European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes May 1965 Anthony Lewis appointments simply reveal Reagan being Reagan Affer the Reagan landslide last there was Good reason to expect a More ideological second the zealots who had been the presidents most fervent supporters wanted their but who could have foreseen that the move to the extreme would be so brutish and Quick appointments Tell the two appointees were actually forced to resign in recent weeks after their ideological views became but the outrage came from the not from the administration which said not a word of one who quit was Eileen Gard a senior adviser to the Secretary of she said education programs for the handicapped were misguided because they were based on the false be Lief that the disabled were victims of an unjust she handicaps Are there to help the individual grow towards inner spiritual Marianne Mele named by presi Dent Reagan As chairman of the copy right Royalty listed herself As coauthor of a Book that said Black people insist on their Jungle their women when this crude racism aroused Hall said she had really been Only an editor of the eventually she a rumoured appointment that would have Sharp ideological overtones is of Frank Shakespeare As ambassador to por he is now applying his far right politics As chairman of the Board for International which oversees radio free Europe and radio two weeks ago Shakespeare ran a con subsidized by the state depart that attacked a glorious Straw Man the idea that there is a moral equivalence Between the United states and the soviet 1 say Straw Man because there is just about no support for such a notion in this the rightists at the conference Bel bored it Shakespeare said there was talk of can celing the conference after a number of Liberal journalists and academics declined invitations including 1 should he one could hardly allow the practitioners of the moral equivalency argument to veto there it the knowing Mccarthy Ite Shakespeare James Kilpatrick Well knew that the liberals invited detest the soviet by far the most significant ideological appointment has been that of Patrick Buchanan As communications director at the White he is credited with giving Reagan a More combative some credit him specifically with the words that the president twice uttered in defense of his decision to visit the Pitburg cemetery that the German soldiers buried there were victims just As surely As the victims in the concentration Pat Buchanan is in ideological combat All of the that is his As a columnist and before he took this he never concealed the reach of his righting Here is an from a 1984 piece reprinted in a Publica Tion of the South african embassy in Washington review the list of the especially despised of the Western liberals in the postwar Era Chiang general general president marshal Lon the general general Ian Botha of South what All these rulers had in common was that they were militantly in the struggle for the future of they openly sided with the United dictatorship such things were not Worth what mattered to Pat Buchanan was the anticommunism of those Between 1982 and 1984 Buchanan repeatedly attacked what he called the hair chested nazi Hunters in the jus Tice he Why not de vote those resources to going after organized crime instead of running Down 70 year old Camp guards Ronald Reagan is a successful politician because he knows when he has to Compro witness his startling Retreat on Mili tary but in his the president is an Ide that is Why he wanted Pat Buchanan on the that is Why he said that most americans were on Francos Side in the Spanish civil surprising spaniards who Are emerging from the years of Franco the appoint ments show the ideology they Are Reagan being new York times Syndicate ass Fri lots web bf3ftsdu my Bennett making Waves at education department Bill Bennett spent More than three years bask ing in an intellectual hot he was chairman of the National endowment for the on 7 he took his oath of office As Secretary of Hes been in a cold Shower Ever Bennett began by defending the presidents proposed reductions in student he said that if College Stu dents would Only give up their stereo sets and their holidays in fort they could pay More of their own this was and Bennett suffered horribly for having pronounced the Secretary then named Lawrence Uzzell and Eileen Gardner As policy it transpired that these advisers had embraced some impolite in a barrage of flak they when press spokesman Tom Moore at tempted to defend the departing Moore too was shown to the he took his assistant with at the three month pole in his run around the Bennett seems to be surviving these he has met with Al head of the american federation of with whom he has a pleasant he also has met with Mary president of the National Edu cation with whom he has a Futrell came to their meeting with two her Short memorandum covered Points of her other memorandum was much Bennett is a big Broa shouldered fellow with the rumpled air of a Man just awakened from a snooze on the his col Shower introduction to the big leagues left him temporarily in but he has recon one of the uses of a doctorate in philosophy is that one learns to be after Bennett should one expect Tranquility in an office that deals with such noncontroversial matters As racial de prayer in the place of bilingual and the role of the Federal government in the teaching of our Young the Rookie Secretary has some novel he is about to establish within the department of education an office of educational it will be composed of four or five really Fine minds he mentions the names of William Kristol and Chester finn sole obligation will be to it is not unusual around Washington for the private sector to hire thinkers the Brookings the american Enterprise Institute and the heritage foundation Are overrun with heavy but it is almost unheard of for the government to hire one let alone four or the Washington Post already has rapped Bennetts Knuckles for so Radical a he expects criticism from other but he persists in believing that thought is a Good its a possibility not often Bennett has other he believes that Good teachers should be rewarded and that incompetent teachers should be this is not an idea that goes Down Well with the As a general he holds that College teachers Are overpaid he used to be and that elementary and secondary teachers Are in recent years most colleges have imposed stunning increases in their tuition fees Bennett finds these increases one of his most Radi Cal ideas is that not All High school graduates should go to the notion that the Federal government should subsidize a Universal Opportunity for Yale and Stanford is a notion he cannot As he settles into his Shell Bennett expects to promote a new policy that would reduce compulsory racial busing to a busing has caused great dissatisfaction in both Black and White and he sees no evidence that busing has done much to improve education in september he will feel his Way into the thickets of bilingual education with a policy pronouncement that will draw artillery Bennett is Only the third after Shirley Hufstedler and Terrel to hold the title of Secretary of his predecessors made scarcely a big Bill Bennett promises to make c 1985 Universal press Syndicate