European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday january 21/1969 the stars and stripes Kennedy machine moving toward Power. W aw1 i Eliette winds 01 change was Vespher. Would be a formidable All things and without signal sue modest claim of sen. Edward Force in itself but Kennedy pow Cess that the chairmanship of the Ernest Cuneo m. Kennedy d-mai., in explain in Tho Muring Gale which swept Atni into the off ice 61 Senate majority whip. He might Well have added that i politics pre Eliely at in m t e o r o i orgy wind Are caused by a High pressure atmosphere blow ing into Low pressure areas. The Kennedy organization generates the highest political pres sure of these times. It has applied 20th-Century technology from computers to to merchandising to american politics. It has High Pace High class High rhythm and great showmanship. As a result it creates More news than it manages. This Art of developing a High pressure at or is greatly increased by the fact that surrounding it Are areas of such Low political pressure that they Are virtually a vacuum the advantage of the Kennedy approach Over its rivals it in its Baste Conception. This absurdly simple insight is that big govern ment is big business. Mere Recita Tion of its activities suffices to prove the Point the Federal government transacts nearly $200 billion of business each year and the state and municipal govern ments nearly $150 billion More. It would seem therefore that the Validity of the Kennedy evaluation is obvious to this must be added How Ever that the rarest gift in poli tics is a grasp of the this grasp is so elusive that re tiring democratic chairman Larry o Brien was forced to urge of . Must Honor pledges to Israel Flora Lewis president Nixon has indicated to friends that his administration is not going to be sentimental about Israel and May get Tough. Associates say no definite decisions have been made on the new administration s Middle East policy yet but there is going to be d policy re View. The signs Are that Nixon will listen More to the profession Al diplomats who urge a sharper attitude toward the israelis and less to pro israeli politicians and Public opinion in the . Nixon has said in private that there Are a lot of things the american Public does t know about the Middle East and ought to. He seemed to chafe at the Domestic political pressures on this foreign policy Issue. Nixon did t really want to see israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan who came through new York recently he confided but Felt he had to conform to the established formula at this stage. The meeting is said to have gone Well however. Dayan in opposition to a number of israeli leaders does t think better american relations with the arabs would Hurt his country to he did t object to Nixon s argument that this was necessary for the . But there is growing impatience among american officials at the israeli government s fall ure to reach an agreed policy on efforts for a Middle East Settle ment. One Story going the diplomatic rounds though it May be apocryphal is that Jerusalem has warned Washington unofficially not to expect any Clear decisions from Israel this year because of coming elections. For israeli politicians a settlement policy it As Tricky a it a i for american politicians to offer a specific Viet Nam policy in 1969. That in t going Down Well with american diplomats. Of mail of the generation since a reel s Independence in 1948, there hat a Ftp division of to top the bulk of the state department professionals and Amer ican political and Public on Israel. The wite House has Nixon he called of israeli Arab repeatedly overruled the professionals who tend to argue from foreign policy arithmetic too million arabs and 2 million jews and against deeper feelings. The appointment of Charles Yost As ambassador to the United nations is Likely to increase the professionals influence. He is a Middle East expert and was sent a a trouble shooter to Cairo just before the 1967 Arab israeli War when Washington Felt the ambassador there sounded too hard on the egyptians. Yost recently wrote an article for Harper s urging More push for a Settle ment and implying a push mainly on Israel. During the Campaign went the other Way. For the maintenance superiority Over her neighbors until the arabs show they want peace. And Nixon s spokesman rebuffed Nixon s envoy Goy. William Scranton Early last month for saying Ameri can policy should be More for the moment so Long As no huge new incident explodes the diplomatic haggling on the mid dle East focuses on whether there should be a big Power attempt to impose a settlement As Russia and France demand or whether the countries involved should be told they must work it out for themselves. American policy now is against a big Power imposition. The official reason is that it Fust could t work. Beyond that and More important to Washington at this delicate stage in .-so Viet relations it would serve to endorse a soviet National inter est in the Middle East and justify permanent soviet involvement there. It would be better for All the big Powers to stay out of Middle East politics. Put they won t. While a Cool Tye unclouded by steamy Amer ican politics May be useful there it also 9 continued need for a warm heart in the White Home Determen of to uphold America s pledges to Israel. Nuton assured Dayan this will be so. American National interest no More than America s Honor could be served otherwise Tot in nov Way Lite. Democratic National committee be a full time Fob. By contrast the Kennedy organization regards politics As worthy of the highest Type of creative management. Kennedy executives like All big business executives find their Art activity and recreation in their work. This group generally regards week ends As a time when they can have two full Days for uninterrupted work thus starting Mon Day morning with a 30 per cent time advantage. Against this dynamic Genera Tion of modern High Power executives conventional politicians can no More compete than the leisurely Cracker barrel store can compete against a modern super Market. Those hoary old style politicians still hold that election Day is the end of o Campaign in Stead of the beginning of a new one and they disband their forces. Their vulnerability is analogous o that of great Britain to Viking raids As outlined by sir Winston Churchill. The old English assembled and then Dis Persed dryly explained sir win Ston after the manner of the British concluding that their Dan Ger had passed by reason of the fact that it had not yet like the Vikings of Yore the longboat of the Kennedy Vikings Are invading the Inland Rivers again. Sen. Kennedy s capture of the position of whip signals merely the fall of the first Abbey. The defeat of Long Means also that the Southern democratic senators have been routed and will be forced to fall Back like sen. Strom Thurmond to the Republican party to hold their positions. It meant further that the Ken Nedy forces by soiling the initiative have pulled up to Paral Lel Force within the democratic party of the Humphrey Muskie forces. In doing so indeed they have recaptured new England from sen. Muskie and All but pocketed him in Maine. In a showdown even As of now or. Humphrey would be forced to accept the vice presidential Slot As sen. Kennedy s running mate in 1972. Indeed because of failure to perceive the mounting Kennedy momentum in 1958, sen. Lyn Don Johnson then the front run Ner was forced to accept the second Slot in 1960. The fact of the matter is hat if the pattern continues sen. Kennedy will be a political Factor in this country second in Basic Power Only to president Nixon and soon. I North american newspaper Alliance dammit i m on your Side i m a teacher1.1 \ Sydney j. Harris society s definitions produce much of the nation s crime we must not forget that crime in a society is anything that the society cares to Call a Community can arrest women for wearing skirts too Short or children for staying out too late if these Are defined As offences. Much if not most of what we Call crime in our society is the result of such arbitrary definitions gambling narcotics and prostitution have been the three main sources of income for organised crime in this country. None of them in my View should be de fined As a crime for All Hwee Are emotional and medical prob lems we have not even tried to Cope with. Narcotics Are responsible for much prostitution and for
