European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april 1986 columns Flora Lewis fusion could be key to cooperation they they they they wont soviet and american leaders have been backing around each other for years on whether or not to meet and on what despite the latest flurry of clarifications from president reagans entourage on when a Summit Confer ence is not a Summit there is Little doubt that he will meet the soviet Mikhail this the russians have not ruled out a session at the United nations this the signs Are that Gorbachev missile freeze proposal is not a condition but a message that Moscow wants to raise important and will not be satisfied with a Mere protocol soviet officials attending the Carter centers Consul tation on International Security and arms control in Atlanta indicate that Moscow main concern is to thaw what Gorbachev has called the recent ice age in Sovi Eta Merican Washington is worried about the propaganda effects if expectations for a new East West Spring in september Are raised by too much both sides Are testing the atmosphere and looking for something they could take Home As an achievement without paying important this is natural and  be written off with there is a Good possibility that would serve everyone interest but has been overlooked in the focus on difficult military the Geneva arms talks Only opened last they cant be expected to produce anything substantive until there has been a lot More even the notion of a freeze is much More complicated than it involving intricate definitions As Well As questions of but a Howd Doody Summit adorned per haps with minor accords on fishing and would scarcely slake the yearning for evidence that the super Powers Are veering off collision like super tank it takes them a Long time to Complete a what matters is a Clear simply talking Man to Man Doest necessarily pro vide or assure better the important thing is to bring a sense of engagement in a search for ways to make the world safer and better a signal that something worthwhile has been an excellent candidate for an constructive Accord would be a program for fusion although fusion is the principle of the Hydrogen it has no other military unlike existing nuclear fission fusion plants would present almost no risk of Accident and dangerous David Broder its engourm3ng Tougeu Letiel waste the fuel is abundant in the if it can be brought to economic fusion Energy provides unlimited prospects of development to and release from atmospheric pollution by heavy use of Coal and fusion research has been plodding along for Over 30 but there has been Marshall Rosen a Pioneer who Heads the Institute for fusion studies at the University of we can now feel very confident about the As he puts to solve the remaining problems will require a Large scale perhaps too difficult and expensive for any one the United states is spending Only million a year on this immensely promising new the Cost of less than half a dozen missiles in the my the soviet the european Community and the japanese also have Well advanced research All have been exchanging information free even in the worst of because nobody can be Hurt by Progress toward this scientific so fusion Energy offers a highly rewarding peaceful Enterprise for soviet american co with Europe and it would be As dra Matic As the defunct soviet american space and a lot More useful and Eugenii who Heads fusion research at mos cows Kur Chatov says a demonstration Plant could be built within a decade to test engineering at a Cost of about a participant in the Atlanta believes that the russians would be glad to join an International Secretary of state George Shultz and the soviet for eign Andrei will meet in Vienna next month to discuss a Summit putting a fusion program on the Agenda wont avoid the abrasive but it would Promise at least one important Suc Cess and brighten the horizon for the tougher c 1985 new York times Syndicate moderate progressives in fhe gop Are mobilizing its and everything is pos so please do not laugh when i Tell you that the moderate progressive republicans Are plotting their i know that sounds silly in the age of when conservatism is in the Saddle especially in the Republican All i can Tell you is that three quite sane and professional Republican Mem Bers of the House sat Down on a Couch recently and told me How they and their friends Hope to redirect the policy of their party in coming they were Stewart Mckinney of Olympia Snowe of Maine and Tom Tauke of and they Are three of the leaders of the 92 the name was chosen to reflect their eagerness to be part of a Republican major Ity in the House by 1992 and their belief that such a majority cannot be achieved without broadening the philosophical Range of the gop beyond the confines of the new Are 30 declared members of the and another two dozen of what Auke Calls closet who for a variety of political reasons do not want to affiliate they began meeting shortly after the 1984 spurred by a shared fear that regans Victory would be turned into a righting ideological Triumph by the activist conservatives in the the Shock troops of those forces Are the Mem Bers of the conservative Opportunity society led by Vin Weber of Minnesota and Newt Gingrich of in the cos adherents became the most vocal Republican debaters in the they put their stamp on the 1984 they recruited and indoctrinated challengers for democratic held seats and generally Snowe As if they were the future of the while insisting they Are not trying to undermine their conservative col Mckinney said that two thirds of my constituents disagree with the planks on abortion and school prayer those people put into the those people May reflect their but if were Ever going to win a we sure As hell have to Nave people like us running in districts like those we Snowe chimed in to we have abandoned traditional Republican values in the Field of arms environment and equal and going even the majority of House republicans would be More comfortable with a platform we would write than the one that was written in that remains to be but the moderates Are mobilizing around an Issue that will gauge the future direction of the gop As clearly As any the they Are drafting a budget proposal of their own envisaging across Leboard cuts in both military and Domestic Tauke and have informed their party leadership that they will insist their views be considered before they Are called upon to line up behind whatever the White House and the party leadership finally it is a measure of the moderates weak Ness that not one of their members has a seat on the House budget but Tauke is probably right in saying that if we can pull 30 or 40 people together on the principles of our moderate we can Nave an Impact on the that is particularly since House conservatives Are divided among them selves on the spending when i wrote recently about new York Jack Kemps running budget policy debate with Bill cos Leader Weber called to say that he and Many other conservatives disagree with Kemps Faith that economic growth could substantially solve the deficit and were prepared to vote for spending cuts including in military but the ultimate test of the moderates comeback efforts will be not in the 1985 budget Battle but in the 1988 convention they Are not without there is a significant cadre of moderate progressive gop senators including majority Leader Bob and the chair men of such committees As i foreign environment and Public and Small there is a similar cadre of moderate progressive governors in new North Rhode Island and and there will probably be More in a Backer of vice president George said most of us will end up in the same Camp in staff members from the 92 group offices have begun monthly meetings with the tiny progressive Republican organizations that such As the Ripon but the moderates simply do not have the political and financial infrastructure the conservatives have built Over the past two As Tauke for too Many Belga moderate in the Republican party has been synonymous with being Lacka we Are learning from the conservatives that we have to be it is news and Good news that the moderates Are but is obvious they Are starting late and have a Long Way to c Wmk Lnelson pit group