European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns Mary Mcgrory radio Marti opens to cheers from right wingers radio that curious and expensive Mil lion exercise in preaching to the has opened to decidedly mixed Fidel Castro knew All along he would hate and he to show How he suspended an agreement negotiated last december that would have permitted cubans to immigrate to the United states and allowed us to Send Back the undesirables he unloaded on us in 1980 irritated at the sight of thousands of cubans scrambling for he emptied his jails and mental but they love it in Jorge chairman of the advisory Board of radio says that the cites cuban exiles arc overjoyed that their countrymen arc now sharing who is also the head of the Cuba american said thai he met a couple whose daughter would have rejoined them last week had radio Marti not started the Mother and father assured him he that it was a Small Price to pay for Paula promptly said thai Cas Iros ferocious reaction just proved what a Heel he is and just Ifird inc need for radio cubans who have been living with him for 27 years hardly needed a radio station All their own to Tell them that Castro is a bad they endure the repressions and the they have the Block captains who turn then in to the Central they weep on the phone to their relatives in the United cuban mothers who have their sons brought Home in boxes know that Castro is involved in foolish ventures in an they Sec russians in the so real to remind Ihm that they arc wards of the soviet the legislation setting up radio Marti gives As ils rationale to promote the cause of Freedom in they Are isolated after 27 years of says we had a Survey several years ago which showed that cubans arriving in the didst even know the Pope had been shot or thai americans had landed on the cubans could perfectly Well have Learned these facts from the voice of which beams hours of broadcasts to i hair Island every Bui according to the Voa is not be cause it gives news of All of latin without special emphasis on radio Marli is named for the cuban hero Jose a revolutionary and poet who wrote eloquently against Yankee Mas says in already has been praised for us objectivity and most radio Marti news reports and commentaries come from Voa compelling though the material May it is nol sup David Broder r4dio Marti posed to incite the cubans to revolt even though anyone who thinks Aboul in would have to conclude Hal the surest Way to Freedom would be to throw out Fidel i am against the overthrow of any says it would be of to bul in is impossible Wilh he always Breaks his the he is to create a climate for Freedom in Cuba when they know what is really going they May hold the government but holding ones government accountable in the absence of the ballot Box Means demonstrations and protests that could be As dangerous in Havana As in where taking to the Streels is a Lickel to and if intolerable conditions Are the criteria for a Sepa Rale radio int Chile a Betler candidate the answer is Chile groans under the Rule of a bloody but he is and there Are nol nearly As Many chilean exiles As there Are cubans who went 97 percent for Reagan in the reason the House approved radio Marli while Iowa con Gressmen howled that Castro could retaliate by jamming reagans old station and shut Down a state that lives by who daily broadcasts about farm prices and weather was Dante the popular Democrat from which has a Large Cuba american pop at the heart of radio Marlis murky rationale is the conviction of conservative republicans thai the soviets Are beating us at the propaganda Noth ing will convince the right Wing that the word is out about us and and if cubans who know How great in is have their dreams of coming Here cancelled because of radio its of with the people who dreamed it a righting dream came True in Nicaragua with the another is being realized in the cuban Broad neither of them May work very but that beside the they Are showing the and to them that what foreign policy is All Universal press Syndicate Book shows How of comeback in world Trade it has been six years since har Vard professor Ezra Vogel published Japan As number the Book perhaps More than any an al Zed and defined the emerging threat from the far Easl to americas dominant position in International i remember Reading on the advice of friends who knew much More about Japan and Commerce than i and being very sceptical about its dire but every thing that has happened since then in the Battle for the International marketplace has confirmed Vogels in the year in which the Trade deficit has reached such Heights that the country has become officially a debtor Vogel has a new its title is and it was published this month by Simon and read it yourself and push it into the hands of any member of businessman and opinion maker you As the title Vogels ultimate Mes Sage is but the first half of the explaining Why american response to the japanese Challenge has thus far been woefully is simply doing what we have been he makes will see the competitive advantage Widen in japans direct in half dozen chilling he draws a picture of a 1990s world in which Japan has extended ils domination from aulos and other manufacturing areas to High tech industries and services including Engi and personal although the japanese Are dominant in this even they cannot enjoy the spectacle of a United states forced to resort to protectionist higher taxes and Ever More repressive police tac tics in a vain attempt to Deal with the devastating economic and social consequences of ils competitive but Vogels purpose is not to Demora Lize us with frightful pictures of the his message is that the United states can Bootstrap itself Back into a healthy not by aping the Japa but by observing and learning from our own Vogel expands on the themes of his earlier Book in profiling the japanes techniques for building their maritime and machine tool reviving the Economy of Kyushu after the decline of its Coa mining and mov ing into final Hundred pages probably the most valuable part of the Book argue that we have comparable models of Success available to his examples Are the space the expansion of Amer ican agriculture exports in the 1950s and the private housing Industry after world War and the development of the North Carolina research none of the four is unfamiliar and none has lacked for but by linking Vogel is Able to identify the com Mon elements for an american style competitive strategy that is something other than mimicking Japan or throwing up Trade his View is expressed in these paragraphs competitiveness is the combined result of All the National qualities and policies that help people and companies perform at More effective Success will not come Pri Marily from legislation or reorganization but from wholehearted efforts of business and labor working toward common better National competitiveness draws on better educational More dedicated and More successful it is helped by a predictable economic environment and the lower Cost of capital that gives companies greater leeway to consider Lon term it is therefore affected by savings rates and budget deficits and requires effective monetary and fiscal it is helped by Strong companies led by effective but to Deal with com plex issues that require National Courdina there is no alternative to developing a selective Industrial the govern ment is already involved because Public interests Are at stake the Only question is How to improve that Many of his proposals Are familiar some Are politically but after Reading this you cannot avoid think ing that these issues deserve far More Atten Tion than Aid to my Star wars and other such preoccupations of the administration and they have to be at the forefront of Bud defense and tax for they quite survival issues for the United As Vogels examples this Challenge will be met Only by a nation whose government is ready to face its Respo Sibili a government that knows it has to be part of any if president Reagan is looking for a fight Worth winning for the Gipper and his this is the