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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JANUARY 25, 1985
What Sen. Kennedy seems oblivious to is the inapplicability•••of
his liberal nostrums to most of the world we inherited, and the
disastrous consequences that must ensue when we try to implement
them. Surely, President Thieu and Lon Nol were not ideal allies.
But that was the hand history dealt us; and Kennedy and his
friends threw it away. Who is better off now that their•••cam
paign against these "repressive and corrupt" dictators finally
succeeded? •••
Do they ever ask themselves what ever became of the people of
Vietnam and Cambodia? When they read of Soviet warships berthing
and MiG-23s and Bear bombers being based at Cam Ranh Bay do they
ever ask themselves if, perhaps, they were mistaken?
How would Americans deal with an alien and underdeveloped civili
zation and culture inside their country that had more numerous
adherents than one's own, South Africans ask. Well, we know the
answer to that, don't we? There was no talk of "one man, one
vote," or "power sharing" or "proportional representation" when
the American minority ran into the Iroquois nation or the Sioux
confederation••••
God help the West if leadership of the United States ever passes
to men of such mindset.
Does Senator Kennedy have designs on the White House in 1988? An article in
the January 4 ARGUS newspaper of Cape Town asked that question in advance of
his controversial trip.
Does the senator from Massachusetts still desire the presidency
after one brother had been murdered while in office and another
slain while seeking it?••• Only Edward Moore Kennedy knows deep
down today whether he can, after more than 15 years, overcome
Chappaquiddick prejudices and win over the American electorate if
the winds of liberalism should indeed swirl again toward Washing
ton again before he is too old.
The blood of a remarkable dynasty flows through his veins and •••
he should, for better or worse, be regarded still as a prospec
tive president and leader of the free world.
It would appear that the race is indeed on for the White House in 1988. Mr.
Kennedy is pouncing on what he believes to be President Reagan's most vul
nerable foreign policy program, that of "constructive engagement" with
South Africa. This policy was quietly conducted with considerable success
during the first Reagan Administration. The Republicans are now hard put
to defend it for fear of being labelled racists.
Going into 1988 it would also appear that the Republican Party leadership
could be torn between moderates and conservatives. If the rather charisma
tic Kennedy could patch together his own badly split party, he might indeed
squeak by, as did his brother John in 1960, into the presidency.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau