SANCTIONS WOULD SET THE STAGE FOR BLOODSHED, SHULTZ WARNS

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14ASHINGTON TIMES
Sanctions would stage
for bloodshed, Shultz warns
h By Rita McWilliams
THE NMSMINOTON TIMES
Secretary of State George Shultz
told a Senate panel yesterday that
punitive measures against South Af-
rica would heighten the govern-
ment's siege mentality and create an
atmosphere for a bloody revolution
"too terrible to contemplate."
Mr. Shultz, speaking before the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee, accused one disinvestment ad-
vocate, Sen. Joseph Biden, Delaware
Democrat, of calling for violence as
a solution to problems in South Af-
rica.
Although Mr. Shultz faced a bar-
rage of criticism from senators an-
gry over the administration policy,
the most heated exchange was with
Mr. Biden.
"I'm ashamed that a country put
out a policy like this," Mr. Biden said,
waving a copy of Mr. Shultz's testi-
mony. "I'm ashamed for the lack of
moral backbone to this policy."
"I resent that," fired back Mr.
Shultz, interrupting the senator. "I
resent that deeply because there is
tremendous moral backbone in that
policy on a bipartisan basis and has
been for many, many years'
"Hell, they [blacks] have tried
compromise for 20 years," Mr. Biden
said at another point. "They've tried
everything in their power. They've
begged. They've crawled. They are
being crushed:"
"You are totally misconstruing the
testimony that I gave," Mr. Shultz
said. "And I hate to hear a senator of
the United States calling for vio-
lence.
"Obviously the blacks are re-
pressed and change needs to be
made urgently, I agree with you
completely on that:' Mr. Shultz said.
"But I don't turn my back on the
whites. They are also people ... so it
isn't just a question of saying, let's
just throw all the whites out and be
for the blacks. What we want is a
society that they can all live in to-
gether."
Mr. Biden denied he was calling
for violence and said, "I speak for
the oppressed, whatever they hap-
pen to be:'
Mr. Shultz said disinvestment oc-
curing through the free market is
sending "a much more devastating"
message than sanctions would be-
cause Pretoria cannot blame outside
forces for the plunge in its currency
and loss of business.
"I want forcefully to underscore
the need for us to have maximum
flexibility to carry out our diplo-
macy," Mr. Shultz said. "This is not a
situation in which we can afford to be
locked in the straitjacket of rigid
legislation, no matter how carefully
drafted to anticipate events that may
or may not occur."
Mr. Shultz said sanctions would-
"assuage our indignation but aggra-
vate the currently deteriorating
situation" in South Africa. He re-
minded the committee that limited
sanctions already are in place and
that the United States has had a
South African arms embargo for the
past 20 years.
The Senate Republican leader-
ship, disappointed that President
Reagan offered nothing new in his
Tuesday speech on South Africa, is
working on an economic sanctions
package designed to show black
South Africans that the United
States is putting pressure on the
white minority government to share
power.
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee Chairman Richard Lugar
said he feared the blacks in South
Africa would turn to revolution if
they believe no other nations are
helping to force the government to
dismantle apartheid.
"I had hoped the president would
have used this occasion for an extra-
ordinary message to the world:' Mr.
Lugar said, noting Mr. Reagan "still
has the opportunity to take the high
road.... I still hope he'll do that"
Mr. Lugar has suggested sanc-
tions proposed by leaders of a Com-
monwealth panel that he said would
hurt white South Africans. They in-
clude ending landing rights for
South African airlines, making it
harder for South Africans to obtain
visas to travel to the United States
and a freeze of U.S. bank accounts of
South African citizens.
Mr. Shultz also said:
? The administration is prepared
to take coordinated action with U.S.
allies "to change the mix of our pres-
sures, positive and negative, to meet
the rapidly changing course of
events in South Africa:' He said he
hopes British Foreign Secretary Sir
Geoffrey Howe's mission to South
Africa for the 13-nation European
Community will produce results.
? He will meet with the leader of
the outlawed African National Con-
gress, Oliver Thmbo.
? Mr. Reagan will nominate a new
U.S. ambassador to South Africa.
? The House-passed dis-
investment bill is "a declaration of
economic war against the people of
southern Africa" that would "end
our capacity to have any positive in-
fluence on the struggle for justice
and human rights."
While defending Mr. Reagan's
anti-sanctions stand, Mr. Shultz was
conciliatory, saying the president is
waiting until early September be-
fore deciding whether to continue a
limited sanctions package that in-
cludes a ban on importing the gold
Krugerrand and on bank loans to the
Pretoria government.
Mr. Shultz repeated elements of
Mr. Reagan's speech, saying the
South African government should
set a timetable for ending apartheid,
immediately release all political
prisoners, remove the ban on opposi-
tion groups and end the state of
emergency.
But Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, Kan-
sas Republican and chairman of the
subcommittee on African affairs,
said she was "deeply disappointed"
Mr. Reagan didn't instill "a renewed
vigor" in U.S. policy toward South
Africa.
"I believe the time for quiet per-
suasion has passed," she said.
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Dole said he had hoped the
president's speech "would have been
a little better" but warned: "If we
end up with a piece of legislation
subject to extended and divisive
debate - and generating a pres-
idential veto - then we are not going
to send the kind of clear, strong mes-
sage that will do any good"
Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republi-
can, has said the United States
should have more contacts with
black labor leaders in South Africa
instead of seeking a dialogue with
members of the outlawed African
National Congress who use violent
tactics for change.
CIA Director William Casey has
denied a re rt in The New York
Imes that the United States has
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riven South Africa intelligence in-
formation on the African National
C,nnarpss. Mr. Shultz said.
In a letter to John Poindexter, the
president's national security affairs
adviser, 31 House conservatives
wrote: "We believe that any policy
that implicitly accepts the
ANGSAPC [South Africa Commu-
nist Party] alliance as a legitimate
representative of black interests
would be a moral outrage, a sharp
blow to the hope for a peaceful solu-
tion in South Africa, and contrary to
the best instincts of the American
people."
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