European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Tom Wicker february Reagan putting All of his eggs in one Basket in politics and Lyndon John son used to sometimes you have to shove in your whole president Reagan has done it at the out he has staked the Success or failure of his administration on an economic program disputed even by some of his own supporters and which is Likely to be by the difficult Standard of whether or not it substantially reduces the rate of that is Little less than a make break though the big headlines were reaped by reagans proposals for 1982 Bud get cuts totalling and affecting 83 Federal the biggest stakes rest on the presidents commitment to a 30 per cent Over three in individual income tax although his specific proposals should and will be budget cuts of Magni tude do need to be for one Many of the programs involved Are overlap or or of dubious effective Ness others need at least to be tightened or reduced in More the inflationary psychology of the country needed to be Given a Federal deficits Nave not been the sole nor even the major cause of but swollen Federal spending has become the Symbol of fiscal and of the governments unwillingness to restrain itself so reductions on the proposed scale Send the message that we mean business to the to the credit to foreign reducing the budget deficit reagans plan envisions a balanced budget in fiscal 1984 also would remove pressure from the credit allowing interest rates to the presidents attack on so Many Federal programs amounts to a declaration of War on government As usual on the triangulated Federal Power Structure that for years has brought together in sometimes unholy Alliance the special interests that seek advantage and the members of Congress that represent and the bureaucrats who administer the resulting the Case for the Reagan tax cuts is considerably More it is by no Means certain that Congress will make All the accompanying budget cuts the president pro or that the tax Relief would stimulate the Economy to the extent he predicted a growth rate of 4 to 5 percent after compared to today smaller budget slower possibly would prevent the steadily declining Federal deficits Reagan confidently and even As the president tax reduction does increase savings and invest it seems bound also to stimulate con that will be an added inflationary pressure to those already unleashed this year a minimum wage a Sharp Rise in social Security payroll the decontrol of crude Oil and the underlying inflation resulting from Many causes other than Federal is already above 10 percent and facing further wage demands from major unions this columns Kwh Jegu veto Ctm t be is a real bomb but if Colp run it would win Thomas Netter comments i All this suggests the real possibility that the Reagan tax if approved by con might not Only cause a Rise in the consumer Price Index measure of inflation but As a the Federal Reserve would tighten the Money Supply and the credit markets would respond with even higher interest rates already hovering at near 20 a rising Cost of Money could hardly contribute to the economic growth the tax Cut is supposed to enc our the primary danger to Reagan is that rather than fall ing As he predicts to percent in 1982 and percent in would continue to or at least show no real decline from the present Given the Campaign in which he was elected and the terms in which his economic program was presented to the that alone probably would be seen As failure the great Gamble in that with the economic situation worsened and his administration greatly Reagan might have to listen to the Sharp voices of the far right demanding Radical social and cultural change pres sures he has staved so by giving his highest priority to the c new York times Catholic Church a moderating influence in Poland the powerful roman Catholic Church has emerged As a moderating Force Between the communist party and the in dependent Trade Union in Poland protracted labor the Church role in Poland was under scored this month when Bishop Bronislaw a senior official in the Episco helped mediate settlement of a general strike in the Biels Obiala Dabrowski briefed Pope John Paul ii in the Vatican on the mediation Effort and the state of Poland labor clerical leaders have been urging the in dependent Union Solidarity to restrain its demands for change in polish to underscore the regimes need to Coop Erate with the Poland new pre Wojciech promised religious leaders an even greater role in pol ish despite the governments avowedly atheistic the Catholic Church claims the allegiance of 80 to 90 percent of to lands million people and has been an important Force in the labor revolt from its beginning last last priests administered com Munion to workers on strike at the Lenin shipyards in and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski publicly embraced strike Leader Lech Walesa soon after settlement of the summer strike the former electrician who now Heads the 10 million Strong Solidarity inde pendent is a devout Catholic who attends mass daily and wears a Lapel pin with the image of the Black an icon of the Virgin Mary shrine revered As Poland Walesa has repeatedly stated that his principal advisers include the Church Hierarchy under Wyszynski and Catholic Lay intellectuals led by former parliamentary Deputy Tadeusz Western observers familiar with polish society say the Church has played a shrewd political game in its support for the labor communist party Boss Stanislaw Kania needs the Church to restrain extremists in the labor movement and restore thus diminishing the threat of soviet military playing the role of mediator gives the Church greater leverage with the govern ment in pressing for concessions such As additional faster approvals for new Church draft exemptions for students and wider circulation for religious the links to the free Trade Union move ment have already won for the Church a significant Concession transmission of mass Over state in accordance with terms of the settlement ending the strikes last August in Warsaw radio has been transmit Ting roman Catholic mass every sunday since late in his first speech As promised that the actions taken by the government will meet with understanding of the and the Christian social Jaruzelski said Church state cooperation is being helped by the expansion of work of the of representatives of the government and the episcopate acting in the spirit of care for the welfare of our we shall continue and enrich this line of a Church spokesman said that if Jaruzelski needs i can safely assume hell get it if things go really and he sounded like a Man who wants to put some order in this the spokesman the Church began reasserting its influence in Poland in 1956 at the end of the stalinist period after the return to Power of Wladyslaw a nationalist who was often at Odds with released Wyszynski from House arrest and launched a program of reconciliation with the cooperation Between Church and state was accelerated in 1977 after Gomulka Edward visited Pope Paul i in the the election of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow As Pope John Paul ii in october 1978 opened a new chapter in Church state the regime applauded his and rolled out the red carpet for John Pauls triumphal visit to his Homeland in Many foreign and polish observers be Lieve a polish Pope has made the polish Church bolder and raised its prestige within the John who received Walesa in the Vatican last has become a National hero without a source of Pride even for no catholics and for the he is believed to have encouraged the Church to take an Active role in current affairs while carefully avoiding antigovernment Public statements which might encourage with liberalization that followed the summer Church influence has sex the polish radio broadcast live the Christmas mass from Warwel Cathedral in and the state television aired two taped messages from 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