Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!yale!husc6!seismo!caip!pyrnj!mirror!gabriel!inmet!janw From: janw@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: South Africa terrorizes Southern Af Message-ID: <7802314@inmet> Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 08:11:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.7802314 Posted: Tue Sep 9 08:11:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Sep-86 03:09:40 EDT References: <1092@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> Lines: 44 Nf-ID: #R:mit-trillian.MIT.EDU:-109200:inmet:7802314:000:1266 Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!janw Sep 9 08:11:00 1986 [speter@mit-trillian.UUCP ] /* ----- "South Africa terrorizes Southern Af" ----- */ >The South African government openly dislikes the ANC. This is >well known. What is not so well known It is. >is that the South African government has been waging war against >the ANC by bombing ANC locations in Mozambique, Zambia, Zim- >babwe, Milawi and Tanzania. >Since the ANC is not a terrorist group It is. >(certainly not in terms of the PLO, the Red Brigade and other >avowed Israeli/US haters) US hating is neither here nor there. The IRA is terrorist, too. >such actions are at the very least highly questionable and most >probably acts of war. Matter of definition. Not all acts of war are wrong. >How can Pres. Reagan with this knowledge Knowledge of what isn't ? >continue to support this white supremist government? He doesn't. He never did. >Has the President forgotten the heated/riotous exchanges in >Montgomery, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia in the mid 1950's? South >African blacks are doing the same thing, why is it so hard for >our President to see this? Hard to see what isn't there. The Montgomery protesters never put a "necklace" on anyone. Nor were they armed, much less armed by the USSR. Jan Wasilewsky