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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JANUARY 4, 1985
As for the United States, radicals are putting the nation's economic live
lihood in jeopardy.
If the disinvestment process escalates to a total
economic withdrawal, the U.S. will be the one hurt primarily, not South Af
rica.
European, Japanese, as well as South African corporations will
gobble up the U.S. properties, "for ten cents on the dollar." This might
not significantly happen during the Reagan Administration, but rather after
four years from now. Senator Ted Kennedy is widely believed to want the
Democratic nomination in 1988 (he sacrificed Walter Mondale to the Reagan
grinder this time). Jesse Jackson has his eyes on the office of Secretary
of State. Open U.S. confrontation toward South Africa will replace con
structive engagement. Perhaps South Africa, by then, will have� choice
but to greatly strengthen its ties to continental Europe, which by then
might also be estranged from America.
As Mr. Botha said at the end of his "60 Minutes" interview: "I don't be
lieve that you have love or friendship between nations. I think you have
interests between nations. And I think the United States and the Republic
of South Africa have common interests. But the moment the interests be
tween states diminish, that moment they drive apart." The U.S. could end up
in a seriously isolated condition.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau