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Beirut vs. Tehran, sounds so familiar It was in January 1980 that I first knew that Ronald Reagan would never be elected president. It came to me as in a flash of light after I following him for a day as he campaigned in New Hampshire. He only had one speech and he gave it well, but at stop after stop he'd work his way around to the hostages in Iran and say: "There was a time when all a U.S. citizen had to do was put a little American flag in his lapel and he could walk through any revolution in the world and no one would harm a hair on his head. Because he was an American citizen. X propose we regain that respect." And I thought: "The man is either a complete phony or an idiot. Does he actually think that wacko terrorists in the Middle East give a damn about lapel pins?" At that moment I felt sure that the American people would take a close look at Ronald Reagan, decide that way down deep he was shallow and reject mm. So much for my political foresight. The American flag routine always got a good response from the audience and he was to embellish on the theme as President, saying things like: "We hear it said that we live in an era of limits femir powers. Well, let it also be understood, there are limits to our patience." Stirring. So now we have another hostage crisis, our television screens once again filled with the faces of distraught people as they wait for news of their loved ones, taken hostage by terrorists. They're even breaking out the yellow ribbons again. But the president this time is not weak, inept Jimmy Carter. It is Ronald Reagan, the hero of Grenada, Macho Man himself. What's the matter? Did he forget to pass out the flags to the passengers of Flight 847 or what? Where is the vengeance of his terrible, swift sword? I don't seem to hear the same brave tone in his voice that I heard during the debate with Jimmy Carter when he said that h? would make the United States so respected that "...no dictator would dare invade a U.S. em­ bassy and hold our people hostage." To be fair, no dictator or terroist has invaded a U.S. em- id. iney'\ planes, taken hostages seemingly at will, but tfiey haven't "invaded" an embassy. I suppose that we should feel thankful. And what does President Reagan do about all of this? Why, all that can be done. He tells us so periodically. I wonder what Candidate Reagan would say of President Reagan's record on fighting terrorism so far. Probably: "Who does not feel a growing sense of unease as our allies, facing repeated instances of an amateurish and confused administration, reluctantly conclude that America is un­ willing or unable to fulfill its obligation as leader of the free world? "Who does not feel rising alarm when the question in any discussion of foreign policy is not 'Should we do something?' but, 'Do we have the capacity to do anything?'" Unfair, of course, but that's what Candl accepting the Republican nomination in relevant today as it did then, doesn't it? To tell the truth, I have a good deal more sympathy for President Reagan thaBl did for Candidate Reagan. As president, Reagan has to deal on occasion with the harsh late Reagan said in 1980. Sounds as do it. He is beyond intimidation, beyond fear, beyond reaWI. And, confronted by such creatures, the president can do little more than the rest of us; seethe in frustration, anguish over the fate of our countrymen. I don't know what the answer is to this. Your heart cries out for something to be done, preferably something vengeful and violent. ' 'The Carter administration lives in a world of make-believe. Every day, drawing up a response to that day's problems, troubles, regardless of what happened yesterday and what'll happen tomorrow. "But you and I live in a real world, where disasters are overtaking our nation without any real response from Washington. "This is make-believe, self-deceit and, above all, tran­ sparent hypocrisy." Right on, Ron. I couldn't have said it better myself. You just had the administration wrong, is all. Donald Kaul (Tribune Media Services, Inc.) Pilot plops in the Pacific By United Press International MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- A small helicopter apparently stunting for beach-goers went out of control and plopped into the Pacific, sinking in about 10 feet of water. \ The pilot and passenger escaped injury and swam to shore, police said. The two, who were not identified by police, were turned over to Federal Aviation Administration investigators for questioning. BANQUETS ERW SAT; ^DINNER • BARS LOUNGE SUNDAY BRUNCI S DINNER ftGOLFCOURSE « DUMMY MAC Will «E AT OUR 1VTN NOiC Kl. IUNI14TH • MUD. CHAPEL HILL COUNTRY CLUB UtON. CHAPEL HILL AO . MCHENRY 305 0333 You've Corns a Long Way Baby Happy 18th Ksly Lova Mom, Dad WASHINGTON-TWO weeks ago I had coffee with a con­ servative friend of mine and a liberal editor of our acquain­ tance. It was a chance meeting on a a rainy afternoon in downtown Washington and the idle conversation turned to South Africa. "Why are you fellows always picketing the South African embassy and never the Soviet one?" my friend asked. "Do you really think South Africa is worse? They have blacks pouring into the country to get jobs. The Soviets liave TO shoot people to stop them from leaving." "It's not that we think South Africa is worse," the liberal explained. "But they're our aUy and we can have more effect on them." My friend was scornful. "Do you really mean to tell me these demonstrators get up in the morning andvsay, 'Let's see - we hate the Soviet Union more, but we have more influence over South Africa. So we'll pass on the Soviet Embassy ana picket the South African one instead * Come off it." I got another angle on South Africa last week when I listened to the stories of some South African victims of terrorism. One was a white woman who as a little girl had been had been maimed by a white terrorist; another was a black woman who saw members of her family - her husband and children - hacked and burned to death, with the terrorists actually eating some of her husband's flesh The first incident hap­ pened in 1964; the second in 1985 - March 23, to be exact. There are hundreds of such stories; to date, 17 terrorists have been captured, and (heir legal defense is being paid for by tnteiSouth African Council of Churches. The terrorist United Some tough decisions We have some tough decisions to make. More than 40 Americans have suffered through their first Week of confinement on an airplane in Beirut. It's not the first time Americans have been held hostagt, nor is it the first time this country has been stalemated in its response to these situations. Aside from taking President Reagan to task for his grandiose "swift and vengeful response" remarks during the 1980 presidential campaign, the question remains: How do we handle this situation? One's first instinctive, gut reaction is to strike back - hard. While it may feel good to us, will it do any good? These skulking fanatics, like terrorists everywhere, are not terribly impressed by nuclear threats, conventional bombing raids or commando assaults. These loonies don't bat an eyelash at blowing themselves to smithereens for the cause. One must also consider that innocent people are going to get killed with this sort of response. Americans were revolted by the killing of civilians by our own untry stink troops in Vietnam. We made a scapegoat of one Army lieutenant for just such a ven­ ture. By and large, we can't even condemn to death a mass murderer in our' own count without someone raising a over it. Imagine what public response would be to American troops missing the target and killing the innocent. Even countries with a lot of experience at swift military response, i.e. Israel and Ger­ many, miss on these operations, but they are confident enough to accept the loss. The other problem is that military response would seal the fate of the h< would have accept civilian losses if this path is chosen. The alternative is ap- isement. That term is just as ideous now as it was in the Democrat!* Front has called for the boycotting and banning of schools, with considerable success, and threatens to kill black town counctitften who cooperate with the Hie threats are se The terrorists have com­ munist support, which is un­ surprising for several reasons, one of which is that the terrorists are using the classic communist tactic of violence against local officials. The Viet Cong used the same technique against village leaders in South Vietnam, and El Salvador communists are using it currently. The communist role in all this doesn't fit into the story line of the Western media, however, which laugh to scorn all talk of communist conspiracy, perhaps on the theory that communists are upright, plain-dealing folk. Setting aside the question of how mucii actual power and in- live fluence the communists wield in the battle over apartheid, I would like to raise one question: Why don't American liberals demand, as the price of their moral support for assorted "liberation" movements, that those movements totally dissociate themselves from communism? For mark you this: The liberal Is as uneasy about acknowledging the literal ties between those movements and communism as he is eager to assert a metaphorical link between, say, the white South African government and Nazism. In order to justify his own tendencies, the. liberal has to minimize the actual menace of communism and exaggerate the menace of Nazism. Hels forever crypto-Nazis. South African regime as isomorphic with Nazism, when it is actually one of many caste systems. He can't without his Nazi villians. They give his life meaning and, he thinks, relevance. And that's why the liberal is out in froht of the South African Embassy today. 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