Editorials
actively searching for work. Over the course of a year, the heads of almost half of all Aid to Dependent Children families--most of them women--do in fact work. They have good reason. In Texas,...
...And in other areas aid to enable poor mothers to send their children to such child-care centers is scheduled to be kept only for welfare mothers, cut off for poor working mothers...
...That was the crucial factor, and the same threat would have been present were it the sex of one of the twins, rather than the potential intelligence, to which the parents objected, or were it even the fact of having twins at all, rather than a single child...
...More, it gives flesh to its analysis by including transcripts of "South Africans talking" (~i la Studs Terkel...
...Better one should die rather than two...
...Any review now must surely take account of the recent report of the Rockefeller-funded commission on U.S...
...A day or two after the issue containing that editorial went into the mail, Under Secretary of State James L. Buckley testified on the subject in the Senate...
...He was probably about ten inches long--somewhere between the width and the height of this page...
...Assistant Secretary of State Chester A. Crocker's recent testimony before the House Subcommittee on African Affairs, moreover, did little to al- leviate the fog...
...But in the absence of a stated policy toward the region, isn't concern, and even some suspicion, justified...
...For this rea- son, along with the geography of the region, analogies with Zimbabwe, the Shah's Iran, or Somoza's Nicaragua do not apply...
...Tests showed that he--though not his twin brother--was afflicted with the chromosome abnormality characteristic of Down's syndrome and therefore of below-normal intelligence...
...For that matter, how can they be considered conservative...
...One has to make a distinction between the nuclear option and nuclear weapon," he told the Senate panel...
...Mr...
...Because this one was made a front-page story, with only a hint of embarrasstnent at the moral implications...
...Univ...
...Given all this, the question follows: how can measures that eliminate training people to work and that penalize people who do work be considered enlightened...
...Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's government stands in firmly brutal control...
...WASHINGTON, June 24--Pakistan has given the Reagan administration "absolute assurances;' that it is neither developing nor planning td develop nuclear weapons, Under Secretary of State James L. Buckley said today...
...Two physicians have gained admiration for their prowess...
...But not, as it turned out, this child...
...As its own analysis of trends makes clear, South Africa's increasing international isolation since the first U.N...
...Finally, says the report, what we do or fail to do in South Africa will affect diplomatic and commercial relations with the rest of black Africa-- whose annual trade with us is now four times that of our trade with South Africa...
...His nervous system was developed...
...policy toward South Africa headed by Ford Foundation President Franklin A. Thomas, titled South Africa: Time Running Out...
...The physicians abstain from all moral judgment in their report...
...II I TIME RUNNING OUT Like the proverbial lady whose virtue is questioned, the Reagan administration reacted angrily to the charge of African leaders, meeting in Kenya in late June, that Washington was now in the process of forming an "unholy alliance" with South African racists...
...His features were tiny but perfect in their detail...
...Black leaders know this well...
...Why complain about one abortion when so many more, even later ones, occur daily...
...The commission recommended five policy objectives,, with appropriate actions to bolster them: .9 To demonstrate the fundamental and continuing opposi- tion of the U.S...
...In the New York area, plans are already being made to shut down over one hundred child-care centers...
...This was, we must understand, a life-saving operation, at least according to the new rules of pre-natal medicine...
...As in other areas, a definite public policy is "under review...
...With its multiracial rule, the economic survival of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe would be of great symbolic importance for its southern neighbor...
...With welfare payments in many other states comparably low, the incentive to work is always there--provided that the recip- ient is not drastically penalized for outside earnings...
...of California Press, $8.95,517 pp...
...Am- bassador Jean Fitzpatrick's ill-starred talks with a South Afri- can security chief whose "business" she professed not to know may not mean much and then again perhaps the African leaders are reading too much into the successful visit of Prime Minister Botha to Washington and the new derailments of efforts to remove Namibia from South African tutelage...
...The real horror here -- and the Thomas report avoids discussing it at length -- is that if ever there was a place where Marxist diatribes against religion-as-ideology applied, it is South Africa...
...How many of them will be forced to quit and seek welfare...
...this will mean hundreds of now employed mothers will have no place for their children while they are on the job...
...To take one example, need we supply them with oiPdrilling technology...
...strategic interests in the area...
...It was a male individual...
...They were only following orders...
...leverage is great there...
...In it we argued against giving President/Dictator Zia of that nation $3 billion primarily in military aid, citing as one of our reasons that the United States had failed to extract from Pakistan any pledge that it would give up its drive for a nuclear bomb and adding that officials of the Reagan administration seemed unperturbed by that fact...
...He responded to stimuli...
...The operation was treated as a triumph of medical technique, which in a way it was...
...This was no "glob of cells" that was, as the report in the New England Journal of Medicine put it, "exsanguinated...
...Further, the mother believed that having an abnormal twin would be an "unhealthy experience" for the normal one...
...The physicians had managed to kill this fetus without injuring the twin brother who shared their mother's womb...
...The Africans' accusation may contain more than a little of conference-provoked rhetoric...
...Is this a way to encourage work over wel- fare...
...they do not expect change to come quickly, and at this date many recog- nize compromises will have to be made...
...Why,was this twin killed...
...His brain and his heart had long since been active...
...9 To promote genuine political power-sharing by sys- tematically exerting influence on the South African govern- ment --for instance, by reducing diplomatic representation, or barfing certain categories of goods, services, and technol- ogy from export to South Africa...
...It took two tries to puncture the latter...
...foreign policy de- termined by the criteria of anti-Communism and commercial profit, in this case, cries to heaven for vengeance...
...Cut- backs in income supplements and other kinds of help will mean that many working parents would be just as well off if they stayed home and did not work at all--indeed, in some cases they would be positively better off if they stayed home because of the expenses connected with going to work...
...The law permits it...
...For black willingness to compromise, to limit demands, to ac- commodate, (the rule rather than the exception, until recently) has rarely been answered by any corresponding generosity of spirit on the part of the ruling National Party...
...Does that clear things up for you...
...com-panies, and by"withholding diplomatic recognition and eco- nomic aid from the independent homelands...
...9 To assist the economic development of other states in southern Africa, including the reduction of their economic dependence on South Africa...
...embargo of 1963 spurred a drive for economic and military self-sufficiency that has been highly successful...
...9 To reduce the impact of stoppage of key mineral imports from South Africa by stockpiling, diversifying sources of supply, and developing the transport systems of other mineralsupplying states in the region...
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...The report makes its relatively modest recommendations only after presenting a meticulous --and yes, highly readable --portrait of South African realities: the history of settlement, segregation, and apartheid, an analysis of trends among both whites and the subject populations, and a close study of U.S...
...TRIAGE IN THE WOMB A month ago, it was prominently reported that two physi- cians had inserted a long, hollow needle into the heart of a fetus of at least five-months age, drained it of half its blood, and killed it...
...Fu.rther, there should be a moratorium on the expansion of operations by U.S...
...MORE ON PAKISTAN In our July 3 issue we ran an editorial called "The Pakistan Bomb...
...Yes, one couple is no longer childless...
...A U.S...
...If the two physicians had not brought their exquisite skills to the task of killing only one fetus, the parents would have found other medical help in killing both fetuses...
...to apartheid by broadening the arms and nuclear embargo to cover foreign subsidiaries of U.S...
...With some notable exceptions, the Dutch Reformed theology of the dom- inant whites lodges racism deep in the souls of the pious...
...he was apparently conceived deliberately by a couple who wanted a child...
...Given the mounting militancy of blacks, coloreds and Indians since the Sharpeville (1960) and Soweto (1976) incidents, and the increasing solidarity of these groups, and given the continued intransigence of the Botha government, says the report, "the choice is not between 'slow peaceful change' and 'quick violent change' but between a slow, uneven, sporadically violent evolutionary process and a slow but much more violent descent into civil war...
...One baby boy is alive and well...
...He offered a slogan, "constructive engage- ment," to replace "confrontation" --with no specifics...
...He was not the product of an accident...
...I was assured by the ministers and by the President himself that it was not the intention of the Pakistan Government to develop nuclear weapons," he told a Senate Government Affairs subcommittee...
...Curbing Communist influence in the region (where anyone advocating change wins that label from dominant Afrikaaners), keeping open the Cape sea lanes through which much of our oil passes, and insuring the supply of strategically important chromium and ferrometals, are all vastly important...
...But under the Reagan budget it is precisely the working poor receiving assistance for their children who will be the hardest hit...
...The parents wanted it...
...The following verbatim excerpt is taken from the account of that testimony in the New York Times...
...For this very reason, with whatever leverage the U.S...
...try living on that some time...
...o To support organizations inside South Africa working for change, assisting the development of black leadership and promoting black welfare...
...Because those who say they defend the "right to choose" but personally "abhor" abortions, or are worried about what its widespread acceptance portends for our humanity, have greeting this case with a deafening silence...
...has, the strongest measures are called for...
...In Texas, for example, a family of four on welfare receives $140 a month...
...The Thomas commission is under no illusion that change Commonweal: 420 will come easily in South Africa, or that the U.S...
...companies, and those not there should stay out...
...but so also is the task of advancing political freedom and civil liberties for all blacks and coloreds in South Africa --and the commission recognizes that a failure to push for this objective would not only accelerate the trend to violence in South Africa, but could badly damage race relations here at home...
...Looking at the history Of the black struggle here, however, does not encourages...
...Buckley added that Pakistan, which has not signed a'1968 treaty to curb the spread of nuclear weapons technology, had made no promise not to seek a weapons-making or nuclea~ explosions such as one by India in 1974...
...And one tiny male, guilty of being conceived with an extra chromosome and the potential of subnormal intelligence, has been executed in cold blood...
...His mother, the doctors reported, "desperately wanted to have the normal child but could not face the burden of caring for an abnormal child for the rest of her life...
...Because we don't like the happy ending too many people are ready to see in this episode...
Vol. 108 • July 1981 • No. 14
