European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and strip Etc july 1985 columns comments Carl Rowan poor policy makes enemies Tor the United states a few Days at the Airport in a stranger asked me to Tell him Why the most generous people on arc now the targets of so much hatred and this Man cited the food that we americans have Given to hungry people in Ethiopia and he spoke of the peace asserting that America has built More sent More medical agricultural experts to developing nations than any other How could it be he that americans Are the prime targets of air plane embassy random murders my plane left before i could even try to but i have thought a lot about that conversations make me aware that it nags at millions of other they seem to sense that no matter How the United states reacted to the Beirut hostage situation whether this country unleashed violent retaliation against or some or showed that bothersome ques Tion will haunt terrorism and attacks on americans will american ambassadors abroad will still hide behind Concrete barriers and guards toting a and our White House and state department will increasingly be come Why because americas role in the particularly its Devotion to Stop Ping the spread of inevitably makes the United states appear to be an enemy of millions of efforts to Block the communists have dominated american policy and to a Large degree at since world War As a journalist who has thrived on and prospered from democratic free i cannot question my country goal of trying to shield other societies from the ravages of communist totality but i cannot help but raise the question whether we have played into the soviets hands by so often using racists and righting despots to try to frustrate the great Powers struggle is so Allen co passing that Many in Washington be Lieve latin american societies Are bound to turn to communism if the United states does not intervene or with naked military latinos have always resented and some Are displaying it now with anger Over generations of foreign domination has sustained the Ayatollah Kho Meini in and inflamed islamic attitudes toward the United the United states has Given great economic and political support to Israel for moral and Domestic political but also a part of a grand plan to prevent soviet expansion shiite arabs in palestinians in have argued with increasing anger that a Lack of even handedness has made the United states their bitter whether we can fashion a future less filled with terrorism depends on the United states making it Clear that while it will never abandon it will not let alone be a part actions against israels like the that violate International Law and the worlds sense of throwing its weight against evil racism in South Africa with a vigorous Ness that disarms would be trying with new new to convince our neighbors in latin America that we stand for some thing better than Blind and that we respect their right and ability to fashion their own political we americans cannot become fearful or people who sneak around the world in like thieves in the but we can never prevent this by trying to use bombs and bullets to make the rest of the world say we shall know a greater measure of Security and Tranquility Only when we pursue policies that make us fewer c news America Syndicate David Broder despite Kennedy beliefs dont change the timing was but when Edward played Host to president Reagan at a glittering fundraiser for the John Ken Nedy More than one message was being top state leaders of the democratic in Washington for the meeting of the democratic National were reminded by the photos and stories about the event that Kennedy wants very much to be part of the 1988 Choice of reagans it is not the first such hint Kennedy has last barely two months into reagans second he told the Hometown Boston Globe id like to be president and no longer Felt inhibited by the family concerns that he said kept him on the sidelines in Back in he began what As an Effort to reposition himself Ana the democratic with a heavily publicized speech at Hofstra he warned that democrats would continue to lose National elections if they remained Content with fighting a rear guard action to save the policies of the the Man who challenged president Carter from the left in an unsuccessful 1980 bid for the democratic presidential nomination was As the washing ton Post to be moving his party and his political image toward the there is nothing Subtle about the he was photographed in a smiling hand shake with the Jerry the moral majority when they made a joint appearance at the National religious broadcasters when i went to his office for an i was walked past Walls of mementos of the Kennedy family to be shown a framed enlargement of a letter of Praise he received last year for his concern about the men and women of the armed services and their the letter is signed by Barry but for All the there simply is no evidence of a Radical change in Ted his heart and his head Are where they always have been at the left of the mainstream american political when the nonpartisan National journal published its ratings of members of Congress Early in Ken Nedy was ranked the most Liberal of All senators on combined social and foreign policy Roll Calls in the last he is off to a Good Start in his title in his Hofstra speech in Kennedy said democrats must show the courage to discard outdated when the Senate was debating the budget in he voted to discard Only two a special Scho Olaid program for districts with big government which every president since Eisenhower has tried to and the general Revenue sharing program enacted during Richard Nixon on 24 other floor Kennedy voted to maintain or increase spending for foreign medi care and Legal the Veter ans school postal mass Urban development Grants and a variety of other traditional democratic at Hofstra in Kennedy we cannot and should not depend on higher tax revenues to Roll in and redeem every costly but the rejected demo cratic budget Resolution he helped shape and supported would have raised taxes billion mainly on Corpora he Points out to maintain higher Levels of Domestic at he warned democrats against the special interest Label that was so damaging to Walter Mondale in saying there is a difference be tween being a party that cares about labor and being a labor but when the defense Bill was up in the Senate Early in it was Kennedy who offered the amendment to restore the Davi Bacon act requirements on prevailing wage rates for military construction that a perennial Issue of special interest to the Falcio building trades the Point is not that Kennedy is hypocritical but for All the rhetoric of his heart is where it always has listen to him for an and it is evident that the concerns that stir him Are racism in South Africa and what he sees As the Retreat on civil rights at famine abroad and hunger in unilateral military intervention in Central Ameri the need for nuclear arms control and adequate health care for after hearing my Strong sense is that he is not moving or shifting ground at All that if he is Ever to be the country will have to come to that seems unlikely if not impossible but Ken Nedy is Only 53 years the same age Reagan was in when Reagan made his famous television plea for the lost cause of Goldwater by the country politics had shifted enough to put Reagan in the and he reaped rewards for his own it May be that Kennedy guest of Honor was really his role i find that possibility More plausible and attractive than the image changing c Washington Post