European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes James Reston january 1978 of treats activities of soviets Are cause for alarm nvestkutlor4s the Carter administration it now re viewing Lar relations with the soviet Union in the Light of several puzzling and oven alarming developments according to intelligence re the la not Only continuing its military air Llu into but now has about troops in thai country and has dispatched several armed frigates to the these tame official reports indicate that Cuba now has Over troops in and that these combined forces seem to be moving from the role of Adelsen and to Una of partly a Paula in the the soviets Are reported to be Bill Dong up their base of operations at Aden in South Yemen on the Gulf of Aden near the Southern Entrance to the red sea As a substitute for the ban they lost when the closed their base at this raises some fundamental political and strategic for if the soviets and cubans help Ethiopia to capture the coastline of Somalia in the Gutt Fraden and the Indian they will to in a position to control the Southern Gate of the red dominate the red sea coast of saudi and put extreme pressure on the who Are the main financial sup port of president Sadat of Egypt in his Effort to negotiate a Compromise Jenl with Israel in the Middle this was one of the main subjects for Between the saudis and presi Dent Carter in the presidents recent visit Likhat and or also discussed Wuh president Valery discard Deming when Carter was in the coming into embassies in Washington Mabr of Denumn the arc the saudis Tiave moved two divisions North of to observe what the soviets Are doing the the the and the British Are Aeo fairly Well wormed about the movement of communist troops and including heavy rus the question under discussion in Washington is Why the communists Are being 90 Active and provocative not Only in Ethiopia arid but in the of Italy and the second question is what should be done about it guess in official quarters Here on the first question to the soviets Ere doing tailing advantage 3 opportune Latiea in weak strategic they now have enough Oil to meet their but by 1mb or according to the due rent Moscow will Hava id get Energy from abroad to meet its Indus trial and military there Why not establish soviet Power when they can in areas where they May be Able to secure the Energy they need Al prices they can that one View of the soviet Effort to gain around saudi which Elbe richest and weakest Bank in the worht the More ominous View it that the nation that dominates or even influences the major source of Petroleum in the world May even be Aue to decide the Fate of the Industrial nations of Europe and the Pentagon has Strong views on this for As i understand the modern planners in Washington now believe that the strategic problem of modern warfare is not to blockade thousands of Miles of enemy but to control the source of the enemy Industrial which is Oil All ibis obviously highly but when the soviet Union moves its big and satellite soldiers into areas that my dominate the Energy of the Middle East and the sea hues around the african obviously has to decide Bow to react the Carter administration la reacting three ways it has raised next years Mili tary budget from 1116 billion to billion two percent above the inflation of last it has warned the italian govern ment publicly against trying to share Power with the italian and in a variety of  11 has recently told the soviet government thai de Tente or peaceful coexistence is a global concept and that Moscow cannot expect cooperation from the United on strategic scientific Cubi and mfrs if it insists on trying to dominate the sources of Power and the sea Tanea around the have their own puzzles they la also intervening in the politics of the Middle East and he is going to Poland and promising id go elsewhere in Eastern Europe to proclaim the political philosophy of us United Why net communist ideological penetration of Portugal and elsewhere so we Are coming into another one of those tense periods Between Moscow and Jimmy Carter is proclaiming Liberty and human and the soviets Are terrified of personal Leonid Brezhnev la talking about human rights at Belgrade if they were a and meanwhile offering to make strategic arms compromises with but meanwhile he is trying to surround saudi Arabia with its Oil resources and us Politi Cal influence on the Israel Arab and doing Best to influence the polities of Western chewy Tinh John Roche the Earmuff i hotline syn Dorrn the teachers despair is the student with an for what Wen Thomas Aquinas views on Tyran of met St Thomas was an Allan Wim wrote a lot of he was called the angelic doctor1 and is most famous for his what has occurred Here ii that Arm Strongs ear has picked up a signal Thomas and lot  the runs directly to his vocal he of completely missed the substantive this is a harmless malady among under graduates except As an and Lemoil to professional but among presidents and other High political figures it can have grave such an when Max Frankel anted president Ford about soviet domination at Eastern Europe in the u76 Ford Carter election undoubtedly lost Ford the he didst run the question through his but immediately started talking and didst listen to what lie thus when Frankel offered him a the presi Dent patently Del realize he bad gone off the Carter then dropped the Guillo Tine by suggesting that president Ford ask the poles whether they were free from soviet several Days the soundtrack simulated a weasel in a Ben House americana of Eastern european background went wild in anger and de Spair while Ford stubbornly refused to admit he had it was a big break for whose inexperience i Loreign affairs was widely considered his Achilles presidents have to learn to run that ear Mouth circuit through Ine where iwo rapid decisions required what is the right answer and should it be Given you May have noticed How extremely Sharp politicians often begin an answer to a hard question with some version now in awfully glad you asked that question its been one that has been Trou bling a number of us for same this repeated by buys thinking if the question it a real a Wise politician misconstrue it and answer another be creates Jack Kennedy was a Genius at i recall conference columns and comments in to when he was asked if marines were and replied with a Brilliant detailed analysis of internal laotian before tee reporters realized he was on to the next dealing with Domestic ironically in the Light of Fords expert 1 cant recall any administration to match Carters in addiction to the ear Mouth for at a Lime when Wise men will keep out of be begin Sandal negotiations jews and Liana were expert negotiators when most of our ancestors were in president Carter suddenly starts a Rheuie Sloun by dance on the status of the palestini Aii by my count he has gone tack four and the Muti if he wants to resettle gone into the ear Mouth i recent press which ii i government rebroadcast with several remarkable Short he explained to a Baptist complaining about hate restrict he knew from Stefan Cardinal of the High degree of Freedom of to Poland and pleased the Cardinal has been an in1 fighter for Catholic rights in a j percent faithful to Home i Church out has traditionally been Tress of polish National Lam yet i Nence Bas never been in the ecumenical he is thorny on the religious he Looi Cai mate has been dedicated Loi roman catholicism As the show this is Petty by jimmys grand cent of human is i what on Earth does one context it could be a Subtle i win an Aff Annat Peoples timeless aspiration Forl if he meant the president have changed the subject a Gau listeners draw Ihler own a instead he went wandering off i Cussion of How Good it ims that p Amerta sins against Liberty  St forums like tie conference As if our two n peas from the same pod Cne Many stunned by 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