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Sedalia Democrat Carl Kou Jill South Africa emulates Nazi Germany WASHINGTON The recent news from South Africa ought to leave no sensitive American with doubt that the spiritual heirs ot Adolf Hitler are on the loose in that tragic country. The oppressive ter regime, racist almost to the point of insanity, has now put the screws of tyranny on every group that speaks for South black majority of 18 million It has closed down the nation's two leading black newspapers, dragging the editor of one into imprisonment, without a charge, as though he were nothing more than a barking dog. It has banned the interracial organizations, including religious groups, that have dared to criticize the policies of Hitlerite racism It has banned a white editor and raided the homes and offices of students. Rowan lawyers, priests, scholars who were even suspected of opposing South Africa's polics of white supremacy forever Vorster has said, in so many words, to the '2(M) million black people ot Africa You blacks are going to have to accept these racial insults because you are too disunited, too weak, too dumb ever to po.se a military threat to us Nigeria, Kenya. Zambia, Zaire will not soon declare war on South But one day or one year they will be heard from They will encourage internal uprisings inside South akin to the Mau Mail revolt in Kenya, producing a time when no Afrikaaner will be able to trust his cook or yardboy.

Grisly urban terrorism is now inevitable in South Africa This will all be met by more oppression, of course, but that repression will produce more black retribution in the night, more bombs exploding in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and eventually, cross- tiorder guerrilla raids Vorster has said to Jimmy Carter, in so many words. "All your talk about human rights and majority rule bores us, angers us and is really irrelevant, because the is impotent You and the British can't impose your views on tiny Rhodesia, so why should we worry about your hollow threats against Vorster may be right, for the prospect IS that, the Carter administration (and the Congress, if any meaningful proposal ever gets that far) will become bogged down in philo.sophical arguments about "what will be effective, and what will he If Mr. stand on human rights is to retain any meaning anywhere on earth, he has got to take strong action to show revulsion to this latest Vorster outrage We ought to keep our ambassador out indefinitely, close down consulates, halt all Kxport-Import Bank guarantees of commercial loans to South Africa, ban further investments in South Africa, maintain a strict embargo on U.S. arms sales to South Africa and deny U.S. military, economic or other aid to any country that provides arms or atomic weapons technology to South Africa.

South Africa has gotten Mirage fighter planes and other arms from France, plus substantial arms from Italy and Israel. France and West Germany have been cooperating with South Africa on 'peaceful" nuclear research, and U.S. officials have evidence leading them to believe that both France and Israel are cooperating with South on the development of nuclear weapons. The U.S. ought to announce regularly what it knows about which countries are "playing footsie" with South Africa, including what kind of cooperation Vorster is getting from African countries like the Ivory Coast, Gabon, Malawi.

Only this kind of action will convince Vorster that the S. and its stand on human rights are not "irrelevant." But can President Carter get the Congress and the American people to go along with actions that mean There are a lot of some in Congress, who secretly approve of apartheid and who in their hearts are not troubled by anything South whites might do to retain it. These Americans won't say openly that they like apartheid an(i white minority dominance, but they will fill the air with amoral platitudes designed to ensure that the turns out to be just as impotent as Vorster thinks it is. South Africa has become a malignancy on the heart of all mankind. But in day- to-day terms, it has become a moral and political challenge to Jimmy Carter, How lie meets thumb-in-the- nose dare will reveal a lot afjout the makings of our President.

1977. Field Enterprises Inc, Comment THE SEDALIA DEMOCRAT Capital Published at Sedalia. Missouri, by The Sedalia Democrat Company K.U.LOVESR. President DONALD V. MILLER F.

I). KNEIBERT Publisher Wednesday. Oct, 26,1977 Editor Local rights panel: let it do its job There was such a consensus for a grand jury investigation at Monday council meeting, it seems a shame not to go along. But we are inclined to favor a continuation and a beefing up of the probe already underway by own Human Rights Commission (HRC). Meeting informally Monday night to consider various courses of action in the wake of Friday incident at the Anthony Buckner Apartments, the council voted 6-2 for the grand jury route.

This course had been asked by the local NA.ACP chapter, which is representing local blacks who feel they were victimized by the police. Councilman Vit, however, urged that the council wait and see what the HRC comes up with before plunging ahead and calling for a county grand jury investigation. This makes sense. It is a fundamental axiom of legal procedure that you start with the panel of The issue at hand strikes us as being well within the jurisdiction of the rights commission. The HRC.

however, will be only as effective as the City Council wants it to be. While it can take sworn testimony, it lacks subpoena power, and would have to go through the City Council to achieve this. (The original ordinance gave the HRC this power, but that was changed when city ordinances were codified in 1969.) As its chairman explained Monday night, the HRC is cur- rently investigating the incident at the Buckner apartments. and is attempting to get both stories. But now.

as Police Chief William Miller explained at the meeting, with the prosecuting attorney considering state charges against some of the apartment occupants, HRC access to individual policemen may prove difficult. Despite some of these problems. an investigation on the city level still has definite advantages over seeking a grand jury investigation. For one thing, there is no guarantee a grand jury would be convened. Then there is the question of the high cost involved.

important of all, it could be as long as three months before a grand jury could get dowTi to business. This is too long to wait. Based on information that has already come to light, some serious questions have been raised about the Friday night episode. These involve matters of police procedure, fundamental civil rights, and the area of relations between black community and law enforcement officials. If the city will accept the buck and enable the biracial Human Rights Commission to do its job, some answers might be found to the nagging questions that have been raised.

World "Not ANOTHER catalog'' Student deadbeats now work for HEW By JACK ANDERSON and LES WHITTEN WASHINGTON The government is cracking down on 680,000 Americans who have failed to pay back their student loans. Ironically, thousands of these deadbeats have used their government- financed education to land jobs with federal bureaucracies. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano is considering whether to hire debt collection agencies to recoup the more than S900 million in outstanding loan payments. This is the first concerted effort by the government to collect the money on these bad loans. Califano like the idea of hiring private debt collectors, but he thinks it is belter than creating another government bureaucracy to pursue the delinquents.

Within a few days, Califano will feed the name of the debtors, including those who work for Uncle Sam, into an HEW computer He will send them collection letters as the first step. Already, the HEW chief has discovered over 300 orkers in his own department who have defaulted on their student loans. For years, no one has bothered to pursue the 680,000 debt-skippers. The lending institutions failed to vigorously chase them down because the loans were guaranteed by the government. the bureaucrats were content to issue an occasional press release bemoaning the lack of repayment.

Footnote: HEW once launched a probe into fraudulent schools that were pocketing money from students who never went to class, but it petered out after a few token cases were prosecuted PROLIFER.ATION POLITICS; President Carter came intq the White House as an apostle of nuclear non-proliferation. He has startled some of his friends dn Capitol Hill, therefore, by maneuvering behind the scenes to water down legislation that would curtail the spread of nuclear arms. For years, the United States has sought to export its nuclear technology for peaceful purposes without, at the time, giving foreign lands the ingredients for a nuclear arsenal. At last, a formula was worked out earlier this year by Sens. John Glenn, I)-Ohio; Jacob Javits, R- N.Y Charles Percy.

R-IIL; and Abraham Ribicoff, with Rep Jonathan Bingham, They pieced together legislation that would set up guidelines, some immediately, others effective in 18 months, which would cut off nuclear exports to nations developing nuclear The bill would make it mandatory to halt nuclear shipments to any country that diverted nuclear material to weapons, conducted nuclear weapons tests, failed to provide adequate security for U.S.- supplied material or disregarded other (Safeguards. Carter called for many of these same measures during his presidential campaign The backers, therefore, expected to have his support. But they reckon with Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who persuaded the President to offer his own legislation, Schlesinger came out of the old Atomic Energy Commission where he developed into an advocate and apologist for nuclear energy. Parts of the measure he pushed upon the President, indeed, might well have been written by the nuclear industry, which stands to make billions from U.S. export of nuclear technology and materials.

The Schlesinger bill, which was quietly drafted by his staff, would substitute vague in place of mandatory controls. Both Schlesinger and the State Department dispatched lobbyists to Capitol Hill push the watered-down measure and to kill the stronger legislation. The lobbyists included such big guns as Joseph Nye, Louis Nosenzo and Gerard Smoth One referred contemptuously to the tough bill with its 18-month cut-off provision, as the "18-month After one grimly polite session with Senate staff members, the lobbyists also implied that the President might veto any legislation that went too far to suit him. The White House persuaders were joined by lobbyists from Westinghouse, General Hectric and the American Nuclear Energy Council, an industrial trade group Westinghouse alone fielded a full team of lobbyists on Capitol Hill. With the White House and nuclear industry working in tandem, members of the key committees began to buckle.

Sens. James McClure, R-Idaho; Pete Dominici, Cliff Hansen, R- and Strom Thurmond, quickly sided with the industry But Sens. Frank Church, D-ldaho, and Richard Stone, also joined the conservative Republicans to weaken the bill. Now the tattered bill, which passed the House in a stronger version, is on its way to the fuy Senate. Let not your heart envy sinners but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. Proverbs 23: 17,18. Ill Violation of rights by Israel By MARTHA ANGLE and ROBERT WALTERS W.ASHINGTON (NEA) Deportation, confiscation, racial discrimination, detention without trial these are ugly words for ugly practices. We hear a lot about such human rights violations these days in nations from South Africa to the Soviet Union. We condemn them, and we expect the U.S government to do likewise.

But we hear little and say less about the sometimes brutal deprivation of human rights taking place on the West Bank, Gaza, the Sinai in all the occupied territories now controlled by- Israel. On the whole, we prefer not to know. Israel is special. No other nation can match its claims on the emotional allegiance of the American people. No other nation even approaches its clout with the American government, especially the Congress.

That is why there was something extraordinary about a Senate subcommittee hearing this month on the plight of Arabs living on the West Bank and other occupied territories Israel has held for the past decade. Witnesses with names like Salim Tamari. Ibrahim Bakkak and Fawzi Asmar do not appear very often on Capitol Hill. Most members of Congress would prefer not to confront the kind of testimony such men can present. But Sen.

James Abourezk, D-S is different. Of Lebanese descent, he is the only member of Congress both openly critical of Israel and openly supportive of the Palestinian Arabs. And Abourezk is determined that his colleagues and his countrymen shall know what is happening with the establishment of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the area most often pinpointed as the logical site for a Palestinian homeland once an overall Middle East peace is established. For two days, witnesses told the Senate refugee subcomittee of which Abourezk is a member how the Israeli government has confiscated Arab lands in the occupied territories to build settlements where only Jews may live They testified that Arab intellectuals, university professors, engineers and other professionals have been subjected to midnight interrogations, house arrest, months of detention without trial and even deportation without the slightest exercise of due process. They charged that Arab workers are hired as "cheap to construct Jewish settlements at wages that average per cent less than those paid to Israelis.

They said Arabs are being driven from their homes and their lands by critical shortages of housing and employment, while Jewish settlers arrive in growing numbers. Those who leave, desperate to find a means to support their families, usually are not permitted to return, they claimed Their testimony was corroborated by an Israeli citizen, Dr. Israel Shahak, a 'law professor at Hebrew University, who denounced government violations of the rights of West Bank Arabs "The two most significant aspects of those violations," Shahak said, "appear to be the confiscation of land, carried out in a particularly cruel and unjust way, and the creation of a regime of inequality and racist It was disturbing testimony, unpleasant in the extreme for those who prefer to believe that Israel can do no wrong. But it was important. The Palestinian question, now more than ever, remains the key to a peace settlement in the Middle East.

Israeli colonization of the West Bank, and the distressing human and civil rights violations that have accompanied it, can only be viewed as an obstacle to peace, Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution was established by an Act of Congress in 1846 as a result of a bequest by British scholar-scientist James Smithson who requested the United States to found at Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among The Smithsonian has become a major center for basic scientific research and has the largest museum- gallery complex in the world. Sweater I.D. Fishermen from the Aran Islands, who ply their trade off coast in small boats, wear sweaters knitted by their women. Since each woman develops her own pattern of stitches, the sweaters serve as identification when the body of a man lost at sea washes ashore. 25 Sedalia citizens lined the streets Saturday afternoon to watch a Shrine parade occasioned by the second trip into this jurisdiction by nobles of the Ararat Shrine of Kansas City,.