European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 12 the stars and stripes James Reston february 1981 this War a6aihst inflation is americans do appear ready for a new Road oni of Tillman criticisms of american life Over the last generation is that increasingly we have become a divided or separated with a growing concern for our local or special interests and a declining sense of the common Good or National you can hardly pick up a newspaper these Days without being told that the changes in life produced by modern medi crowded cities and the welfare state have led to a period of profound economic and spiritual and that these changes have been marked by attitudes of confrontation rather than of lawlessness and corruption Between the contending regional and racial it was probably inevitable that such developments would Lead to some sort of crisis at Home and new challenges and therefore to new proposals for the Reforma Tion of our economic and personal the Reagan economic recovery pro Gram introduces such reforms and will test whether the people and their special interest groups can work together in the National about the ends of the Reagan proposals higher productivity and wage and Price stability there is general agreement in but about the Means to achieve these ends there is honest disagreement As Well As the clash of Sepa rate groups defending their own the Congress will be the initial Battle the new president has proposed spending for the i9k2 fiscal year beginning next october a total of which is billion below what the administration Calls the current he has suggested cuts and changes in 83 different fed eral most of them highly complicated and Many of them Controvert a serious attempt has been in line with the administrations conservative Phi to spread the sacrifices equally across All segments of the but these efforts Are being opposed on the ground that the Rich and the Middle class can make sacrifices with less pain than those within or on the borderline of it will be a Long time before this conflict can approach Reagan is not promising Jam today but Jam in the the people arc Likely to decide whether or not the Promise can be by their Choice on whether or not they will support the president actively or be indifferent or hostile to his they Are Likely to do whatever they Are convinced they must do to preserve the in Liberty and Honor of the they cannot be expected to master All the mathematics of the new budget or under stand the mystifying clarifications offered every hour on the hour by its defend ers and the president has some things going for there is and for some time there has been a growing conviction in the country that something is deeply for a generation the people have been told that it was their destiny to improve their Stan Dard of living by about 5 percent every year that this was a nation isolated from inflation and other nuisances in the rest of the and free to be self indulgent and acquisitive beyond the expectations for other but now they know with Small cars costing prospective Gas prices approaching a production deficits with unemployment at eight million and with new military and Trade challenges coming from the idea has got around that something must be it is probably True that More people Are the opinions expressed in the columns and on this Page represent those of the authors and arc in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states influenced by Ronald reagans amiable Confidence than arc influenced or be Lieve or even what Hes committed to he does not agree with Bert lances philosophy that if it aint broke dont fix he has appealed boldly to the general recognition that the system is broke in More ways than and that it needs or at least even if some of his own principal advisers think Hes going too far and some others think Hes not going far there is something else that suggests Reagan will get the support of the Congress if he gets the support of the there will be party fights Over his tax cuts and some of his budget but the Congress is not Likely to Divide along strictly party the republicans have control of the sen and in the House there arc Many democrats who agree with the presidents conclusion that when youre stuck in traffic its better to switch perhaps More unless i miss my there is a feeling in the country now that our present troubles Are not All the fault of government that the people them selves have been living too High on the and that even the Rich Arent having a very Good in this there is now among the people a consensus for there is a lot of go in but they know when to pull they May not quite understand the theory that Reagan will help the poor by unleashing the big corporations and by giving the Rich a big tax but they Are worried and even scared and i ready for a new even if its bumpy and not on their usual c new York times William Buckley abortion approach is dazzling insight in the human life a Young scholar has articulated an approach to the abortion question which is a dazzling constitutional the original author Stephen Gallbach modestly emanated from professor George Carey of the renowned political Scien but the careful explication and the thorough constitutional analysis Are the work of a graduate of Yale and of Harvard Law where he served As notes editor of the Harvard Law review before clerking with the circuit court of appeals of the District of his 28page article has 102 where you would probably need 70 times 102 footnotes to persuade the american civil liberties Union that the phrase the unborn child is Only one half specially of House the second half being but Galebach arguments Are purely Leone could read his article straight through without finding any justification for concluding that Galebach himself opposes All he is that if the people of the United acting through their representatives in wish to undo Roe in which the supreme court ruled that state abortion statutes Are unconstitutional limitations on a woman right to All Congress has to do is pass a simple statute defining no one questions under the constr human life is twice once from any assault by Congress again from any assault by the the fifth Amend ment reads in no person shall be deprived by Congress of or without due process of the 14th guarantees that no state shall de Prive any person of or without due process of in Roe Wade the supreme court protected itself by the simple expedient of say ing people disagree about what constitutes that the court went on to explain inasmuch As there Are differences among philosophers and theologians on the when does human life the court is not competent to ass Everate when it very but this does not mean no one is competent to judge that people disagree about How High taxes ought to whether a dam should be built Here or whether we should de Clare the in is it is All very Well to say and most people would agree that there Are More important Cri Teria than political but it is these that we lived under a Constitution for four score permitted the institution of we know now that slavery was wrong but we do not Challenge that in the Days before the emancipation Procla who attempted to steal another mans was legally guilty of the in Roe acknowledged As if the suggestion of per so Hood is the appellants of collapses for the fetus right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the in the Days since much thought has been Given to the question whether life should be understood As exist ing from the Point of Conception or even at some Point Between Conception and it is a fairly Safe generality that increasing scientific testimony is to the effect that the fetus is in most significant biological senses an individual human but that int a Legal the in More recent has upheld the responsibility of Congress to interpret its own obligations under the 14th amendment even to the Point of thus it upheld a Section of the voting rights act that rules that voter qualification tests were illegal in those states or counties in which fewer that 50 percent of the voting age residents registered or voted in the 1964 the court has gone so far when it upheld the i legalization of literacy tests in English As to acknowledge congress1 Power to preempt a possible or Likely deprivation of a citizens few this Side of the Are Likely to opt that abortion does not affect a latent Galebach essay is a stunning break legislation has been submitted let us proceed to face the c Universal press Syndicate