European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Carter no  insurance Ute other at about same transportation Secretary Adams mandated the installation of and up on Ute number of Small Baton  some Labelling Are but they have a common that theme la the needless exercise of Federal heaven knows the theme is not Congress has been suffering from the leg waive itch at least since the Days of John Randolph of executive agencies historically have manifested the but the theme grow louder and More in Sisi enu our musters in Washington increasingly Lake the View that they know what is Good for and like it or they will impose their Superior Wisdom upon the states and on the no fault insurance to a Case in the idea has been kicking around for ten or under the no fault the element of responsibility is largely re moved from he settlement of automobile Accident Lite Driver surrenders his right to except in the most serious in but he la assured of prompt compensation for his it makes no difference who was to nobody to at by eliminating tedious investigation and a reduction in insurance premiums can be Massachusetts pioneered with no fault in 15 other states de dded to give the idea a whirl another eight Stales began experiments with no fault off shoots the results have not been remarkably impressive the approach seems to work Fine in relatively minor a not so Well in More serious the states Are still tinkering with different versions of no fault insurance under these common sense should dictate that Congress Back the need for a National no fault Law bos not been the Stales ought to be left free to perform their function under but the Senate and the Carter administration Are Bent on 1m posing their supposed Wisdom this is Folly Secretary Adams airbag edict stems from the same Potomac fever by septem Ber of unless Congress overrules hts All new cars will have to be equipped with this expensive and Complex device Lor with passive safety whether car buyers want the Protection or nol  experience indicate ural airbags the devices have Iti fact saved lives thai would have been lost in Headon the successful results have been widely but whenever manufacturers have offered airbags As optional uie customers have shunned in the judgment of Ute mar the risk docs not justify the Cost in a voluntary such judgments ought to be but Secretary Adams has no Faithon a Ului Quiry he what is Good for he win compel  taken appeared House Small business committee to complain tarty at some new Labelling starting january packaged los the chemical Nam of the the idea is to let the purchaser know what he to and there is netting wrong with that but one result is that instead of baking Label have to indicate sodium Ai Minum Gnu what it Fie sense in Ihu who is being informed of whal such requirements Are not a service Buta Dis Serrie Eailey do riot they and in the Case of the Small the expense of frequent Label As ingredients Are could be to these the Fra is deaf As a Stone Wall our masters will make the Tell Consumers what few Consumers truly want to and so it you will note that in each of these the intentions arc Good to simplify insurance to save to disclose precisely what is in the food we the trouble lies in the Clumsy use of and in the steady Ero Sion of the principles of a free left the mates will enact the no fault Laws their own people left prudent motorists will buy airbags As they Lea competitive Bakers will attract customers by giving them Clear our Busy sad to simply do nut work i hat Way 1c  Tom Wicker Nabokov a child of the Century several Hundred new yorkers braved hid Savage heat of Midtown Man Hattan to attend a memorial service in the auditorium of the Mcgraw Hill for the great Vladimir who died Early this month in the speakers for this understated Occa Sion enlivened momentarily when the novelists dismissed a sup posed authority air his father with an olympian flick entirely worthy of Nabokov himself resumed again Ana again to the biographical fact that Nabokov was ail his life a numerous of have been refugees from me despotism or or some but the condition of most of it seems to be the we Are Vladimir bom in Russia in ism and forced to flee with his family from the bolshevik lived the rest of his life in the glow of his idyllic almost literally a child of the Cen he Well first la fled to France at the coming of the Emi grated 10 the United states just before world War lived Here for 20 years and became a then spent his last in decades by Ihen full of honors and Fame in Nabokov father was a distinguished Liberal in the it arise Era and the son became nut Only one at the great writer of the Century but what Alfred Karin called an unrelenting critic of the totalitarian legacy of men like Lenin a Man who above minds thai do nut fight against the dominant cliches of their the connection Here will be Clear to de voted readers of Nabokov books Par i Pale fire and the novelist John one of the few other american writers of whom Nabokov spoke and who read Pas sages from Nabokov work at the memo rial services spoke of having Al same Point encountered in a Nabokov Book one of those miracles of substitution thai an not infrequently a substitution in the that for what May not Ever have been seen or experienced in a Man who hates after is bound to look at the world with an imaginative and inventive and Nabokov works Are supremely u the More than perhaps any other he offered us substitutions far what was not in duct at hand or in and in Thise miracles of substitution to seemed so effortlessly to create his read in could Sinaw and Delight recognizing people and places hitherto in Nabokov was a which needs and Brooks no and no doubt he would have expressed that Genius in any Case and in whatever fashion but As a ref it seems reasonable to he was forced into creating a kind of Miracle of substitution in his own u had taken me some fatty years in invent Russia and Western he wrote of his coming to the and now i was forced it invent perhaps would to simplistic to Sug Gest thai when Vladimir Nook ii lust his he gained his in a sense that few of us Ever a refugee not just from his native not just from but Tram that most distinctive reality of he proceeded to make his True Home in in the mind advanced Art and free expression became his real badges of wherever he lived and that is despite his Russof Home and his peripatetic Nabokov was anything hut a after has been pulled up by the torn from some tit be rootless to tev nothing from which to be no vital no sense of being a pan of something even something lost or destroyed of in the impersonal and ominous world of the late 20th Many people to be rootless in that even though they May have spent All their lives in one City or one stale or one particularly in a feeling uneasiness and Dis appointment and bewilderment seems almost thinking about he the forces the question whether this malaise May not be a deep and unrecognized hunger for what has been so Long denigrated and disregarded what he knew in such splendid and plentiful detail the country of the the life of the where everything wails to be