Editorial
South Africa needs
stronger sanctions
When Congress considers the possibility of stronger
sanctions against South Africa in the forthcoming weeks, it
should not only reaffirm the largely symbolic sanctions
already in place, but also implement new. tougher sanctions
to facilitate democratic reforms and an end to apartheid.
South Africa's system of racial oppression.
Hut President Reagan is likely to veto any legislation
calling for tougher sanctions that reaches his desk, arguing
that sanctions will hurt blacks and exclude diplomacy from
the negotiating process.
The Reagan administration's argument, howevei. has
tw'o fallacious assumptions: that sanctions and diplomacy
are incompatible and that sanctions will hurt blacks more
than help them.
Rather than undercut diplomacy, comprehensive sanc
tions will force South African President P.W. Botha and his
administration to the negotiating table by weakening the
economy in the long run. The Botha Administration will
continue to shun negotiating an end to aparthied until sanc
tions and other factors — such as boycotts, labor strikes and
internal violence — weaken the authoritarian regime.
In assuming sanctions will hurt black South Africans,
the administration is correct — but only with regard to the
short run.
In the long run. however, sanctions will benefit con
siderably black South Africans in terms of political freedom,
and such benefits will outweigh the short run costs to the
black population. Stronger sanctions also will hurt affluent
whites more than the relatively poor blacks.
Because foreign trade and investment is largely concen
trated in capital-intensive industries, sanctions or divest
ment or both are likely to affect negatively the white, profes
sional work force proportionately more than unskilled
blacks.
Moreover, affluent whites have more to lose in terms of
living standards than their segregated and exploited black
counterparts.
Nevertheless. South African blacks not only have pledg
ed to accept short-run economic hardships for the political
purpose of al>olishiug apartheid, but also have called for
Western nations to impose sanctions. The black trade union
movement, for example, has endorsed Western sanctions
even though such measures would adversely affect
unemployment.
Furthermore, front-line states that are significantly
dependent on South Africa, such as Zimbabwe, have called
for comprehensive Western sanctions even though it will
damage their own economic interests. Zimbabwe, a nation
that exports about tin percent of its international trade
through South Africa, has demanded that Western nations
impose sanctions against its powerful neighbor despite pro
bable economic retaliation from the Botha administration.
In order to end apartheid. Congress should implement
substantive sanctions against South Africa's most strategic
and economically important imports, such as advanced
technology and oil. crucial ingredients for Botha's military
machine.
As South Africa is heavily dependent on foreign trade
and capital inputs from abroad, comprehensive U.S.-led
Western sanctions are the most viable measure — and
perhaps the only alternative to direct military involvement
— to halt racial oppression in South Africa.
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I Van Holland made several
excellent points in his recent
comments regarding Judge
Burk's confirmation, especially
concerning the disinformation
of America.
Though never a big fan of
Judge Burk. I was nonetheless
shocked when I returned to law
school this fall and noticed the
unquestioning anti-Bork opi
nions adopted by so many.
A lawyer is supposed to
master the facts of his or her
case; yet. from students and
faculty alike I have heard and
read so many bald assertions,
gut reactions, insinuations, and
conclusory statements about
Judge Bork that I now wonder
whether many people here have
taken the time to independently
learn details about Bork. or
whether, instead, most aren't
simply parroting each others'
hearsay.
The law school is but a
microcosm. People in general
don't or won’t take the time to
learn about Judge Bork. They
start form a state of being
uninformed.
Then Judge Bork's critics
come along with fear-provoking
assertions that portray Bork as a
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and powerful, this drivel is
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our psyches.
lialf-digested. such assertions
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Bork's philosophy is one of
complete hostility to individual
rights." rumor has it.
Yet in Oilman v. Kvans. Judge
Bork writes. "The important
thing, the ultimate considera
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freedom that is given into our
keeping ." It is a judge's duty,
Bork adds, to see new threats to
our freedoms and thus to ensure
that our freedoms "are made
effective in today's
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tion of promoting a 72-acre
private development scheme
that benefits a few development
interests at the expense of
public resources.
The traditional attitude of us
ing University property for stu
dent needs has been swept
away, despite concerns express
ed by student groups and in
dividuals about the location of
this development, and despite
the overwhelming student man
date in a campus ballot measure
last spring.
The proposed master plan ig
nores the student position that
the soccer field should be
preserved in its present
location.
While the location provides
an aesthetic and functional rela
tionship with the adjacent foot
bridge. bike path and swimm
ing area, the new plan cuts off
the field from direct access to
the bridge and swimming site,
and squeezes the field between
two research office buildings It
is unlikely that the present uses
of the field for sports events can
be compatable with a quiet of
fice environment.
Furthermore, the new master
plan is inconsistent with the
Unversity's prior plans for this
area, plans that called for the
expansion of recreational fields
along the river. Nor is the
master plan consistent with the
state goal of preserving the
Willamette greenway.
Despite these obvious pro
blems of incompatability. the
project proposers have ignored
the many appropriate alter
native sites including the
downtown area, and expanding
the West Eugene area.
Unfortunately, the City Coun
cil. University and private
developers seem determined to
squeeze the maximum gross na
tional product out of the river
front area.
Students such as myself are
concerned that a few develop
ment interests are taking the
public for a ride at the expense
of a beautiful and irreplaceable
natural resource, the Willamette
greenway.
Dan Stotter
Law