tut Ito torolused thiZat t tot ho1&(tkZtt4 thkthough I tkik gAtit it t rmtrittrr r fty a! h em tue-mtr- tium feltItittor-utt 19"Iiletti4 feerixig if Itotorniug thkAtrt fultttkr1 - vv fittrrtilt kriUrk yots Thiry nvi krwl thoi tt tot Lipp ttky 4 1141bitituit mIleota etonitg Itilf Lett titK thour rIthorr thz In 101101 Ly ttk phi! 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MINtt in the South Attire Pohrt and Lii a member of what's called the 'death squads' here That seas the world time in the past tele II mosa had made the trot page A fs-- days earlier he had told South Mn can Preslett V W de Klerk it etppbody inels titt noloody Lad the herve Vi taq (Ad loud That the effort to et tahlith 1fl4tki th mtlepeodent horneLsA 10 44 a fs&ire - And BOM FOG is a word that troops home from Europe Some of our allies there most notably the West Germans are demanding suet reductions And st borne there is k rapidly growing call for cuts in defense epending that could not be achieved without such reductions Nonetheless the forus on the troop level question may Lave turned attenticm sway from such nitpickieg gileetiOLS at those about how -George Bush can clam to be the education president" In Lis speech to the ratiotal teleon a udienee the president cited 'knottier rd-high" credential — without budget proposal for education k6 notieg that the increase be bias reconamended would not even keep pare with inflation SAmrtv the president playing the great peacemaker was free to align himself with what tie called the remarkable events" in Eastern year without bemg obhgecl to explain vity he iretb Europe over the NO tiObt to recognize and respond to either the bcope or speed cA those changes in the world And be was able to claim the cheers of the Congress because tPanaTr4 1k free" while svoichrig tey mention of his willingness to play tall with a group of Chinese leaders every bit 116 rutli1efib nd barbaric as M an u el Noriega A State of the Union address it not however supposed to he an occasion for poring (aver the fine print and tripping Alp the president So Bubb With following a and bipartisan trkelitiOn when lie held out the prospect of such a grand future for America — an scti ools a hoonaing economy rapital America of jobs for all dreg-fre- e plan for those of more gait for the fat cats and k "family-savings- " a billion new trees planted modest incomet bland budget in I 9 t'very year 90 percent of high school studente winning their ellpiomas more space exploration and by the way an end to bigotry and bete But what WI& missing from the president 'E SpeCch — kb if has been from tut presidency bo far — Wab any indication that he understands the enormous opportunity that the United staeb has been presented : trt 4 it Al3 MO 1 StritCt COI( NeVet 'Itt t: applied quite justifiably r 11 l' Sunday l'fbru2 Chief Calls Transkei Attempt Flop as Separate Homeland -- 0 M - f t i "gik r itatekok tpt ‘Ikr ''1 - - is- - Lt '1!11"" i ) - 4444 7 II 'Imre ThP Salt 14ke Tribune r cril4 -t 4414 Germond and Jules Witcover Chicago Tribune Service WASHINGTON — About 30 years ago a reporter ill New York named Joe Shannon coined a word —BOMFOG — that has long bitice ' become a staple of the lexicon of American politics The acronym came from a phrase that the late Nelson Rockefeller then governor of New York iiiEil repeatzdly in almott every srx-ecThe brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God" ROM FOG 1 o as a word that seemed appropriate to much of the vague rhetoric politicians employ to obscure the fact they often don't Live much to By Jack 1'7 74 i kk'N4? Ai )0 la kt)AA rrutut ota rrtok1 trArril fa4k- ititrtit I ff'W4 '4 til4f pKopit ty floe?' 49 It to 4tt to t4 e4 kurolvt4 of tlAt112 out ptruplt 1tf!orfietlatf7tttatIVy 4fAt ThkY nuttu4 ttl et9r 4i ico) ugotatelt wJ ci11040) ftrt akey itz th ttt1 teel maetout De Klerk Must Act Quickly to Cement S Africa Changes by Desmond M Tutu New Perspectives Quarterly South Africa is standing on the threshold of a new era after the opening address of the state president F W tie Klerk to Parliament in Cape Town Apartheid the system of legalized racism introduced in the late 1940s which we have long condemned as being liti evil as NaZitiln or Stalinist communism has outlasted even the repressive regimes of Eastern Europe that date from the sante era Now de Klerk faces the challenge that coy fronted the leaders of Eastern Europe last year he must move quickly to dismantle apartheid completely and allow the entermice of government for the people by the ' ' : i !temple ! De Kierk's speech has not met all the demands that the disenfranchised have made of i ins government but we must give Inn) credit for those he has met Personally I was astounded at sonic of his t1 announcements and 1 am thrilled at the confirmation — at long last — that the South Al$ rican government is committed to releasing I Nelson Mandela the South African leader 1 who has become a legend in his lifetinie When I and two other church leaders Dr I Frank Chikane general secretary of the South African Council of Churches and Dr 4 Allan boesak president of the World Alliance I of Reformed Churches held discussions with de Klerk in Pretoria last October we called on I him to take the following immediate steps ) : — Lift the nationwide State of Lmergency He 11 lib not done this idthough he livyb he will "as titi011 ith circumstance justify IC —Lift restriction orderb imposed on political activists He appears to have gone b considerable way toward doing this — Release all people detained without trial Be has not met this demand but has set kl limit on the period of detention without trial — Lift restrictions on the activities of political and other organizations He has tone this most importantly by unbanuing the two d liberation movements the African 'National Congress (ANC) and the Pau Africauist Congress (PAC) — Release all political prisoners He has not done this although he says people jailed billOy because organizations they supported were banned will be released He has of course released key ANC and PAC leaders and we hope Mandela will be free within days or weeks — Grant reprieves for all those sentenced to death and declare moratorium on the imposition of the death penalty He has not niet this demand but has suspended the imposition of the death penalty pending changes IO the law that can be expected to reduce the number of death sentences handed dowu by the courts We also called on him to take various other steps within six months of that meeting — on ty one of which he has met the scrapping of the Separate Amenities Act which allows for longest-estabhslie- EJ the segregation of publiv facilities (V't said that If lie toolc till the steps we were urging we would re!onsider bur ad voes lias obviously riot met ey of sanetions j them but I nevertheless want to diseuss tbe sanctions issue further win pu1itid organizations other ehureli leaders and witb bishops of try c1iurh ) hetintuud Pd Tutu 16 the tinglleati ureitbishop of Lupe 7 inch bout') Afrifit und v thr to1s4 414011111(w Prize We might say thin de Elet has In hunic 1414 30 years ways put South Africtib most of the key apartheid laws are :still in place as they were in 19U but we revert tu the era when our prenuer liberation ruove ments were nut banned There is however one major etiange ha b implicit)y recognized that apartheid has tailed and that Ms government has nu legnimary 111110ILE the majority of the country's people This does not mean Our struggle is won Fur from it Although de Elerk talks about granting a universa ru1it1t4 lu ib Still talking about "minority rights" and "volksregte" ("group rights") which imply that the white minority will still have the power tu vetu ernnient decisions His announcements on Friday are a necessun' first step tri the right direction but giant leaps: are still needed tu get houth Africa on the road tu b peaceful nobracial dimuicracy To Allow Poi Pot's Return Is to Doom Cambodians Normand bpecial to Newsday What 11 the United Nations in 1950 had allowed littler and the Nazi Party to return to power on the condition that they not repeat 'past policies and practices'"? This is essontially what tin' UJN advo eatin u Canatodia Ten years after a Vietnamese invasion toppled the brutal Khmer Rouge regime the international community has politically rehabilitated these fanatical killers 21 the General Assembly apOn No proved iJ resolution on Cambodia that called tor -- a to the universally condemned policies and pracnce: of the recent v fnIiii: to explicitly acknowledge t he past antiodialt genocide and assign responsibility N has itt tilt' Khmer Itougt the opened (or i 'reformed Poi Pot to reclaim his By Roger non-retur- L bloody seat itoger hormand an editor Of tne liarvard Human Rights Journal conducted research recent's on the ThalGanthodian border i I ' gitimatt: governmeni-inexilLittle bin changed e stat partment officiak recently asserted that be Pans th huh St b government ni Carnbodi v we nave m Illegally Installed by chow Lilt to unronditionaliv baci 1nne latiotfr litulat hea-- of the Knmer Rou- alhanc lonanated h to year Vic-tna- 2 :olppor Sihanuli't th - ( -I I 11 1 ' AU prom lfitndela hoick the itey iv ISYntki Afrtee faetlor iwt) reitsum lie luta a better elattlee of kadthe the euturtry av ay f roll cit saster tam doea de Klerk rist our country lb the most polart4ed ui tile wurid it i factuented aild 'turn apart aud tot lust heyweeh Olaf and link I ve41 u! the consilututy wc fight caft uttiet 1t"t thk ahtlri‘y t rt!laye tt very wide rittitte Or petipik wc:nout eompro timing the must truportant parts of lot owl) creed Be it perhapa itti only hope we Uwe tur tAtuting tile thsparate eientettta of comuittted Ivrea! cleruttene'y Apart from being tr toad voltii and with people lb illti() Ui tuudi with :lit Citief butheiezz tilt' leader ci :lie "Inalba hat b trenteadoua kutilti" nioventent hold oh tile: inalgulation of lite young Atypic and ilt! lb about the only 'vermin who wutlid have tile prestige tu help tau): tItt violt1m11) plar:eb like' 'Natal Provittee fweoltd Matinela nab demonstrated a ea kaiteo that there il puelly tor lettuig kfrtea that plio:c tor them IP tilt' our people despite all they have tame ultiniately arc v torgtvunt people I ' reit v 04 ISPL c--7--'-z4- k) R I LI 4) Ffitc riolCoo': 011 wr t morLfr !st r fameoNpor os! frN 'Itt121:)7 qie 44 117r 14111:) litP:79?? 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