European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes monday october 24, 1977 new York not Jimmy Carter who got elected last year by boasting that he did t know anything about Washington has spent most of this year proving it. In eight months on the Job he has managed to irritate his Black supporters endanger his Southern base offend some of the most powerful people in Congress outrage Many of his potential supporters in the Senate and alienate such formidable blocs As the pro Israel Oil and Gas and military Industrial lobbies. Some May love him for the enemies he has made this kind of politics worked for Rich Ard Nixon for a while but if so they Are being quiet about it. The most interesting sounds coming out of Washington this fall Are the sighs of disillusion from those who loved him last november. It is easy to make the Case sound More Des Perate than it is and this is what is being done. It was Only to be expected. Overselling is one of the vices of american politics. We begin by overselling ourselves on the Virtues of the presidents we elect and when they turn out to be frail and mortal we oversell our selves on their shortcomings. In the Carter Campaign people who should have known better oversold themselves on the Virtues of innocence. Their Man s Lack of experience in the byzantine Maze of Washington should have alerted them to the possibility that if elected he would inevitably have to suffer some exceedingly painful on the Job training. Now that he is getting it they lament the fact that he lacks the cunning of a Lyndon Johnson who lived and breathed Washington for 30 years before facing off against Congress from the White House. A troublesome problem of american government is that the skills required to get elected president nowadays Are of very Little use once you have won the Job. Cutting an Admira ble figure on television conveying a sense of decency maturity intelligence and authority these Are indispensable for getting elected but of Small use in persuading the Congress to overhaul the tax Structure stopping one s countrymen from burning All the Oil in the Cosmos or showing the israelis the Wisdom of abandoning passionately held views of their own self interest. Achieving such ambitious goals requires talents to which no sane Campaign architect would let his presidential candidate confess. Among these Are talents for horse trading bullying and Subtle bribery a Talent for detecting the Point at which principle can be compromised Short of disgrace a Talent for setting priorities and knowing which goals will require Battles too frightful to be fought without risk of spending All one s political Cap ital. Above All one must have an instinctual Russell Baker grasp of the Basic Rule of Washington survival ration your enemies. The Carter Campaign was based on the argument that he was singularly innocent of these very talents that would be needed to carry out the ambitious programs he was promising to enact and that for this reason he would make the Best of All possible presidents. Surprisingly he seems to have been just As innocent of Washington reality As his Campaign drummers boasted. He told us he would never lie to us and to and behold sure enough he had to at least about his inexperience. In the Lance affair he showed an ignorance of the determination and ferocity which these traditional periodic manhunt commonly attain As Well As the political damage they commonly leave behind. His understanding of the Congress seems to have been of the perfunctory textbook variety. If he was aware of the formidable Power lodged in caves like the Senate finance committee he took no cautions to accommodate with it. Nor did he seem to grasp the fact that since watergate the con Gress has been of a Strong mind to teach presi dents frequent lessons in humility. These were flaws of innocence. So was the overselling of his ambitious Domestic pro Grams. The Energy program tax Reform and welfare Reform together composed a Legisla Tive package whose passage would have required the ability to pass a Miracle. To get any single one in a full congressional term would have been an astonishing coup for a new president. Each is the stuff that govern ment struggles at for years before anything is enacted. To get All three untangled is the stuff of presidential pipe dreams. By creating in billable expectations he is now paying in lowered reputation but nothing irrecoverable has yet been lost particularly if the first year in Washington has improved his education. The Domestic program could All be scrapped temporarily and tackled next time around with More reasonable Hope of Success thus turning this year of harsh education into Long term political profit. Those who accepted the Carter election without undue illusion might even observe that his real strengths then remain real strengths today. He is decent honest open at peace with himself and a Man of Goodwill. This is really a Good bit to find in a president. If this year s education makes him More nearly competent he May make one of the serviceable ones. Just horsing around senior airman Ann Marie Letendre practices jumping at the in Ciurlik cd Turkey Riding Sta Bles. More than 20 people Are members of the Riding club. Air Force photo by sgt. Pete Wright across 1 Mountain defile 5 Atlas items Foo like Organ 12 Border on13 got off the horse 14 English Rural festival 15 pleader 17 betray a cause 18 tiny particle 19 town in Iowa 21 records 24 Street Urchin 25 Isles off Ireland 26 Canadian province 30 russian Community 31 Finch 32 science workshop 33 synthetic materials 35 stratagem 36 Forward or reverse 37 lawful 38 i s full name 40 Start for Hook or House 42 Money in forage 43 Pilot s umbrella 48 tearing tripe 49 discharge 50 Large Lake 51 residue 52 andirons 53 Coin of Ira Down 1 invalid s food 2 arabian garment 3 arabian seaport 4 Flower Organ 5 Beer ingredient 6 nautical word 7 abyss 8 soap ingredient avg. Solution time 27 min. 10-24 answer to saturday s Puzzle. 9-in the form of a parable 10 dash 11 bristle 16 lettuce 20 Printer s Mold 21 ram Down 22 seed coat 23 news item 24 cuckoos 26 Golda 27 first in Arcade 28 Island East of Java 29 incite 31 impressed 34 yellow for one 35 shrivel 37 resinous substance 38 Lively dance 39 Rainbow 40 floating prison 41 horse fare 441 love a 45 Swiss Canton 46 Spanish aunt 47 Moray today s crossword 12 15 21 30 33 38 22 39 51 36 18 16 31 49 52 13 27 40 24 41 8 19 20 50 17 32 45 28 29 41 10-24 Learann Landers dear Ann this is for Desper ate and Arizona both had been raped by a relative and anyone else out there who has had the horrible experience. For god s Sake Tell some body. Get it out of your system. Don t keep it locked up inside you. It can be a time bomb. I know. It happened to me. When i was 11 years old my Stepfather raped me. I was afraid to Tell on him so i just kept quiet and made sure we were never alone together. When i reached the boy girl dating age in those Days it was 16 i was terrified to let a boy hold my hand. I was so tense and fright ened of any Contact with a male it was agony to even sit next to a boy in a movie. I also had terrible guilt feelings As if i was responsible for what had happened to me when i was 11 years old. The Day after High school graduation i had a Complete nervous breakdown. A wonderful doctor brought me Back to the real world and i will never be Able to thank him enough. It was he who taught me the importance of talk ing about the secret Nightmare that i had kept buried in my mind for so Many years. So Ann please print my letter and encourage other girls especially Young children to Tell somebody if they have the horrible experience Mother sister teacher doctor aunt. It can mean the Dif Ference Between mental health and insanity. Been there dear Friend your letter says it All. Thanks for sitting in my chair today. You had a lot to say and said it better than i could. Dear Ann Landers this May not seem like much of a nuisance to you but it s a big one to me. Our problem is the postman. He sweats on the mail. Ours is the last House on the route and by the time he gets to us the Ink on the letters is smeared and some of the Maga Zines Are so soggy they have to be Hung up and dried out. I have never said More than Good morning to the Man in my life so please Don t suggest that i have a Chat with him. I just could t. If you print this letter i will see that he gets it somehow. Please thank you. Queasy in Oregon dear queasy the postman has a bigger problem than you. It s called hyper Drosis excessive sweating. If it s so bad that he soaks the mail he must be plenty miserable. This Man should see a dermatologist about preparing a special antiperspirant for his hands if the commercial products Don t work. He can be helped if he gets a doctor who has the patience to work with him. Dear Ann Landers i am a 14 year old boy whose life is being ruined by a spoiled brat. She is my nine year old sister. She has a terrible temper and attacks me like an animal. If i hit her i get crucified so All i can do is hold her wrists when she leaps at me. This makes her furious and she screams bloody murder. Then i get punished for annoy ing my Little  what can i do tortured in n.  tort a 14-year-old boy is bigger and stronger than a Nind year old girl. When she pounces on you untangle yourself getaway from her go into another room and lock the door. C 1977 Field enterprises inc