European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May columns comments William Safire tying the Kab to the plot to assassinate the Pope Rome on the weekend that Pope John Paul ii elevated 28 men to Cardinal including the archbishops of new York and Boston prosecutor Antonio Marini brought to trial the rest of the men who appear to have conspired to kill the Pope on orders of the the Man who fired the shot in 1981 that wounded the much act Ali was convicted and threatened with incarceration in a jail where he would probably have been murdered by his former he chose instead to sing and to stay in a Safe and his testimony is Central in the current trial of Sergei manager of the bulgarian airline in who Aga says drove him to the site of the assassination if a conviction persuades Antonov to cooperate As or if More information that implicates bulgarian or russian higher ups is developed at this most people will rightly interpret the results As the first judicial condemnation of an intelligence Agency for plotting the murder of a world Lead in the pkg Bis on what makes this Case even More disturbing is that the bulgarian secret service a Servile appendage of the Kab undertook this murder attempt at a time that Yuri later the Leader of the soviet Union and Mentor of its present was the Kab at the tyranny in Poland was threatened by Solidarity the polish Pope was the unions inspiration therefore it was in russian interest to eliminate this at this incredible Case was ignored by most of the deprecated on background by our Cia in and ridiculed by Many in the West who did not want do tent suspicion of russian involve Carl Rowan ment could be lived but proof of the bulgarian connection in the crime would make it difficult for anyone to do business at summits with a russian Leader who had the Popes blood on his that did not Stop the investigating magistrate in Rome from following where the facts like an italian Sirica a but the prosecutor plodded oblivious to political determined to show that no no group or no Power can shoot a human being in Peters Square with now attention is being five Hundred journalists Are jamming into the Bunker the courtroom built to resist our Gia probably on orders from director William has wisely shut up no longer Are our spooks passing the word that the Mur Der plot was too unprofessional to be prom the very it should be former Cia chief Richard Helms described the use of the bulgarian agents to hire a terrorist in jail for this kind of Job As a classic Kab nor can the russians continue to remain Izvestia has been running a Anatomy of a Provo a Moscow has established a front group to discredit the findings of the italian court on the initiative of the soviet the editor of the literary journal novy Vladimir has formed a committee for the defense of Why has this so Long untouched in the soviet Union and so gingerly handled at first in the now gained frontage legitimacy How come the Western and third world press hordes descended on the prosecutors and Why is the Standard rus Sian propaganda machine being wheeled into line to blur and distort the emerging truth because the Story is no longer a Yuri andro suspected of ordering the death of the is we Are now dealing with the past Only at tempted merely stat directed those Are fit subjects for a Public charge of conspiracy and the counter charge of provocation they do not fiddle with the fuses of the we Are no longer facing what was to so Many the Una Ceable what would have been the need to conduct a civilized diplomatic Intercourse on matters like arms reduction with a Man we were in the process of Brand ing a state the Kobs Andropov is replaced by a Man who could strike the pose of innocent and say not on my today it is Safe to probe the conspiracy and popular to climb All Over the no harm can come from the the russians will claim that so Long As no smok ing gun is produced to link their former Leader directly to the to suggest his complicity is a provocative the rest of the world will look to see if a Clear link to the bulgarians is established in if it will be As if the Kab itself is and spy master Yuri Andropov will go Down in history As the Man who tried to perpetrate the crime of the new York times news service reduce fiscal deficit while protecting the needy As president Reagan and others finally abandoned the pipe dream that the country can grow its Way out of billion year certain notions about How to dry up the red Ink have been Given the status of truisms there is no Way to reduce the deficits without going after the entitlement pro including social everyone has to give up something if any deficit reducing program is to be a the Republican controlled sen ate bowed to the first truism and voted to deny social Security recipients a Cost of living cola increase next but democrats in the House Are saying that the first cliche is not a that they can reduce the deficit in fiscal 1986 by the same amount the Senate without denying costo living increases to those social Security or receiving military and other Federal retire ment House democrats also have rejected the second arguing that there Are people in this society who live in such Pov or at the edges of that no formula of fairness requires them to make More for a denial of the cola would push aged people into according to one congressional those leaders say this must not nor arc they willing to re Duce funds for food programs at a time when hunger is on the increase in Ameri they will not say to the Many of whom still get inadequate medi Cal that they must do their share in the anti deficits fight and accept cuts in medicaid and the House is saying that funding for education is on the sacred and must be increased slightly rather than How do the democrats throw a protective Wall around the the the the seekers of and still come up with a billion deficit reduction by making a watershed shift in National priorities and refusing to give the Pentagon any More Money not even extra funds to cover House members ears shot up like those of a Doberman hearing an intruder when Reagan insisted that he had not suffered a defeat in the Senate because we had some Cushion in the pentagons Bud get the feeling in the and across the is that for years the defense department has put a lot of Cushion in its getting More than it needed or and wasting More than tax payers could Ever polls show that eight of every 10 americans want social Security Colas left while six out of 10 believe that the defense budget can be so we have a situation where House democrats Are claiming the moral High ground even As they do what is Politi Cally and they Are relatively immune to charges that they Are being irresponsible regarding the nations since they have come up with cuts equating those proposed by the the democrats May be vulnerable to charges that they Are weak on defense that soft on comm can these new budget priorities being approved in the House survive the furious lobbying that the weapons suppliers Are certain to mount or the cries that the democrats Are leaving America naked to her enemies can the defense cuts stand up in a House Senate conference committee with the threat of a presidential veto hanging Over them the Only truism on the budget scene now seems to be that those much cursed deficits have become blessings in forcing our lawmakers to try something other than business As c 1965 news America Syndicate