European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May columns comments William Buckley embargo against Nicaragua causes one of wonder the decision to impose an eco nomic embargo against Nicaragua causes one to without taking a position against lost causes to do so would be to forsake Ide Here Are reasons Why the policy is the first of these is precisely that it is a lost Sam an Able and resourceful greeted the measure with Hearty approx but then he wound up by saying that the economic embargo would Only be effective if other countries followed other countries Arent going to follow in the contrary is not Only for the soviet Empire step up its Trade with it will step in with additional Aid to Nic when the sandinista took Trade with the United states was 34 per cent of total nicaraguan before the it is reduced to 18 fifty million dollars of this and that million imported by when we contemplate that the Cost to the soviet Union of maintain ing Cuba is estimated at million per this Means that the soviet should it decide directly to compensate Nicaragua for trading could do so for roughly what it pays Castro for one week of the american people Arent any Good at halfhearted exertions Over a Long ask anyone in Vietnam who took seriously the oaths of three presidents to defend vietnamese Freedom to the nobody is going to get killed enforcing reagans but no one was getting killed enforcing the agricultural embargo on the soviet Union after the afghan but Days after he came Mary Mcgrory into Ronald Reagan repealed that because he knew it was hurting american Farmers because he sensed it was not having any decisive effect on soviet not Only will our embargo have no decisive effect on sandinista it will have the psychological effect of currying favor on the Little the nation one on Hundredth the size of the United it is certain to electrify the left leaning of the hemisphere to be Able to Point to the old imperialistic habits of the United it is by no Means in one year from that president Daniel Ortega will Pray at if Ever he prays at that the United states will maintain its economic Embar go so that he can continue to enjoy the political and economic dividends it will bring asked Why the United states does not sever relations with the White House spokesman said that the opinion of the president is that while we Are seeking it does not make sense to sever Why it is relatively easy to negotiate with a country with which you do not have for Mal diplomatic we Are doing this every Day with and 15 years ago we did it with maos but simultaneously to maintain diplomatic rela and to countenance everything from the secret mining of to Aid to counterrevolutionary to eco nomic leaves us with a Public policy toward Nicaragua that is difficult to it must be awfully tempting for Reagan to turn to Congress and say you want it to go the Way it went in you want to wait until it is too you object to but possibly help to the you talk about be you talk about indigenous revolutions that ought to be pre pared to evolve in their own i have for three years tried to Tell you that what is happening Down there is another pure and i have run out of ways of pressing a sound foreign policy on Cen trial America without your so we shall wait until the sandinista revolution consolidates into another Moscow run in and then you will do what change the Reagan recognizes that however tempting this line of action it is not a responsible line for a chief who knows what awful problems would follow on the consolidations of an expansionist soviet front in Central to and so he tries economic god bless one they wont they Are not morally persuasive for so Long As we Trade with the soviet and they will expedite the consolidation of so Viet this is not the time and place to suggest but before any thing is there is that first step sever diplomatic Universal press Syndicate dyes d no mat Ltd big boy jury duty the ultimate democratic experience the Case we ladies of the District court jury had before us looked like an Operand shut Case of the Korea born Changkung a Small Man with the face of a Warrior in an Oriental no question about Given to a representative of the general services adm Nistra he wanted to lease two of Gas vacant rooms next to his downtown he had been using them anyway for a year or nobody seemed to Sung was caught re handed handing Over the because the Gas after Sung first tried to give it to told her who told the inspector who told the who wired Emily Bunkley for sound and sent her out to collect the it was All on the first Surprise in the jury room where we were at last free to discuss the Case was when our a Ladylike Volunteer named went around the table for general i had thought that like nine of our was might have some for her Good for her rectitude was shocked when Sung offered her a i was dead said who usually smiled she set him she trapped probably got promoted for muttered her Marlene from the government printing office said disapprovingly she didst help she could have showed him How to fill out the then we  be we disposed of the bribery charge in about two hours with one not it looked to some of us As if the government had sent a warship after a we still had the second included charge of gratuity to a government and it was there that we ran into we told ourselves not to be sorry for an to forget that Sung had broken Down and cried for shame on the we reminded ourselves of judge Harrington parkers charge to limit ourselves to what we had seen and heard he was our he had asked by far the Best showed flashes of sardonic the first ballot produced one we looked at each who one of our two grand Moth spoke it was she didst want to talk about Ada said you have to Tell us maybe you will con Vince Cora had a pleasant Square face and kind which narrowed when she made a i feel like he is she we zeroed in on the question of whether Sung knew that Emily Brinkley was a civil asked on the he in his minimal i dont know what is Cora Felt that Sung had to know that Brinkley worked for the although in her she had never said i Felt like he knew from the number he she Sung had twice called the Gas to offer Brinkley a Christmas said in a Telephone supervisor and i can Tell you that the first three digits can mean government or but he had her said a Small woman who worked for the Bureau of came through on that she said she might have Given him her and we never saw but Cora could not be i Felt like he gave her the Money so she would lease him the we All reminded songs most damaging which Brinkley testified to that for holding the space was not audible on the tape at the time the Fri we played it three our former Playboy exhibited a certain impatience with our she had a tilted elegant skin and a delicious Low somebody explain to her about Good she said a Shade Cora i know what Good Faith it was and we were faced with the awful Prospect of a Hung Ada composed a note to the and who seemed to feel she had committed a social said give me Back my ill change we All landed on if you do i ill Tell the judge Parker mercifully excused us for the the next we had an Early the one guilty Felt like an ice Cypriana spoke she said she Felt that Cora didst like her and she for any of sense she might have Cora said she had no Spe Cial like or dislike for and we resumed in a better it was our chatty a school who broke the she was sitting next to and she walked her through step by four elements were needed for if any one of the four is it All any element of a reason Able doubt on any Point cancels the Cora agreed she had a reasonable finally she said i didst know you had to have All we held our that she and Ada had the ballots around the we sent out word we had a while we were Ada said a Little maybe it was easier without any there was a slight and then we went at the absence of the male ego accounted for our we trooped Back into the we gave our Sung broke Down and the judge made a Lovely speech in which he bade Sung to under stand he had participated in process that makes this country what it is we ladies of the jury were misty for years i have been ducking jury now i think it s right up there with the town meeting As one of the great experiences in a o198s Universal press Syndicate