European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May columns George will the Kremlin leaders mean exactly what they say As Arthur Nicholson life bled slowly away into East German two soviet a and a arrived at the scene these generals not simple but commanders who Rose to High rank by knowing what behaviour satisfies Kremlin expect Ainoris were there during the withholding of medical care from Nichol during the army officers Long dying the slow motion murder the three Star general asked Nicholson ser who was being kept away at gun Why he had shot his the Reagan administrations response to this crime has been to treat it like a traffic Accident covered by no fault but the soviets Are having too much fun to do what the administration wants to do change the the soviets now with exuberant that the administration wrongly reported that they have agreed not to murder More six Days after the the irrepressible state department exclaimed that it was pleased thai there were going to be talks about preventing such the talks occurred and the state depart ment of pleased we obtained agreement from the soviets that they will not permit use of Force or weapons against members of our military Liaison Mission in the but now the who clearly Are enjoying say we meant what we said at the the United states was to blame for Nicholson soviet soldiers acted we retain the right to act similarly in the not even the state department could say it was pleased about so it said something even it called the soviet statement in stale department unacceptable is an William Buckley adjective that invariably modifies a noun that denotes soviet behaviour that the United states will respond to Only by attaching to it the adjective the Washington Post Story about this shambles contained the generic paragraph found in All such stories state depart ment sources said they were puzzled and taken Aback by the unexpected soviet and speculated that it arose from differences Between military and civilian authorities in what is never unexpected is state depart ment speculation that soviet Misbehaviour is merely a tactical Concession by soviet civil Ian leaders to military but in this the soviet military seems to have been almost reasonable in the talks in Ger and seems to have been overruled by the civilians moderate Mikhail Gorba Chev and company of course the state department pro fesses itself puzzled by yet another unexpected instance of the soviets saying that they meant what they said in the first were the state department Ever to concede that the soviets mean what they say Nicholson death was americas we would not need an army of state department experts to explain what the soviets really mean and Why policy can be More accommodating than soviet policy seems to there is one great presidential Power the Power to that is Why any serious diminution of a presi dents stature subverts him comprehend is does Ronald Reagan understand that his no response to Nicholson Mur Der has something to do with the fact six months after carrying 49 he and his aides Are engaging in eight hour bargaining sessions with Parcelin out presidential Nego Xialing the micromanagement of foreign niggling about who might admin ister nonlethal purchases from the Micro sum million at Issue in the Nicaragua controversy there is a civil War on the most bitter sort of the sort least susceptible to negotiated in Greece and the United civil wars were not dissolved through yet in a dizzying series of the freshly inaugurated president has been negotiating about nonlethal shaving Cream cheese spread Aid to the democratic Side of the civil War while a freshman senator leaves the negotiations to appear on the White House Lawn to Tell a net work news audience that this president is moving the senators the carriers of have con when you Call the contras the moral equivalents of the founding a and Call Nicaragua a soviet and then ask for a trivial sum trivialized by and de scribe the principal alternative plan As worse than nothing and a shameful and then negotiate in the Hope of splitting the difference with this you Are asking for trouble of the most ruinous sort in the form of is in the be fore the House voted to destroy Nicara guas anticommunist it voted 3942 to proclaim that the murder of Nicholson was inconsistent with a 1947 have a Kremlin Congress considers in consistencies to c 1985 Washington Post writers group worlds Foremost and nuke Winter i wish Home Box office or one of those Cable birdies would undertake to show inc viewing Public a tape of the re cent on March 14 of Carl who tends increasingly to View him self As the worlds Foremost and Richard assistant Secretary of Carl Sagan was the first Richard pc rec the Carl Sagan is henceforward qualified to testify on what cruel and unusual punishment feels the forum was a joint meeting Between two congressional subcommittees with names so cumbersome one begrudge them the space they take but for the they were the subcommittee on Energy and the environment of the House committee on Interior and insular of chaired by Morris d and the subcommittee on natural agricultural research and environment of the House committe on Sci ence and chaired by James the question being probed is the policy implications of nuclear nuclear Winter the thesis that the detonation of Xyz plus one nuclear bomb will freeze All growth for six bringing the Proba ble extermination of All human and vegetable life is the favorite adopted son of Carl among other reasons because my it permits him to engage in the kind of eschatological melodrama that brings orgasmic Delight to those who want to Tell us How awful a nuclear War would be As if we didst in any the con Gressional committees wanted to know what should we now that we know about nuclear Carl Sagan gave a Hal hours performance so arrogant he might have been con fused he graded such reports As he had seen on the subject of How should our policies adapt to nuclear Winter As War ranting a Grade of d if submitted to him As a functioning he said that we were going to get nowhere in Geneva because we Are sending people Over there who dont be Lieve in he suggested that Ronald Reagan and his team at the depart ment of defense were concealing two reports that were politically embarrassing the so called cadre report and the Palomar re he suggested that soviet officials and officials should meet in a single barn and hand Over the atomic fission devices that set off Hydrogen bombs to an agent who would then Send them for detoxification to nuclear Energy he brushed off his single critic on the John by saying that Mccain  Point to one disarmament treaty Reagan had along came Richard who delivered about six one after the he said that for All Sagans talk about the United states wanting More and More we had reduced our stockpile during the past is years by our megaton age com pared to is 25 percent we have outstanding two proposals for Sharp reductions of to which the soviet Union has not we have suggested the elimination of All intermediate Range mis the idea that a soviet official will turn Over triggering devices on a on for one basis is one of those academic fantasies that should stay in the Academy or go to but most important Richard Perle said that in fact nuclear Winter Doest have any policy implications not already dominant in our strategic because it is the objective of that policy to avoid nuclear and if nuclear War is then the danger of detonating Xyz plus one missile since it is known that nuclear Winter would come More quickly if explosions took place Over then int it Wise to continue research into Star wars our strategic said is to concentrate on Mil itary not and a dazzling Challenge was Carl Sagan saying in the event Star wars proved that we should not deploy it the logic of Carl Sagans position is that we should engage in unilateral nuclear he Doest come out and say this he Dodges questions on the matter but that is the Subtle Hierarchy being insinuated by the unilateral its that nuclear Winter is More to be feared than soviet and therefore we must give up our Richard Perle and Ronald Reagan Tell us that we can do we can avoid both soviet Hegemony and nuclear As we have done for 40 years o1985 Universal press Syndicate