European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns comments William Why punish ourselves Tor contractors7 wrongs waiter Mondale silted through to the Public As the pea Cenik during the major part of his Campaign for the presi he tried to Correct and in his second debate with he sounded like Custers last he came out against sharing any of our technology with the Soviel against further overtures to Fidel against any unverifiable agreements with the soviet Union for a 4 percent real increase in the Federal Bud get for Reagan saw him and raised him 2 percent and carried 49 now we Are wondering whether Congress will give us merely the inflationary and the big shift in the Public mood is largely the result of the Chis Eling of the defense who on the done about As much to discredit the Enterprise of National defense As soviet spies could have Reagan is talking gratefully now for a vote on my missile deployment had Jimmy Carter endorsed it in the closing Days of his would have ignited who would have campaigned across the country like Paul railing against this weakening of our it pays to reiterate the evolution of pro Grams like the which we arc engaged in during the late the Mas Sive offensive nuclear arming of the soviet capped by its urgently persuaded even the Carter administration to do something about it was then the administration came Forward with the my a missile accurate enough to pop into any Given Chimney in the and free of the bugs that inevitably accrete on missiles 20 years old and on which we continue to the idea then was to keep those 200 mis Siles on the in order to eliminate first the temptation of the soviet Union to strike out against Given the peripatetic deployment that was the plan inherited by Ronald Reagan when he was sworn but there was great political opposition in the most feasible area for deploying these movable and in due course it became Plain that the administration didst want to Buck the states of Colorado and so for a Brief they came up with the idea of deploying them in the proposition being that an offensive missiles explosion the Way half a gun n no would in such circumstances leave a scarred the balance of the Good then for retaliatory but that theory sort of went and then the usual commission was commissioned to come up with alternative those ideas were to reduce the missiles to and to install them in reinforced and enemies of the my went into action and insisted on two the first that no fortification conceivable would be Strong enough to protect an my from a direct the that the Mere existence of stationary my missiles whose exact coordinates would be known to the soviet Union would constitute an invitation to the soviet Union to Knock them so that we Are now reduced to a vote for 50 with a lot of seasoned people saying that it is unlikely Well Ever see a single my those who believe that in All matters of National defense we should take no chances will wish that Jimmy Carters to bile 200 my missile system had gone greatly to be preferred to Rea Gans upcoming the shift in the National mood reflects such items As charging the government for a and heaven knows How Many hundreds of thousands of dollars for gifts to key military one plenty of women and now these in particular when done by such prestigious concerns As Gen eral electric and general continue to Shock Uncal loused it of is right that they but absolutely wrong to punish the malefactors by Pun Ishing if we discover that a submarine maker has been charging the Dod for Ferris wheels for the children of its vice presi we have got to come up with a More plausible Way of punishing these Malversa tors than by launching fewer submarines than we we Are caught up now in the tax and budget but the commander in chief his most solemn responsibility needs to do everything he can to Tell us Why it is that we can be Safe with strategic arrangements he was denouncing As less than Safe Day before Universal press Syria Cate Flora Lewis Vlad behaviour of tans bodes ill Tor Western youth Bulgaria Moscow which dominates the air in All languages has had a lot to say about the murderous football riot in Brussels last football that soccer is one thing Eastern and Western Europe have in Bulgaria beat Yugo Slavia last and it was a cause for National Cele russians Are passionate about their so the mad behaviour of English fans attending a match with leaving 38 dead and hundreds was a matter of special Moscow commentator claimed to have the explant English he Are driven by Unzem by a decadent society that offers them neither Hope nor they go berserk to express their revulsion at the Western of it is easy enough to denounce the abuse of Freedom in a part of the world where the Only Freedom is to accept it is disturbing that some West Ern youths hold so Low the values of civil appreciate so Little the right to travel where they to speak and dress and think As they rights that arc denied in so much of the to her British prime minister Margaret Thatcher neither made nor accepted any excuses for her British football teams will be kept out of Continental Competition and parliament will be asked to push through much stricter Laws to keep order when games Are but there is something More nagging at the Back of the something missing in our own understanding of our social problems that is sharpened by hearing All this from the other Side of the East West on what has been called the red on the wide beaches of the Black there is utter Young people Are they have to or they risk very bad family ties Are by necessity As Well As tradition because it is so hard to get a place to to win some Independence and achieve some a Westerner feels a reflex of distaste for so much external so much so much deliberate organizing and mobilizing to cast the individual in an Iron Mold of Hes told about scientific programs for the socialization of when you ask what on Earth that the vague answer is to teach them How to behave and be useful to that or deliberate obfuscation of a Power system imposing its demands for enthusiastic but it leaves an unspoken question about what is going wrong in the it seems obvious enough what is going wrong in the there int any sparkle room people Are supposed to be which Means repressed in a Way to guarantee that regimes cannot be challenged and individuals cannot the result is a drab pecking right is what each Superior layer says is and there Are certainly Lay ers organized by Money when it comes to whether payment is in solid Western currencies or Only the local tender organized by rank when it comes to Back to the soccer and the violence for wild tribal reasons is there Are the tamils and the singhalese Busy murdering each other in sri there is Beirut full of heavy arms Ever being turned against yesterdays ally to make sure to get the jump on tomorrows enemy lest they manipulate an and no doubt there is much More distress that Doest get on the radio because there is nobody around willing or Able to report it for people who Are curious about the assumptions Are so easily some parts of the world can be expected to do awful other parts can be expected to hide the Shock comes with compulsory recognition of har Boring the capacity to be dreadful in the part of the world we think we All those other bloody fights and surly relations seem to be about grievances that Are understandable if not a justification for the Way people but a soccer game How does that acquire the status of substitute target Tor the lust to identify an enemy and wreak harm there is a lot to in the excesses of order and it is but to hear in the tast that the West Doest do any better in bringing up us children to make the world less c 1985 new York times Syndicate