European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 the stars and stripes february 1981 George will lifting Grain embargo would Spur confusion people imploring president Rea Gan to end the Grain embargo Are com pounding the sin of a non sequitur with the error of misplaced and further compounding the confusion by seeking to set the administration at Cross purposes with from the fact that the embargo was an inadequate response to Nisan in it docs not follow thai lifting the embargo would be even were Poland not now threatened with pan american i columns i comments i Farmers have not suffered and their soundest complaint about the pm which also is should be addressed by broader Trade lifting the embargo would not Only be Carter esque a unilateral and Una cipro rated Concession it also would mock the administrations words about Rea Gan has called the embargo More of a kind of gesture that it was something but gestures Are and withdraw ing the soviet ambassadors special Access to the Secretary of states private elevator was a gesture that signalled to Russia the Awakening of America from the dogmatic slumbers of lifting the embargo would garble the would suggest to the russians that reagans rhetoric is merely and would act As a Lullaby on the Notye fully awakened american the embargo has been partial Russia has been allowed to continue buying 8 Mil lion metric tons annually under an agreement that expires september because Grain is such a fungible the embargo has been it has had a for Russia imports grains Pri Marily for cattle and the embargo is directly responsible for yet another decline in meat Russia has had to expend precious hard currency to in crease meat imports to disguise the regimes failure to fulfil meat consumption pledges it has invested with great american Farmers have found the potential Price depressing Force of the embargo much Farmers Export the Harvest from one of every three acres approximately two thirds of All wheat and on third of All feed grains and in spite of the they exported More in 1980 billion Worth than Ever and 1980 exports May jump 20 the and especially the communist will remain heavily dependent on american America is the source of 73 percent of Cor Grain 46 percent of the worlds wheat Trade and 24 percent of Rice in for the 63rd year since unusual weather frustrated communist food imports by communist countries have increased 740 per cent in a retail food prices account for approximately on fifth of the consumer Price in they Rose nine percent last but Are expected to Rise 10 to 15 percent this Grain prices Are rising especially rap if Russia which is facing a Harvest bad even by russian standards is allowed to plunge Back into the american the Price Rise will what Reagan can usefully do is implied the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United Stales by what he has recently he says Al j most everything except i paid for this in such a relaxed manner that listeners often miss his precision and at his first press conference he said my quarrel with the embargo from the first was that i thought it was asking Only one group of americans to participate the you Only have two choices with an you either lift it or you broaden who Are the most productive and whose exports earn enough to pay for half the nations Oil have a right to be irritated by the selectivity of american Trade sanctions by the for that last while the Grain embargo was still disrupting Farmers american corporations were exporting High technology Oil equipment to american firms Are preparing to participate in the construction of a Bil pipeline to carry huge quantities of natural Gas from Siberia to West it is designed to promote and ultimately economic Fin Lan dilation in Western the ingenuity currently being invested in rationalizing Retreat from the Grain Embar go would be better invested in devising a tougher Trade the nation needs a policy congruent with the presidents finest act thus far his stinging by accurate assessment at his first press conference of russian implacably aggressive As manifested in words and lifting the embargo would advertise a Canyon be tween the administrations words and c the Washington Post company John Roche bilingual education and utter contusion if you have encountered As Many first rate Young americans who Are marginally literate in the current squabble Over bilingual education in the Public schools has a tragicomic without specifying rank and serial a Young woman i know extremely Well graduated from a first rate Public and a top without Ever hav ing written a paper More than seven or eight pages she has a splendid Vocab but never Learned to put it on i dont blame in in the course of graduate work she has Learned to write and write but Shes done it on her i have extraordinarily talented graduate students at Fletcher to whom i sometimes find myself teaching freshman a compulsive i Mark their papers replace Stream of consciousness prose with and occasionally insert that Radical the Semi co into this educational wasteland the geniuses at president Carters department of education injected a set of rules requiring to take children who know Only or or must be offered instruction in their native language the background for this was a 1974 supreme court decision that held chinese Stu dents in san Francisco were denied their civil rights if they were taught Only in in the bureaucracy grabbed this Lau decision and went wild a Friend in who May be exaggerating a bit but is generally tells me bilingual tracks would have to be established in 11 language including Khmer and to satisfy the requirements in his school now the new Secretary of has deep fixed the Carter rules As Unwor a and incredibly predictably the ideological Haemophiliacs of the left Are screaming chauvinism the next step in their apocalyptic vision is the expulsion from the country of Nonen Glish the Case can be made that Bell is but that there and always has a place for bilingual education in our Public education the key Point is the bilingual education is employed to facilitate learning English As Well As to sustain ones cultural one proposition must be taken for granted this is the United states of not or the function of the Public schools is to train youngsters for life and English is our Basic if Public institutions want to add Span As was common in the old or As in Louis or Milwaukee in the 19th but it is an Addon the More the merrier and any number can to return to the Lau the Crit ical Issue As i read it was that there was no chinese supplement to English language in the court certainly did not intend the Good people of san Francisco to establish schools in which everything was taught in or by fungibility to or Carters educationalists in essence mandated separate education for those who knew no at this Point enter 50 old Refu gees from who when we hit new York in 1935 i  even swear in English but got dumped into George Washington High school and told to sink or they swam one of them even flies around Bill Paley apparently setting up his own but memories fade the fact is there even in the very effective pro Grams both Public and private de signed to help bring these immigrants up to Speed in Leo Rosten immortalized such classes for my generation with then of course there is rumbling on the other Side of the Hill about the divisiveness of bilingual with ominous references to Here i can Only fall Back on the wonderful line from Carl Sandburg the people yes in which the Irish cop in Denver tells the Pawnee Indian if you dont like it go Back to where you come we Are the one great postindustrial society not wracked by tribalism largely be cause we played these questions by not in terms of some overarching As the author of a speech in which Lyn Don Johnson came solidly for Black Power properly understood i have watched this process of accommodation up ideologues denounce it As Cooata but at least nobody is blowing up the Street signs in Bostons Chinatown because they Are in both English and con Trast this with where both Franco phone and flemish extremists refuse joint designations its All or and bang c King