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# Four More Years
Of Kissinger?

OP platform hearings in Kansas past week have underscored the need President Ford, should he be elected and elected, is going to implement Kissinger foreign policy upon the world and the rest. There can no longer be any question that score.

Original foreign policy plank written by Ford forces was an "absence." in the words of Ray Barnbirman of the Texas delegation. And Cuban imperialism was, at best, a tut-tutted, while the document is a tangle of language which essentially nullifies all of Kissinger's foreign policy in kissing off Rhodesia, to yield- sovereignty over the Panama to undermining Taiwan, to survive at SALT II.

President, as has been observed, has become a disciple of Kissinger. Before the Mississippi River, he sang Kissinger's song and he pronounced our foreign policy as "very successful." He tries to speak as if he wishes to aim around for another four

Kissinger's foreign policy is bankrupt if President Ford cannot see that Angela is gone, because we tended "the Russians. Angola is now a Leninist state, because we tend-to-trust" the Soviets. Under Kissinger's policies, we have lost the stand up to anyone, let alone rezhnev. The whole world knows President, fearful of straining relations with the Soviet Union, sees Solzhenitsyn. A Soviet-Cuba rips apart detente by in-Angola and promoting guerrilla against the U.S. Commonwealth to Rico, and our response is to it again."

Meanwhile, the Cubans are doing it again by moving into Mozambique—and there is still no effort by Ford to ratify. We have become so pusillanimous under Kissinger that the United States, 200 million strong, would rather yield its rights over the Panama Canal than to risk a confrontation with a country having one two-hundredth of the population.

Cravenness is the essence of our foreign policy. In the vague hope that the African nations will keep the Soviets and the Cubans off the Dark Continent—as if they had the power to do so—Kissinger has decided to prostrate himself before the most extreme left-wing movements in Africa.

So far has Kissinger gone in his court-ing game that he has committed the U.S. to the overthrow of the pro-Western, prosperous regime in Rhodesia, publicly remarking that the white-ruled country "must understand that it cannot expect United States support either in diplomacy or in material help at any stage in its conflict with African states or African liberation movements. On the contrary, it will face our unrelenting opposition until a negotiated settlement is achieved."

Indeed, we have even decided to help support the guerrilla war against Rhodesia by pumping in financial aid to the Communist country of Mozambique. Rhodesia's main enemy and a haven for left-wing guerrilla warriors.

The U.S. capacity to appease our enemies under Kissinger knows no limits: it seems inexhaustible. On the 4th of July, as Evans and Novak recently disclosed, the Soviets exploded a little firecracker in honor of Uncle Sam's 200th birthday—"an underground explosion well over the limits agreed to by the U.S. and the USSR in their much publicized new

treaty." An even larger Soviet underground nuclear explosion was detonated July 29, just a week after the treaty was submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification.

"As usual," Evans and Novak went on, "there has been no announcement or comment on the explosions except in classified documents. On the contrary, addressing Republican delegates in Jackson, Miss., July 30, President Ford praised Soviet compliance with past arms and control agreements. Clearly, neither Mr. Ford nor Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wants any unpleasantness about Soviet treaty violations to interfere with their forthcoming big push for a new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreement."

The White House, in fact, has announced a new policy since the disclosures—that it will no longer make public the size of Soviet underground nuclear explosions as has been done in the past. Under detente, then, the Soviets become the beneficiary of an official cover-up policy.

Even more alarming is the revelation that the secretary of state is pursuing a new SALT agreement which would, in effect, deprive the United States of the cruise missile, but permit the Soviet Union to deploy unlimited numbers of the Backfire bomber. While the Soviets claim the Backfire is a medium-range bomber, and not a strategic weapon, Soviet Backfire bombers can actually penetrate most of the continental United States from certain bases in the Soviet Union. In other words, another major concession to our adversaries.

A Ford presidency, in short, would mean four more years of Kissinger. Do the Republican delegates gathered in Kansas City really want this?

Human Events, 8/21/76