European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes april columns today crossword keeping an insurrection alive by Jim Fain Washington president reagans offer of a 60 Day ceasefire in Nicaragua is merely a transparent ploy to unblock funding for the Cia sponsored Contra since the sandinista regime consistently has refused to talk to the presumably it will reject the new proposal out of theres nothing in it for Nicara guas present As far As Reagan is their Only Choice is either to yell Uncle or nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has shown him self More sensitive than is Reagan to the he might play around with the offer for Public relations in any theres no Prospect of its leading to a the reason is simply that Reagan will Settle for Noth ing less than overthrow of the sandinista and not Many politicians willingly sign a suicide Ortega have signalled readiness a number of times to agree to almost anything Short of their political death they shocked the state department last year by agreeing to the Contador groups peace forcing the into an eleventh hour Torp doing of the they shipped Back a few cuban advisers and said they were willing to forgo new soviet weapons they Are hurting under a heavy arms Load and War racked they gel Little economic Aid from most observers believe they would agree to dumping their advisers and cutting Back their army if we would get off their but Reagan is almost irrational on the he sees the sandinista government As a soviet beachhead and forecasts a flood of 100 million latin communists assaulting our Southern Frontier unless we Root out their his rhetorical hype on the contras has exceeded even his my sales he is said to be thinking about leading a huge Pep rally in miamis Orange All this so the Cia can keep a a misted Little insurrection going in a banana its a Marx Brothers Replete with bungled bombing raids 5n ancient assassination manuals and All the tragic comedy of any Effort to play James just about everybody knows certainly the Kremlin that we would not tolerate offensive soviet weapons systems in Central America and would intervene with troops if Nicaragua moved against her there is no military threat to us or to the hemisphere in whatever communist mess is going Oil politically in its just that for some reason Bill Casey at the Cia and Jeane wherever she find the idea so we try to fund a dirty totally uns Ecret War polls show the american people think the idea is relatively though there pretty relaxed about it As Long As we Arent committing Congress gave up on the Enterprise and Cut off funding Back when the Cia started mining nicaraguan ports and damaging International we ought to step Back and let the Contador nations work out something that will take the pressure off Nic Araguas neighbors while the sandinista flounder in the economic rats nest Treyve but the Gipper has made this thing into some kind of holy grail and will be damned if hell let its All fairly expensive and embarrassing not particularly dangerous except to the unfortunates c 1985 Cox news service Are the Rich different from the poor by Ellen Goodman deep in the textbooks of reaganomics there is a theory about the split american the theory says that Rich americans behave differently than poor Ameri to be the Rich need an incentive to work the poor need a this is the philosophy behind this administrations pet poverty program compulsory since Ronald Rea Gan came into the government has supported a plan that would require Able welfare recipients to work or or else lose their welfare they claim that it would save the Federal Treasury million Over three but while this program to Force labor is being pushed in something quite different is happening in the land of the the cod and the tip there is a workfare program already in place that depends on attract ing welfare the called by the Friendly acronym it for employment and is based on the opposite it assumes that the welfare poor Are just like regular give them an incentive and a sensible and  choose the idea May be but the program is fiscally its a perfect match for the image that Mike Dukakis of Massachusetts has honed As a governor with a cos effective social the program is working and so Are the before the workfare program in Massachusetts had created More hurdles than jobs for those on in one office the Only Job consisted of a table with a Bank of phones and a Bunch of Telephone under current Federal All Able welfare recipients about half the adults on the Rolls have to Register for a work program but under what they do next is up to they can choose Between supported Job placement or none of the the Reagan View is that in a voluntary program there would be no says Tom Deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts department of in from a Pool of a full Are enrolled in and Are already in the there is a waiting list to get in As Glenn some body forgot to Tell them not to the graduates of it have saved taxpayers about million so Treyve also helped on aver the graduates earn an hour or about a better than the minimum and they stay on the after six 85 percent Are still and that about two or three times More than the aver age workfare there Are two other crucial pieces to the Puzzle of his programs popularity those who go into training get a daycare voucher for a year and keep their medicaid for 15 they Are also hired by people who dont know that there welfare so they begin their work lives without a it undoubtedly has been helped by the Strong econ omy in but there Are other states where the Economy has improved without reducing the welfare Massachusetts even has what the Reagan people would Call a Strong disincentive to this state is among the top 10 in welfare it allots about a year for a Mother and two but the program works because it was Well devised and it combats ideology with common in Stead of presenting work As a punishment for the crime of it offers work As an attractive it demonstrates that most people prefer paychecks to so they dont have to be bludgeoned into the tale of it has and there have been state delegations sent from As far away As Oregon and but the response from Washington has been less than indeed if workfare becomes voluntary programs like it would be technically As Tom Glynn it kills the Reagan people that a Liberal Democrat governor in tip one ills state is running a voluntary program that beating the pants off the punitive workfare in other parts of the we Are disproving their they think that people have to be regulated and were proving them there has Long been a struggle in the Reagan administration Between the pragmatists and the which us All the right buzzwords like private appeals to any instead of being a renegade from a Distant ideological its time that it be came the by Eugene Sheffer across 1 dead or red 4 Meadow 7 Impromptu attempt 8 destroys 10 swiftly 11 actress Lansbury 13 Robert Mitchum film 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