European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june columns comments Flora Lewis superpowers Mirror each other on arms control this is a period of uncertainty and groping in superpower a Crossroads where Small Steps can be decisive for future there Are some disco fiting parallels in Washington and neither capital seems to have faced up to the Tough questions it must Settle before the two can engage seriously in the negotiations they have in the Battle continues Over How to Deal with the president Reagan wisely overrode administration hardliners and ordered continued compliance with the Salt ii though Only for the time Moscow reaction was another propaganda accusing the United states of plotting to destroy the whole idea of arms so it has responded almost hysterically to reagans strategic defense Ini or making Star wars the prime International political Issue before anybody even knows if the plan is the Kremlin has perversely recruited support for the notion in both american and european opinion by persuading people that there must be some thing in it if the russians take it so the soviet Mikhail has made his own priority it is a massive Effort to modernize the soviet Economy without any important reforms in the his economic and military problems Are necessarily to a surprising he has now echoed the thesis that brought a degree of disgrace for the former soviet chief of marshal Nikolai it is that the technological muscle and productive capacity of the soviet civilian Economy must be sharply not Only to raise living standards but also As the essential base for maintaining military Ogarkow was dismissed last there Are hints he is being he was one of the main soviet spokesmen in the Campaign opposing introduction of missiles in for nearly five that Campaign was the Central theme of soviet diplomacy and it was a resounding the russians finally returned to the Geneva negotiating table they scarcely mention the mis Siles any now their prime target is Star but they arc shooting at it with the same diplomatic propaganda approach they used so unsuccessfully against the warning that All talks will break Down unless the United states swears this is the russians know very Well there is no Way to impose a verifiable ban on they admit they Are doing research that could have similar still they rerun the  which served them so badly on the if they continue this they risk recreating the Carl Rowan same kind of political Box in which the United states feels obliged to plunge ahead whether ski looks sounder not so As to deny a soviet right of veto on its arms and Moscow cannot Back away from intransigence without appearing to have this kind of confrontational approach will Block any Chance of com it threatens to collapse the whole Effort to control the arms race by that cannot be in the soviet any More than it is in the interest of the or the rest of the very Little is known about politics inside the Andrei who led soviet diplomacy in its missile remains foreign it int Clear whether he is responsible for repeating the style of that Campaign or whether the advice comes primarily from soviet military there Are visible ways to escape the current which would be to direct talks toward amplifying interpretations and closing loopholes in the abm John who was Legal adviser to the Salt i has Given testimony to Congress on Clear and specific Points Worth taking they Are but of crucial importance if the abm treaty and probably arms control in general Are to be the critical under Star wars will come Between 1988 and that is during the term of reagans but by Rhinelander the treaty probably could not be put Back together again even if a later decision were made not to deploy the russians Are under an illusion if they think the european allies can be mobilized to prevent american their dilemma is whether to but that in itself might breach the abm which for bids technology indecision in East and West is eroding the Hope for arms weapons builders on both sides Are reinforcing each Moscow current stance can pro Pel it further into the contest its leaders say they want to c 1985 new York times Syndicate reagans people a Burden on backs of minorities re than 37 years when i dedicated a Mavor of India Annlis More than 37 years when i dedicated a career in journalism to helping America achieve racial and social there were certain things i could not imagine happening i could not conceive of an Era in which the Justice department would become a powerful enemy of my children and As it surely is it was beyond thought that a White Republican mayor of the Jim Crow would be come a powerful advocate of affirmative action pro Grams to redress centuries of racial and sexual while a jewish member of the civil rights com Mission would oppose those affirmative action programs with blatant expressions of but a recent Issue of news world report shows that this is How far America has sunk under an administration that has never offered minorities More than hostility and Morris Abram used to hang out with Vernon former head of the National Urban league Benjamin head of the National association for the Advance ment of coloured and leaders of the United negro College laying onto himself the Mantle of White that until president Reagan made Abram vice chairman of the commission on civil suddenly Abram has become a vocal enemy of programs designed to open the doors to decent employ ment for thoroughly qualified hispanics and women those discriminated against so viciously Over the Abram overstepped every limit of decency in a news world report debate with William the mayor of whereas the Republican mayor defended his cites use of goals and guidelines to help minorities take their rightful place in the Mains Tream of Community Abram kept hurling Forth the loaded word More outrageous is what Abram said quotas Are not going to help people who Are not trained to quotas Are not going to help people who Are quotas Are not going to help people who have not the motivation to that is a statement of galling bigotry that was never exceeded by the worst racists of my Abram is implying that those who Benefit from affirmative action programs in Indianapolis and elsewhere Are untrained illiterates who dont want to but Are being Given Good jobs for which they Are not no Klansman could have said it More or Given More support and Comfort to the bigots of Ameri Abram knows better than Vernon Jordan said to and what he is saying is the news interviewer put the Challenge to mayor Hudnut this Way Are memo rites or women who would otherwise be unqualified to hold certain jobs being hired under quotas Hudnut replied lets say you have 25 qualified people for a recruit class of 20 in the police among the 20 selected Are five minorities or women to help affirmative action the Point is they Are All people who have fought the Long and now losing struggle for racial Justice in America Are saying that defectors and turncoat Uke Abram As much As president Reagan or Justice department neanderthals like William Bradford Reynolds killed off the civil rights but they also Are saying that there must be a just god somewhere to motivate William Hudnut and a lot of other White officials americas cities to tel1 the Reagan administration to Bug off to stay away from their communities with Honor and they have solved Many of the most insidious problems arising from cannot even White republicans or jewish leaders make Abram understand that he and his civil rights commis and Reynolds and his Justice have become abominable burdens on the backs of people who Are trying to do what is Best for their cities and for All americans copyright 1985 news America Syndicate