European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns William Buckley the stars and stripes april 1985 an empirical argument for legalization of drugs we Are with reason angry at the mexican officials who Hohu med their Way through an investigation of the torture and killing of a drug agent who did what in Mexico is intolerable he stood in the Way of in to do this is on the order of standing in the Way of sex will graft will it is True that a few years ago the government of Mexico cooperated in a pro Gram designed to Spray the marijuana but it proved somewhat like wage and Price if for a sea son the marijuana crop from Mexico de then marijuana from elsewhere for instance will if there is less marijuana being smoked today than 10 years it is a reflection not of Law enforcement but of creeping social it has gradually transpired that the stuff is More harmful than originally and a culture that spends billions of dollars on health foods and barbells is taking a critical look at we read about in a vivid someone recently said that the big radars along the Border be tween Mexico and the United states night after to track what looks like a swarm of locusts headed our private carrying Coke to the american so we bag a Large number of them and they show up on the television that plane Over there was carrying million or was it million Worth of hurray for the drug enforcement but then the sober evaluation comes last year a splendid year for drug apprehension Flora Lewis suited in maybe 10 per 20 percent of the and of course the measure of Success in the drug like that in the Busi Ness of robbing what Are your chances of getting through answer Ter the Odds will always be when you consider that the amount of Coke you can stuff into a single pocket of a mans jacket can fetch and that the Cost of the stuff when picked up can be As Low As a profit of percent modest in the business is a powerful engine to attempt to try to Stop in a free in other societies the answer is As simple As executing anybody caught smuggling or using exit the dope so what Are we going to do about it my resourceful brother William Safire has a hot bundle of ideas aimed at catching the people who launder the prof its from these ideas include Chan Ging the color of our so that the boys with big Sac Fuls of Green under their mattresses will be forced to bring them revealing their Scarlet maybe we should Breed 50 million drug trained dogs to sniff at everyone getting off a boat or an what a great idea we Are face to face with the Rawest Datum of them which is that the problem would not except that in the United states there is a Market for the and that the stuff is priced very if we can not effectively prevent its insinuating its Way into the what is it that we can pre vent the of is its the one thing that could be is to legalize the exit and the profits from fee Skipit read pics new for Nica Reghetti it is hardly a novel suggestion to Legal ize shrewd observers of the scene have recommended it for i am on record As having opposed it in the matter of the accumulated evidence draws me away from my own on the purely empirical grounds that what we have now is a drug problem plus a crime problem plus a problem of a huge Export of capital to the dope producing Congress should study the dramatic educational Effort in which the services of All and some less than civic resources Are Televik for let the Federal communications commission make it a part of the overhead of a to License to broadcast 30 minutes a prime what dope does to ours is a free society in which oodles of people kill themselves with tobacco and some will do so with Coke and he but we should count in the lives saved by having the deadly stuff available at the same Price As rat c 1985 Universal press Syndicate High technology and improving Europe Security advanced technology has be come a major european a Hope and a a Promise and a threat to the future of Allied the problems Arent really but they have come together on Many different Levels to make a Sharp new Impact on the Public they certainly will arise at the Western Industrial Summit in Bonn next not so much As an Issue to be resolved but As a Shadow overlaying All the other discussions on Trade and East West two developments and a recent reve lation in France reflect the extent to which the prospects of High technology affect the most dramatic event was a recent Houran Dahal television show called facing the narrator was the Singer and actor Yves staunchly implanted Well on the left for most of his life but converted a couple of years ago to become a preacher against the menace of the theme was that France is no longer As Safe As it thinks under its nuclear mini that having to face a Choice be tween War and abject surrender is Possi and that it had better look to its de the Stark presentations provoked Little no one denies that techno logical change affects earlier in the president Francois Mitterrand proposed a european initiative to look into Star wars primarily to be sure that Europe economies Arent deprived of the possible civilian commercial but also to strengthen bargaining Power with the United the europeans Are disturbed at the Way Washington is approaching them country by even company by company without government there is concern that each could be locked into a much worse Deal than they could negotiate As a the previous French notion of a fully Independent european Effort on space de sense got but it left some ideas that could be promising and useful about a possible surveillance the revelation came with publication of a soviet document that explained for the first time Why 47 soviet officials suddenly were expelled from France two years the said to be Only one of Many that French intelligence obtained in an extraordinary coup of showed How deliberately and effectively mos cow has organized its technological spy Campaign for military it was As a result of the coup that France set aside its scepticism about american demands for stringent new constraints on Selling technology to the East since we discovered it by we Drew our own one French official document showed that 61 percent of the technological advances the russians filched around the world came from the United Paris shared its find with which helps account for the Good relations Mitterrand established with president Reagan even when there were communists in the French the reason for making the disclosure now int officials hint that since it takes about two years to relaunch a shattered spy going Public with the past incident was meant As a warning to Moscow to restrain one cause of european uneasiness at invitations to contribute to Star wars research is that the Pentagon May so tie up the results that european Trade will be blocked in a wide variety of techno the irony of the contradiction with reagans offer to share findings with the russians int but the offer was never taken in any the suggestion of an Independent Eye in the sky is gaining it recalls president Eisenhower offer to the russians of an open skies program of joint actually achieved now but in and menaced by development of sat Ellit killers on both a third depending on neither could provide an enormous reassurance to the world in time of helping stability with an added guard against misinformation and Miscal Cula the United which ought to perform this peace supporting just int up to effective several Middle not Only nato allies but for do have the capacity to create and operate the service if they Europe especially is shuddering at increasingly frequent predictions that it will sink into third world impotence and Pov erty if it Doest plunge into that is the new rallying cry for a Community whose politics have foundered on artichokes and spilled it is the new Challenge for an Atlantic partnership that can t decide whether the key Issue is com petition or new York Syndicate