European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns comments Carl Rowan spy Case must Nof drag us into defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger says the breaches of secrecy through naval espionage by the family of John Walker arc Sam says the nations been Hurt very i do not doubt that both men speak the and May even be understating the damage done during two decades of traitorous behaviour by Ordinary americans who sold out to the soviet but it is time some one talked about the dangers to american society Cre ated by the panic and passion Over this celebrated spy Story that surely is not the Only and probably not the of the soviets exploiting greed to gain Ameri Cas the danger is in their espionage the russians will provoke us to emulate meaning that we will become a secretive and totalitarian embracing More and More police state trappings in the foolish belief that More secrecy and surveillance will foil our enemies and keep us the Walker spy Case already has set Loose a wave of dirges about How dangerous it is to permit Freedom of movement of people in the United or to forbid illegal searches and to frown on widespread wiretaps and other surveillance of Federal to restrict the activities of intelligence and counterintelligence operatives in the Fri and the we Are told that million or 53 per cent of All government have some sort of Security and that one Way to stymie soviet says is to Cut that number in this is most of those employees have a Security clearance be cause so much nonsense is classified that government would grind to a halt if car Pool messengers and lunchroom waiters and wait resses did not have Security in our panic or we must not lose sight of the fact that those involved in the Navy spy Case were average Many of whom will still be around even if the number of people with Security Clear ances is Cut to half a a communications expert on a Navy in an army unit in in any must use secret a soviet spy will Al ways find one who will sell secrets if the Price is right especially when lax Security procedures allow sailors or defense employees to photograph codes and Doc or even remove them from secure this latest spy Case must not drag us into an Era of Neo mccarthyism in which some zealot sees a spy in every Navy or behind every desk in companies that build weapons for the if we Are going to act like communists so As to protect ourselves from we might As Well save billion a year in defense outlays and surrender to the but no such capitulation is we dont need to unleash the Cia or Fri to do things that Are in Anthony Lewis our Security Prudem is than we though Job i there that new j i sovia we need to keep our and our Faith in the institutions of a great democracy in which citizens retain a Basic respect for and Trust in each like death and we shall always have with there is no Way that Pecan prevent some russians from getting some americans to sell out their whether for Money or out of ideological Pas we simply have to play the espionage game As Well As the russians and we have been doing dam Ned Arkady Shevchenko is on our bestseller lists with his breaking with because he is a High ranking soviet defector who spied for the whether you know it or you Are betting your life that we have informers in the soviet military Selling american agents the same kinds of secrets that the walkers Alleg edly sold to the we May in the highest reaches of some soviet and in the Kremlin people who Are telling secrets about a tyrannical system of government that they secretly hate with we have a techno logical advantage in cameras and other hard Ware that lets us know More about russian military capacity and actions than anyone in the soviet Union imagines that we could the spy game will go we will win some and lose we americans rarely learn of our we must not let highly publicized losses cause us to turn our backs on or the cherished principle that those who govern Here must have the consent of the that Means we function wisely and safely Only with a Well informed which we must not abandon in some futile quest for c 1985 news America Syndicate lesson of Lebanon use of Force can be a delusion three years after israeli forces entered Leb All but the wilfully Blind know that the War exacted a terrible Price from both invaded and Lebanon paid in intensified communal Israel paid in heavy military eco nomic loss of National but there is a larger political Point to be made about the it represented an extreme application of the View that military Force can impose lasting political solutions in the Israel palestinian and there one can see important lessons for the Effort to revive the Middle East peace the israeli invasion was the second attempt to use Lebanon As a military fulcrum for political ends in the Israel palestinian the first was made by the Palestine liberation with its great build up of weapons and men under arms in Southern Leb anon in the years before As a the Plo buildup never seemed to make any if the aim was a capability to engage israels forces it was a an occasional rocket fired Over the Border could cause stress in Galilee but if pursued for that tactic would inevitably bring crushing israeli the emphasis on military buildup kept at Tention from what should have mattered to the Plo palestinians throughout their tragic modern history have lacked leaders with the keen sense of real ism needed to seize political the inescapable fact for palestinian in the 1970s and was that Only by coming to terms with the existence of Israel could they Hope to have a Little piece of Earth to Call their pursuing delusions of military Conquest Only made a political solution harder made Israel More determined to hold on to the West Bank and then it was israels turn to pursue a military illusion in it was the illusion of Ariel then the defense who believed he could use a War against the Plo in Lebanon to crush the political Hopes of palestinian nationalism for the Story of How Sharon bullied and deceived his Cabinet colleagues so he could have his Large scale Polit ical War has been told but a fascinating new account has just come from Samuel who is retiring after eight years of distinguished service As american ambassador to Lewis said that in december six months before the Sharon described his ambitious War plans to diplomats who were dumbfounded by the political concept and considered it unthinkable when Sharon denied the ambassadors account the state department took the pointed step of stating that the us accuracy 7 he history is highly relevant today because Ariel Sharon one might have expected the Man with the futile deaths of 654 israeli soldiers on his conscience to fade from the political but Sharon has not and the philosophy he expounds of Force As a political solution is very much right now the most important peace Effort in years is under King Hussein is pressing his plan for negotiations Between a jordanian palestinian team and is Rael under International Secretary of state Bultz is taking an Active encouraged by what he sees As real but the Enterprise faces a fundamental among both palestinians and israelis there is deep Divi Sion Between those who think political negotiation can Gam National objectives and those who believe Force is the Only and the division of palestinians Between the hard men and those prepared to talk and live with Israel is too obvious to require there is division of the sharpest kind in too and Israel has the pres ence and the Power to determine whether negotiations even Sharon made the issues Clear in a comment on the Hussein it was he because Israel would not return any occupied territory in Exchange for that is basically the View of the the righting partner in israels National Unity it is difficult to see How substantive negotiations can occur while the liked is part of the govern c j that Possession and Power should seem the Only Way after All the bitter years of but Lebanon teaches that Force can be a delusion that o1985 times news serv Loi