European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes March William Safire reagans eagerness for Summit seems demeaning in a startling policy president Reagan sent George i Bush to the latest Kremlin funeral with a written invitation to Mik Hail Gorbachev to a get acquainted Summit never mind All the past statements about the need to prepare Summit sessions with lest the publicity Lead the world to unrealistic forget All previous derogation of phony to underscore his eagerness for a handshake Confer Reagan mad Public his invitation to the joint global photo Gorbachev said turning the other the rebuffed president told a press conference that protocol called for the next sum Mit meeting to take place Here in the United and again put on the Public More silence from the soviet unions cagey new then Reagan fairly got Down on his admitting that there have been no signals of the president pleaded through reporters with the Hardtop get the Date depends on Gorbachev when it could be convenient for he  even have to make a special in times offered the rolling to a supine Fallback the head of state of the soviet Union has come to the opening of the United if that is convenient for i certainly  see any reason Why that  be for in other if Gorbachev wont come to Washington on a state Reagan is hoping to be squeezed into the soviet leaders Busy schedule at the United nations in new York this perhaps Between the cuban and nicaraguan Why All this begging for the pleasure of an other superpowers company his Hott hold hands have led to a significant weakening of his position on russian violations of past arms agreements what used to be his pointed objections to the placement of Battle management radar and the encryption of missile Telem etry that mocks the abm treaty become Mere language problems Between our two the killing of a army coldly justified by the Kremlin in its  does not Cool the suitors ardor for a Summit session it would make me More anxious he Means eager to go to Reagan is not the first Western Leader to adopt the notion that Basic differences in superpower interests could be overcome by the warmth of human under when Winston Churchill first called for a Parley at the Summit in he disdained a Confer ence overhung by a rigid Agenda zealously contested by hordes of experts and officials drawn up in cumbrous and John Kennedy in before he Learned William Buckley so mob Whf for one Bruff sunk mom9il shrams King Leader won the hearts of the hopeful by saying it is far better that we meet at the Summit than at the but As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of our palpitating Sherpa should remember certain Summit lessons the meeting should be for the Sake of the not vice things like treaties with regards to fishing offers Reagan various commercial things these could be helped along possibly by a sum this sort of treat entreating makes the presi Dent a diplomatic mendicant and exposes his strange new Elevation of smiles Over an unstructured get together nourishes the wrongheaded notion that the real differences Between us Are rooted Only in the real Trou ble is not Lack of if is the soviet desire to Only detailed negotiations beforehand can pre vent disastrous when a chief of state or head of government makes a wrote Dean the goal line is open behind the Side that presses for a meeting weakens its position at the when president Nixon mined Hai Phong Harbor before the 1972 Summit he showed his willingness to forgo the meeting in Moscow the russians showed they wanted detente and we went in with the psychological upper in during it was Nixon who needed the Summit and the advantage was whichever Side shows it wants the meeting More suffers for its political at this it is not who needs added the american by beg Ging for a meeting demeans his of fice and undercuts his negotiating c 1985 new York times Syndicate Bishops getting involved where they dont belong the headline Catholic bar my i would very much like to see a Catholic mind own the missive was in the form of a letter signed by Bishop James who is president of the National conference of Catholic and is himself Bishop of the news Story a Catholic official who is informed on the drafting of the letter said there was Little or no opposition to it among the there Are two questions the which is absolutely is what is the View of individual Bishops respecting the deployment of 21 my missiles in terms of the comprehensive strategic picture the second which is intensely is what is the View of the Bishops concerning the advisability of sending out such a letter an Effort was in that to ground its message in a moral the reasoning goes As in in the Bishops pastoral letter called the Challenge of the Bishops opposed the deploy ment of weapons which Are themselves Likely to be vulnerable to attack vet also possesses a capability of rendering the other sides retaliatory forces Why because such weapons May seem to be useful primarily in a first they then went on to say that deployment of the my missiles could be used for a first is that All the second argument was to the effect that if the deployment of weapons was very that Factor would perhaps against Why because the Money should be used for other starvation in Ethiopia and grinding poverty in Central America Are two examples of alternative uses for the billion the 21 my mis Siles would now there Are grounds for opposing the my but they do figure in a Dis Cussion of the Bishops the my missiles were first proposed by president As a part of a Long standing program to reduce the number of missiles we deploy and make up for the lesser number by improved president Carter accepted the recommendations of the preceding and his military team recommended the deployment of 200 such president Reagan and his military advisers Are think ing in terms of or perhaps but 21 As an Essen tial during the past 20 years we have reduced our War Heads by during the same the soviet Union has increased its warheads by about the in other is an intricate exercise to which men who have studied Public strategic questions have devoted their the notion that we would have acquired a first strike capability is As destabilizing to rational thought As the notion that we had such a first strike capability for about 30 the threat to the soviet Union of a first strike from the United states is about As great As the threat to France of a first strike by great and what is it that causes the Bishops to con clude that the Money in question would otherwise go to starving ethiopians the concern for frugality to which they refer is a concern that less Money be spent by the Federal if the Catholic Bishops want to raise More Money for let them charge their Over whom they have legitimate moral to do they say that the my is a system of dubious to be we have enough bombs to blow up the russians 10 to use a round but the whole notion of defining that which is of dubious value is on the order of telling a Christian that he is reciting a redundant conceivably in the Long run we could defeat the rus sians with by guns and Poison but it is dubious that we the rational arguments argue against taking any running any among other reasons because if the soviet Union vast areas of the world would resemble the Ethiopia whose fortunes have been governed by men who follow soviet it is heartbreaking for those catholics who uphold the moral authority of the Bishops when they speak out on such matters As venality and concupiscence that they should dilute their leverage As they have taken to doing by involving themselves As a body in disputes in which they have no competence sex Bishop Malone could be As smart As from which nothing whatever would follow about the Intelli gence of his views on the my let us now see whether the usual gang rises to defend the separation of Church and c 1995 Universal Syndicate