European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1s a a the stars and stripes july 1977 George r will notice How much m0r6 1 i Neutron 5ri Are wrong i John says ecu Iron warhead for Battlefield missiles w Tillery la  because u singles out people for Choos ing to preserve Vaud legs Neva paper reports have said that Neutron weapons destroy people Tatlier than or while sparing in neut pm weapons do not pro Servo or spare but this kind of rhetoric has stimulated intemperate and uninformed outcries against such Wear before the debate bolls to an Irr Atton at this should be noted the Pat objection to Neutron weapons is not that they destroy the of made in the name of moral Sensi is that they do not destroy people and property As indiscriminately a the Leas precise tactical nuclear weapons that Neutron weapons would All nuclear explosions produce four lethal radiation and fallout Neutron weapons produce Only about Flurie Tenuto the beat and out produced by regular nuclear radiation from Neutron weapons is More but More confined it can be confined to a radius of 300 and it is Short lived an area hit by a Neutron weapon can be occupied the next one newspaper reports that Neutron weapons Are More detrimental to humans than to a description that also to not nuclear weapons that Neu tron would replace would destroy civilians and far beyond the held area to which the effects of Neutron weapons would be since Industrial organization became the basis of military and especially since the development of air the theory and practice of War has blurred the distinction Between combatants and non combatants Neutron Battlefield weapons Are a step Back from the indiscriminate Ness of modern they make possible reduced collateral damage and that is Why they arc Paul president Carters arms control once with characteristic that new tactical nuclear weapons capable of More controlled devas tation would be an absolute weapons with Tower yield and greater accuracy and presumably few collateral con sequences would undermine the self deterrence of Zallom Fiat possess Sam rightly notes thai opponents of Neutron weapons few that the United states might not be Suffle Cinelly reluctant to use but a Nunn a deterrent is credible Only to the extent that k is usable those who oppose the warhead apparently believe in self de Terrence we should keep the weapons so destructive we would never use if we did use it would Only be under the most desperate of Condo by deterring ourselves from using tac Yucai nuclear except weapons which would destroy the territory we Are pledged in nato to the advantages which the soviets now maintain in conventional arms Are greatly magnifier i remind my colleagues that the Pur pose of deterrence in to detect soviet not to deter ourselves from responding i rejection Oil precise Neutron weapons would be destabilizing in two on the one the soviets would be give reason for doubting that the United slates would use existing tactical with their devastating collateral while fighting on allies on the other while nato forces Are equipped Only with such imprecise nato will under pressure to use them Early against before Superior soviet convey tonal forces move the Battlefield from the Border into the heart of Western the Basic objection to Neutron weapons constitutes an objection to tactical nuclear weapons in general opponents should calculate the Cost in Money in the event of in Allied Means Vii Tiona Forcest they but they axles Mas r lives i alternative Means says Neutron weapons Are in the of coping with the soviet adv Antai realm of such devastation that it is difficult Justice Powers Eminence grows the supreme court wound up its october Lerm on june after nine months of labor that produced no remarkable sur among the developments Fiat came As no Surprise Al All is the Rise of uce Lewis Powell at after Only us years on the be has emerged a the intellectual Strong Man of the Burger this expanding reputation surely will not startle those who have followed Justice powells career both in the Law and in Public i freely confess new own personal affection for the Virgin Laurist the it Rel virginian to serve Montne in since Peter Danie More than a Century a court reporter Justuce Powell the other Day the Virginia wis Cental buy the Virginia part is True born in in he received his first Tow degree from washing g a it we Vay i two it Usano ton and Lee his second came from and settled Down to the practice of corporate Law in Richmond in but we knew him in Richmond As much More than a top lawyer in the states most prestigious Law we knew him As chair Roan of the City school then As member and president of the state Board of and As tireless worker in every civic Enterprise that came when 1 first met the gentleman in he was colonel just returned from the War with the legion of a Botwe Star and the French de Guerre with his continuing interest in military affairs was manifested Many years later in his service on Nixon Blue ribbon panel to study the department of Moat of of results not from education or but from the he served in imps As president of the american bar Assad at inn he pioneered in the study of Legal services to the poor and in october president Nixon nominated him to succeed Hugo Black on the u has proved a remarkably Happy a a few knowing nothing of powells leaped to an immediate conclusion thai the nominee would function As a doctrinaire they were swiftly Dis in his six terms on the or Justice Powell has indeed sided most frequently with Rehnquist and Black but his growing Eminence derives not bom but from scholarship and in Ibe term Jusi Justice Powell wrote u of the courts my signed Matching  and White in majority output he caught some of the toughest cases of the in the Arlington Heights involving charges of racial discrimination in zoning be cleared new ground in us courts emerging emphasis upon the intentions of Public och vials in the Miami Pupil paddling braved a Liberal firestorm to assert1 the eighth amendment does not disciplinary measures in the schools in the abortion cases on june he reasoned cogently that the Constitution secures  right of in other Justice Powell with with of scent labor and with file Gullate Uleala voting double j the taxation of insurance major antitrust and a grandmother in he dissented i the least of any member i but be wrote 10 d opinions to support Bis the pattern that emerges is a pattern of Justice Powell i his sense of penon4i constantly u reflected in tussle we Uldal function judges holding l Busi be have no Busin own social or moral views upon either grass or the even to in brutal paddling of a disruptive i eighth amendment must not be i out of context he is not much for i Between the lines of a statute by he construes is to figure out lines actually say it is too Early to say if Powell ultimately will rank am great justices of the invt he is no i his opinions tend to lose i Speed because of the footnote there is some truth in the observation t he stands out so conspicuously Beau sits As a Virginia Cardinal among a of Wrens and in any let forgive Richard noun at least some of sins by thanking him for this much he Lewis Powell on the