European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The e stars and stripes july 1w Anthony Lewis 3 nfcwsjn1 Brussels la a dangerous when our vision of Freedom is often frus Many of us in the West have Paw scant attention to some genuine Good news to in the last few years three coun tries have shaken off authoritarian dicta Portugal and Spain now have elected democratic and live under the Rule of that these relatively1 poor countries of Southern Europe overthrew entrenched totalitarian systems of the and did so without swinging Over to the intolerance of the is b remarkable it refutes the spen Tertan gloom of those who say among the democracy cannot successfully compete with us easy claims of the events in Greece and Portugal and Spain also mate a particular political they underline the significance of that nowadays much abused the european economic i think the moves away from totalitarianism could not have occurred without Ute influence of the the existence of a prospering Community of nine democratic countries next door m Europe acted As a Magnet for the greeks and portuguese and spaniards James Kilpatrick religion irrelevant in education the supreme court blew up in the fashion of the wonderful Shay on the Issue of stale Aid for children attending nonpublic axles and lines flew every which in the the court came Down More right than but not by the Issue involved an Ohio enacted in by which he stale provides half a dozen forms of old for pupils who attend nonpublic Here Are reportedly 720 such schools in All but 29 of them Church related an estimated m percent of tin private pupils attend caul in parochial in my own these particular statistics Are six forms of Aid were challenged in court the loan of nuns Clarian textbooks the Stales administration of standardized tests the providing of diag Nostic services for pupils having speech or hearing impediments the providing of certain therapeutic such As dental Hygiene the loan of instructional materials and and the financing Field trip the complaining taxpayers charged that these various programs violate the first amendments prohibition against taws respecting an establishment of Reli the nine justices split in roughly six different at one extreme was jus lice who opposed All the forms of Aida the other extreme were chief jus Tice Burger and justices White and Rehn they approved All the forms of in Between were Justice who opposed everything but health services Justice who opposed everything but diagnostic services Justice who supported everything but equipment and justices Blackmun and who approved four provisions and disapproved is that nine justices it a hard u keep such a what the court finally in its fractured is that Ohio May 1 loan the u give the 13 help with speech and and 14 fill the Catholic kids cavities with out offending the but Ohio May not loan a child in a nonpublic school the same piece of scientific equipment that Ohio Loans a child in a Public and Ohio May not provide a bus and Driver to take private Pupil on the same trips provided for Public the court reiterated the ground rules it has Laid Down several times state taws in this Field i must have a secular legislative must norther and Vance nor inhibit and must not further an excessive government entangle ment with the courts theory in throwing out the Field trips was that the parochial school teach Cri while the bus was rolling along to City Hall or the Sulle Cam might recite a couple of Hall or the bus Driver publicly subsidised Field trips involve an unacceptable risk of fostering these Are the abstract speculations that Otto occupied medieval talking a census of Angels on m its understandable desire to maintain the separation of Church and the court has lost sight of two essential these concerns Are Ohms All of whom Are entitled to the equal protect on of Ohio and the secular education of these children in certain required subjects in my own a religion air if Ohio let us 2dd for each of the pupils in Pusc it ought to provide for each of the children in nonpublic the doctrine of equal Protection should provide no Tad it ought to be a matter of total indifference to Ohio or or in which the is so Long As the states uniform Stan Dards of education Are the same per Pult and the same Basic re ought to apply to All pupils jew or to say that Ohio May loan a taxpayers child a weather forecasting kit if the child attends a Public but May not loan a taxpayers child such a til if he attends a parochial strikes me As unadorned it is a penalty the state imposes upon the child because of the tsar else of his religion if a child learns numbers by counting Rosary or by subtracting five stations of the Cross from h stations of the what does it Mailer to the state of Ohio the states Only valid interest is that the child learn his the How and where should make no differ i of Iua not possible so Long As t institutions were not the Community made Ckarl tude toward its Europe was affected Byre human it was cow i and tune matter people who wanted Eredi part of the West did Garden As Tow role of the political transition of the i tries was the More important b United states was so unhelpful at i the Man who then made am policy preferred dealing with abroad he found he was unable to see i ones in for i that helped bring on disaster inc the contrast 61 american i attitudes was when the Kissinger to i said communism was wind Tea instead of sky was falling gave crucial ill to the democratic forces and b port guat through the All this shows a curious everyone knows that economic with Trade b All internal tariffs ended that its Hopes for internal toward political Unity have the Community no finance is one area in which u May have part to play is in shaping and afe As communist move toward a Hare of Power in the Community can i Hal moral and psychological troubled Domestic institutions to ing in Iii democratic premise in Weston in Eastern this Here thai May be most acute in need to raise prices paid if again coming into conflict resistance a tool Price Riseto nity and its which to Lenule links across the United have an business of conditions in the East without pet talons dangerously when the Community entity in foreign pie was last weeks statement c palestinian Homeland Impact than its members do a Challenge that could be the Community  Greece and Portugal for Spain is to expand from nine to u would complicate the Community surpluses in the three but much depends coming those problems Europe boy pres Deril remarked fugal wants to enter desperately needs part of Ute european to underpin and sustain us in the it seemed to him the democratic Roulf the clip thus vital to the Vest As a to be understood by the that president Carter l of Vance Are Lar opportunities and problems i