European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april columns comments James Reston forgotten report May be clue to Central America in the present confusion and frustration in Washington Over Aid to it May be useful to take an other and maybe a different look at the report of president reagans commission on Central issued on and quickly it was in some ways a remarkable Doc it put the economic and social aspects of the problem in historical even during the emotional pressures of the 1984 presidential election it was approved unanimously by leaders of both political parties and leaders of both business and nobody argued much with its analysis and definition of the Central american but its proposals for solution were nibbled to death by opponents who objected to one part or the other rather than grappling with the report As a Reagan supported the report in Prin which is his some argued that there could be no military peace without economic Reform financed by a kind of Marshall plan for Central others insisted that there could be no practical economic solution without or at least a reduction in the Mili tary so the plan was but the dilemma and the president and con Gress Are now involved in a divisive fight Over the narrow Issue of sending another million to help the nicaraguan rebels to overthrow the nicaraguan or bring it to the bargaining table to Dis cuss a negotiated peace on Washington enter now in by William Buckley and lock the former Chancellor of West Helmut with another if i heard him he said that maybe the Kissinger report should be it recognized the military threat from Cuba and the soviet and the urgent need to Deal with the re Gions economic and social but he could not be resolved by military Means or even by a new mar shall the Marshall plan idea was too Nar it had the wrong name and smacked of the Hope he in widening the economic restoration of the using the other Central american nations the Contador group to Lead the Way to a regional and bring other nations into a Deal for peace and the economic reconstruction of Central this was schmidts new he As Only retired chancellors can think that the Central Ameri can problem was dividing the nato Al and that they would be willing to contribute to an economic Aid program for if the Reagan administration thought this might break the i talked to Henry Kissinger about this a couple of Days after Schmidt went and he agreed that help from the european allies could be he had talked to Chancellor Kohl of West Ger Many about the possibility of european and Kohl had been but Kissinger was he want sure that the president wanted to look at the Central american report or get the europeans involved in an economic he thought Schmidt had a Good but it was up to the he to pursue or ignore As Schmidt the Kissin Ger report is the Best analysis of the prob Lem we have and should be read it made the following Points among others the use of Nicaragua As a base for soviet and cuban efforts to penetrate the rest of the Central american with Al Salvador the target of first oppor gives the conflict there a major strategic this is a Challenge to which the United states must re but beyond we Are challenged to respond to the urgent human needs of the people of Central our task As a is to transform the crisis in Central America into an Opportunity everybody agrees with and wants the support of both political parties and the Contador nations to help resolve the but so far nobody has come up with a Way to do it except use the Marshall plan idea by All though Central America today is not like the european allies after world War give it a new he use the Contador but also Call on Europe and Japan to bring the old world to the Aid of the for a its not a very promising but its the Only new one heard around Here for a Long c 1985 new York times Syndicate Tulane basketball scandal covers two Levels the Tulane scandal is hugely inviting Radical even from those not intimately conversant with the scandal was of two one More or less the other sex the idea of paying players to go to a College because they Are Good at basketball or or ice hockey whatever is frowned but the furrows on american brows dont run All that any More than we get excited when we discover that Joe who won the olympic medal for downhill ski Rac had All his expenses As also those of his by the Gelander sprung ski the tendency is to frown and change the but Point As they Call is something cheating in sports is the kind of thing that Breeds National traumas of the kind that cause Little children to say it int it was apparently so in to but what is most interesting about the sequence of events int one More Cheater caught up cheating will unlike Small be extirpated from the but the reaction to it of Eamon the presi Dent of which is certainly out of the he didst suspend this set of play ers and bring in another he didst suspend the sport for one or two he simply abolished the from now Tulane will never see christianity has a convention for Mally asserted in the lords prayer when we Lead us not into and appearing in Catholic catechisms As the injunction to avoid occasions of if you Are an you would avoid a if you Are a you would avoid a Brothel i guess the catechism would urge you to avoid a Brothel even if of we rent a Kelly seems to e affirming the proposition that Basket Ball is an occasion of it taxes the imagination Why this should be said of and of surely a football player who has sold out to Las vegas can Fum ble the Ball or a baseball player a a hockey player a puck Kelly seems to be telling us that there is something distinctive about Well As a matter of there tall my sports Mentor informs me that what made the match Between Villanova and Georgetown so especially interesting was that in order to beat the underdogs had to play conventional Bas by conventional one Means actually tossing the before it drops Down through the has a trajectory to travel the phenomenon of the past in that evidently is that we seem to be Breeding taller and taller Young with the result that for prize dropping a Ball through the Basket re quires nothing much More than fully stretching the from tiptoe to out stretched you just about make it to the top of the net and from All you need do is depend on Gravity to let the Ball score your there has been but never Conlu about raising the height of the Bas Ket so As to cause even the tallest players to need to toss the Ball restoring to the sport that which is but the trouble with going in that direction is that you end up putting a greater and greater Premium on sheer and sure is to do aesthetic damage to the one hates to think of Breeding farms for baseball the effect would be the at due to ourselves in a equivalent of lowering the permissible weight of jockeys 15 i am not qualified to give expert advice to president Kelly on How to have basketball and also avoid but Why Doest he try limiting the size of basketball players 6 feet obviously he would need to persuade another few colleges to do the same in order that intercollegiate exchanges should be made but the idea is for one it would assure that any Points made be scored by actually tossing the for it would assure that the temptation to Gamble would be in that the impulse to Gamble would diminish when the betting Public is made aware that you Are truly dealing with it is unlikely that you would pay someone under the table to go to Tulane to play basketball if Tulane was one of those colleges that denied the sport to oversized just a but the alternative Ever is surely the defeatists alternative like taking a pledge to abolish fraternities because some people make Ani Mal houses out of c 198s Universal press Syndicate