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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1985 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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Where Does Buchanan Stand?
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An ongoing, though discreet effort is underway in
Washington where former colleagues of NASA scientist
Arthur Rudolph are working to convince the right
people in the right place to allow his return to the U.S.
Rudolph was forced to leave the country last year to
avoid prosecution for his participation in brutalizing
slave laborers at a Nazi rocket factory in World War II.
Rudolph’s past activities are noteworthy. He was
head of the production of V-2 rockets in a factory
attached to the Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp
where a third to one half of the 60,000 prisoners died
because of inhumane working conditions. But Rudolph
later came to the U.S. as part of a group of rocket
specialists and eventually headed the Saturn V rocket
program that produced the rocket which brought the
Apollo astronauts to the moon.
Regardless of his past work for NASA, where he
received its highest awards, the efforts by his
colleagues are indeed troubling, though it becomes
especially disturbing in view of the rehabilitation
efforts and the channels through which his colleagues
have made their voices heard. One channel is said to be
the White House Communications Office, where some
suggest Rudolph supporters may have an ally.
That office is run by Patrick Buchanan, an
increasingly powerful figure in the Reagan White
House and past opponent of the Justice Depart-
ment’s Office of Special Investigations, the unit
responsible with forcing Rudolph to depart the U.S.
Prior to joining the White House, Buchanan, as a
syndicated columnist, wrote that he found no
“singularity” about the Holocaust that would justify
maintaining the OSI unit.
Buchanan also denounced the OSI, before he joined
the Reagan White House, for accepting Soviet-sup-
plied evidence in proceedings against accused Nazi war
criminals. He told Allan Ryan, a former OSI director, in
a 1982 television interview that “you’ve got a great
atrocity that occured 35-45 years ago, okay? Why
continue to invest . .. put millions of dollars into
investigating that? I mean, why keep a special office to
investigate Nazi war crimes?. . .Why not abolish your
office?”
Buchanan’s hostility toward the OSI and his view that
it should be abolished has never been repudiated nor
has he in any way since joining the White House staff
enunciated his support for the President’s policy of
supporting the work of the OSI. In view of the ongoing
efforts to rehabilitate Rudolph, an effort underway by
his former German colleagues here in the United
States, the White House official ought to firmly
announce where he stands on the critical issue of
support of the OSI.___
Terrorism And The
American Revolution
BY DR. MARC H.
TANENBAUM
Last July 4th, I flagged
down a taxicab whose driver
happened to be an Iranian.
We soon got to talking about
the Shiite hijacking of
American hostages, and
what a relief it is that they
were returned safely, except
unfortunately, for Navy man
Robert Stethem.
The talk then connected
with the war between Iran
and Iraq. I said it was
horrible that some 140,000
people have been killed on
both sides during the past
four ye^rs, and nobody
seems to care, including the
media. The Iranian cab
driver then said, somewhat
stoically, “In Iran and in
other places there, people
are like pigeons.”
That statement depreciat-
ing the value of human life
was shocking. It was es-
pecially upsetting to hear it
on July 4th, our nation’s
Independence Day.
I suddenly recalled a com-
ment by a French author,
Father Bruchberger, in his
book, Image of America,
(Viking Books). The Ameri-
can Revolution, he wrote, is
best personified by Thomas
Jefferson. His ideal, high-
ly revolutionary indeed, was
entirely to incline govern-
ment, institutions, and laws
toward respect for men. In
contrast to the French and
Russian revolutions, he
wrote, the American revolu-
tion put man first, ahead of
the political system he lives
under.
That revolutionary politi-
cal idea was the engine
behind our nation’s deter-
mined effort to save the
lives of 39 innocent civilians,
hijacked by the fanatic
Shiite Muslims. That hu-
manistic idea must now
motivate us to mobilize
effectively during the com-
ing months to combat
further acts of terrorism
which violate every princi-
ple that we honor on our
July 4th Independence Day
observances.
Near East Report:
By M. J. Rosenberg
Understanding Terrorists
■ ■ ary McGrory. the syndicated colum-
IVI nist. writes that we now know what
Shi’ite terrorists can "do to us. They kid-
napped and murdered our people. They
have blown up our embassy. In 1980, the
Ayatollah Khomeini did as much as any-
body to determine the outcome of our Pres-
idential election and the course of history. ’’
She asks if it is now appropriate to “find out
what it is all about."
Her conclusion is far from flattering to
Shi'ite Moslems and will provide little
comfort to those apologists who insist that
if we could only "understand these people”
terrorism would cease.
McGrory points out that Shi’ites have
been oppressed through the ages. “They
constitute barely a tenth of all Moslems,
have been hounded and persecuted for cen-
turies. According to a Polish writer named
Ryszard Kapucinski, ‘They live in memory
of the centuries of pogroms against them,
and so they close themselves off in ghettos,
use signals only they understand, and de-
vise conspiratorial forms of behavior.’ "
McGrory notes that “Ayatollah Kho-
meini is their leader. His revolution in Iran,
which to Western eyes brought in a dark
time of tyranny, backwardness, and isola-
tion. is a shining triumph to the Shi'ites,
who hope to repeat it in Lebanon."
McGrory goes on to quote some of the
Shi'ite extremists' diatribes against the
United States and Israel, and then she
stops. "Understanding" may not be the an-
swer. As she puts it: “There is of course a
limit to understanding terrorists. You can
read the history of Ireland and in a single
chapter about Oliver Cromwell discover
why hatred and bitterness have endured for
so many centuries. But after a while, the
why doesn't matter" (emphasis added).
She concludes that "we should ... in-
form ourselves somewhat about the inflam-
ing certainties of Islam, which considers
murder in the name of God a virtuous act
and kidnapping of representatives of the
‘Great Satan’ an admirable occupation.”
American blacks, and the Irish are just
three of the hundreds of groups which have
known as much oppression—and in some
cases, much more—than Shi’ite Moslems.
Nevertheless, they do not use their history
as a justification for the murder and ter-
rorizing of innocents. The Shi'ites have
every right to a major share in the govern-
ing of Lebanon. But no one has the right to
seek political rights through the exercise of
terrorism.
It has been noted on many occasions that
the Soviet Union seems almost immune to
the plague of terrorism. Despite the pres-
ence of so many restless and angry minor-
ities within its borders, there are few re-
ports that any have attempted to gain their
rights through violence. Of course, terror is
less easily practiced in police states. Iraq
and Syria seem fairly secure in much the
way that Nazi Germany was basically free
of crimes like rape, thievery, and murder
(except of the officially-sanctioned kind).
Invisible Dissidents
There is no excuse for terrorist attacks
although it can easily be argued that resort-
ing to terrorism does bring attention to the
plight of those who consider themselves
oppressed. Soviet Jews are peaceful dissi-
dents and suffer from media indifference
because of it. In the June issue of Washing-
ton Journalism Review, three Moscow-
based correspondents discuss how they
cover the Soviet Union. One, Nick
Daniloff of U.S. News and World Report.
says that he just ignores Soviet dissidents.
“I don’t consort with them. The magazine
considers them a passing phenomenon of
little interest. In a political sense they don't
have an influence—and they are perish-
ing."
No Excuse
McGrory is right. A history of oppres-
sion is no excuse for oppressing. Jews,
It's hard to believe that U.S. News con-
siders the Soviet dissidents “a passing phe-
nomenon of little interest." But if it does, it
helps to explain why they rarely make the
media splash that terrorists do.
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