European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 it if if the stars and stripes april columns comments Carl Rowan nation ignores warning in ikes Farewell address a Colo Sally greedy military Industrial Complex is stealing much of America and trying to buy up our political institutions with your and my tax that is a harsh judgment that you dare not dismiss because huge defense contractors now hold a Lien on the White a giant hand inside fort Knox and a political Hal Fnelson on the this is a truth illustrated in the Victory of president Reagan and the and the defeat of the Public in the recent voting on the my it is further illustrated in the incredible rip offs of americans taxpayers by general general Boeing and the other giant defense the truth becomes More obvious when you see the White House campaigning for a dubious Star wars program and shilling for other nonsense military the pity is that this nation had ample but has chosen to ignore some somber advice from president Dwight David Eisenhower in his Farewell address of when he said this conjunction of an immense Mili tary establishment and a Large arms Industry is new in the american experience we recognize the imperative need for this yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted whether sought or by the military Industrial com the potential for the disastrous Rise of misplaced Power exists and will per president Eisenhower surely never imagined a military Industrial com plex that would charge the government per Page for training manuals that Are full of errors and often applied to James Kilpatrick weapons systems that do not work or charge the Pentagon for a Coffee for a for a toilet seat or for a pair of neither Eisenhower nor those around him could in a imagined that general our largest de sense could pay no Federal in come taxes since 1972 and still have the Gall to charge the Pentagon for babysit ters and Kennel fees for its for a gift of earrings to Hyman Rick overs and for much More nonsense that has nothing to do with keeping you and me but these items Are if titillate in the whole what Eisen Hower feared and warned us about so we now have a president unlike is so consumed with fear of the soviet Union that he is a virtual Pawn of the military Industrial we see the nations largest defense contractors virtually salivating As the top 20 await the rewards from the million they poured into the 1984 presidential and congressional the de sense contractors doubled their political donations even As Federal contracts to those firms jumped 150 to in i previously have rejected As a sort of political libel the claim that we Ameri cans have the Best congressman Money can but an associated press Survey fills me with it shows that of the 20 House members who took More than from military Industrial political action committees 17 voted to approve billion to put another 21 my missiles in sinkhole silos out thirteen of 14 senators getting More than from the weapons builders voted for the we americans have been programmed to feel outrage when this administration files a lawsuit accusing the fourth largest defense general of bilking Uncle Sam of the outrage is but it blinds us to the greater danger of thou Sands of defense suppliers using their Money and influence to lure americans into a foolish notion that National Security Means paying for every outrageous military from a Racetrack my to a  Star if we Are to remain the Reagan administration will accuse Farmers of greed and suggest that they be exported while we keep their it will ask billions to save a Lockheed while we consigning to death an Ohio savings and loan that has the life earned Money of Many Reagan will make a make believe Deal of the mythical dude who has bought a bottle of Vodka with the change from his food even As he asks Congress to ladle up billions More for the contractors to millions of americans Are suckered by this ploy because Eisenhower delivered his warning Long before they reached the age of political those reaching adulthood in the 70s and 80s seem just As vulnerable to anticommunist demagoguery As americans were in the so we Are destined to find out How much we shall pay for not heeding the warning of president c 1985 news America Syndicate Zzz Zzz on the supreme history is also biography the supreme court completed its Calendar of Oral argument last having listened to the presen tation of 169 cases since the term began in the term thus far has erected no landmarks and produced few Only a handful of decisions will have much Impact on the but the term has reminded us anew that one of the most venerable of american truisms is at Bottom quite this is the truism ours is a govern ment of not of John Adams borrowed the thought from James har the English utopian and liked it so much that he wrote it into the Massachusetts it is there to this in the Section commending Sepa ration of the legislative and judicial branches of government to the end that it May be a government of Laws not of it is not not in Massachusetts or anywhere history is Bias Carlyle reminds you see this on the High there to have the Rush Tab free Wewt 8bn6 you find three consistent conservatives Rehnquist and you find three consistent liberals Marshall and you find one Justice who is mostly conservative White and one who is mostly Liberal and there in the Middle is that courtly Lewis through april the court had handed Down 67 Powell was on the losing Side Only in nine in stances the court split Powell cast the winning vote in eight of the the virginian lost in Garcia san in which he dissented powerfully in favor of the principle of and in which he dissented on a minor Point of statutory powells remarkable role As this terms swing Man will be marked by an asterisk in the record he missed Oral arguments in 56 cases because of prostate sur three of the missed cases already have been set for and five others have had to be disposed of by 44 votes to affirm without on a court As closely divided As this the opinion of one Man on what the Law should be is Powell is the and the country May Well be glad of other personalities the Honey Moon May be ending Between Justice Oconnor and her old Friend and class Justice through the 67 opinions of april 15 they had disagreed 10 times during the whole of the 1984 with 151 they disagreed Only 15 justices Brennan and mar shall remain the courts great dissenters they have been on the losing Side in 16 of the 35 cases this term in which the court has Brennan dissents grow More apoplectic As the years Roll he was on april and he is still full of half a dozen recent decisions in criminal Law reflect the deep decisions within the the conservative bloc prevailed in one Case involving the Miranda which requires that persons in custody be warned of their rights but in another Miranda Case the Liberal justices conservatives won 63 on the authority of Public school officials to search a students purse they lost 63 on the right of police officers to use deadly in the final round of Oral argument the court looked at a Broad spectrum of May Baltimore fix a mandatory age of 55 for the retirement of firefighters May a labor Union deny its members a right to resign during a strike May Cus Toms officials detain a woman suspected of swallowing smuggled drugs under what circumstances May a Community prohibit group Homes for the mentally retarded these Are typical of the issues that absorb this sharply divided and often cantankerous five of the justices Are Over 75 years of two of Powell and have been through serious Ronald Reagan still has 45 months of his 48month presidency to go and because a president nominates human and not abstract Reagan May yet name the men who will most decisively make the Law into the next Cen c 1985 Universal press Syndicate