European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May columns James Kilpatrick Elizabeth Drews Book on 84 Campaign accurate Elizabeth Drews new Campaign comes to hand and what a Superb Book it is to thumb through its chapter by is to relive the whole of the Mondal Reagan race for the White it want the most exciting contest of recent but if you want a single Book that will Tell you what happened politically in 1983 and this is your journalists fall into three there Are reporters there Are feature writ ers and there arc those who Deal solely in analysis and Elizabeth Drew is a reporter who knows How to engage in Analy Sis her purpose is to get not merely the easy facts the speech texts and the poll her gift is to dig deeply into the mining the Richer Ore of Campaign journal is composed of 22 dispatches for the new nine in the rest in the election year readers will infer correctly that Elizabeth i cannot Call her was promo Dale and but her judgments Are models of a Cool Mon she is a Good Man who could have waged a better his difficulty with television was to a Large extent the democratic Nom Inee was widely considered a and he knew she provides a dispassionate portrait of Jesse a passionate figure if there Ever was one Jackson and some of his advisors often complain that he does not get the proper but the Plain truth is he has done things that would have destroyed a White and some of his and his have received fairly Light treat ment because he is Jack son wants to be taken but Doest play by the in Large part because he is not a his background is As an As a confrontation list making sometimes deliberately Outra and then at san Francisco she watches Gary Harts speech to the democratic Conven the speech is going Over Well but it is no the coolness and detachment that Are characteristic of Hart prevent him from engaging his audiences on an emotional he holds some thing and the speech has a Cut and paste feel to which keeps it from build Geraldine Ferraro is a different her speech accepting the Vic presidential nomination triggers the kind or Joy i have never seen at a As for her speech her delivery is and she projects a combination of Femi nity and Tough Ness a subliminal message that dont but As it turned women supported Reagan by an even higher percentage than they had in 1980 and the exit polls indicated that Ferraro candidacy Cost the party More votes among women than it Elizabeth with a shrewd Mondale nearly fatal problem just before the first debate his candidacy was being widely written off As an embarrassment or a he had become the subject of which is a very difficult thing to reverse once it she adds there is a cruel Streak in the american system which leads people to ridicule some one who appears to be losing badly or fall ing from Public a kind of piling on because i covered Many of the events that Elizabeth i can attest the accuracy and intensity of her we would not agree on every i dont for that new Yorks Mario Cuomo spoke in a gentle voice to the san Francisco Cuomo spoke in a voice of controlled carefully and deliberately like Csomos Elizabeths report ing also is marked by an Iron her idea of color is White and Blue balloons a presidential Campaign is a wild melange of tears and grand moments and gorgeous tedium and Elizabeth gives us Little of mostly she gives us the mama she gives us the when and this is the Campaign As she saw political buffs could not ask for More Obser vant c 1985 Universal press Syndicate Anthony Lewis a profound lesson of Vietnam beware ignorance we went into Henry Kissinger wrote on the Assumption that Hanoi was the cutting Edge of sin soviet global but in re he we know that Hanoi was working for its own in other that comment blandly tells the founding premise of the War was we did not have to fight in Vietnam to contain the two great communist the chinese and so Viet governments detested each the Only thing that kept them together for years was the Vietnam beware ignorance that is the first pro found lesson of the american War in in the United states should not undertake Large foreign enterprises with out some knowledge of the people and interest and of the relevant his it should not make commitments in the that May seem but the officials who took America into the War were ignorant of the most obvious facts of his tory that Vietnam and China had been bitter enemies for for exam the notion that Vietnam was a stalk ing horse for chinese aggression was laughable to anyone familiar with the but leaders of the government acted on that beware simple analogies is a related we looked at Vietnam and saw but the people and the history were altogether the immediate backdrop was for one a fact with reverberating general de Gaulle tried to Tell but we would not the danger of analogies has to be because we Are hearing them Secretary of state Shultz tells us that Nicaragua is Vietnam As if there were no history of american intervention in no general latin resentment of such if Shultz could free himself from the grip of that simpleminded he might think about How Mexico and Brazil and Vene Zuela would react if we succeeded in Over throwing the nicaraguan know the limits of Power another Nec Essary the United states is the greatest military Power on with weaponry enough to destroy All life 10 times but it does not follow that we can impose our View whenever and wherever we want not even on a country As weak and poor As have we Learned that lesson it seems for 10 years after the communist Vic tory Many voices Are telling us that we could have the United states could have wiped Vietnam off the face of the but sane americans do not mean that when they speak of winning they mean imposing a lasting political settlement that would have left South Vietnam under a no communist and How could that have been done by a Perma nent american occupation Force the Point is that we had tried every thing else saturation Defolia massive intervention in the politics of South remaking its army on american enormous military it didst and our own military specialists know we were up against an enemy with an unimaginable willingness to take an enemy fighting in its own country and prepared to wait us an enemy that was in his recent reappraisal of said we really had won when we signed the Paris accords of but watergate so weakened Richard Nixon that he could not enforce to put it looks i Job to he could not resume bombing when he once again Kissinger seems to have confused the United states with the Chance that our society would have accepted repeated Rei Terven Tion in Vietnam after 1973 was with or without and that leads to the final know ourselves our effectiveness in the world depends on keeping Faith with our America has a certain vision of a moral and its strength wanes As it departs from that it is the lesson that Kissinger cannot he complains that Congress mid1973 voted to prohibit military action in or Over but he fails to mention with the Vietnam truce Nixon had shifted the b52s to Cambodia and was bombing that poor country without a shred of Legal authority to do americas very anguish testified to its moral Kissinger but he does not see that the scruples really matter that our influence in the world rests As much on our example of Freedom and economic strength As on our consid ered use of we Are More effective when we do not pursue the obsessions of a c 1985 new York times Syndicate