The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 9, 1984 Page: 3 of 119

                                
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Reagan-South Africa ties draw resentment
Crocker, who heads the State measures will only lead to an an unmitigated disaster” corn-
’s Africa bureau, erosion of American influence in parable to condoning the inter- ,
nal excesses of Nazi Germany or
Outgoing Sen. Paul Tsongas, the Soviet Union under Joseph
D-Mass., contends that U.S. Stalin.
to maintain their segregationist ministration has dealt with it.
system.    “I think my country needs to' ^PePar^men^
Has the United States con-    hang itself in shame,” he said. t also has no
tributed to “clear progress”
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
anti-apartheid protests at the
South African Embassy here
have been accompanied by a
strong undercurrent of resent-
ment over what the
demonstrators regard as the
cozyrelationship the Reagan ad-
ministration has jWith that coun-
try’s white supremacist leader-
noted that the South South Africa
In their private and public African government, in a depar-
toi^ard a non-racial society in statements, administration of- ture from Past policy, now says
South Africa over the past four ficials believe that the critics that a process of dialogue with    policy has yielded only token
have grossly misrepresented the black leaders should begin,
substance and intent of construe- The core }ssue is whether
black enfranchisement in South
Africa would be speeded if the
United States adopted a more
confrontational policy, as liberal
critics recommend, or whether
such an approach encourages
the Afrikaner establishment in
Pretoria to dig in its heels, as the
administration believes.
Tutu expressed those same
i an^that, in the long run, sentiments before a hearing of
will encourage Southi African the House Foreign Affairs sub-
blacks to turn against the United committee on Africa, at one ;
States and toward Marxism as point bringing members to their |
the Only alternative to the pre- feet,
sent system
results
years, as Assistant Secretary of
State Chester Crocker believes?
Or, is the United States, tive engagement,
because of its policies, “stained Contrary to popular percep-
with the filth that dominates the tion, the j officials say, the ad-
South African government,” as ministration has consistently
Rep. Parren Mitchell, D-Md., said it finds apartheid “abhor-
believes?    rent” and has repudiated South
Mitchell made the statment on Africa’s policy of “denationaliz-
Monday as he became another of ing” its black population by
the many congressmen arrested declaring them citizens of so-
outside the South African Em- called “homelands.”
bassy during two weeks of vir-
tually non-stop protests. To Mit- said that South Africa’s new con- States should engage in blacks.
To many critics, the policy chell and many other American stitution is “fundamentally flaw- economic warfare against South “Where is the anger?” he ask-
blacks,    there    is    ho    more    emo-    ed” because    it    denies political    Africa by restricting American    ed, “Constructive engagement
tional    foreign    policy issue    than    participation    to    the country’s 73    investment in dhe country and    has given a    bad name to
other measures. The ad-    democracy.    Constructive    |
The constitution does offer    ministration believes such    engagement is    an abomination,    \
limited enfranchisement of
South Africa’s “colored” and
Asian populations for the first
time. This, Crocker has said, is a
step forward that was partly the
result of the conscious U.S. ef-
ship
“You are either for or against
Equally forthright is South apartheid, and not by rhetoric,”
African Bishop Desmond Tutu, a Tutu said. “You are either in
recent Nobel Peace Prize winner favor of evil, or you are in favor
who, in a recent appearance in of good. You are either on the
New York, said the Reagan side of the oppressed or on the
policy indicated indifference to side of the oppressor.”
At issue is the administra-
tion’s policy of “constructive
engagement,” an effort U.S. of-
ficials say is aimed at creating a
favorable climate for in-
corporating South Africa’s
disenfranchised blacks into the
The critics say the United the plight of South Africa’s
The administration also has
country’s political system,
among other objectives.
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represents an American em-
brace of apartheid that has en-
couraged South Africa’s leaders apartheid and the way the ad- percent black majority
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