European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes saturday. September 6. 1930 personally have serious doubts about evolution a self of. 1410 James Reston Reagan and Carter avoid issues of the 80s president Carter has done the three tilings he had to do by labor Day to restore his chances for re election he avoided an open break with senator Kennedy he won the reluctant support of big la Bor by swallowing most of Kennedy s poli cies and he deranged his brother Billy. As a result he s Back about even with Reagan in the popularity pulls. He has abandoned the Notoras Airgun cents that helped bring him to Power in the first place. He has switched his economic policies to fit the popular and political mood of the moment and he is now arguing that if he is no longer the Best compared to Reagan he is at least not the after a year or More of political exhibition games the presidential playoffs were supposed to Start seriously on labor Day. By now. It was hoped the candidates would begin to define the issues for decision in the rest of the bos. They have done nothing of the sort. Instead they have Given us More Tex Lii action shows with Reagan using the Slat be of Liberty As a theatrical prop and Jim my Carter crying you All come in the South and using the White House Back Yard As a rallying ground for his disgruntled Zubor Union buddies. A presidential election is a Dicey bet on James Kilpatrick the future. What the voters want to know is where we arc going in the rest of inc 80s. What they arc being old by Carter is How Many silly statements Reagan has made in the past and by Reagan How Many disastrous and contradictory policies Carter Haa supported in his first term. What ii missing on both sides is a definition of the policies they would follow in the Mure if elected. It s obvious that the voters feel trapped in the unhappy Choice Between these two men and doubtful about Anderson As Art alternative but it s also Clear thai All the players in this game Fercl trapped under circumstances they cannot control. Reagan needs to reach out to the working Folk he has ignored far the last 30 years but he is trapped by his promises to the conservative minority of the Republican minority and fur some reason he feels he has to prove his Iti Salty by confusing a billion chinese on the Mainland with the remnant of his old buddies on Taiwan. Carter is trapped Between his ideals and i ambitions and is ditching the Farmer in his struggle for another term. His new eco nomic policy the seventh in less than four years is regarded Here More As a political program to revive Carter than As an Indus trial policy to revive the productivity of the nation. Big labor is trapped Between its loyalties to the democratic party and its doubts about Jimmy Carter s Faith in that Iradi lion. It s sail to listen to the labor Union Leaden calling on to far their unemployed members to support an administration that has presided Over the worst economic de Cline since the economic depression of the Jos. Even big business has serious doubts about Fucanan s simplistic views of a world that is changing faster than we. Change ourselves and feels trapped Between its longing for a Republican administration and its doubt about whether Reagan has the ability and Energy to grapple with the increasingly Infra Cable problems of the com ing years. The result of nil this a that nobody Al Home or abroad really knows How to plan for the future. The foreign policy of the United states is paralysed and has been for months the Secretary of slate de Muskie is playing politics with policy and the . Ambassador in Wing Leonard Woodcock is being told to organize the chinese Leaden to oppose Ronald Reagan s bid for the presidency. This is something new never in recent memory has a. President so blatantly used his Secretary of slate or his Amassa abroad to play politics with to fico. And the reason for All this u fair arc curler is a very determined Man hot sic has made Many mistakes and it economic record is hard to defend. So proclaiming that he has Learned Bill in the first four years and that the no. Years will be better. Meanwhile Katf Glove but with an Iron fist be b i Reagan As an amiable bul dangerous 0 Bel i at Home and abroad4 unfortunately this is the kind a a isl it seems we arc going to hat Dure from now to november. Not going to define its hard issues at i in the next few years How 10 inflation in the world How to take to race by the Throat Liow to control bit Sion of illegal aliens into the Art Public How to educate our Chi How to Deal with the moral Equator i sexual and family life. Instead unless the press begins h some really Bard questions of Llusco dental candidates we Are going la 1 phony Campaign of pretence with and Reagan savaging each other and b ing off about the past in order to f hard questions of the future ice new i it to Lett Well informed Reagan is dumb founding liberals Ronald Reagan has been catch ing some garbage lately from the quiche eating set of the Liberal left. The general idea is to depict him As a Blockhead Igno rant of history and diplomacy alike n fellow who is just too stupid my dears to been trusted with the White House the two principal targets have to do with Karl Marx and Taiwan. Let me take them one at a Lime. It appears that Back in 1964, in a speech entitled losing our freedoms by install mems or. Reagan spoke Gener ally of an income Tan characterized by Dis proportionately higher rates on personal in come. This progressive he said was spawned by Karl Marx and declared by him to be the prime essential of a socialist slate the method prescribed for taxing the Middle Cluss out of . Edward Kennedy s speech writers dug out the 16-year-old quote. In a rousing address in new York. Or. Kennedy ridiculed or. Reagan fur denouncing the Ore Saive income Tun As the invention or. Kennedy was afraid has confused Karl Marx with Theodore writing in the new Republic Richard Strout was appalled at or. Reagan s Igno Rance. Can America really elect a Man president who believed or a i least declared that the graduated income tax was invented by Karl mar Why docs Reagan say such things the answer May be that or. Reagan had read the communist manifesto of 1848, columns comments and that messes. Kennedy Ami sprout have nol read the communist manifesto. Toward the end of this seminal work. Marx listed 10 measures by which the Piolo Uriyu would wrest Power from the hed bourgeoisie. This was his Sond measure a heavy progressive or graduated in come lax now. This pernicious scheme May have been invented fur All 1 know by Robes Pierre or Dioclician or Hammurabi. But if Teddy Kennedy thinks in was invented by Theodore Roosevelt who s the Blockhead the Point is that Reagan was precisely right in identifying a graduated income lax with Marx. The ridicule was utterly undeterred. On the matter of Taiwan Here again As in his assertion that Vietnam was a Noble cause or. Reagan s distaste for shame has got him in trouble. The Republican Nomi Nee doubtless should have been More care Ful in defending on official " relationship with Taiwan. This is a Buiz word. Chinese communists and american liberals came at him like so Many hornets. Philip Geylin a Farmer editor of the Washington Post promptly charged or. Reagan with Inco no Rance vacillation and indecision with be ing backward untutored indelible and in sensitive. But Why not Call a Spade a Spade instead of an implement fur digging must we for Ever persist in Niay pc tend and make be Lieve under act passed by Congress of tar president Carter Imperi ally nullified our treaty with Taiwan our relations Are conducted through the american Institute in the Institute a a Dummy a front u charade. It is financed entirely by the . Treasury under appropriations a proved by Congress. Its contacts go through he state department. The Low directs the Institute to function As if it word b c ate. This is exactly what or _ agreed to support. He has nol widens to suggest resumption of full dip " lations with , or. Reagan has been president Carter s abandonment of i year old Cuaty with our Small ally t scism is richly deserved. And Wilt hashing the whole unhappy Story it observed that Normali Kalfon wet people s Republic has accomplished 1 in terms of sino Soviel relations
