European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday May 17, 1977 . Sulzberger Energy difficulties shift Power balance the most important result of the London summits was intangible Jimmy Carter s emergence As Leader of the much could be done about key tangible problems unemployment and Energy inthe exchanges on economic political and military matters. To be sure commitments were made and Long Range studies will be undertaken. But until fewer westerners Are jobless and More Energy is available to them there can be no Assurance that this Region will recover economic stability. Without that there won t be enough Money for nato to spend on self Protection. Energy figured Here primarily with reference to nuclear Power. This a Ftp George f. Will the liberals Are feeling deprived president Carter suggest placing a memorial to Dylan Thomas the Welsh poet in Westminster abbeys poet s Thomas i be had 18 straight whiskers. I think that s died in 1953. His epitaph was in his lament now i am a Man no More no More and a Black Reward for a roaring Carter was innocently abroad be stowing on the Abbey his passion for improvements liberals at Home were complaining that his passion is invade columns comments quate. The plump est Apple of discord was thrown by George Mcgovern addressing americans for democratic is a Ginger group of liberals who cultivate disappointment by opposing the nomination of then Labouring for the elec Tion of then lamenting the shortcomings of. Democratic presidents. For Ada s Benefit. Mcgovern flayed Carter for betraying Campaign promises and democratic s policy says Mcgovern is business appeasement at full tide. I sometimes seems difficult to remember who won last fall. We must not Trade full employment for a town meeting. We will not be a cheering Section for tinkling symbols that May signify nothing. We All seem mesmerized by image taken by Mcgovern is Only the most piercing Tenor in the Liberal recently said that come to think about it his immediate welfare Reform goal is just a statement of sen. Daniel Moynihan Curtly responded that such principles could be composed in a new York times noted that Carter s timetable would delay until 1981 Federal Relief for new York. It added that whereas president Ford told the City to Carter was telling it to bleed while he broods about if there is anything labor likes about the Carter administration Georg Mcany s answer no i proved that Brevity can be the soul of malice. A Leader of the Lack caucus denounces Carter s economic policy As slightly More conservative than Richard Nixon Carter Antici pates a deficit 9 billion less than Ford anticipated for fiscal 197b. Liberals have reason to be melancholy but not surprised. Carter s Campaign was founded on a crashing contradiction be tween the democratic platform and his pledge that is necessary he would Sacri fice the platform to achieve a balanced to opinions up Tiszl in int columns or Toni Onixt my rep Rwm move of lilt ruin of and in nov Toli Mem Repei Encino. In news of to so ropes or in United Stales govern men. Budget for fiscal 1981.the platform promising about 60 new or expanded programs was designed to ener Gize democratic activists most of whom Are More Liberal than Carter and had favored someone else for the nomination. The pledge to balance the budget was for the voters and it was to Carter s permanent poll Ster. Patrick Caddell. Carter was elected because of late switches to him by Moder ate independents. And Carter s election was jeopardized by his failure to carry the votes of More conservatives who have become a larger and larger restraints on Carter Are obvious. Revenues fall far Short of outlays. Inflation is the most salient Puli tical Issue especially among moderates and conserva Tives. No one not even Mcgovern advocates higher now the administration is facing the sour music contemplating infusions of general tax revenues to pay for unfunded social Security liabilities. These liabilities Are lust some of the Large commitments previous administrations have made against future course. Carter s presidency is still in its infancy. But its distinctive features symbolic gestures and the sudden seizure of the Energy Issue May be explained by the Revenue require no appropriations. And the Energy program is being jeopardized by the dark and reasonable suspicion that it is less an Energy program than a reve nue program. The suspicion is that the administration does not really intend to rebate the River of dollars set in motion by Energy taxes. Instead the dollars will Dis appear into the Sandy soil of government and be used to balance the budget or pay for a splinter of the democratic feel deprived of what they con Sider the fruits and fun of Power the Abil Ity to spend. They feel deprived by what they consider Carter s apostasy from traditional democratic belief in deficits. But because he is popular there is insufficient dry kindling to turn Sparks of Dis sent into flaming opposition. Still polls change so Carter should remember a civil War general s last words uttered to Anaide at the Battle of the wilderness Why. Man they could t hit an elephant at this let a Tii Ngun Cost fast breeder reactors which can i. _ sired fuel a bomb warheads. Efforts by Carter to curb european exports of such equipment Are not Well received Europe has United amounts of uranium with which the United states is amply supplied and does t relish depend ing on resources to get enriched uranium for Power Tony Benn Britain s minister for Energy puts the Case elaboration of no Clear Energy programs is invariably difficult. There Are the dragons of War and terrorism. There is the fear of inroads uncivil liberties in attempts to control peace Ful nuclear development president car Ter s new Energy proposals confront the massed Alliance of the world nuclear � last year before he moved to the Whitehouse Carter told me since the Energy crisis arose in 1973" after the last Arab israeli War we have had no substantial attempt by the government to evolve a National Energy policy. We must shift More to our own Large Coal is even More sweeping in his anal Ysis of Carter s program. He says it constitutes the first . Attempt since Eisenhower s atoms for peace speech to face this problem. The world is reacting Inan unpredictable Way it is not left against right but democracy against technology in analysing issues involved. I am firmly on the Side of the democrats against the technicians. The Priesthood of nuclear technology must be is curious but the . Is the last country to have an Energy policy. Now one is beginning. But the difficulties Are complicated. Take Britain for example. Thir teen per cent of our Power now is nuclear and All of it is generating plutonium. You can t have nuclear programs with out plutonium. What Carter wants is to apply controls to this. Now the question is can you put the Genie Back into the bottle or the plutonium Back into the uranium Carter s decision to reexamine the whole problem is is near the heart of almost every other major problem in the world today. Itis significant that the International atomic Energy Agency was holding a conference on nuclear Power in Salzburg at the same time As the London summits. The overriding common interest is the search for More Energy which will be Nec Essary even if this badly organized world is Able to do something More effective about conservation. And right in the Teeth of Carter s pleas to restrict use of plutonium West Germany has started a $2.7 Bil lion research program largely reliant on atomic Power including the plutonium based fast breeder reactors Carter opposes. Fossil fuels like Oil. Coal and even nuclear Power Are to be reckoned As useful Only during the present first phase of an Energy crisis. Ultimate sources will be fusion that taps the sea renewable sources like solar Energy or the winds and the Waves. But such developments require heavy investment and intense study and plan Ning. Much time must pass before they Are practicable. In the interim period of per haps one or two generations As Benn says interdependence on Energy creates new political problems including a fundamental shift in the balance of Power Between producers and that it is the period in which we Are now living As Carter sees
