European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns George will to vacillate or that is the int it a wit with a flair for and an unrealized vocation for once defined a fib As an artistic molding of the a shapely Clay of following the president on television Dan chairman of the House ways and Means was forced by circumstances to do some Artis tic Rostenkowski is built along the lines of a Cement and like most Cement mixers he is More methodical than he is a product of Chicago elemental politics and a graduate of the Richard Daley school of which stresses As in heres wheres mine Rostenkowski had a Tough act to follow and did it saying tax Reform is our dammit look Truman praised it in the  fissure in the foundation of his argument is this since Truman democrats have controlled the House in which the Constitution vests the Power to originate Revenue Bills All 37 the senator most important in Shap ing the tax code has been a Loui Sianas Russell who until 1981 was chairman of the finance the Carl Rowan Pedigree of the idea of tax Reform is less important than the fact that the president has got everyone but can he keep it in Tolstoy visited who handed Tolstoy a manuscript of fathers and Tolstoy read a few pages fell the tax Reform proposal May like fathers and a but Public attention is hard to hold with anything Short of War or a hot yes or no the Panama canal it is doubly difficult to hold attention with an isue that is a salad of smaller most of them As strange As Mongo Lia to most and when Public attention the Law of intensity Over numbers takes that Law is democracy is superficially about num but essentially about for there Are approximately cheese eaters in but a lot fewer yet there Are cheese import be cause cheese makers Are Atten Tive and intense about another problem for tax Reform is that the game of legislation is More like foot Ball than baseball there Are too Many and the game is a slave to a when Congress reconvened on june 3 there were 78 legislative Days remaining on this years the two tax writ ing committees could spend All of those Days sifting evidence about the possible consequences of any one of a dozen important proposed changes of the tax a code that is Woven into the expectations of various Congress dare not yet cannot responsibly act with delay will subject whole industries real for example to paralysing uncertainties As investors awaiting clarification of tax treatment of the presidents proposal for less Gener Ous depreciation schedules probably would require Many owners of buildings to raise rents to recoup the variety and severity of the secondary consequences of this Are to the close observer of or the conscientious participant in nothing is More consistently dismaying than the thinness of the information on the basis of which officials must but the legislative timetable and the need to minimize uncertainty impose strict limits on How Long things can be prudently delay spreads economic but dispatch amounts to leaping into the the restaurant Industry is one of the larg est employers of minorities and unskilled no one can know the extent of the damage restaurants will receive from restrictions on the deductibility of business perhaps we ought to go ahead and find but some people Are going to get Hurt in the learning process As the allocation of pain among the social classes will be the choices in tax Reform Are so puzzling As a wit has to vacillate or not to that is the ques Tion int it yes and it is in the nature of things of com plex Industrial of the limited priced Active tools of social analysis no amount of study will produce a Well founded consensus about the consequences of the Reform even if study did produce such there would be no consensus about How to As sess the equity of the so just keep saying to you cant make an Melet without breaking and keep hoping you Are not an c 1985 Washington Post writers group White americans dont understand latin America As director of the United states information Agency in 1964 and i approved hundreds of thou Sands of voice of America broadcasts into North South the soviet China All based on the biblical Promise that you shall know the and the truth shall make you so you might think that in turning cartwheels in glee because the Reagan administration has unleashed radio Marti on with glowing expectations that when cubans hear some truths they will free themselves from Fidel Castro and soviet i am not because i have read enough and heard enough to know that the patrons of radio Marti expect too and will achieve because they refuse to acknowledge the forces of race and class status in this conflict filled More than Cuba is we shall never come to peace with Central Mexico or the rest of this hemisphere until those in the White state de defense understand the role of racial and of the Little Guys hatred of what he perceives to be domination from big brother to the i recently read a column asserting that radio Marli could undermine Castro and communism by telling the cuban people How Many cubans have died in the fight ing in How obtuse cannot american leaders understand that cubans Are proud of their role in that african nation that has for years been under the guns of the racist regime in South Africa radio Marti propaganda will Only solidify the cubans belief that they have frustrated the apartheid regime and its Washington apologists and and that those cubans who have died in Angola Are glorious i also heard the argument that broadcasts from radio Liberty and radio free Europe provoked the uprising of Solidarity in therefore we can expect radio Marti to arouse a similar revolution in that would be Sweet for americans to but logic says it int going to in overwhelmingly Catholic a yearning for religious Freedom has transcended and Given even workers claiming no devout connection to god a basis for rising but the overwhelming religion in Cuba became a yearning to wrest free of a corrupt Fulgencio Batista free of the economic and political domination of the United that has not and will not change so Long As the United states casts itself More and More As the enemy of imposing economic and other shovelling in hostile this kind of mindless ideological warfare will always be used by Castro and the russians to entrench themselves More White americans for the most part refuse to compre Hend the outrage that Wells up in the hearts of latinos when they hear Washington officials talk imperiously about what sort of leaders they will tolerate in Nicara dutch Bowel Mexico or that is for All their distaste for communism and other totalitarian oppressions the leaders of latin America do not go out of their Way to attack or Call for the overthrow of no self respecting latin Leader can afford to appear to be a Stooge of rightly or the masses of Cuba seem to believe that they get better enjoy better eat better and Are Freer of Yankee abuses than was the Case during the Batista radio Marti int going to change this which is so deeply rooted in racial and National radio Marti will become so much the enemy that it could dilute the Impact of what cubans hear and see on radio and to stations that simply Tell the truth about America and the with no heralded commitments to destroy this column wont please the ideologues who will embrace any stupidity that someone labels but someone in Washington with Power must think seriously about what is anticommunist in and what is anticommunist Only in rhetoric and the United states troubles with Nicaragua and other latin neighbors Are recurring and they wont go away for Good until we get some american leaders who can put themselves inside the skins of relatively nonwhite neighbors who dont want to be the lackeys and pawns of America Syndicate distributed by King features Syndicate Isihos