European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april columns George will soviets manic militarism strangles arms control believers in arms control Are undaunted by the evidence of but they might suffer a doubt about  if they turned their attention from Geneva to the ukrainian Village of in Middle school a Young teacher recently died heroically to protect his he absorbed the blast of a what was a grenade doing in Middle school 2 the reported by Iain Elliot in the London is relevant to the coming argument about continued compliance with Salt the a graduate of a Kab Borde guard col lege think about had been delivering the military instruction that is a compulsory part of the curriculum for soviet he was teaching How to handle what should have been an unarmed when he pulled the pin a Wisp of smoke showed that a live Gre Nade had become mixed in with demonstration Gre and he gave his the childrens which teaches hatred for the enemies of also teaches Assembly of machine guns and the use of bayonets and Rifle Butts in the decisive armed conflict of the two opposing world sys a conflict that will involve vast casualties on an unprecedented As Elliot the soldiers now carrying out orders and committing atrocities in Afghanistan began playing serious War games with their first Steps in it is with representatives of this manic militarism that officials Are planning to negotiate substantial reductions of offensive strategic Force the prom ise that such reductions would come in Salt ii was what made Salt is High and unequal and the abm palatable to Congress in soviet deployments of offensive systems reasonable people expected from a nation that teaches children to handle the administration warns the Public not to have High expectations from the Geneva yet describes the talks As the first step toward the abolition of nuclear in defense of such rhetoric Paul the presidents special arms control says that elimination of nuclear weapons is a Lon term goal set by the 25 years it is old soviet boilerplate Andall previous american administrations have regarded it As empty this is the first administration to define objectives in terms of such a patently unreal Zable the administration has not committed itself to spurn an agreement like Salt i and Salt does not involve substantial such is ministrations hunger for even the cosmetics of arms it May continue to comply with Salt ii limits Tom Wicker even after the end of the when that agreement would have expired if it had been it was never because enough people joined candidate Reagan in denouncing both sides have agreed not to undercut Salt the soviets Are violating it in Many so that the no undercut policy is actually unilateral Salt ii limits both sides to delivery and some other limiting the soviets were above in 1979 and today have we Are in compliance with the limit but when the new Tri Dent submarine Alaska enters service we will Stop being in compliance with the limit on mired missiles unless we scrap some land based icbms More like a Polaris for scrap Means reduce to scrap As the soviets deploy new including some in violation of Salt they retire some older system but do not destroy they put them in or turn ballistic missile submarines into cruise missile the Polaris is about at the end of its useful life and it would be expensive to replace the nuclear that fact is being seized upon by those who usually rationalize american but the Case for keeping the Polaris in service a while longer is larger than this economic the credibility of the president will be a casualty of continued compliance with an agreement he stinging by destroying the Polaris might destroy the some conservatives might Stop voting for a vulnerable land based icbms if deployment of it requires destruction of sea based As the administration considers twisting itself even More out of shape in Pursuit of arms it should consider that it is chasing a chimera a useful agreement with the people who put grenades in Middle school c 1985 Washington Post writers group j new few left in Sake reagans Mark will be on fhe courts for decades in fiscal year Federal District courts decided almost and the 12 circuit courts of a peal decided More than the supreme court normally hands Down fewer than 100 decisions a even if the longevity of the present nine justices prevents president Reagan from reshaping the supreme court in his second he will still exert enormous Power Over the course of american Law hence Ameri can life his lifetime appointments to the lower in an article for the Herman professor of Law at american estimates that by 1988 Reagan May have appointed More Federal judges than any other president probably about or More than half the 744 Active Federal including 85 Cre ated by Congress in does this Prospect matter of course it Schwartz cites an extensive Survey of 62 Reagan judicial appointees by Craig Stern of the conservative Center for Judi Cial studies to show that these judges have been rather consistently deciding for state authority and against claims under the civil rights the education of handicapped children social Security Sherman antitrust the first title and by criminal is this anything More than the reversal of a trend since Franklin Roose Haven presidents republicans been appointing mostly Liberal so that Reagan is Only redressing the balance Reagan Ite conservatives surely take that View but Schwartz argues for the most the widely accepted tradition and practice by which Federal judges Are selected has ensured a valuable diversity rather than ideological but Reagan seems Bent Only on a specific kind of in Schwartz View ideologically committed to extreme conservatism and very the righting Phil for recently proposed and Reagan nominated Sid 31 years to a Texas Kenneth formerly an assistant to attorney general William French is one of a number of Youthful conservatives named to the appellate Bench in his the court of a study by the Dallas times Herald found that percent of reagans Judi Cial appointees the highest percentage for any recent president were under Gramm bluntly stated the obvious the added Bonus from fitzwaters a he is that he will be making rulings when in Reagan also has turned Down qualified people for what appear to be ideological reasons for his own Deputy solicitor Andrew a Law and order advocate rejected for the court of appeals because he was not opposed to abortion and handgun William a respected new York lawyer proposed by the states democratic Daniel approved by his Republican Alfonse and endorsed by 24 former Federal was turned Down though the administration had never interviewed him for a District court he once advocated no prison sentences for some victimless crimes he had incurred the opposition of Roy All this suggests an ideological litmus the White House denies that but concedes that it inquires about judgeship candidates views on As prom ised last year in the Republican three righting senators Dent of East of North Carolina and Hatch of Utah went further they sent a blatantly ideological questionnaire concerning school the affirmative to Joseph Rod a former head of the new Jersey state who had been proposed for a judgeship by that states Republican Gover Thomas and actually nominated by at judiciary committee hearings on Rodriguez the three senators backed off congressional sources suggested that one reason was criticism evoked by their Witch Hunt that a Welcome suggestion that the Public May be taking alarm at the idea of an ideologically purified Federal judiciary exerting immense Power Over american life Long after the Reagan administration becomes a dim o1985 York Tolmei Syndicate