European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes april Coin mrs Reagan trailing Gorbachev in or race by Ellen Goodman my but didst they sound put out about the whole downright you could hear a collective harrumph coming from the Reagan As if they had been personally offended by the Gorbachev peace no sooner had the new soviet Leader publicly agreed to a Summit and announced a unilateral freeze on deploying Middle Range missiles in than Larry Speakes narrowed his eyes and uttered dark suspicions about the meaning of the whole by the morning National Security advisor Robert Mcfarlane had called the soviet message a a a Donald Regan accused the soviets of trying to Divide the Western allies and the nerve of them trying to gain a propaganda someone who Only heard the Reagan Ite response would have assumed that the soviets had just announced a new round in the arms race or eternal hostility toward the Gorbachev had confrontation is not an inborn defect of our it is rather an this want exactly a Cue to let the doves of peace but neither was it anything to shoot Down so the administration honchos practically banged their shoes on the they tried to drown out any Good it was As if this were still a Campaign year and the opponent had scored a few Surprise Points in the maybe that whats going suddenly the presi dents men Are faced with a serious contender for the title of world if there is one thing that sets the White House thermostat on Burn its finding a great communicator in the after our Guy is supposed to be tops at this sort of but their Guy came out with a peace message on easter our Guy was on vacation and their Guy was in the never mind the missile this was serious stuff the or Man the damage Gorbachev offer to freeze missiles was indeed a propaganda not a strategic it didst really take the presidents men to Tell us the soviet ver Sion of the Oxford English dictionary defines propaganda As information rather but it seems a bit nervy of this administration to yell foul at the biggest peace initiative of the Rea Gan years was to rename the my missile the peace what happened where the canker gnaws was that Gorbachev made a great opening bound to win Points in the european Public opinion he came out sounding flexible and asking the right questions is it not time for those who shape the policy of states to think and prevent the adoption of decisions that would push the world to a nuclear catastrophe it want a Brilliant but it would make a Good 30second bite for an International commercial set against Fields of wheat and smiling Young russians waving red stars of by our government sounded testy and gloom and it sounded like the democrats in the last the White House int used to second spot in the it certainly int used to playing follow the soviet but if the Reagan boys Are unhappy imagine How a series of these headlines soviets pro pose dismisses will it reeks of a worldwide role reversal with american leaders hunkered rigid and pessimistic in the Kremlin on the Poto Spring is in the and i do find some Hope in this new phase of International the president is no Slouch in the image nor is he the sort of Guy who likes to accentuate the i expect the old fighting instinct will Rise again in dutch hell want to get the upper hand on the upbeat again and we May yet be off and running in a or race instead of an arms if the soviets pledge to freeze weapons they dont we can top them with a pledge to freeze weapons we dont and once weve bargained away every thing we might even get Down to serious an International or race would at least be based on the notion that leaders know what the Public wants to the president is now contending for the title of peace maker against a real reagans men should Stop pouting and Start planning a writing yourself into a swamp is fhe pits by James Kilpatrick let me quote two godawful sentences to ask you to take a deep and then stick around for a the civil rights for All the Good it said about this left a lot of bitterness in its Wake As it has moved into such areas As housing and affirmative has whatever the merits of the been More difficult and stirred anger among those Whites directly affected who tend to be the Blu Collar this could have been a marvelous blood of Abraham by Jimmy or no less intriguing to president watchers it could have presented the candid Latte Day reflections of the Man whose greatest achieve the peace Between Egypt and he Indi yet unravel and which in any event did not become the grand and comprehensive Israel palestinian settlement that plainly was his hearts it would be unkind to identify the authors of those Misbe gotten both authors Are known to me both Are professionals both ordinarily write readable their failure Here was the consequence of the laziness that All of us fall into now and once they realized they were lurch ing into a they should have backed out of the sentences and started this is the recasting and it is not employed nearly often consider the first horrid this is a dropped plate of a sentence it left pieces of its verb All Over the tight editing would have deleted a lot of and put a period after we can infer the lot further recasting would have rejoined the verb so brutally torn asunder by whatever the merits of the the weak has been would have been replaced with an Active verb in tandem with has to get rid of that Limp appendage at the we would have eliminated the who clause altogether or at the least recast the second horrid example is another dropped plate he yet the More serious of sense lies in that abominable and few rules of writing Are but this Rule on which clauses approaches that inviolate realm never i never get into an and which the important thing to keep in mind is to give your Reader a let him see the key elements clearly the the the object before you guide him through thickets of subordinate this further observation word processors Are Marvel Ous aids in the recasting i still write on an old manual and i know How reluctant i am to recast a poor sentence if it Means Xing out two or three lines and Messing up the copy to the Point that it has to be the computer makes the Job a i doubt that the most efficient computer would have helped a certain Southern College president who last month wrote a piece for the Birmingham news on silent the antiabortion the gentleman remarked the movie demonstrates the Power of film to move he continued it documents the perversity of realizing rational Resolution to unusually emotion Laden Means of mass communication Means if widely would make virtually impossible the operation of the democratic pro the author of that sentence didst need a lesson in the recasting his problem was that he never had a Clear idea of what he meant to say in the first first comes the then comes the act of reducing the thought to then comes the but All the editing in the world wont clarify the 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