European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes William Safire february what can the West do for the polish worker put yourself in the mind of the polish worker and ask this question what can the West do to help me win More free Dom one thing you do not need from the West is More worried advice if you go too far too the red army will crush you have known that from the you also know what the voices of caution do not know that a popular movement cannot be by the same you do not need hints of outside military help in the if the russians decide that the counterrevolution has the polish worker can expect Little More from the West than the poles of Solidarity realize something that most of us in the West do not yet understand that the soviet Union has not re sorted to a military solution to its polish problem Only because the Kremlin knows what a pyrrhic Victory that would if the red army were to the poles would Rise to avenge their martyred countrymen guerrilla warfare would threaten to bleed soviet conventional strength at the rate Ofa Hundred rather than risk the drainage of military occupy the russians arc More Likely to try a Lon favored technique polish labor leaders have told Western counterparts that the greatest danger to their movement is through Chisling on subvert murder of leaders and a propaganda by Loyal to blame the dissident workers for widespread hunger is expected communists Are Good at that sort of in those what support can the polish Freedom worker get from the West on the simplest he can get what he already has begun to receive from the Al Cio the rudiments of communication american labor is responding to lists of needs requested by Solidarity for typewriters and printing the tools of the Solidarity has Over come attempted government delays of these items at customs on the propaganda level he can get at Tention a White Light of publicity on his which works against the russians just As publicity worked against the Ameri cans in on the economic he can get the Promise of the salvation of the polish econ omy by the West provided certain capitalistic reforms Are put in to make invest ment we could also buttress the polish worker with the threat of an effective Western response to a soviet the United states should let it be known if the russians Are going to clean up their front the americans Are going to clean up their backyard instead of merely countering nicaraguan Aid to the rebels in Al we would help the friendlies de feat the sandinista in and put a cordon san Taire around which is fighting the soviet unions Battles in Ethiopia and beyond we should be informally establishing a polish action group with our allies right after coups in Iran and the Western allies and Japan fiddled with symbolism and carried on Trade to help deter an attack on a credible threat of unified economic warfare should be for we have been Emba going Grain to the soviet Union to Little with the argentines picking up the but the Pope has just mediated a dispute Between Argentina and averting War if he were to give the not one sack of Argentine Grain would go to the soviet contracts or with the polish born Pope enlisted in such a Mora economic any soviet attack on Poland would result in a powerful blow to the breadbasket of the russian consumer and cause More unrest in the soviet the reason for such Public Hartline planning would be to accomplish More than vague threats of grave consequences and no the purpose is to assure the polish worker that he is not and that those planning to attack him must Stop to consider severe economic punishment and geopolitical that is the least we can do in return for All that the polish worker is doing to and Vance the cause of he is exploding the myth that the interests of the worker and the communist party Are he is reminding the world that the 40hour so Long taken for granted under Capi is still a dream under he is demonstrating that the soviet system May be Good at enslaving its neighbors but is bad at providing the necessities of too Many of us Are fretting about the consequences of the Solidarity with our eyes fixed on the dangers to human beings who stand up to soviet they know their risk it is for us to remind their represses of the tangible risks of re a generation the russians grabbed Poland on the excuse that its territory would serve As a that so Viet expansion brought an age old yearning for Freedom into the soviet and the biggest worry in the Kremlin today is that the courage of the polish Freedom worker will spread to the c new York times John Roche demos must Scarf rebuilding process there is no question about it the democratic party is the victim of a conspire everybody knew Carter was going to beat not Only did the polls indicate but it was unthinkable that the american electorate would vote for an antique con it in surprising that the Ameri can civil liberties Union did not Challenge the election returns As As if reagans Victory were not insult enough to the True the republicans had the chutzpah to win the whats going on Here the Standard answer is that the demo cratic party has run out of this is an overstatement what has occurred is that the democrats put on the statute books an extraordinary number of Liberal measures which have transformed american i wont run Down the shopping but if i hear one More Flag Ellant Liberal politician the Buck starts Here moaning liberalism is a failure i will in substantive terms liberalism has been a massive if you dont believe ask the 25 million americans Over 65 who no longer Are haunted by the very real to my parents of Over the Hill to the where we have failed is not in the realm of but in organizing the government to implement these in the delivery systems were taken out of politics and turned Over to an metastasizing this Leviathan then proceeded to destroy the political foundations of liberalism and the democratic party party recently there was an and in the paper for a Ceta placement with a Job description virtually requiring a who needs a Ceta placement director at to choose the Young people to enter this program it is an Ideal task for precinct a spinoff from this delightfully sanitized Reform is of course the demise of political getting a welfare Check in the mail is quite different from dropping by your congressman local office to pick it in the bad old Days when the precinct Captain stopped by with a bag of it was taken for granted by All hands that the recipient would turn up on election Day and vote perhaps Early and look at the registration and voting figures for poverty areas by now the moral majority must be quivering at my Devotion to the spoils sys cards on the table i opposed civil service in print in 1954 and have not altered my government employee unions can handle Job Security for those in non professional but if you Are going to Nave responsive you have to be Able to turn the rascals out without 20 years of competence should be re but loaves and fishes should be on the Back in 1967 i was going Over some material with president Johnson when the phone it was Secretary of defense Mcnamara objecting to an lbs directive to order a nuclear frigate from a specified shipyard his computer indicated he didst need another nuclear Bob said the you dont know How badly you need that just turn off the com Puter and mail out the he Hung then he turned to me your Liberal friends probably think that was in but it beat a Southern filibuster against one of their pet old sen Ator Claghorn want there to vote against cloture hed have taken out two favor Able you know Why grabbing my knee with his huge hand because he was in the mens room thinking about that Nice nuclear frigate that going to be built in his your Liberal friends want but they dont want to pay their the Mcgovern democratic reforms turned the party Over to the Nondues pay ing political organizations be came bad things there were More than Trade unionists at the 1972 democratic convention and a vacuum was instead of being an Art in the aristotelian politics became a happening and the which specialize in moved to fill the it was these Friendly folks who invented Jimmy Carter in 1976 and last year desperately tried to do the Henry Higgins bit on John Anderson two of the most obvious political phonies who Ever came Down the on a different Axis the me Dia established a Liberal a Rad ical cuckoo and dubbed anyone who Dis agreed with him or her a in fellow Liberal the fault lies not in our stars but in lets fire the get off the re build and for starters focus on what is clearly a top priority Complete Reform of our regressive tax c King features