European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1985 William Buckley painful to be dutch Catholic during Popes visit on the whole business of lib eral sex As we have come to Call the reception Given to Pope John Paul ii in Holland recently tells us really quite a the prevailing Point of View among some very sophisticated people is not to be taken lightly it holds that human be Ings have myriad that the satisfaction of those appetites is nothing much More than an expression of Corporal and that under the religion properly devotes itself to promoting and rewarding rather than outlawing and condemning co Cupis the Point is not by any Means there arc drunks and lecher in this world who arc better christians than some acc totalling but what happened in Holland reminds one of the lengths to which people can go in Pursuit of a More or less official Benediction of Loose moral now the Low like scan Dina Are commonly accepted As perhaps the Acme of 20th Century the educated which is to say most can talk to you in English and they arc widely read and cosmopolitan in so is it in Norway and and yet the dutch showed themselves in some respects More Savage than any country visited by the Pope during his including countries in which illiteracy is women go about and superstition is in the new York times re the violence was the worst in any of the Popes 26 foreign in one protesters threw rocks and bottles at the Popes at least 8 people were including 3 and 14 were but against men of there arc worse forms of violence than those expressed by the throwing of in the Washington Post about 150 Young people dressed As nuns and monks Hung the Pope in effigy on a mock scaffolding in dam once a celebrated gathering place for Mary Mcgrory drug another reporter referred to opponents of the Vatican ban on artificial birth released hundreds of helium filled condoms into the a radio announcer reported that travelling Down one the Pope had been which unknown to most Nice Means that some people Low ered their trousers and bared their posteriors to the since you cant do that and simultaneously use the other bystanders resorted to it a term unknown to most Nice it Means that you face the object of keep All of your other fingers and raise the Middle Finger we must assume that these ladies and gentlemen Are after it is not the business of non catholics what Are the disciplines maintained by another no Catholic properly resents the ban on eat ing pork enforced by orthodox but would no orthodox jews in new York move ostentatiously munching huge hot dogs in the Way of a procession led by one of the chief rabbis of Israel let alone walk with balloons depicting uncircumcised male members it is always and when one sees a great lot of people acting As one might expect Savages to professor Steven Marcus wrote a resonant Book some years ago called ther other Victo in which he made the Point that beneath the prudish facade of Victoria ism was a whole lot of wild and ungoverned but the int that Victoria ism can Anes Thetie it is that self control in Public circumstances is necessary to maintain a let alone a the dutch show a violent As when the squat ters All but kept Queen Beatrix from being crowned in they show themselves As capable of Gro Reagan has silenced arms control Tesque conduct men and Many of them self evidently unqualified to enter into civil whose judgments con done crudity and does that have a bearing on Laws that govern sexual mores a leading woman Catholic departing from her asked in the presence of the if we exclude rather than make room for unmarried people living Ogeth divorced married priests and can catholicism be credible the Pope was not situated to answer the but had he been hed have that catholicism makes room for but declines to make room for that the Church has machinery that accommodates the broken but also machinery that sustains the marriage How re to have been Universal press Syndicate for now where is arms control As an Issue pollsters of both parties report its absence from their even an invitation to express any lurking concerns about questions they have not been asked does not elicit expressions of concern from those who Are presidential pollster Richard Wirthlin found recently that budget deficits Are indeed on voters minds but the subject of War and peace docs not sur politicians report Only pockets of interest in their the Boulder of nuclear disarmament has fallen to the Bottom of the Hill some say the peace movement is not but at a Capitol Hill reception to Mark the opening of a Washington office of women action for nuclear when Helen the fierce antinuclear promised defiantly that women will turn this country up Side there were Wistful Many present remembered the ease with which Ron Ald Reagan put Down the freeze three years ago at this the freeze seemed like an irresistible Force in american but a few jabs from Reagan about the Folly of freezing soviet arms superiority and the gullibility of freeze adherents were sufficient to eliminate the threat to his some attribute this to a Short attention Span and the Public feeling about the Inadequacy of their technical others put it to a marked disinclination to think about the War and peace was hardly an Issue in the Cam a White House visit from soviet foreign min ister Andrei Gromyko and the subsequent dispatch of a negotiating team to Geneva seemed to dispel the doubts of those who had been devouring Jonathan Shelps the Fate of the Earth a Short time Reagan presented himself As a he was not merely for arms he was seeking the elimination of nuclear his Star wars astronomically expensive and technically would make missiles he to listen to the present which relates Al most exclusively to the you would hardly know that the cause of arms control has Slid from the february assessment of Jeff who called it somewhere Between minimal and to something like the executive director of the arms control Assoc a Spurgeon Calls this the most dangerous moment in the history of arms control it is hanging by a slender the chances Are that not Only will we get no treaty in but also that we will eliminate those few in existence Salt for and be cause of Star the abm treaty and the test ban treaty of even before the end of the the lid could be off the arms As Keeny there Are no crusaders out on the the problem is in the absence of eloquent Public opinion is because of the politicians Are democrats Are immersed in the budget and the it is a time for an Adlai despite his incomparably framed Public issues for his the new soviet Mikhail has indicated a willingness to make Sharp cuts in missiles if Star wars research is the president has said that Star wars research is ensuring a on his recent trip to the president gave free rein to his powerful ant soviet and during his absence the boldest step yet was made to scrap continued Observance of the signed but a ratified Salt ii assistant Secretary of defense Richard the Best informed and most militant ant treaty player in the Reagan told a Senate committee that since the soviets were we should feel free to skip out of the treaty in Reagan received this news of Perles per Sonal View with perfect he said had been rather adding that if it had then theres no need for us to next the president is required to let Congress know his intentions in regard to the limits of Salt which expires at the end of the but the real test May come in when sea trials of the new Trident the Are to launch the without dismantling either a Poseidon submarine or taking Down 14 existing minuteman would put us in Clear violation of the limit imposed by Salt two conservative Steven Symms of Idaho and Jesse Helms of North introduced an amendment calling on the president to tear it if he of Europe will the indignation in travel to these shores and people will Start pushing the Boulder up the Hill Universal press Syndicate v