European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns George will the stars and stripes March 1985 orge will hold your grit your Teeth and support my meshing that is an interesting concept in go sustain the arms control it is dismal is a depressing commonplace in in sell this misbegotten Reagan has become a be something that is an interesting concept in go Metry is a depressing commonplace in in a line can have length without in the argument about the my missile is like most my opponents Are ardent for the arms control one sour fruit of which is the in 1972 the misbegotten abm treaty banned defense of thereby making a necessity of what Many then As considered a virtue deterrence based on Mutual Salt signed was per missive and for it limited but neglected to define heavy so the soviet unconstrained by Salt i but legitimized by soon made land based icbms vulnerable to a disarming first the my was supposed to cure the vulnerability of minutemen icbms in fixed but after a decade spent considering 34 Basing the Pentagon now proposes to put my in improved the Reagan administration could candidly admit that this might Cre ate a  hair trigger situation in and could plausibly argue that this might deter the soviets from provoking a the administration lamely argues that improved hardening makes silos Invulnerable after the Reagan administration is stuck with an my that others wanted for reasons related to arms arms controllers Are not actually hostile to strategic rational if rationality is compatible with arms but first things agreements arms controllers know that the Way to get agreements is to agree to limit things that Are easy to so Salt i limited the number of result bigger launchers packed with More warheads More eggs in More vulnerable like my will survive in Congress this year and by next year will have become a jobs program and probably will be Invulnerable to not soviet it will survive this year thanks to Only one thing the arms mouse of mme votes my kjevu5 item control in which my the administration a bargaining it is a bargaining Chip Between the administration and which supports it lest negotiators be the president says the my vote is a vote on Gene by Geneva he Means the arms control during since Salt the number of nuclear warheads has quadrupled and the soviets have deployed 21 new nuclear weapons although it is fit Ting that Congress supports a new missile in order to sustain the arms control it is dismal to sell this misbegotten Reagan has become a Zeal Ous worshipper at the Barren altar of arms he says Moscow considers the my vote a test of but a nation driven from Lebanon by a truck bomb cannot restore its reputation by buying a missile for which three administrations have failed to find an adequate Basing a nation that lacks the resolve to use its ships to quarantine a regime like or lift rifles to overthrow that or even its dollars adequately to support nicaraguan Freedom can not show relevant resolve by buying High tech hard the West is losing the third world War in Small not big missile perhaps the president Means that Moscow considers the my vote a test of resolve to spend for but Moscow would be distraught were con Gress to spend the my dollars on rifles and ships we might actually and on Aid for Freedom fighters in Vietnam and con Gress could use the Small change to buy better radio transmitters to override soviet jamming that violates the Helsinki accords speaking of the administration lacks the resolve to repudiate As dead but there is the and the reason Why it is sensible to hold your grit your Teeth and support if Congress kills it will use the dollars to solve a different vulnerability crisis the vulnerability of con Gress to constituents angered by Domestic spending the current round of arms controlling in Geneva May last a or perhaps now that the kids have seized control of the the Pace will in which Case the two sides can reach a deadlock the Only certainty is that the process will have produced a mis Sile conceived As a result of Salt Gest aled during Salt ii and born in the Hope of Salt the my argument resembles not which is but modern Art abstract which is the work of the sold to the c Washington Post writers group Carl Rowan drug abuse spreads like a monstrous Volcano i wish so fervently that it were not but we Are being overwhelmed with evidence that the United states is losing the War against drug what is this wretched social curse is spreading like lava from a monstrous vol addicting and corrupting More and More countries every it seems that the whole world is going if you think that i overstate the look at one Days fare of drugs stories in thursdays newspapers a Federal prosecutor in District that Over five years a Wash into based cocaine distribution ring paid some million to Marcos an accused colombian drug in Exchange for a 10to20year Pris on Robert Reckmeyer agreed to testify against his brother who is to retried on charges that he ran a drug sales operation from his Virginia estate an operation from which Christopher Reckmeyer allegedly 1 stung by charges that mexi can officials allowed the escape of a key suspect in the kidnapping and murder of drug agent Enrique Camerena Sala announced that 30 people including three mexican Federal police com Manders and nine other police agents had been arrested for criminal conduct in connection with the Camarena in a Senate Paula Haw demanded angrily that the Cut economic Aid to countries which produce drugs and wont intensify their anti narcotics she mentioned but was especially angry that Bolivia got million in Ai last but still produces half the worlds a state department official said the time is not yet Ripe for such punitive action As denying Bolivia Brazil announced that it was launching the biggest operation Ever to try to prevent colombian drug traffickers from expanding their operations in Western Brazil and their efforts to bribe brazilian the flow of illicit drugs into the United states clearly has become a the situation is so bad that the National association of attorneys the Gover nors of the Gulf several members of Congress and new York City mayor de Koch Are demanding that the military be Given the task of sealing this country Borders and of winning the War against in a speech before the National press club last Koch said How can we ask Thailand or Pakistan or Colombia or other drug producing nations to take us seriously when drugs Are sold openly on the streets of America Clear there is something wrong with our Antidrug Koch urged that we use the air Navy and army along with the coast guard to protect the country against drug smugglers with the same Zeal they show in protecting America against soviet if the russians were doing this to Koch said of the invasion of he marijuana and other illegal we would be in a state of As it something even worse is we Are doing it to some argue that the pos civil War posse comi Tatus act forbids use of the military for civilian Law but the use by president Eisenhower of troops to enforce court ordered school desegregation in Little Rock in the 1950s and several other usages have made posse comi Tatus pretty much a dead i find it hard to argue even though the 101st airborne division was used in Little the military cannot be used to combat people who Are poisoning this society just As surely As if they were sneaking across our Borders and putting dioxin in our drinking if we will not use every Law enforcement resource we we must do what some in the drug enforcement administration already have done argue that education is the Only real solution education that wipes out the american appetite for heroin and other Ille Gal drugs to the Point that the Money to be made is not so great that so Many traffickers will risk arrest and that kind of education is not in the cards that we now Are i wrote that sad Litany of some of thurs Days drug abuse stories at the begin Ning of this column in the certain belief that millions of americans Are so de pressed that they had refused to read them on first i fear that the num ber willing to read this far in this column about a terribly unpalatable subject is so Small that we have a new measure of evidence that we Are losing the War against drug losing peo ple we love and becoming so mired in hopelessness that we have lost the will to c 1985 news America Syndicate  by King Syndicate