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ministered by the UN. ;:
South Africa indicated 1
last December that it
.would honor the resolu-
By Raymond H. Boone While Soviet-supported'
NfiPA Foreign Correspondent ,' Angola Struggles to hold
, MOSCOW In a rare , on to power as Western-
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ranking Russian official conduct attacks out of tion, but a month later
has told the NNPA that h South y Africa, SWAPO- ; reneged on its promise in
r-tnc soviet union wiucon- (South West Africa Peo
tinue to provide military,4 pie's Organization) fights
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ireeaom fighters in
soulhern Africa. . .
u "Our principle is td&ve
,.v. assistance 'to those who
w fight against imperialistic
v: aggression and to those
0 who fight for ; their
f; freedom and in
' dependence," said Y.N.
i( Cherniakov, chief of the
press department of the
USSR Ministry of Foreign
Affairs who almost never
grants personal inter
views. Throughout t the
45rminute exclusive inter
view in his office on June
I, Cherniakov sent a clear
message that the Soviet
Union, lives by its Com
. munist principles and thati
black freedom fighters
K could continue to count
on Soviet support in the
war for the freedom of all
.. of Africa.
"We declared our posi
tion to support Angola
.'with any help," said Cher
., niakov, a tall, erect, no'
r nonsense man who ap-'
pears tobe in hisearly 70's .
and speaks in a quiet but
. serious voice. "So we will
help them. Our assistance
is up to Angola."
In addition to reaffirm
ving the Soviet Union's,
pledge of continuous
military aid to black-ruled
Angola which remains
under attack by Western
supported rebels operating
out of minority white
ruled South Africa, Cher
niakov said the Soviet
Union would continue to
give the same kind of
assistance to black
freetfbrjF fighters seeking
to win" independence in
South Africa, in addition
to freedom fighters in
Namibia jhey. vast
mineral-rich f fewitory
which is illegally Controll
ed by South Africa.
.'. Cherniakov's remarks
. refuted speculation in the
American press that the
Soviet Union has second
; thoughts about itsinvotvev
'Namibia and the ANC
: (African National Con-'
gress) battles to unshackle
black " people in South
Africa. -SWAPO and
ANC receive military
i assistance from Jhe Soviet
Union and other Eastern
bloc supporters, 'with the
blessings of the Organiza
tion of African Unity.
Cherianokov came
down hard on the West
for failing to support a
1978 United Nations
Security Council resolu
tion which called for the
withdrawal of South
African military troops
from Namibia and na
tional elections ad-.
typical fashion; Since
then, the j Reagan Ad
ministration has embraced .
racist South Africa, refus
ing to support economic
sanctions against the il
legal landlords and offer
ing a controversial in
dependence plan that
favors South Africa.
"We condemn the
policy of the U.S. and
other Western countries
toward Namibia and
that is our constant line,"
said Cherniakov, remin
ding that the Soviet Union
supports all UN resolu
tions on freedom for
Namibia.
South Africa look con
trol of Namibia in 1920
through a League of Na
tions mandate that was,
formally revoked in. 1966;
by the UN. Nevertheless,
South Africa, often with
the sunrjort of the United
States and other- Western
nations, continued its har-:.
hly anti-black rule. i
The American pamper- '
ing of South Africa, iri;
eluding the latest by Presi
dent Reagan, has drawn
fire not only from the
Soviet Union but also
black Africa which sees
America as continuing its',
long-standing ' policy of
ibeing buddy-buddy - with h
colonial rulers.
South. African Prime'
Minister Pieter W. Botha
has told President Reagan
and other Western leaders
that they should be more
concerned about Soviet
and Cuban presence in
Africa than about black'
liberation. Reagan, ignor
ing the lessons of history,
is apparently following the
advice of the white racist.
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From Non-intervention To Sanctions
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he is being held on at this time." UPI Photo
By Laura Parks j
A shameful and dismal:
idea is being pushed
around the corridors of
power in London, Bonn,
Paris and Washington. i
The idea is that sanctions
are an ineffective weapon
in general and particularly ;
ineffective against South
Africa, if and when they!
should be used. Chief ar
chitect of this philosophy1
is Britain's Prime Minister
Maragret Thatcher who
has dutifully enlisted her
NATO allies in the
crusdade against sanc
tions. To date the allies have
deffered to Britain's
"Iron Lady." This is
largely due to Mrs. That
cher's self-proclaimed ex
pertise on sanctions which
he claims to have
mastered during Zim
babwe's struggle for in
dependence. Her foreign
allies follow her, not out
of any great feeling for her
anti-sanction nhilosonhv.
but rather out of respect
lor lheir
nun simple in Sirica These interests are best
because of its heavy costs, summarized bv savins that
World War II European
establishment was far
more concerned with the
preservation of the old
order in Europe even if
this meant giving Nazi
Germany and Fascist Italy
a free hand in Republican
Spain under the guise of
the policy of Non
intervention. This policy
only applied to the
Western Democracies,
then deeply committed to
appeasing Fascism and
s,een as a vital' bulwark
against rising popular op
position to the old order.
' The Fascist rulers
flouted Non-intervention
and won the war for
Spanish dictator Franco.
Appeasing Fascism in
Europe was followed by
appeasing them in
Ethiopia.
The policy of Collective
Security was tried in the
belief, that the world had
come to understand the
menace of Fascism and
the danger of a world war.
But here' again the ap
peasers of Fascism refused
to join the League's last
major attempt at stemm
ing the tide of rampant
German and Italian
militarism.
After World War II the
old order, which every
conservative politician
tried to save, was in
capable of stemming the
tide of Third World na
tional liberation
movements. Where they
tried to interfere militarily
they were defeated; where
they thought that
established colonialism
was strong enough to sur
v vive on its own they gave
arms and other forms of
aid.
And when world clamor '
cried out for the end of
rascism and colonialism
they withdrew into the
diplomatic-political
underbrush and stalled for
time in the hope that the
liberation forces would
bleed themselves to a com
promise solution.
Now, in the final phase
of the liberation
movements, the anti
colonial forces are deman
; ding rigid, uncompromis-
of
The Communist ; super
power reportedly pays the
bills for keeping some
3,800 Soviet, and Eastern
European military ad
visers, in addition to 8,000
civilian technicians in a
number of African coun
tries and covers the costs
of 37,000 Cuban troops in
Angola and Ethiopia.
further,- Cherniakov's
pro-black ' liberation
remarks were consistent
.with those delivered by
Soviet President Leonid
Brezhnev in connection
vyith ihe celebration of
African Liberation Day in
Moscow late last month.
Brezhnev said "the USSR
undcviatingly supports the
African peoples' struggle
for their national liberation."-
He further criticiz
ed "the West for
"shamelessly" equating
the African liberation
movement with terrorism
while the West opcrdy sup
puns me icrrorfvm
South Alrica and en
courages its "direct ag
gression against neighbor
ing sovereign African
countries."
Cherniakov said Soviet
presence in Africa was
necessary to counter white
. racism and imperialistic
exploitation in Alrica.
Otherwise, he suggested,
the black liberation move
ment would have little
chance for success against
Western aggression led by
South Africa and the
'United States with their
superior weaponry.
Cnerniakov began t lie
interview speaking in Rus
sian, but on several occa
sions interrupted his inter
preter to speak English in
an obvious effort to make
certain that he was ac
curately understood
andor to accentuate a
point.
He became visibly an
noyed when he was ques
tioned about charges of
Soviet . terrorism that have
appeared in the American
press. "First of all," he
responded, "this is
nonsense Not only
nonsense but it is meant to ,
coyer the aggression of the
West and . the United
States against the libera
tion movement in
Africa.''
a white minority ruled
South Africa, strong in.
arms, rich in resources
and strategically located
on the southern tip of
Africa is a known and
preferred political entity
on whose allegiance the
NATO Brotherhood
depends and with whom it
feels comfortable.
Entirely overlooked is
the very real possiblity
that a free and black ma
jority ruled South Africa
will, in the long run, prove
to be a far more stable na
tion, a free trading partner
with the rest of the world,
a vital member of the
Third World movement,
dedicated to peace and the
prosperity of the African
continent.
But Thatchcrism will
have none of this. In t his
respect she is following the
well trodden path of her
British and European
predecessors from the
time of the 1936 Spanish
Civil War. the Italian
Ethiopian War, the
League of Nations at
tempt at Collective Securi
ty against Fascism all the
way down to British
Harold Wilson's half
hearted sanctions against
the Ian Smith regime in
Rhodesia y
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last bastions of the old
order in Africa.
Third World leaders
dismiss Mrs. Thatcher's
claims about the
uselessness of sanctions as
another example of the
old order trying to hold on
a little while longer.
Moreover, Third World
leaders are confident that
the pressure of world
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sanctions against . South
Africa.
They point out that the
British Lion of today is
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the old establishment is
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probably beyond effective
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