EDITORIALS
MR. KISSINGER'S SAFARI Africa is truly a dark continent for most Americans. Few of us would do well in specifying just which countries are included in sub-Saharart Africa, from which Secretary of...
...It was this general stance of colonialism and white supremacy that the Secretary had to turn around for the sake of a rational U.S...
...Reagan's supporters really favor continued rule of an overwhelmingly black population by a minuscule number of whites...
...Kissinger spelled out clear positions on Rhodesia and other critical questions...
...will work for an end to apartheid in that nation...
...Kissinger came out for in Africa would be accepted commonplaces of U.S...
...even acted in tacit collaboration with the racist South African regime...
...Reagan's position on the Panama Canal...
...During the course of his African trip Mr...
...Secretary Kissinger has had his fair share of criticism lately, but he deserves high marks for the positions he took on his African excursion...
...As for Rhodesia, Mr...
...Ford thousands of votes in the Texas and Georgia primaries...
...Yet it is essential that such a policy be arrived at, as recent events in Angola demonstrate all too well...
...After all, what he espoused in his talks with African statesmen were principles on which this country is supposedly based: majority rule, self-determination, interracial justice, human rights...
...The trip was belated, of course...
...economic aid, and he promised a strong appeal to Congress for the repeal of the Byrd amendment, which authorized importation of Rhodesian chrome in violation of the UN-voted program of sanctions...
...It is hard to conceive-yet this view, of course, is hardly more benighted than Mr...
...Kissinger had never before set foot in that area- although, given the nature of U.S...
...Kissinger told African leaders that the U S. is "wholly committed to help bring about a rapid, just and African solution" in that country...
...The question is: to what extent can his views be taken seriously as representing an official turnabout9 Various Senators have already expressed skepticism about Administration sincerity in this matter...
...Yet it was precisely a lack of clear dedication to such principles that led to a deformed U.S...
...The United States, he said, will exert its influence on South Africa to fix a timetable for self-determination in Namibia under United Nations supervision- something South Africa has been bitterly resisting-and the U.S...
...For whatever the pious protestations for the record, U.S...
...All in all, Mr...
...Most recently, Mr...
...In the case of Rhodesia, for example, Mr...
...We can only hope their skepticism is misplaced and that we are in fact about to see a U.S...
...African policy in practice favored white minority rule...
...support a la Angola in its efforts to suppress black aspirations...
...Kissinger's pledges of change were welcome words in African ears...
...foreign policy...
...he pledged unrelenting effort until a negotiated settlement is achieved...
...Kissinger cautioned the white regime in that country that it had no hope of getting U.S...
...African policy that makes sense...
...policy toward the region, this omission might have been just as well...
...To nations which suffer as a result of enforcing UN sanctions against Rhodesia he pledged U.S...
...How obviously right that position is, and how ironic that words like these by his Secretary of State are said to have later cost Mr...
...Kissinger's statements represent a new Administration stance on Africa, and one that is welcome, if long overdue...
...Kissinger was so anxious to combat what he saw as a Soviet triumph in Angola that the U.S...
...Few of us would do well in specifying just which countries are included in sub-Saharart Africa, from which Secretary of State Kissinger recently returned, and the lack of knowledge-and interest-which this betrays does not help in the formulation of a rational United States policy toward that region...
...policy toward the area in the future, and happily his trip did represent a large step in this direction...
...In one sense, it might be thought that what Mr...
...policy toward the region, and Mr...
...while going here, there and everywhere during his years in office, Mr...
...In this day and age, do Mr...
Vol. 103 • June 1976 • No. 12
