European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns Flora Lewis the stars and stripes May Pitburg visit Stag Manship Over Safe Manship Tiik damage has already been done by he incredible mishandling of presi Dent reagans trip to West German american relations were Fine and didst require any flashy Ges but in the Era of to men who should be primarily concerned with statesmanship apparently cant resist now the trouble is rubbing off on All not Only the president and his staff but on Chancellor Helmut who also looks Bumbly and poorly in his spokesman has said it will Hurt relations if Reagan docs not go to the Pitburg cemetery after so much the German Public cant understand what the fuss is and the american Public cant understand How the germans could fail to this is the Price of trying to ignore the past can be overcome with new friendships and but it can not be swept Kohl made the first mistake with his disingenuous complaint at being left out of Day celebrations last but there was no reason to veil the fact that Ger Many was the enemy 40 years and that it was Defeated in the horrible War it launched with such there were German victims of the but not All of it is to encourage germans now to suppose they were lib crated in 1945 and that the evil that was done died with their that reply should have been made clearly to the letter from the floor Leader of his party in the bundestag to Howard who originated a petition signed by 53 senators asking Reagan not to go to the Pitburg is symptomatic of the bad thinking that conies from trying to re fashion the floor Alfred noted that he had fought the russians in world War ii and his brother had died on the Eastern he when you de Mand that your president leave off his Noble gesture i must Lake this As an insult to my brother and his fallen com does he think that because the United states and the soviet Union arc Tom Wicker adversaries americans approve of the German invasion of 1941 and the monstrous treatment of while Only deploring what germans did in the West evidently Kohl got the idea of a Ceme Tery visit from president Francois Mitter Rand of who does know and re member and who arranged a deeply moving ceremony of French Ger Man reconciliation last fall at that was the bloodiest world War i Bat now a vast Panorama of both germans and French Are buried there is no american military cemetery in and there is a Rea son for it is not because americans did not die on German the insensitivity of both Kohl and Reagan to what this Means is they can transcend it in the name of the future they cannot try to deny reagans offhand remarks about nazi victims and his refusal to pay a visit of homage to them at Dachau seriously compounded the a Quick Stop at Burgen Belsen is not exactly a Susti the site of that Camp has Grassy Mounds covering mass Dachau is an extraordinary it is terribly but it is humbling and instruct both Reagan and Kohl would be better for going through it a lesson is to be drawn from All these it is the lesson of Elie a survivor of explaining Why he can never Stop writing about the Holo Wiesel the fear of forget Ting remains the main obsession of All those who have passed through the uni verse of the we fortunate ones who can never imagine what it is Tab have such memories must also fear forgetting lest a time come when we do not under stand what evil and it is the lesson of Ryszard a polish journalist who write compulsively about the fall of dictators in exotic lands in order to Send a secret message of Hope to his Kapuscinski says of the French historian Fernand a Raudel he wrote that his tory is like a on the it and but Down below there is a deep Stream which moves More Doest change but is the More important because it drives the whole what in interested in As a writer is finding this deep if the worlds leaders ignore especially the leaders of free they can Only be driven by the mess in preparing reagans trip will have served a useful purpose after All if it brings this it is what we dont know that can Hurt us c 1985 new York times Syndicate id ont believe thi5k the faxes Are fhe faxes Are the continuing Battle of the budget is not Only a struggle for deficit reduction More it is a climactic clash of governing philosophies a powerful Effort by president Reagan to wipe out All but the most Basic elements of new Deal and pos new Deal social in that Effort he has taken on some of the most powerful american constituencies social Security recipients and for example and Aims to eliminate or restrain a Broad Range of Middle class Ben such As Aid to College students and so its no wonder that facing a Battle so has resorted to the charge that those who dont support his budget Compromise with Republican senators Are trying to Force a tax he returned to that attack in his televised budget referring to the Reagan Republican budget Compromise As a taxpayers Protection plan to reverse 20 years of and promising once again to veto any tax in the impending billion budget deficits Are primarily the product of reagans 1981 tax reduce the Centrepiece of his firs term Domestic program also culpable Are his military spending As Well As rising entitlement costs and ballooning debt but the who Only a few months ago argued in his debates with Walter module that economic growth would eliminate the now uses that deficit As an excuse to do what he wanted to do anyway attack social programs across the although Only entitlements like social Security arc contributing significantly to the by accusing opponents of plotting to Force a tax in Reagan tries to cover up this design and put the Monkey on democratic and some Republican but David his Demon budget has Given the game Stockman insisted that the budget package worked out by Senate republicans and the administration would have to be passed or it would come appearing on meet the the budget director whose dubious Charm does include a certain Candor told a National television audience the alternative is a whopping big tax in crease on we either have this big House we scale Back government to the Bare mini mum or we have a whopping big tax there it put As plainly As possible a big House cleaning to scale Back government to the Bare mini and since Stockman Well knows the political difficulties of effecting that he bran dished the most frightening alternative most politicians can a whopping big tax increase on everybody the Domestic equivalent of the russians Are coming in an interview with Robert Hershey of the new York Stockman said the Reagan re publican budget package represents the Best and Only Chance to contract the permanent Structure of fed eral spending sufficiently to have a fighting Chance to make fiscal ends meet during the remainder of this but an alternative that would reduce the deficit As much As or More than the Reagan Republican package need not inevitably be a whopping big tax such an alternative would of the More justifiable program eliminations and restraints that Reagan including if it can be passed the social Security an alternative also would include a deeper Cut in military which in the Reagan Republican Compromise still would Rise by 3 percent after but increased without whopping big increases in everybody income also should be part of a responsible plan for As frequently suggested an Energy tax that would serve National Security and environmental purposes As Well As raise substantial new a minimum corporate income tax is another justifiable even desirable so would be the closure of loopholes Ernest Hollings of South says that Over five billion could be raised in that of is adamantly opposed to Revenue raising because they would provide an acceptable alternative to the elimination of most of the social programs of the last Hal Century the real goal of the Compromise package he now c 1985 new York times Syndicate