European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday september 21, 1977 John p. Roche to Courtot Mas Ever observed its nations. Nations fit suited our sino Logiste miss real issues on peking it is hard to comprehend the great spasm about our normalization of relations with peking unless you understand the political role of a handful of american sino Logiste. The unofficial Dean of this group is professor John k. Fairbank of Harvard a scholar of great Eminence and. When Fairbank sneezes his admirers and former students Many of whom Are now strategically located in the govern ment catch cold. This is anything but sinister any professor Hopes his views will be taken thus seriously. But it does constitute a problem if one believes Fairbank has made a bad Call. Now it appears that some time ago fair Bank became convinced that the new peking leadership unless properly wooed by the United states would play the soviet card that is. Settle their differences wit Moscow leaving us out in the cold. It therefore became essential we move fast to disengage ourselves from the Republic of China on Taiwan and Accord peking full status As the Only  this doctrine was incorporated in a National Security Council document. Sen. Edward Kennedy gave it his imprimatur in a Boston speech and Secretary Vance headed for peking. However if you read the Small print in Kennedy s speech and other relevant pronouncements nobody was prepared to Cut the Mustard by flatly stating ditch  thus Vance had the unenviable task which even a super Henry could not accomplish of convincing Hua Teng & co. In peking that we Are dumping Taiwan while persuading Taiwan and the Ameri can Congress that nothing has really changed. The attempt flopped neither set of Chi Nese Are fools indeed Teng More in sorrow than anger indicated Vance had set Back Progress from the High Point achieved when president Ford promised to hand Over Taiwan. France Teng said broke with the conciliatory Ford line by suggesting that Mutual concessions were a precondition for normalization. In Short the United states should expect nothing for Taiwan. Well if at first you can t appease try try again. Already the chorus is Backes senti ally calling for unilateral american concessions to prevent the revival of the peking Moscow Axis the invasion of Taiwan War in Asia and other dreadful things. Few people Stop to question the realism of the doomsday scenarios or Sug Gest the Ideal policy is to do nothing. As a distinguished sin Logist once put it relax on the Issue of Taiwan and let the parties concerned work it out within the present framework i.e., with our seventh Fleet still patrolling the Taiwan Straits. The one China fixation in peking an Taipei leaves us no ground for negotiations with either one about the future status of Taiwan. We can neither reconquer the Mainland for Taipei nor let peking take Over the Island by Force. We should Agi Tate this question As Little As possible and put Forward no solution  thus stated professor John k. Fairbank in april 1966 and it s still eminently Sensi ble unless there is convincing evidence policy of masterly inaction will produce significant problems for our National inter ests in East Asia. Let s Check a few of the leading issues. First will peking rejected by America return to the maternal bosom of soviet communism two barriers stand in the Way of any such development 1 the fact that Russia both czarist and soviet stole far More Square Miles of chinese turf than Formosa Taiwan originally detached by Japan. If Hua wants to engage in liberating ancestral estates the mongolian the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Wax to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United slates government. People s Republic is close at hand and does not require an army that walks on water. 2 communist China is still an organizational shambles with local military unit setting up shop essentially As communist warlords civil strife in Fukien and the army divided. The russian enemy is thus the key symbolic source of Unity no Chi Nese general in his right mind is going to quake at the thought of the american  moreover what can peking do for us provide natural bristles to replace the worthless Nylon in modern toothbrushes borrow our technology and Money to develop chinese resources and perhaps give technical assistance to our Law and order buffs on How to intimidate millions. Not impressive. Finally As Mao s american acolytes tear their hair and gnash their Teeth the capitalist readers who have replaced that antique holy roller will if Given the Chance come to us for help in primitive capital creation. The poor american masites who Are already shifting to a new albanian papacy can howl treason but it was Teng Hsiao Ping who said he did t care about the color of a cat if it caught mice. Hardly a breakthrough in marxist thought but a Good argument for peking s normalizing relations with us. C King features James j. Kilpatrick this sort of thing is outrageous senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin our town s leading practitioner of the gadfly profession Sank his Teeth in the National endowment for the arts. In the process he once again raised a Funda mental Issue of constitutional government. The senator was Upsel justifiably so at the award of $6,025 in tax funds to Leann Wilchusky of Pittsburgh. The award financed the production of a 20-minute film depicting in part the dropping of crepe paper from two Small planes flying Over Elpaso. In times past though not at Public expense the same artist has dropped Bou Quets of plastic streamers tire rubber and even 35 Rolls of toilet paper from air planes. She told Proxmire s staff that while Johnny paper makes Lovely patterns in the sky crepe paper is even better. These things Are not easy to explain. The National endowment for the arts in the year of this remarkable award was financed chiefly by $82 million in tax funds. Most of this was paid out in Federal state partnership programs and in Large Grants to museums orchestras and Public bodies. But the foundation also made 1,107 individual Grants in fiscal 76 amounting to $4,863,000. These went by Way of example to 78 poets 45 novelists 26 playwrights and to whole flocks of artists sculptors printmakers photographers and even to24 Art critics. The Grant to is. Wilchusky came under the category of Public Media program Ming in the arts. Such Grants Are intended to encourage Quality programming on film television and  when senator Proxmire complained to Nancy Hanks chairman of the arts endowment she amplified this explanation. Such films As the Wilchusky film she said Are designed to document an event designed to alter an audience s immediate environment for Short period of  this was How the taxpayers had their immediate environment altered for a Short period of time is. Wilchusky according to her final report spent $1,424 on air fare and lodging for herself and her husband for a week s stay on the resort Island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean. This was in february 1976, when things were a Little Bleak in Pittsburgh. Is. Wilchusky told Proxmire s staff that she needed to go to St. Maarten in order to film one of the environments that had influenced her develop ment As an artist. Her husband served As cameraman. The finished film shows Vari Ous scenes of the artist posing in St. Maar ten. In August 1976, the artist her husband two sky divers and two of her children assembled in Elpaso. They spent $1,713 for travel expenses on this venture. While the children stayed on the ground the others went aloft. The sky divers then unpeeled four Rolls of crepe paper As they fell Loward the ground. The camera whirled away. The children retrieved the crepe paper. The artist told Proxmire s staff that her work Calls attention to the higher spirit of Mankind and the coming Era of peace and Harmony on Earth. A spokesperson at the foundation fur ther explained that transitory works of Art such As this one Are As creative in their Way As objects made of Clay or Bronze or Stone. It is she said kind of like filming a fireworks show. The $6,025, said Proxmire represented the total annual taxes paid by a factory worker in Milwaukee a cleaning woman in Madison and a Dairy Farmer in Marathon county wis. Proxmire termed the award an  this sort of thing is indeed outrageous but such payments from Public funds also raise grave questions under the Constitution. Where is the authority for this non sense even if the general welfare clause is cited it is absurd to contend that Grants to individual artists and writers Are for the general welfare. Such Grants smack of monarchical largesse of purses bestowed by wealthy patrons to their proteges. Forget the Wilchusky film. What of these 78 poets and 45 novelists for every poet who received a $6,000 Fellowship it is a fair Assumption that 10 applicants were turned Down. The 19 members of the advis Ory panel on literature simply gave away Public funds on their subjective judgment of the applicants  few years Back the foundation paid our tax Money for a poem that read More or less in full Uigh Huttt i would like six grand if you please for my own Poe of protest  c Washington Star