European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1981 say Treyve succeed up m William Safire Percy pushing for Salt resumption Charles Republican of Illi who took Over last week As chairman of the Senate foreign relations is the most Public spirited member of the nobody out sincere Chuck and this Good Man thrust into a position of Power by the Triumph of a Hawk is Ness with which he has never been associated has been making a Power play in behalf of Dovis Ness that ignores the Nec Essary separation of Powers Between con Gress and the senator Percy goal is to resume the Salt process most foreign policy advisers of Ronald Rea Gan believe that immediate resumption of Salt which the soviets obviously want would be a great those hardliners argue that 1 the soviet desire for a new treaty can be turned to our much As Nixon aloofness Early in his administration led to linkage Laden detente 2 we should not negotiate from our cur rent position of increasing and 3 we should not conduct business usual after Percy that is his privilege he puts Forward a modified version of ment president Carter and Secretary of state Vance unsuccessfully tried to make that Salt is in itself in the american in Terest and should not be linked to soviet but the new chairman of foreign relations has done More than differ he has taken it upon himself to begin those first contacts before the Reagan administration is in on his trip to he Pur ported to represent the Reagan views on interpreting deliberately ambiguous Public statements to mean what Percy George will surrogate parenting poses questions is her passion for the surrogate Mother used a surrogate name in her press in her article written for people and in her appearances on Good morning America and the Donahue is the woman for an undisclosed had herself artificially impregnated with the semen of a Man whose wife was unable to Bear the biological father and the adoptive Mother were with Kanes husband and the photographer whose pictures appeared in people in the delivery Kane lives in a town hitherto famous As the Home of Everett whose comments on surrogate parenting must be enlivening his heavenly press con folks in Pekin hidebound and reactionary regarding human Kane says Many of them will not speak to and children tease her saying that their Mother is Selling that is neither Nice nor it would be More accurate to say that a Surro Gate Mother rents her the times Are indeed out of there Are approximately million abortions in America each but so Strong is the unsatisfied demand for there is a Black Market in and now there is a surrogate parenting association whose Leader says he is overseeing about 100 pregnancies like so summon the there Are going to be some inter Esting during the Kane said its the fathers in simply growing it for but was it the fathers child at that time she says that before leaving Louis where she had the i went to court and signed papers dissolving any Legal rights i had to the of that sounds and As easy As giving away a but consider some problems that can derive from surrogate suppose that Early in the pregnancy the surrogate Mother decides she would rather go or would rather not have morning and decides to have an can a contract with the biological father be an impediment thanks to the supreme the biological even when married to the biological has no rights absent a at absent a what matters is the biology columns and comments Cal mothers privacy right that the supreme court in 1973 discovered in the that right makes her As Sov Ereign Over an unborn child As she is Over her but perhaps the surrogate Mother can by her privacy Kane says that because of my i had that is a diagnostic proce Dure for determining whether an unborn child is genetically it is often recommended for women Over at which age women become progressively More prone to bearing children with Downs a genetic disorder involving retardation and physical Kanes amniocentesis results were but suppose a surrogate mothers amniocentesis spinal and the contracting couple decides it does not want the can the couple walk away from All responsibility for the baby suppose the contract Between the couple and the surrogate Mother stipulates that the couple can demand an abortion of an unsatisfactory baby and suppose that when the clause is the surrogate Mother refuses would a court enforce such a contract if to whom would the baby once born the couple for whom the surrogate Mother was in Kanes words growing or the surrogate Mother who prevented the abortion suppose no amniocentesis is and the baby is born does Clear responsibility for the child reside on either or can All three people agree to aban Don the baby to some Public Agency suppose a baby is born and the surrogate Mother is so seized by maternal feelings that she decides she wants to keep the is a court going to wrest it from her there is no end to attempts to broaden or transcend the traditional role of the and there is no end to the moral conundrums and menacing ambiguities that arise when people improvise changes in the family functions regarding procreation and child at a press conference called to carry the Standard for surrogate Kane urged women to share their bodies for nine her language like the Prabor Tion slogan about women controlling their own reduces to a purely individual and physical matter something that is irreducibly social and something that radiates subtleties which reach the Core of our sense of what it is to be c Washington Post wanted immediate resumption of soviet american talks on a revision of the Salt such representations by Percy to Brezhnev and Gromyko overstepped the senators constitutional he was neither advising nor consenting nor withholding consent he was leading the executive Branch Down his preferred upon his Percy was embarrassed by an accurate report of a portion of his secret talks that dealt with in an excess of boy Percy shared with the delighted russians a yearning for a palestinian state headed by a tranquil Yas ser that is so obviously contrary to reagans policy that the senators explanation that he was Only expressing his person Al View must be the Sal now Percy is reagans this is policymaking by followed by the demarche of a senator acting As As the Haig hearings Percy sought to reverse a Reagan aut Challenge to his the senator told the nominee before him that he was concerned about a statement made by defens nominee Caspar Weinberger to the Senate armed services which the Wall Street journal boldfaced As new arms talks should wait six who knows Rea Gans thinking better than we should first put our own House in or did he speak for himself Percy asked or did the defense nominee mean Here was a face saving fudge that the was not yet ready for formal negotiations anxious to took the he assured Percy that Weinberger was making a purely personal that he was talking about and that Haig would address the Salt question very Early on in the very Early Days of the Percy nearly climbed Over the High Bench to embrace the witness i accept the explanation he the chairman of foreign relations now thinks he has a commitment from reagans Secretary of state to follow the Sal now if i tap his thinking thinks he has merely promised to address the subject when he gets to the and does not believe he is committed to put out feelers to ambassador Dobrynin immedi Percy is using the hearings to extract an agreement from Haig that talks will get under Way Early leading to formal the senator is seeking to Force the Assumption that nobody disagrees with his but the disagreement is the t in Salt stands for which be Gin when they begin and not when a horde of advisers Are drawn up in vast cumbrous array at the momentous decision about when to resume discussions about Salt cannot be finessed by pretending that the decision has already been made and Only the formal meetings remain to be Haigs interest now is to feed Percy de sire to believe that Early on Means far More than ill Start thinking about it Percy ploy is to assume he has an agreement from contrary to defense Secretary Weinberger that the will quickly follow up the demarche that Percy personally the United states foreign policy interest is to come to grips with the Sal now ver sus Saltwater the executive Branch should not permit its prerogatives to be usurped by a new foreign relations com Mittee chairman who in All sincerity evidently wants not Only to help but on occasion to personally for eign policy in the Reagan c new York times