European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes George f. Will Friday september 8, 1978 bikers demo letter reveals deeply divided party forty four weeks ago. President Carter told an Iowa audience that there would be a Salt agreement in a few  now Paul Warnke has called Salt to the nation s attention again and his method of doing so illustrates continuing tensions within the democratic party. Warnke the chief Salt negotiator says the Carter administration is considering sending the next Salt agreement to the Senate As an executive agreement rather than As a  s trial balloon has been shot Down and covered with derision. But the administration is or was considering an end run around the Constitution be cause ratification of a treaty will require 67 votes Many More than the treaty is Apt to  is instructive that the administration fears sending a treaty to the Senate that has a 62-38 democratic majority. So is the vituperative fund raising letter recently sent to democratic activists by John White the party s National chairman. White professes alarm about the Radi Cal right also Ultra conservatives reactionary conservatives extremists who he says his strength is not rhetorical innovation want to turn the clock  he does not deplore proposition 13, perhaps because that bit of conservatism was passed in a state where democrats have a substantial advantage in registered voters. Instead he emphasizes foreign pol icy  most heart Felt charge is that conservatives want to recreate Many of the attitudes and policies which led to Ameri Ca s involvement in the Vietnam  that is the enemies Are extremists and reactionaries whose attitudes and policies resemble those of the Kennedy and John son  is interesting about White s letter is not that it is Humbug. After All As a Wise Man says in George Eliot s novel Daniel Deronda there s a bad style of hum Bug but there is also a Good style one that oils the wheels and makes Progress possible. If you Are to Rule men you must Rule them through their own ideas and i agree with the archbishop of Naples who had a St. Januarius procession against the plague. It s no use having an order in Council against popular shallowness. There is no action possible without a Little  wants to win the hearts and minds and pocketbooks of Democrat activists and he probably chooses appropriate hum Bug. But this Choice reveals a deeply divided  is most emphatic about needing Money to combat opponents of the administration s Salt policies. He says the Ultra right has already begun to oppose these policies so democrats must elect progressive reinforcements. This rhetorical flourish exhausted the patience of Ben Wallenberg whose patience truth be told is easily exhausted. Cd is composed of moderate democrats Sens. Jackson and Daniel p. Moynihan Are honorary chairmen and the organization s name expresses the pugnacious belief that it More than the people who shape the administration s for eign policy represents the party s traditional and real , in a letter that is As biting As the first Frost Wattenberg has reminded White that Many respected democrats Jackson Moynihan sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia Admiral Elmo Zumwalt former chief of Nav Al operations Eugene  undersecretary of state Paul Nitze former Deputy Secretary of defense Are the most important leaders of the growing coalition of people who Are alarmed by the administration s Salt policies. Not one of those democrats is an  there Are few precedents for the current situation. Although there is no War the party in Power is divided about fundamentals especially two the assessment of the intentions of the nation s most dangerous adversary and the Wisdom and motives of . Foreign policy since 1945. Salt the Centrepiece of administration foreign policy is in trouble in Congress and in the country for the same reason the Energy program the Centrepiece of Domestic policy is in trouble the democratic presi Dent cannot convince enough democrats. C the Washington Post James j. Kilpatrick �197� Lef s get shovelling on the pipeline members of a wandering House sub committee trying to do something about the Energy mess turned up in san Francis co the other Day. California s gov. Edmund g. Brown gave them a hard time. He said the West coast is drowning in a glut of alaskan Oil and he blasted Federal red tape that has snarled a solution. What is needed the governor said among other things is a pipeline to ship the Oil . Brown Seldom has been More absolutely right. The West coast is up to its ears in Oil. One proposal is that some of our  brai Huff alaskan Oil be swapped to Japan in Exchange for some of the Oil Japan otherwise would get from the Mideast and Indonesia but almost no one is Happy with that arrangement. The key to the problem said rep. Don Clausen of California lies in solving the transportation  the Northern tier pipeline company is now Labouring heroically to do precisely that. This consortium of eight partners wants to build a pipeline that would run for 1,560 Miles Between port Angeles wash., and Clearbrook Minn. The venture ranks among the boldest engineering projects of this decade but surprisingly Little has been written about it. This is american capitalism in the grand tradition of Paul Bunyan. With Par Donable chauvinism the builders Are promoting an All american project it will be built with american labor american capital american know How and Ameri can products. And it will be built entirely on american soil. It will always be under american  it will be built that is to say if the Law s delays let it be built. Northern tier was organized in 1975. In april 1977, it filed its application for Federal authority to Lay the line. Special permits Are required to Cross about 200 Miles of federally owned land. A general permit is required depending on the company s environmental Impact statement before it can proceed. The preparation of an environmental Impact statement required under the National environmental policy act of 1970, is a task of unbelievable complexity. The standing joke is that if Moses had had to file an Eis he d be in Egypt yet. Northern tier must provide detailed estimates on the biological geological and Archeo Logi Cal Impact the company must describe the Trees that would have to be Cut Down the streams that must be tunnelled under the fish Birds and animals that might be inconvenienced. It must also estimate the socioeconomic Impact of building the Bil lion Dollar line and it must examine the alternatives. Unless the company can be relieved ol7 some of this monumental Burden the firs draft of an Eis Wil not be ready until May of next year. Then Many months must be allocated to governmental review. The de apartments of Energy Commerce labor defense and transportation must be con i suited. Five states will have to be satisfied. A a Deal has to be worked out with the Flat j head indians of Montana. With every month of delay inflation will push the costs of construction higher and higher. 1 Congress and the Carter administration could make a major contribution by Cut Ting through the red tape and speeding this project along. Once completed the pipe line will move 933,000 barrels of Oil a Day of from the West coast to the Midwest. The entire line will be underground half of it to existing pipeline Railroad and Utility Corri a Dors. So far no environmental groups have i opposed the venture. I for the past 18 months since preside if Carter produced his comprehensive Energy plan we have wallowed in talk of governmental solutions to Energy problems j nothing has happened. In the North err tier proposal we have venture capitalist ready to act in the private sector. Way must be found sensible ways to be those big shovels in the ground. C Washington Star Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons o. 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