European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Anthony Lewis january 1981 mine turmin6 Over so w6tu either Carter achievements will be remembered in the King must the novel she built on greek Mary Renault told about the bloody political system of every year the ruling King of that Island fought a and the stranger became King for a year and then lost his Crown and his and the people these it seems As if the United states is following the Model of mythical we pile exaggerated Hopes on our president and inevitably he disappoints we destroy but were there Ever regrets on Naxos for the fallen King Lime does often bring a change of perspective recognition that a once scorned president brought Good qualities to an impossible that happened to Harry Truman it May be happening to Gerald and i think there will be re wards in history for the Man who is leaving office now under the Burden of in Jimmy Carters four years As presi no american Soldier died in that is a great achievement a singular one in the last 50 it will look even More impressive As seems unhappily pos the men around Ronald Reagan feel it necessary to prove their toughness by Mili tary some people think it is easy for a presi Dent to avoid the use of arms they charge Carter with being to the it requires will and courage for a president to say no to the advocates of president advised by his brother showed those qualities in the cuban missile crisis in Carter showed them in the Iran hostage his policy had its but it was right and Brave in putting the safety of the hostages despite our frus will Reagan similarly be Able to resist the Siren song of military retaliation the China policy of the Carter administration is another achievement in foreign policy that May be in jeopardy if the Loose talk of Reagan and his people Carter built on the Nixon breakthrough to Cement a relationship with the Peoples re Public that is a crucial Factor in Al the Panama canal treaties were one More act of courage something that presi dents since Eisenhower had recognized must be done but had not had the political resolve to the treaties were part of a new policy moving the United states away from its old links with righting exploitation and oppression in Central Ameri Here again we May soon be nostalgic for his greatest personal achievement of Camp we tend to take it for granted forgetting How extraordinary it was for an american president personally to shape such diplomatic instruments not just the Camp David but the treaty signed the first Between Israel and an Arab without both parties they could not have a word has to be said about Southern Carters support for British pol icy against much pressure from the american right made it possible to Settle the Savage War in with perseverance and some there could be a settlement now in there was the Carter human rights the critics say it was and it was no absolute symmetry is possible in such an but lives were some torture stopped and Ameri can idealism represented in the at history will probably rate his environmental record As Carters most important he appointed sen sensitive our children will be grateful for his legacy of less dangerous surroundings and for the expressed in the column and on Page rep rent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the of the stars and stripes or the United states much natural Beauty they that unless the plunderers now have their Carters judicial appointments will also live after he never got to name anyone to the supreme but he picked 265 other Federal most of them highly regarded in the Legal profession and a significant for the first women and members of in Carter did what five predecessors had been unable or unwilling to do broke away from the distorting practice of holding american prices Well below world it was an essential step for both eco nomic and Security and one taken against the common Liberal in economic Carter also broke with outmoded Liberal he had to fight the regulated industries but he began the vital process of restoring Market Competition in but the Domestic achievement that Many will value in Carter was a symbolic one being elected president As a southerner who rejected that really brought the South Back into the there were deep but Carter is entitled to a moment of i shall remember him As he was last labor Day in when members of the Kun flux klan interrupted his first appearance of the election he said As the first Man from the deep South in 140 years to be president of this i say that these people in White sheets do not understand our Region and what its been they do not understand what our country stands c new York times James Kilpatrick War that word May impress Iran Ronald Reagan had it exactly right when he spoke of the iranian leaders As the word connotes the arrogance and savagery of those who live beyond the Pale of it is maddening to treat these people according to the forms of diplomatic president Carter has gone As far As any responsible administration possibly could go in attempting to negotiate the release of our he May indeed have gone too far so far As to leave an impression of guilt or my thought is that the time has come to Frame an ultimatum to Tehran release the hostages under the terms offered by or face the what consequences voice of America let us not flinch from the out of respect for the sensibilities of the families of the some of us have suppressed opinions and emotions that should have been voiced All there is a National interest that surpasses the immediate inter ests of the that National interest has been Well served by the excessive patience of the administration or by the maudlin coverage of the the United states should have reacted a year ago in the Only Way that barbarians May not with but with the barbarians do we have said repeatedly that we Are at War with the the iranians speaker Raf Zanjani but this War has been taken by the As Reagan they Are the ones who have done the kid they Are the ones who have Vio lated every Rule of the International comm they Are the ones who have made demands that cannot possibly be they Are the nearly 200 years have passed since the infant United still governed by the articles of faced similar humiliations at the hands of the Barbary in serving As minister to Thomas Jefferson confessed his perplexity in a letter to Nathaniel Greene the i will ask suck a trib Ute for the forbearance of their Pira cies As the United states would be unwilling to when this idea comes across my mind my faculties Are absolutely suspended be tween indignation and but some months in Jeffer sons resolve had the motives pleading for War rather than tributes Are numerous and honorable those opposing them Are mean and War with the Barbary states would be Jefferson both in men and in Mon but to obtain peace by purchasing it would be More costly Jeffersons advice did not prevail at the for 15 years we paid acts of piracy but As president in i columns comments i Jefferson plunged into five years later Tripoli sued for and the piracy to be we live in a different world the analogy can be pursued too but human nature has not greatly changed in 200 nor have the uses of Power greatly great if they would retain must still abide by the counsel of Charles cotesworth Pinck Ney millions for but not a dam Ned Penny for those who pronounce ultimatums must be prepared to carry them if car ters reasonable proposition continues to meet merely scorn and let us be explicit the hostages or holy cities and if the hostages should be executed by their let us be prepared to wreak such terrible retaliation that their deaths will not have been in the Irani ans have toyed too Long with the United this outrageous situation has to be and it has to be resolved c Universal press