European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments Anthony Lewis Victory by restraint Over hostage release Over the fourth of july weekend we often hear about feats of american Power in the cause of Freedom Battles enemies this year we have reason to celebrate a More difficult achievement Victory by restraint in the use of the negotiated end of the Beirut hostage crisis secured the immediate goal of release of the remaining hostages from Twa flight but it was a gain for american interests in a broader it supported the More rational forces in fractured in the Middle East and it enhanced the reputation of the United states As a Power that acts with not in targeted even in the most trying credit for making the Best of a bad situation belongs to president in and no doubt in he identifies with the gun slinging style of the Hollywood he even made a crack about rescuing the hostages a la but in practice he understood reality and its limit recognizing the futility of he like an he lived with Reagan deserves Praise the More because he stuck to the course of restraint despite cries for blood from some of his supporters on the various conservative journalistic and called him Norman Podhoretz of commentary for denounced him for refusing to risk life in defense of the National Henry Kissinger was a particular he went from television network to television network saying that there must be no negotiations and urging that the United states do something in thus acting out frustration at powerlessness he provided an unwitting contrast to reagans mature the president set the course at his news conference of june he said America would never make conces Sions to but he rejected retaliation for its own a military strike without a Clear a blow in a general he would be a terrorist act in the press conference left unclear whether the presi Dent was ready to Deal directly with Nabih the shiite amal Leader who had taken responsibility for the some of us feared that the administration was letting that relatively Good Opportunity go Good be cause time would probably bring Berri under pressure to make further or see him replaced by More Radical but under the rhetorical cover of insistence on no the administration dealt with the american ambassador in Reginald Bartholo who knows the amal Leader spoke with him on George will no country in Trio  prime Ana the Telephone again and some people credit Bartholomew with suggesting to Berri that he move into the hostage situation in the first the fact is that every government negotiates in hos Tage however painful it is to do because there is usually no alternative if one cares about human Israel has done so the United states negotiated for Many months with the Iran hostage crisis took so Long to resolve because internal iranian forces had an interest in prolonging Nabih Berris Strong interest was in freeing the hostages lest the Radical Hezbollah movement use them As a lever to Power among the what Berri needed was Assurance that Israel would free its 735 lebanese detainees he certainly got though the United states could not permit visible the Resolution should strengthen amass hand among the another important plus was the involvement of the syrian Hafez in the Effort to free the the syrian role was As Reagan gracefully Syria is a soviet and it is charged by Washington with aiding terrorist but Assad has not been comfortable with the extremist shiite and in general he acts not out of ideology but with a cautious sense of it is in the american interest to have him on the Side of order and to keep talking with him about Middle East after the As during the United states has a Choice of rash and prudent there Are voices calling for revenge mayor Koch of new York for demanding that the United states destroy and Harg but Reagan seems unlikely to change his View that the United states should not copy political analysts will note once again How Lucky Ronald Reagan he denounced Jimmy Carter for doing exactly what he then did in a hostage and he got out of it because the local interests fell that he continues to rely on Force instead of Diplo Macy notably in but in he snowed the strength of c 1985 new York times Syndicate Pennsylvania Monongahela Valley is not gone yet the quiet world of the microchip has made Northern californian Silicon Valley a Symbol of America rearing to go for but Pennsylvania Monongahela Valley the muscular world of blast furnaces is not yet not Pittsburgh was recently rated first among Ameri Cas 329 metropolitan areas As the Best place to the air is now clean because so Many smokestacks arc and the largest employer is not it is the University of the transformation of Pittsburgh is a tribute to the suppleness of american but in the mean streets of Braddock just outside you see the weary flesh and Blank faces of the people who Are casualties of the wrench ing readjustment who break when More supple people merely the steel Region is no stranger to Wil Liam Manchester says that in 1934 the average steel worker toiled in dangerous settings to earn a supporting six when the movie modern times came to Blu Collar audiences did not laugh at Charlie chaplins parody of a work mans five minute in which his hands continued to mime the machinery at first and then slowed Down just Long enough to allow him to grab a Glass of social living in cocoons of with icy that the United steelworkers Union did its work too pricing and hence american out of there is a bit of truth to but it takes a tougher moralist than i to lament the physical safety and eco nomic gains us brought to workers in the Mon Val the steel Industry primary problem is that it is competing not with foreign corporations similarly disciplined by Market but with foreign govern ments that have flooded the world with excess capacity and Are running nationalized steel plants As jobs pro for americans too Young to have experienced the depression most of us this Valley is a stunning classroom in which to learn about the death of the spirit that follows the death of Here in a slimmed Down labor Force in a modernized Plant is making steel in a drama of fire and sweat that any american could profit from but the Plant is an Island of wholesome Roar in an Ocean of deadly an Ocean of idled humanity that laps up to the Plant much of american Industry is Back and standing but steel is Flat on its woozy and worried that the tax Reform plan will deliver another Roundhouse How big americas steel Industry should be is Debat but the need for an efficient Core of that Industry is american steelmakers can compete but Only they modernize their the tax proposal would make such investment less the plan would lower rates for individuals and raise revenues from Busi Nesses even while lowering the business tax rate from 46 to 33 it would manage that by among other things repealing the investment tax credit and making depreciation schedules less generous than those in Many other Industrial this would raise production costs and diminish relative productivity in heavy investment industries at a moment when the Strong Dollar is Handi capping companies in International the Federal tax code collects approximately one fifth of Gnu one of every five dollars generated by the Economy of this Complex Industrial such a code can not help but embody an Industrial under the presidents the increase in the tax Burden on those industries that demand constant heavy capital such As steel and Auto Indus would help pay also for a three year Extension of the research and development tax and a Cut in the maximum capita gains these Are boons to venture capitalists and the High technology Indus tries they currently under the tax plan As Ronald reagans hard charging Yuppie entrepreneurs would do better than Lane Kirk lands struggling Blu Collar manufacturing but Many democrats know that the rising blight of rust is ruining their so before concluding that the tax treatment of business the Reagan Industrial policy is remember Dan chairman of the House ways and Means is As democratic As is his Home town and he resembles a Yuppie about As much As Pittsburgh Iron City Beer resembles c 1985 Washington Post writers group