European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1978 it this tilt Meam fewer recalls for William Safire its time to Tell Japa to pay own defense every automobile americas free Economy Sells in that nations government monopoly Economy Sells 100 automobiles in the United that imbalance is not merely the result of our Plant inefficiency or High wage Scales it a caused partly by a level of japanese protectionism that amounts to a form of economic warfare against the United for Japan and some other Industrial nations have been producing More steel than they can rather than Cut baft production and suffer the local outcry at the governments have been underwriting company lasses and dumping steel on the huts against our a foreign government cannot subsidize a product and then unfairly compete in our forcing us to close Mills and effectively transferring their unemployment to what has been our reaction to his inter National Trade lawlessness president Carters special Trade Robert has been smilingly shaking hands and accepting japanese assurances o improved rela our Deputy Treasury Secretary for monetary Arthur at the request of the steel Industry i20on Gressman has come up with a scheme called trigger his idea b to fix a fair Price for steel imported from based on Normal production costs without with penalties Trig gered by the Strauss glad handing is William May Tell Reagan Why not they keep asking about this is in part because presidential politics is the great National in part because Here is a vulnerability to Jimmy Carter that a lot of the professionals an there Are obvious lungs to say on he primarily that no one has any right to pretend to know what will be the perception of Jimmy Carter in 1380 and a few Leas obvious things to which Are my specially  Jerry Brown of California covets the position a Rule too u is consistent with the american tradition of Forth right ambition to wish very much to be president of the United it so to in Nelson Rockefeller Nui Lor president of the United states with the most  and nobody much nobody even minded when Nelson Rockefeller was saying that he was not running Lor president of the United ditto Richard everyone knew the White House was what he on the few occasions when he wag Coy on the his Public merely shrugged its As if to what do you expect Jerry different he b not a focus of National at Tention because he was cast in Ibe Mold of Nuon for that an he b supposed to be something of a something of a Blithe spirit who floats above Hes familiar with a whole body of literature thai the mayor Daley of this As suming they Wen aware of would prob ably have thought Hla renowned lifestyle is a combination of asceticism and bid Persona manners which he gets away with by permitting the myth to circulate that he goes into soc Ralie trances of concentration which keep him from remembering to Brush his answer his mall fir pass the Mustard to Prince the is that through it Alt there crystallizes the image of the the kid who has seen the Robert Bedford movie on How to be a can and figures to ride his image All the Way to the while the Point is not columns and comments that Here is a constitutional requirement that everyone who sits in the White House has got to behave like Teddy Roosevelt or Edh or Richard the Point la As we approach Jerry a order to remain a is going to have to shuffle off his spiritual and be will look pretty much like All Loose other people eating Chicken and peas and saying an those banal t the have the easier time in that there is no incumbent King that Mutt be Gerald rid is the titular Leader it toe Republican tired a presidential race except from the White has not developed the skills that take you to the  of new and on the other and 11 would certainly appear from his activity that some time late in to announce that he will run for president la there is one thing that keeps this from and that la a collapse in Bis standing in the popularity i judge this to be in the first Reagan is no longer in the Public mind the Stract ideologists with two sen tence answers for All the ills that plague the a perspective of his quite Brilliant administration of California at Tain during eight extremely difficult Yean b and to his he maintain his bully to inspire a he is personally business he suffers the single presumptive Dos butty of being thought a was a year and the us and Bis son were spending Bank solving at my mothers  k grandchildren gather on the lunch is Al Wall followed by touch foot Ball and i asked Reagan if be would consent to whats the matter he asked with genuine Surprise and just a touch of cant i body comes along with the Ford is Suu greatly respected and even it is not fair to my that be b greatly missed As it int As though he waa Teddy and Mil Lions Sal about wishing they could have i hair Man Back in the White not that Way at Gerald who never in in by from bit whats the matter cant i play i can hear that sew Hamp unless tic Reid Between now and Lien a galloping the looking at Are quite possibly going to Why not but the Solomon decision is truly s like h cuts the baby in in the Kif optic the of Nurss v dumping with  effectively places Dusty under presidential Price when government creates a Bureau Cracy to control the Price of to gains absolute control of the Price of Many leaders of the steel Industry tired of being called Nasty names by presidents for acting like real entrepreneurs much prefer the Rosy glow of Good Public relations to the rough an Tumble of competitive wearing their new brows furrowed at the closing of Mills and the loss of jobs Al inefficient they Long to relax into a world of government administered trigger pricing is a solution far worse than the the Carter men love it the state department types can Tell our trading they were saved from congressional retaliation for and the economic planners have a la Eandi death control of american steel through the creation of what amounts to a foreign we cannot afford either foreign dumping or backdoor Price answer would be for Congress to put Teeth in our anti dumping penalizing proven dumping with automatic imposition of punitive another answer b to begin thinking unthinkable about one of Hal tons greatest assets is a free ride on sense unburdened by requirements Ofa substantial armed forces its Economy is far More United with its nuclear is i japans might it not be a third of a Century i after world War to have a agonizing reappraisal of that commit ment our ambassador to would understand that approach the Mansfield threatening to withdraw troops from our allies there to Bear their fair share of defense tiny Panama can renegotiate us canal treaty with can we not renegotiate our peace treaty with Japan the very consideration of requiring a conventional Arm buildup in Japan n order for them to keep our nuclear would have Salu tary the would not like it a bit they want to dominate and the by of the birth of a defense budget there might cause them to shed tie chinese would be deeply concerned they want Power in the far East to counter the and have historical Causa to fear a japanese military u we dramatize our willingness to continue to make that restraint  that be a Spur to normalization t for what the japanese would get the message that we Are not coming to them attn begging for them to Stop the dump tag and exporting their Usnap Byrnett the Specter of folding the Mctear Sibrel la at some far off Dale a Church Amend ment might just capture their Price con tool which ate men and Union officials Are so shortsighted to let us it Bart that by protecting t they Cittato question  Protection the tin