European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june columns comments James Kilpatrick Grace highlight theater of Congress on a recent thursday the Senate fell into prolonged debate Over a policy toward the contras of Nic i sat in the press gallery for much of that watching the senators come and go on the floor and once again i was struck by the Fine Thea Ter that is provided when the Senate is at its and the Senate was at its very Best that the subject was important to what if at should the United states assist those known As the who Are seeking to overthrow the sandinista government that lawfully is in Power in the just before adjournment at the Senate would adopt a carefully drafted measure that became identified As the Lugar Nunn before that decisive 5542 the Senate first had to Grap ple with issues As old As the Constitution ordinarily the stage manager for a Senate performance is majority Leader Bob Dole of who is tall and dark haired and gifted with a wry sense of but this afternoon he had delegated the task to Indiana Dick chairman of the foreign relations com Lugar is a much less commanding presence he has a scoutmaster air of patient it was sugars task to Lead his troops through a Brier Patch of hostile and to emerge with a Bill the president could live he succeeded when i came Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts had the the sen Ator recently has lost some weight he no longer quite resembles the bulbous Man in the Michelin but he is just Natu rally a few minutes earlier he had been on the losing Side of a Rol Call vote on an amendment from Christopher Dodd of Dodds idea was to finance the Complete withdrawal of the Contra the amendment Drew Only 17 Kennedy offered a much simpler one part would urge the United states to resume bilateral relations with Nicaragua a second part would prohibit the introduction of armed forces of the United states into or Over speaking to crowded Galle Ries in those familiar bostonian Kennedy argued passionately that mount Carl Rowan ing evidence indicates that this administration is preparing to Send combat troops to he had help from Mark Hatfield of a Liberal re publican who voted against the administration All Lugar spoke effectively in he is not an orator much Given to sawing the but he managed a Well bred note of scorn when he charged the Kennedy forces with attempting to micromanage american foreign Barry Goldwater of who grows More grizzled year by seized upon the same he reminded an attentive chamber that under the constr the Congress May declare but Only the commander in chief can move since he Congress has declared War five times presidents have ordered troops into action on 202 Kennedy amendment went Down to defeat on two Roll Calls by a tie vote of 4848 on part by 6431 on part owing to one of those human touches that make the Senate what it Kennedy did not vote on part two he had a live pair with Republican Dave who had gone to be present at his sons graduation from High Gary Hart of Colorado had the next the senators losing fight for the democratic nomination last year left its Mark on his face his features have been carved by Harts Amend ment would have barred surveillance and training exercises by air or sea around Costa Al Salva Guatemala and Only 14 senators voted with while the votes were senators milled about the at the very Back of the immobile in his wheel the venerable John Stennis of Mississippi chatted with Paula Hawkins of a striking figure in a Zebra striped moved As gracefully As an Angel fish through the Nancy Kassebaum of in an outfit of peaches and talked earnestly with Lugar and Only a few of the senators really look like senators maybe Warner of Howlings and thur mond and South one or two but this particular 99 of the 100 senators were on hand Only Wallop of Wyoming was absent and they put on a remarkable the nun Lugar amendment pre but there were other winners also reason and to thank you for 3ll you Pip to convince th6 u we shool receive Al presidents Damsel Ortega Navy derelict in not curbing hate dickies americans have now heard James the chief of naval say that the alleged Walker family spy ring did very serious but not catastrophic damage to the United we have heard Navy Secretary John Lehman charge that the Walker ring gave the soviets hundreds of millions of dollars Worth of the navys communications codes and other what you May have missed is the fact that in great Britain yet another spy scandal is unfolding simultaneously that May be More serious than the Walker Navy prosecutors in the British Case say that seven service men at a to secret electronics listening Post on Cyprus did incalculable damage to Britain and the West when they were Given homosexual women drugs and then blackmailed into giving secrets by the Bagful to the soviet these British servicemen Are thought to have com promised operations of both Britain government communications Headquarters and its super secret american the National Security Agency at fort even As Navy officials and British prosecutors spoke of the grave american officials were on the Fli Enicke Bridge in watching the Swap of four soviet bloc spies for 25 prisoners being held in Eastern All presumably on charges of spying for the United states and the spying is a never ending ritual of life and death among Powers great and since the Walker family Case american congressional the Media and others have engaged in a lot of simplistic talk about new reasons Why people betray their but these plus the scandal in India Early this indicate that people spy for babes and Bucks and a Host of other including being a bit we now know that John Walker who allegedly ran the largest and most damaging spy ring in three was a buddy of Bill Imperial wizard of the Kun flux when they were shipmates on the submarine Simon and that Walker recruited members for klan cells in the but Navy officials never would really crack Down on the klan refusing to believe that the members were and dangerous not Only to the Blacks and jews for whom they expressed open but a threat to the Navy and the the Navy was and is derelict in not treating As Secu Rity threats those who Lead and feed hate groups aboard it was doubly derelict in not giving special Security attention to Walker when he held a to secret Job of preparing coding machines and other sensitive equipment at the navys crypt repair school in Lehman has announced plans to Cut in half the number of Navy people with Security that sounds but it Means those stripped of clearances will be the ones who handle Tri fling stuff that never should have been classified in the first also announced is a plan to give random lie Detector tests to this also is mostly cos personnel in the kinds of jobs Walker was doing will still have their Security and it is who must be subjected to frequent Security cries now go up for the death penalty for those who sell or give secrets to americas i oppose the death penalty in All but i believe that convicted spies ought to be imprisoned for with no but death versus life in prison is Only one of the thorny issues throw out the bar homosexuals from the Stop sharing secrets with Britain and other allies that have aroused so much i shall write about these other nostrums for curing the espionage problem in a later o1995 Newt America Syndicate