European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes James Reston february what a two 0ln Tom qut israelis Are mistaken in criticism of Vance the israelis Are supposed to know every curd in the deck in but he biggest personal mistake they have made recently and they have made quite a few is to accuse Secretary of state Vance of talking too much and differing with president if there is one general criticism of by Vance in even among his it is that he is elaborately careful to say nothing in Public that would Embar Rass least of All his he has until been everybody i 2 boy general counsel to the de sense 6162 Secretary of the 6263 Deputy Secretary of and special assistant to the presi Dent in Cyprus and but always the quiet determined to stay out of even if he bored the press in the on Vance said that the israeli settlements in the Sinai and on the West Bank of the Jordan were contrary to International Law and therefore should not on prime minister begin of Israel said that Vances statement was in Complete contradiction to remarks made to begin when he talked to president both sides have been arguing the Point Ever has had the effect not of weak j Vances but of strengthen both with the president and in the precisely at the Point when car indecision to Send planes to 1 and saudi Arabia Are under attack Lei and its supporters on Capitol Al and its friends in this country Are amounting a major Campaign against statement that the jewish Settle Are contrary to International Law Ner fore should and also the presidents decision to Send y aircraft to Egypt and saudi As Well As to Israel t israelis Are arguing 1 that Israel More plus and f but 2 thai Egypt 1 not get less Modem f5e fight d that 3 saudi Arabia should not r american fi5s at is arguing that it should retain its the meals and airfields in occupied i and that Vance should not t sides in the negotiations Between tand be has watched All this very careful i his accustomed and has said Little in but in private he has by lot to say in the White attack from the he is now a formidable figure in this controversy i be Ever was Ely because he has been so quiet with the White the ise department and the hta emendations about the settlements i the planes to the Middle East Are More save than Ever t the israelis have misjudged is that is really no division Between the Lent and or Between Vance and Secretary of defense Brown and the joint chiefs of staff on the to the Middle East or the withdrawal of Israel to the 1967 Borders under Security Council Resolution the Carter administration is United on these All the More so since begin has tried to Divide the Secretary of slate from the even in the where the israelis have great particularly in a con Gressional election the israeli sup porters Are in More trouble than they have been for Many they Are being told 01 Capitol Hill that they cannot hold onto their get their and deny planes to Egypt and saudi so in Opl Tont up thud to h column Urt Wil m i Ptg of try Inmair Virad n Norn Mlong i tin Sun w sum this message is being conveyed in Pri vate and with the greatest on the Israel is being told that it is Over playing its As is playing All this Pia he is not complaining about the israeli attacks on his in it can be said that he has been holding the White House Back from making an Issue of the and urging everybody to avoid any statements that would contrib Ute to the the Secretary of stale is taking the same line with mosh the israeli foreign now in he is saying nothing about mayans charges that Washington has not told the truth about understandings on the be is avoiding any and All personal and looking to future negotiations for a comprehensive Middle maybe it took a controversy like this to clarify Vances role in this he is a not Only Between Sadat and but within the Carter adminis for an argument has been made against a lawyer As Secretary of on the ground that lawyers do not see foreign policy As a Lon term process but want to win and assign punish ments and but not he tins been Over the humps Here for Many bad Back and and is just old enough and experienced enough to try to hold things last Washington was mocking his cautious but now he is coming into his William l Oil routes May be next Russ it is a pity that the Leader of Somalia has so unattractive a but 11 is a soiled skirt we have no business hiding it is unquestionably True that for several seasons he collaborated gratefully with the soviet the soviet military advisers he now denounces were honoured guests of his much of the military hardware he disposed of was manufactured in the soviet Union or in the satellite coun and in is Irue that president Barre took advantage of the chaos in Ethiopia to encourage somalian  in Paden where he is now being humiliated by the ethiopian counteroffensive which to a intents and a soviet of a Tew observations is it tacitly the opinion of the Western Powers that Border disputes around the world will be settled by inc preponderance a11v6 and Wei in of soviet arms the question of who rules in Ogaden one about which reasonable men May but int our toleration of the existing situation on the order of Sug Gesting that where there is territory Over which there is that nation which succeeds in ingratiating itself with the soviet Union will prevail is a Genera Rionold tension Between Chile and Peru on the question of the Northern Border some thing which will Only be settled after the soviet Union decides which Side to Back the widespread notion that the soviet Union befriended Ethiopia because of the qualities of us colonel Mengistu is plausible up to a there would appear to be Tittle question that col Onel Mengistu is properly he is cruel to the Point of he is he or rapier the marxist catechism without apparent he is delighted at the Prospect of upsetting toe regional and his Anima versions on the West Are indistinguishable from those of Qaddafi or but that much can be said about a dozen other exuberant dicta tors around the world who would like to Hattz Kreng their Way to Karl Meng Stu Newsweek quotes an aide to Barre As saying it most concisely the soviets can All soviet  plan Barres a the Oil producing areas k my they Willitt t soviet target after the Horn is because the is sitting on soviets Are confident they their one does not need to h Al Maan to grasp the the j appropriately the the persian Gulf East to the forbearance of reconstitution i of a naval t for the soviet in i military Dancy Given what they i have ready Access but Barre is Correct that what the soviet Dunlop soviet Union guards the Entrance to decisively As Mediterranean West the British permit the of Somalia wonder what stand in and a word about cub fail in a How the turning mature response Little client despot in the i like letting your Little boy and turn the steering in seems a very Long tune i through to ask wet t cubans in Africa and 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