European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 thestal Tsianti stripes August Sulzberger on february 18 former British minister Edward health told to in London on my first visit in the summer of went to Kunming in the they were in the process of attack ing a local official by Public posters and in Chiao Kuan the foreign minister who was explained to me thai this was the chinese method of expressing opinion and attempting a kind of democratic method the Man under accusation had More or less to stand and tight if he was to survive i suppose that is the position Teng Hsiaoping is in right Tang Cru Linly stood and fought and there has never been a Mure dramatic in stance of this kind of democratic method than his reappearance again at the Summit of chinese a position to shares with party chairman Hub Kuo Fentz and defense minister this is the second time Ait re the cultural revolution erupted that Teng has been disgraced and then Fie has More Bounce than a pingpong although it is unlikely that either Tung or yen respectively 74 and 79 years old can aspire to solitary dominance Al the peking Tengs return to a lop level position is clearly an event of great significance to China and be cd Buslof chivas colossal to the outer world lie is generally taken to symbolic the pragmatic Streak in chinese communism which wishes to stress economic modern stabilisation through a total Resto ration of Law and acceleration of up Iodate pro Gratis in science and on efficient and imaginative re and an increased role for the peo Ples liberation this approximates the position sought for his country by the late Chou who was More pragmatic and less dogmatic Ihnn chairman Mao Given existing the undiminished threat of the soviet that Curi Ous aspect of the Helsinki Accord under Celvid by most signatories which recognized the existing san soviet fron tier thai peking wants and the need for military discipline to put Down internal tongs military connections assume particular of All the positions to which he has been that of chief staff of the liberation army is probably Tho most note or Tang was always extremely popular with the armed he has been widely known in various command and also Politi Cal commissar capacities Ever since the wartime Days of the famous Long March of maps eighth route the intrusion of military into Chi Nese politics is not a wholly unfamiliar tar a Gram 1 m Cigar i my Unwin on a Tow d ill Factor Over Thelong Span of history before chairman maos death a distinguished member of the soviet Central committee discussed with me the possibilities the postman he said i suppose once again the army will Lake Over in the this has certainly not appeared to happen so far but it cannot necessarily be ruled out for the following the chaos and upheaval of the cultural devolution uie army ment tended to View Teng As the Best conceivable guarantee against hew disorders and an insurance of the required stability u develop and manufacture needed new weapons the principal com have Long been painfully aware of chivas lag in Ute arms especially with respect to during the terminal period of that strange kind of democratic method noted by when tongs political resurrection was being heralded by Wall pos ters but had not yet been officially the posters went out their Way to publicize certain of his views concerning the military there Are a Good number of problems in the he is supposed to have told a group of students during his second period of political 1 can sum them up in five words ind Sci laziness it is quite obvious from the prominence this critique was Given Only a few Days before tongs official return that he in tends to himself to righting these problems in his revived capacity As  George will Quick Stop hit Una Merican troublemaker Shes trying to remove her Bra Means professor Martin Foret most contemporary scholar of the found ing fathers believed the principle of representation to be the rivet securing the Republican info Stu a Campaign has begun to derogate that James Abourezk d proposes a constitutional Amend ment to establish an initiative process whereby citizens could propose and enact proposal would be by petitions con Taining signatures equal in number to three per cent of he voters in the last i Dellal the nature mass appeals and the fact that the full text must accompany each petition mean most proposals would be Sim Pler than most Laws passed alter full legislative proposals would tend to be spare declarative injunctions for or against for example nuclear abortion or other divisive matters thai cannot be handled prudently with simple elected leaders would use the initiative As another excuse to flinch from Leader in the most important of Zuj states that have the most questions Are placed on the ballot by the Abourezk amendment would not permit Congress to a but it would enable Congress to Duck divisive issues by insisting that they Are prob lems for the Pepple to some taws enacted by initiative would require appropriations from Congress others would involve Revenue we can assume the initiative might be used to not so the initiative would violate the principle that the body that decides to spend Money should be responsible for raising it is said the initiative would be therapeutic for persons Loo alienated to vote in regular even assuming that alienation extends beyond persons who use thai 11 is unlikely that those who do not vote for presidents will be stirred by initiative and advocates of the initiative cannot cite particular Public de sires thai have been neglected by representatives and should lie satisfied by the initiative proposal is an idea congruent with the vague populist impulse of the thus Abourezk justifies toe Initia Tive on the ground that our democracy is based on the notion that the people can govern but that is not strictly when Chesterton Chesterton is not like writing poetry or playing the Church Organ because these things we do rot else a Man to do at All unless he does them democracy on the a thing analogous to writing ones own or blowing ones own these things we want a Man to do or even if he does them but that is top simple and so was Hiram californian populist when in 1911 he endorsed the initiative because he believed in the ability of the people to the people Are not supposed to they Are not supposed to decide they Ere supposed to decide who will decide As Martin Diamond put then is no source of Power but the but the sex erase of Power is the function of represent to Tavel r abour Radt says six of the last id constitutional Amend Ronels have in some Way extended voting rights so the initiative would be lust a further step in this evolutionary but the initiative would be decisively different u would not expand the it would alter tha function of the Only the 17th amendment popular election of senators did and the initiative would do so at the expense of the principle of represent advocates of the initiative say representative government government by the representatives and the inter ests who lobby but any National initiative would be dominated by an unelected minority using direct Tele vision and other of mass Martin Diamond died last week in his 58th minutes after testifying to the Senate against another proposed distortion of the founders system abolition of the electoral Vole his death a sorrow u his Many and Othir Frienda and a wound to the Republic thai was the subject and beneficiary of tils