Page 4-Thursday, July 19, 1979-The Michigan Daily Michigan Daily Eighty-nine Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109 Vol. LXXXIX, No. 47-S News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan U .S now must deport Somoza N ICARAGUA'S 158-year history is punctuated by American intervention. Finally our in- volvement is reflecting the will of Nicaragua's people and the lessons of Vietnam and Iran's civil wars. U.S. Ambassador Lawrence Pezzullo worked out a complex deal with former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza, his interim suc- cessor Francisco Urcuyo, and the provisional government involving the Sandinista guerrilla forces that drove Somoza from power. With questionable prudence, the U.S. granted Somoza asylum in this country, only to be slapped in the face by Urcuyo's announcement that he will remain in power until Somoza's term ends in 1981. According to U.S. officials, he was only supposed to be a brief caretaker until the provisional government is installed. While insisting that the U.S. recognizes the junta as the official Nicaraguan government, Pezzullo was recalled yesterday - an action which confirms the end of Cold War diplomacy. Somoza has hidden behind the cloak of anti-com- munism long after it was clear that his corrupt, maligned regime was oppressing more than Marxists. Now that the national guard allegedly has surrendered to rebel forces and Urcuyo's ability to remain in power is dubious, the U.S. must fulfill State Department hints that Somoza will be deported. To harbor him in this country will only fortify his crusade to reclaim his post, thus en- suring further bloodshed. The U.S. can still offer asylum to his aides and help anyone who wants to leave Nicaragua to do so in safety. But to allow Somoza to remain in his luxurious Florida villa while -thousands die in Nicaragua contradicts the policy set by U.S. sup- port of the provisional government. The request to extradite the ex-president should be filled as soon as the new government gains control. The best type of American involvement in this troubled nation's affairs now is in the form of food and medical supplies, which should be rushed to the estimated 2.3 million devastated' refugees. This nation should have no further role in Nicaragua's internal political affairs unless in- vited to do so. We can save more lives through the Red Cross than with political meddling at this point. The junta has indicated that it advocates free elections in principle, and it is not composed en- tirely of left-wing extremists as U.S. officials feared. It is surprisingly favorable to the U.S., and has widespread support from Nicaragua's neighbors. Somoza's fate should be decided by his nation's people; failure to deport him would spell the worst oindo p on.n Muzorewa 's regime cannot be accepted without change, BISHOP AB&J, Muzorewa, the first black prime minister of the new state of Zimbabwe- Rhodesia, last week came calling on President Carter in Washington and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London. The visit amounted to nothing less than a monumental mission for the prelate: to sell his new government to the U.S. and Britain, and to convince Carter and Thatcher that his rule is legitimate. For the reporters following Muzorewa's travelling salesman show, the Bishop came across as quite the politician. He sold his case well to carefully selected audiences of journalists, congressional groups, and the two heads of state them- selves-He made it clear that he is not about to budge on the issue of dissipating the power of Rhodesia's still politically dominant white minority. MUZOREWA'S argument, delivered at every stop, is that any attempts to alter the white- drafted constitution could send Rhodesia's 250,000 whites packing, and once they leave, much-needed expertise and money will follow. "The expertise, the skills and the money is found in the white hands," Muzorewa told a foreign policy magazine breakfast group. "You must accept the fact that the whites in my country are not there as tourists or visitors. Technically, they must be called white Africans. They belong there." Besides, Muzorewa insisted, the fact that his country's three per cent white minority holds a disproportionate amount- of power should be overshadowed by the gains made by Rhodesian blacks who, until the election six weeks ago, had no power at all. HE RATTLED off the statistics impressively - in the 100- member parliament, there are now only 28 whites. In the 19- member cabinet, only five are white. "There is no such thing as By KEITH RICHBURG were allowed to vote on in referendum. And that con- stitution dictates that it cannot be changed unless the white block in parliament agrees. Beyond that, Muzorewa's con- trol over his country is in- stitutionalized by the bureaucracy, the armed forces, and the judiciary, all of which remain under white control. An all-white Public Service Com- mission makes all the appoin- tments to the 40,000-member civil r service, and that commission has demonstrated recently its effec- tive stranglehold over Muzorewa by vetoing the Bishop's personal choice for cabinet secretary, a black Asian, and appointing in- stead a white, George Smith. That incident was not unique in Muzorewa's new government, and the government has been fiscally unable to embark on any kind of reconstruction effort. So since it is Rhodesia-or now, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia-that so desperately needs the economic sanctions lifted, the British and Americans are in a position to use those sanctions as a lever for transforming that country from a puppet regime to true black majority rule. This country must avoid the headfirst rush by the conservatives in congress, most noticeably Sen. Jessie Helms, (R- N.C.), who would ignore the realities of the Muzorewa facade and would force Carter into lif- ting the sanctions prematurely. Perhaps the right-wingers here could take a lesson from the con- servatives across the Atlantic, where even the conservative Bishop Abel Muzorewa but was particularly embarras- sing for the black prime minister anxious to show the British and the Americans that blacks really run Rhodesia. All that episode did was reinforce the opposite con- viction. Thatcher government has ad- vanced its own plan that would recognize the Muzorewa gover- nment only after the constitution is drastically altered. But maintaining the sanctions that t t h a rrm nied by in- racial discrimination anywhere , Wamust e accompnii~ y II now in my country," the Bishop SO DESPITE Murorewa s creased economic aid to the bor- informed his hosts. adamant insistenes that he need dering "front line" countries, infomed is hsta.not take any further steps, that However, Muzorewa's cam- s which are besring most of the paign to gain recognition for his the constitution need not be brunt ofathe Rhodesian trade em- new government was largely a amended, and that the U.S. and bargo. Most noticeably, Bot- failing effort. He returned to Britain must recognize his swanna, Zambia, Mozambique Salisbury with no guarantees, government at once, he returns and Malawi have suffered severe only a lengthy checklist of moves home empty-handed. That fact economic hardships for com- hems aebfr cnmcshould be evidence enough for the pyn with the Rhodesian trade he must take befor e eonomic Bishop that constitutional plbigontt eto h sanctions can be, lifted. The Bso htcntttoa embargo, not to mention the Bishop was eloquent, forceful, changes are necessary if he is pounding those countries are even convincing. But after hi ever to restore legitimacy to taking from repeated Rhodesian eve covining Bu afer isZimbabwe-Rhodesia. arriso urlabss tp sales pitch was over, the political Ironically, it was Muzorewa air raids on guerilla bases. Step- realities of the facade called himself who spelled out the hard ping up our aid to those countrues "Zimbabwe-Rhodesia" eclipsed choices now facing that country's would not only assure them of our even Muzorewa's most ardent first black prime minister, when mmitme, t truedlack appeals.. he tl eotr lnl h majority rule, but would raise out hotold reporters bluntly why sagging prestige in the eyes of DESPITE THE Bishop's in- Rhoesi o.despetely blac Africa as a nation devoted sisenc tht 7 meber ofthe economic sanctions ' lifted. thumanrihs sistence that 78 members of The years of civil war have left parliament are black, as well as the country badly in need of -13 cabinet ministers, the fact economic repair. In Muzorewa's remains that they must operate estiate, since thesanoswr under a constitution that was Daily City Editor Keith Richburg is Iaan i edhundredso t Dal C wain ton ic. d~ritd isprdecssrIa factory workeiwesB1thousoff, g g/ e Ijnsn . 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