European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april 1985 columns comments William Buckley budget amendment would promote some restraint a professor of history from the University of disdainful of efforts to adopt a constitutional amendment limiting Federal spending to Federal recalls something that happened at the constitutional Conven Tion in Elbridge the precursor of George proposed to write into the Constitution that at no time could the government conscript More than men into the it was suggest in a stage whisper thai Gerry motion should include the proviso Hal no foreign enemy should in Vade the United states at any Lime with More than a Nice but More to the ongoing debate about the strength of our military which one Washington might have stipulated As equal to the Power to deter the plus one a margin of bit the academic contempt for the balanced budget reflection on an immature knowledge of human Psychol remove the for a from the political it is generally supposed thai a human being without running any risk to his lungs or smoke and inhale 10 cigarettes per the comes nol from smoking so much As from smoking More cigarettes than the human organism can safely suppose that one could devise a practical Means of making the 1 1th daily cigarette to suppose on discos Cru that ones alcoholic blood level seas traversing the hires hold which a human a cite tends to lose control of his or his or his judgment suppose just to suppose that that incremental drink were known to have in it an ounce of sufficient to bring on the physical torment of convulsive vomit ing and stomach  those restraints be Welcome we in the evolution of our democratic that certain things we once took for granted we should no longer take for for that we could own for that women should be denied the for that we needed to wait until the month of March before inaugurating a new for that the in order to warrant its Equality with the House of should be composed of members elected by the people rather than appointed by the state political for that it subverts the democratic process to spend More Money on Federal enterprises than is raised by in other the idea of the balanced budget amendment should be res cued from the idea that it is inconsistent with the evolutionary modifications that Are always being made on Basic Republican the great crisis in eng land with the Reform act of 1832 just another crisis in a Long line of among them those that gave us the Magna and the glorious revolution of Many of our own crises have been internalized within the political sys we didst have a constitutional convention to decide whether president an Drew Johnson had the right to name his own we impeached him for asserting that and then vindicated him by a single but the Constitution had thus been congressman Phil Gramm this was before he was a and before he was a Republican once introduced a simple Bill asking that the Cost of living adjustment for social Security take place not twice a but once a his Point being that the working Man paying the overhead of social Secu Rity was suffering greatly during the re and that the Burden of that recession should be shared More equally among working people and nonworking so he introduced a measure to that and it was resoundingly at which Point someone moved that the vote be put on the the result the motion was resoundingly de the Point is that we have gradually Learned that unless there is constitutional to accept definite limits on Federal the moral strength to restrain oneself tends to even As the strength fails among us to and to with reference to our the notion that our political health will not respond to formal help defies experience with and we Are political animals As Well As biological and need to and then to from our knowledge of cil935 Universal press ale maybe in Ronald Reagan talked to american who base been there he might feel a Lille differently about aiding the contras in Doris Bowles of a retired 71yearold plastic understands the presidential mentality very her also a is an impassioned Reagan supporter who shares the View thai anything we do is All right As Long As we gel rid of the a intense woman in a rumpled jumpsuit and running the doctor is just Back from a three week stint in Nicaragua As a col Lee bean picker helping the sandinista Harvest their most Villa she and two fellow members of elders a group of 18 californians who first met at protests against nuclear Power Al Are in Washington hoping to convince congressmen that their View of Nicaragua is inc right thai the sandinista government is trying to make life belter for the Isidore Salkind of a retired professor of re habilitation management at the University of san fran has been to Nicaragua several he is out raged that a Little country with 3 million people who had not even toilet is being so viciously attacked by our great George an a bureaucrat in the san fran Cisco department of was ashamed to admit i was an american to the peasants he met at a town near manage where the ciders joined 42 other voluntary harvesters on the Steep slopes of the Coffee they slept on planks in a room that was 10 feet by 32 got up at 5 in the trudged to the picked Beans in the blazing Sun for nine hours and ate nothing but Rice and Beans three times a Day and they would do it none of the seniors had any health they encountered no whom Reagan Calls our Brothers and the moral equivalent of our found ing Only the victims of Contra they totally reject the presidents picture of Nicaragua As a communist says Salkind nicaraguans complain loudly and bit Terly against what is going they  do that in a totalitarian i was there during the and opposition posters were after years of repression and Alliey Are learning to read and they have their health if Reagan rejects the testimony of California contempt he might listen to two nuns who live and work in Northern villages near the honduran Border and have had firsthand experience of the one recurring item i Hap 0ne Tow wh0 asked is comlus thr0u6h with tax on his Bill of particulars against the sandinista is the governments persecution of the the according to sister Nancy a sister of the Maryknoll order for 35 is that the contras arc interfering with the work of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua and stepping up their Campaign of terror against the she was captured by contras when she was in route to a Bishops meeting on Public transportation had been disrupted by the and she hitched a ride on a truck with a refugee when she was she tried to go Back to the Village to warn others against using the she was by another band of who forced her to walk 12 Miles through the mountains before telling her she carries around a list of local Contra victims those wounded and kidnapped during the last each casualty is listed by age and sister Sandra a sister of notre Dame de Zamurs for 25 has lived in the town of Sauna since she does All the pastoral work since the Parish priest was threatened by the in september 1984 she was kidnapped by held overnight after being questioned by her captors to find out if Sho were a Sandi nista or a she carries around a list of atrocities committed by the contras in Sauna since last she also has the sworn statement of a 12yearold boy whose family was wiped out by contras on his father was shot four times and then had his Throat they killed his his 8yearold his Uncle and his uncles he when he returned to the House three Days he found his mothers naked the skin on my Moth ers face had been Cut the child both Sisters arc going Back to even sister Sandra every time we go out on the we dont know if we Are coming is either the sympathetic americans have been hoodwinked by the wily or the presidents ardor for the Freedom fighters is dictated by the notion he shares with bowies husband that anything we do is All right if we just get rid of the Universal press 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