European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 the stars and stripes August 1978 Tom Wicker weapons Bill veto override could Hurt cart the most important Date now before president Carter May be on that just two Days after re turning from its the House of representatives will attempt to override car ters veto of a j137 billion weapons procurement it is not too much to say that this is a vote the administration can not afford to after was the presidents first controversial it comes at a time when his Job performance rating has sunk almost out of if Congress sustains the his reputation for toughness and Mastery of his Job May be modestly improved but if con Gress it is Likely to be a disaster for the presidents function As commander in chief of the armed forces is one of his most important and is so perceived by Congress and the when the House put billion into the procurement Bill for a nuclear powered air Craft Carrier that Carter had not asked for and did not it was challenging him that is More than in any congressional vote since those in the Senate on the Panama canal Carter cannot afford to both in Congress and with the an override in this Case would perhaps the idea that Carter b a weak president unable to get a pro Gram through a Congress controlled by his own party unable even to act As com Mander in chief without Congress forcing him to knuckle the veto can be defended on its own without reference to what it Means to Carters political in or Der to provide the billion for the nuclear without increasing the Overall size of the procurement the House had to take the following unwise Steps Cut million from billion Carter had requested to strengthen ground particularly those committed to Cut j200 million from a request for More electronic warfare equip menut and electronically guided Ordi eliminate half of Carters proposed f 1 billion increase in immediate readiness funds for the military forces weapons repair and ship for reduce research and development although the president had requested a three percent the House not Only is giving Carter what he does not want it is refusing to give him what he does the nuclear powered could not be completed for Many years while the re quests Carter had made could be fulfilled right building the Carrier would effectively negate the presidents declared policy of providing the Navy with More but less expensive vessels he is for to request a conventionally pow ered at a Cost of Only in next years Secretary of defense Brown defended the veto in an appearance on issues and the now has the strongest Brown but i think we can continue to do so Only if we reverse the trend toward smaller and smaller numbers of larger and More expensive he the nuclear Carrier could Only be provided at the expense of other things More urgently needed for our but it is not merely for reasons of sound defense policy that the Carter administration is mounting a Bohol debarred Campaign to sustain the presidents vice president Mondale and Brown will take leading parts in this one gathering of about Iso Busi Ness and civic leaders has been convened in the East room of the White House to be briefed on the much As such groups tto opt raw  in columns c4rtoont on Inis  Ulm of us out Hon Art to no Way to  m  views of Tim i sir Apfl or try Uro loft suits were converted into administration advocates on the canal there will be Many More such not least because if Congress can override the president on such a Clear in an area of his most specific it can hardly be expected in the fall session to pay much attention to his wishes on such difficult matters As tax natural Gas regulation and civil service beyond Carters vaunted determination to toughen up his administration and his own performance would be made to look More like products of Gerry Raf shoots image factory than the real White House officials say that As Many As 30 More significant vetoes May be Forth coming if congressional action continues to shatter Carters budget budget director James Mclntyre is said to be argue for that the Highway mass transit Bill would exceed budget plans by billion Over eight but vetoes of Bills providing such largesse for members constituencies would be even i sustain if the weapons and it might a nuclear her is a Nice Symbol of mrs i and International Bonyi politicians like to that More of a Symbol than a fact j difference in an election i big reason Why the Carrier in the first ow10n Shoon William Buckley a gesture of in recent the managing Edi Tor of the new York has argued forcefully the Mer its of his reporter in new Myron refusing to permit the judge at a murder trial to look at Farmers the controversy is and responsible men can opine in favor of the who Points out that a Man is being tried for and in favor of the who Points out that confidential notes of a re Porter must remain confidential or else the Freedom of the press is the uproar Over the imprisonment of Farber and the fines levied against the its no fee of mime either times occupied the headlines in new York until the headlines stopped Sud Denly it became a matter not of a decline in the intensity of investigative journalism because of the fear of prurient judicial in the matter became no journalism of any Why because seven including a Union of editorial pm declined to Cross the picket line thrown up by a Union of Pressman striking against technological where is the Public clamor if Rosenthal is he will have to do so in out town or Over radio and who is the most energetic and conscientious of men and a close personal Friend betrays that sense of resignation inherited from the superstitions of an age in which habits of mind were formed which survive As rank that mind set holds that to Cross a picket line is a fratricidal that is the ranking superstition in the Corpse of ritualistic american liberalism it is the ultimate in intellectual and moral abdication of grown men and women who laugh at the proposition that the Pope might be invested with divine intelligence in ruling on matters of morals regularly assign infallibility to any Trade Union capable of instituting a picket by declining to come to and to make the Effort successfully made in washing ton by the Post two years ago to bring out a the same men who clamor about threats to the Freedom of the press hypothetically posed by a judge in new by declining to Cross a picket line acquiescent by allow the press to suspend not Only its Freedom but its the superstitions of class inherited from an age when business was automatically thought to automatically have movements of men and women years ago Eleanor Back from a on being picketed turned remarking that not Cross a picket line tinder my stances giving Rise to Gest Ion that pickets be exit to Hyde and i John Kenneth broadcast of meet the around at the Cross the picket thus exercise of adjudicating the striking unions sparing the Republic the televised there ought to Taw am shrinks from the verage of a striking Union to thus we get garbage Fli Why not Congress if of Buiji negative responsibility not with the Freedom of the a positive responsibility to from interfering with the press but surely the most Lions Are social responsible women must Stop Superior Dlf loyalty to any labor Over by to the Community Are constantly invoking in soy solving the Freedom of the Artst singly abandon As a fraternal