European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april columns comments Anthony Lewis Reagan is a master of creating his own realities Ronald reagans Mastery As a political Leader was demonstrated again in the House vote for the my in four years As he has not lost in Congress on an Issue that he called but even that record is not a sufficient measure of his Talent for when political scientists look Back at the Reagan i think one Quality will dazzle them More than any that is reagans ability to create his own he asserts As truth visions that have Noth ing to do with the facts and moves the whole Frame work of debate to his a longstanding example is his made in the 1980 Campaign and repeated that in the years before he took office America had unilaterally Dis if words mean that statement is in the 1970s the United states added nuclear warheads to its strategic built the Trident and Trident ii and developed the cruise looking at the no rational person could say we unilaterally but Reagan is a Man of not and to a High his convictions have become the premises of debate on defense with All the concern in Congress about the size of the defense hardly anyone in the political mainstream challenges the proposition that we have to make up for years when we became a dramatic example is reagans strategic defense when he produced the in a speech two years it was labelled Star wars and dismissed by experts As pie in the they said that the technology did not exist and could not imaginable produce even an imperfect defense against missiles for the russians would develop new weapons to elude such a then we ours the objections to ski its most passionate advocates no longer even claim that it is Likely to pro Duce a perfect defense and without the effect must be to stimulate an offensive arms but the president continues to speak of the concept in visionary As an end to and there is every indication that Congress is going to Start Down the ski at a Cost that will come to hundreds of the whole question of the budget is another example of reagans ability to impose his Farouk reality on he has run up the biggest deficits in history More than the cumulative total from washing ton through and everyone knows Why he sharply Cut government Revenue and raised yet he continues to maintain that he is devoted to a balanced and will achieve it without holding Back on military increases or raising and As far As one can the Public believes that fantasy or believes in Reagan enough to turn away from the How does he do it what is the secret of reagans Power to impose his most fanciful visions on our perception of reality analysts will be exploring the mystery for but a few clues Are evident Trust is a everyone trusts Reagan As a he is so obviously he believes All those things he there is none of the defensive Ness in him of a Nixon he is confident and and he has proof that dreams can win Over because his own dream came then the visions he offers Are so he told students at Johns University last week that when they got a they would pay nearly a third of their salary in that was he suggested they should be allowed to keep More of their earnings spend on a portable or or Start a Small business who would want to argue against that America is a country of and reagans Genius is to understand we would rather hear that can strike it however Remote that Prospect is for any than be told that the government will help if we Are George Mcgovern found the limits of american egalitarianism when he proposed taxing away inheritances Over even the poorest did not want to give up the dream of leaving riches to their the Only trouble is that dreams do not displace reality in the Long lower taxes and free Enterprise will not run subway systems or support universities or in other ways sustain Community the consequences of runaway budget deficits and a mounting arms race will fall on our but such concerns have not yet produced an effective Challenge to the most remarkable politician of our c 1985 new York times Syndicate Geneva George will ill bet Reagan wont Cwg for us in Howe and his reasoning the London times is celebrating its Bicentennial by reestablishing its reputation As the when Geoffrey the foreign delivered a Long criticism of president reagans Strate Gic defense initiative the times cleared its Throat and called Howes speech muddled in didst like Howe endorsed research into strategic but expressed both doubt that it could produce a feasible system and dismay that it Howe favors what Reagan abhors the policy of deterrence purely through Mutual Vulner Abili and he is disconcerted by the thought of an ski Success that would require retiring the 1972 treaty Banning anti ballistic missile Howe flatly asserted that deterrence will continues to his reasons for such Faith were promptly subjected to withering analysis by Richard who serves Reagan As an assistant Secretary of defense and was attending a conference Howe should have a conference on realism about Pere noted Hal speech containefd1 not even a phrase about the enlarging pattern of Sovi Ervio lations of that 1972 arms control Howe conceded tie Thame soviet huf Jhog finale require ments neck ussary for of the soviet it reasonable for the Sieu to be unreasonable historical experience has inclined them toward that thought is suspiciously like the Crackpot Kremli that a wit once called preemptive empathetic that a hard history has made russians neurotically concerned with so we should try to think like a neurotic and refrain from any policy that could seem Howes Over insurance theory Perle an unpersuasive explanation of the addition of soviet warheads since the arms control process began in since Salt ii was signed in for persons a enthralled by the Mirage of arms the explanation is that the soviets have sought and achieved Strate Gic superiority for the intimidation that flows soviet been combined air launchers to he see in that a soviet commitment to or Mutual vulnerability those and other defensive combined with in Jiniv Navy inv Winn Ris me there is no reason for How belief their policy is benign acquiescence i Mutual the reasonable explanation of  for the abm treaty cause Fri caution in to Days in withe United states began deploying an abm to the u de with deployment of a too surface to to defend flow does soviet the soviets agreed to ban deployments while permitting research soviet research raced soviet treaty violations became today soviet aim in Geneva is to induce Simi Lar unilateral paralysis in strategic ten Days after reagans March 1983 speech proposing the soviets issued a statement deploring the Devotion of scientific resources to military and especially defensive the signers of the statement included the scientists running soviet strategic defense cars ringing from the times should appreciate the civility of who did not the Jimes implicitly did Why does the Iron lady suddenly have a papier mache foreign Secretary the limes darkly suspects that the lady has been beguiled by an idea and smitten by a r t prime minister Thatcher May the times distancing Britain from the better to be an Independent Bridge builder to the says the would be one of the most ill fated British decisions since the Era of she did say i like but she rather than likes and although the limes has changed a lot since the Days when it was a piercing voice of dramatic especially in a leftward does not seem to be m Thatcher s c 198s Washl Nylon poit Walleri group