European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                12 the stars and stripes wednesday. June 4, 1980 you Call that a Choice stars sea. James Reston trends but not figures make Carter optimistic watching president Carter try to juggle All the contradictory foreign and Domestic problems of the nation during a presidential election and a economic recession you have to wonder who can do it and who can govern  the last few Days. Jimmy Carter has been a cat on a hot tin roof. The chinese vice Premier fing Biao. Has been in Washington wanting More Money to modern a his country and gelling it. The French for eign minister. Jean Francois Poncet has been Here agreeing about the crises in Israel and Afghanistan but disagreeing about us what should be done about the palestinians and the soviets. To Deal with the soviet military threat the president wanted a higher defense Bud get. Then when the Congress suggested an even bigger defense budget than he wanted he opposed it for social and political Rea sons. He was immediately denounced by sen. Brness loll legs of South Carolina As a hypocrite and even opposed publicly by his own military chiefs of staff. Leaving the foreign policy problems in Washington Carter went out to Ohio for his first openly admitted political rallies and announced that he was turning the  and also of course turning the Corner on both economic and foreign policy. The nest Day his own department of Commerce re ported a 4.8 drop in april in the Index of leading economic indicators the sharpest decline in 32 , the leaders of the Black Community were in Washington appealing after the Miami riots for More Money for the cities the Chicano were demanding an George Mair open door to America Tor More jobs and As the unemployment Index Rose the . La Bor Union leaders were trying to keep them out. None of this however seemed to bother Jimmy Carter. He was being blamed Tor everything except the eruption of mount St. Helens but he retained a posture of enthusiastic optimism. In every area of change in every area of Challenge in every area of danger because of our courage and strength. America is turning the  he said in Columbus. Ronald Reagan replied that the main thing that had to be turned around and sent Back Home was Jimmy Carter. We can t afford four More years of what we presently have  while All this Wai going on at the Politi Cal level the Carter administration was making a much More solemn analysis of the foreign policy problems with the Soviel in Afghanistan. Secretary of state Muskie and National Security adviser Brzczinski were both telling the Chines vice Premier and the French foreign minister that in their judgment the 1980s would be As critical a decade As the 1940s." what the people Here and in Europe Haven t cd understood they argued is that the world has now entered a critical phase where he Challenge of the soviet invasion of Afghanistan has to be faced. Apparently they did not say however precisely How this threat should be faced. This of course has always been Marcinski s theme that the West could Timve lost Merlin but still saved Western Europe in the years after world War ii it could even have lost South Korea and saved Japan bul it could not allow the soviet Union to dominate the oilfields of the mid dle Hast without changing the whole bal Ance of Power and the politics of the world. There was agreement on this analysis be tween Muskie and Brzczinski and it was accepted As an accurate estimate of the problem by both gang Biao and Francois Poncet but there were Many areas of Dis agreement on How to Deal with it. Carter will make another try at the sum Mit meeting of the leaders of the seven major Industrial nations at Venice in the last weekend of june. With the California Ohio and new Jersey primary elections out of the Way he will be campaigning abroad vis iting the nope in Rome going on to Yugo Slavia to meet with the successors or marshal Tito and then on to Spain and Portugal before the Republican convention in Detroit. It is a Tricky and exhausting business this endless travelling Between the pressure Points of politics at Home and abroad Leav ing Little time for thought. But it dominates the headlines and the television evening news while the republicans having bet on Reagan a month before nominating him. Will have Little to say in june. Carter s Campaign theme is Clear. It is that while the economic figures Are not on his Side the economic trends Are Chang ing for the better and that As he Hopes to demonstrate in his meetings with world Fig ures he knows More about foreign policy than Kennedy Reagan or Anderson. New Yoffy Tolmei Carfer used Kamin system of end hostage crisis the White House has ended the iranian hostage crisis by using the Milt Kamin system of crisis management. The inc Milt Kamin. A successful stand up comedian said we could win the Vietnam War by simply announcing we had won and then pack up and go Home. Who would argue with us he asked Well Jimmy Carter is not a stand up comedian Al though much of what he s done in office is pretty funny bul he has. In effect decided the hostage crisis is Over and we Aren t going to talk about it any More. Here is an update report on the iranian students in this country. These figures arc supplied to me by the immigration Anil Zalmai Iraklion Mcnice ins Headquarters in Washington. Do. Approximately 56,000 iranian students reported to inc ins As a result of president Carter s order to do w. We had to a k them to do this voluntarily because Lite ins had no idea How Man iranian students were in the country or who they Cre of that 56.000. Mol 7.000 were found to be Here illegally and were depo Ruble however up to now � grand total of 47 in Ilene have actually been ii Porick and an other Jos left vol Manl. Since the Cuba via takeover. 3.160 iranian students have i Imp into the untied Stales. So we have 2.905 More iranian students in this country today than we did on the Day la pc other iranian students look our people hostage. I might also Nolc in passing that 16.057 other iranians have entered the . During this same  o o a dead policeman explained the Miami riot to me better than anybody i know and that was years before it happened. The policeman was inc late chief Bill Parker of los Angeles and he told me that a police Force is an inverse measure of the Success of other institutions in a Community. The More successful the Home Church and schools arc in their jobs the less need there is Tor police. It is when these institutions Tail that problems arise and turn into police matters. In Miami for example there is an extremely High unemployment rate among Black males. When a Man cannot Pel a Job and when he can t support himself and his loved one he is left with nothing but fear and frustration. Couple this with the thin Blue line syndrome that infects most policemen and you have an explosive Situa Tion. The thin Blue line syndrome was popularized by the policeman author Joseph Wambaugh in the new can  policemen Deal with other people Only when those people Are at their worst either As victims or As criminals. In time they become numb to the sensitivities of people because if they did to they would be carrying an impossible emotional Burden. Beyond that policemen and their families tend to socialize mostly with other policemen and their families. All of this creates a siege mentality among too Many policemen an us against them Way of perceiving the world. A belief that they Are the thin Blue line that stands Between civilization and the barbarians. For these kind of policemen it is War out there on the Street and in War there is a suspension of morality and sensitivity. This All exploded in Miami but the same bomb u ticking inside Many american cities As you read this