European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Otis which appears in Stevenson Book of quotations Between dining and to changing fast these increasingly not with manners or but with serious economic disputes be tween nations Over among other the future control of the resources of the the recently proclaimed 200mile Safet Belt around most National land Bor Ders has created a tangle of new diplomatic and negotiating for even Between the and How do you decide where to draw the line Between the and Canadian 200mile offshore areas of control if you draw that line straight out from the land you Cut right across prob ably the most Fertile fishing ground in the world on Georges but a straight line also cuts across Nova Scotia in Canada and raises problems with the fishermen of Cape cod and the islands of marthas Vine Yard and Nantucket in 7 do you look at the political boundaries Between the two or the offshore geological configuration of the North american continent when you draw the lines How do you keep the Japa and German floating fish factories from destroying the natural reproductive life of these vast underwater food re sources As Rich As the agricultural Plains of the Prairie states and provinces of the and Canada and How do you control the exploitation of the Oil and min eral resources of these disputed areas to gel a glimpse of and How the Carter administration is dealing with we came to the air base at and flew in a coast guard Grumman Albatross Over the disputed fishing grounds Between the and Canada with Lloyd a Washington who has been appointed by president Carter to negotiate an agreement with Canada by the end of the we covered 400 Miles on a gleaming summer morning at 500 feel Over the and dipped Down to 200 fed while the Crew checked foreign vessels in the disputed and took photographs to establish what they were doing and whether they had a right to be Bui was an exercise in the new the and Canada have sort of a Gen lemans agreement to allow the fishermen of both countries to carry on As before until the end of while making the the and others respect the 200 mile zone of control in North America Washington and Ottawa Are quietly negotiating a Compromise on the future regulations Between their two coun ambassador for will negotiate with Marcel a former Ca Nadian ambassador to and now Canadian ambassador to the common Market in and Cutler was out on the taking a look at the practical it is a new kind of practical Cutler looks like an old fashioned Secre tary of but doing his Homework on this noisy Grumman he was a far cry from the old striped pants Diplo he had been ordered by Tho coast guard to Don a Bright Orange safety with donation soundproof and More communication wires than an astronauts so the process of american diplomacy and negotiation is clearly Long said ambassador William Macomber in his excellent and amusing the Angels u was asserted that the first diplomats were whose task was to carry messages Between heaven later the task of diplomacy was left to a professional service and with the de the and satellite two presidents and flying secretaries of but now there is still another v As foreign policy has become More eco More More concerned with and therefore More comply the tendency has been to recruit experienced professionals like concentrate on special sol la Hohtu was brought into help negotiate the Panama canal treaty former Secretary of defense Clark Clifford id Analyse the Cyprus problem Gerard Smith to watch Over the nuclear Prol Kera lion these Are merely symbols of a developing trend toward the decentralization of negotiation by experienced out it is a promising Public at Tention is concentrated now on by Vances dramatic diplomatic missions to China and the Middle but on the and on critical and practical problems Between a Tot of Good and hard work is being done by men and women who Are Seldom mentioned in the t tort Tirui John Roche that looted or liberated i regret this late Entrance to the great looting but 1 have been off to the Library checking the statute of i can now divulge the dreadful truth John Phi Beta is an unto cited As you can the debate Over events during the new York blackout has unsettled Reading the columns of my conservative who doubtless never swiped a Nickel from moms i shuddered clearly i was a desecrate a of the  tradition and the values of our Republic a wicked person who had cunningly evaded the elec tric then i read the permissive High theor they made me feel i grew up in a strange family though dad never in that was part of the he was unemployed and Home too Damn we were poor until the War solved toe juvenile unemployment approximated 100 in i Learned i want guilty everybody this absolution lifted the Burden from my soul but then the inner voice of cold conscience that you that fur lined flight jacket even though you knew ii had been liberated from an air Force it All began innocently in i was sitting in the no club at an air transport command base playing when someone rushed in to announce that one of the warehouses was Shi by Pri vate arrangement with the motor Pool ser i had my own jeep parked not because i was Law but rather because my a grand would get rockets in the Middle of the night from Guam and our other charming resorts demanding the instant shipment of a two quartermaster and five Taviga he would Call say ship those confident they would be on the morn ing plane and eventually he would get his but i my friends of the noncommissioned Baro nage agreed we should finish the hand and then go Down to the depot and take a look at the it was a Beauty the flames had begun in a Section where rounds for very pistols and similar pyrotechnics were and the place looked like an old fashioned july the building was roughly the site i mgr Amtul to a Tomt h Rewt Milano tin my int of a football while the firemen were Busy at one Here was a Good Deal of unusual activity at the a solid line of men was entering one door and emerging from another encumbered with All sorts of we Cut out of the jeep to take a closer Randll was soon Clear that a Salvage Mission was under the in an fashion were saving everything they could from the there was Little disorder he military police saw to promptly breaking up rights Over who was going to five pair of flight there was a touching Quality about the Here were some of whom had served overseas for two on their own going to the Aid of their and working prodigiously i recall one carrying no less than id Cartona of air Crew dark it would be pointless to overwork the All this happens to be True with one the troops were not engaged in Salvage pro Brno but were liberating the from the impending they were not taking them to an other but Back to the Barracks for Trade or Friendly which brings me to my role As an accessory after my colleagues and i held far too lofty positions to join the a is Fol who ran of rations invisible Corinel was not going to get in there Ellb the peas the sgt who ran intelligence As a chaperone for a genial major would hardly engage in unskilled after watching a we returned for some Beer and seven card a Day or two a i knew dropped a he had lived in my bar Racks some months when father i had called my Friend at operations and got the pvt a to priority air Force Hitcome chit to gel Home fast he came to express his gratitude r and sent me with a fur lined site i did not inquire about its but wore it into Grad uate school u Protection against Cornell Winters 1 was furious la ims when some Busy thief with no respect or private property stole