European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments Carl Rowan hostages message Worth some serious listening a Celebration of life is much to be preferred Over the rituals of As americans showed in welcoming the Beirut hostages to but More than a few americans were not they were too Busy exhorting president Reagan to become rambo and dirty Harry rolled into the Washington times was urging president Reagan to make the roof Over shiite Leader Nabih Berri a target for along with shiite and to bomb out the Beirut other newspapers were offering less up genetic because seven citizens Are still and because the terrorists Are dispersed among the inno the must not use retaliatory Force against said Usa getting those hostages Home alive was not enough to quiet the debate about where and when to use the american military to fight the celebrations Over the re lease of the hostages were Short circuited More meaningfully by some recriminations and innuendoes about things said by John Captain of the hijacked Twa flight and by Allyn con spokesman for the whether we listen or Are simply offended the words of these two men will have a lot to do with whether we can make the world saner and Safe from during a Cable news network Testrake responded to suggestions that the hostages might have developed the Stock Holm a feeling of empathy and kinship for their Testrake said Force fully that no syndrome or brainwashing was at Issue that he simply had Learned some things while in Lebanon that he had not Learned in the because no one in the knew or cared about the shiite prison ers being held by Israel until the hijacking Testrake said he had Learned that those shiites held by Israel had loved ones who grieved just As the americans had loved ones who he said Israel was guilty of an act of state terrorism that provoked some shiites to commit an act of desperation the hijacking of his George will you 3r hotel i As the Captain that his words would not Fly Well at the White where someone would accuse him of condoning later who had been held in a place away from Testrake and the said of the Arab detainees in Israel i think that the people in Atli Are in exactly the same situation that were in and i know that the families and the loved ones and the cocoon try men of the prisoners in Atli Are suf Fering just As much As the people in America Are about our he said those in neither accused nor found guilty of any were hos tages in a situation comparable to that of the american these were not the words to make officials in Israel Happy or to please sup porters of Israel in the United Testrake and Conwell had said that the United states and Israel had used their awesome military Power to commit injustices that provoked weaker people to perpetrate apparently 17 Days of and last will and incarceration had dulled the brains of Testrake and Conwell to the Rule that however True this americans Arent supposed to say it could get you criticized by vice president George i listened seriously to what Testrake and Conwell were be cause i know in my heart that unless we can find an end to what Conwell called the ordeals of terror will be repeated Over and Over in the Middle East and the rest of the c news America Syndicate antiterrorism policy is diplomatic Tupper Ware considered As a the hostage if Hung in the gallery of contemporary would be a Minia but it is no less a masterpiece for its considering the exquisite delicacy of craftsmanship by the this episode surely not a considering the Good feeling All once the murder was forgotten passed smoothly from the Akean Pepsi leave taking party in on to the Damascus tributes to just about everybody including the but not including president Reagan floated out Over Flowers that were a genteel touch at the last press this we As a genteel terrorist episode of for the matter of the Navy at the press several hostages said it had been a Heck of a learning experience in which they had Learned about our common a senior official of the government at the quiet that vengeance is not our our style had been displayed when a senior official said we figure that israels prime min ister Peres can read our certainly there Are enough people Over Here of the jewish Faith who must be telling people Over there in for gods look what youre doing to american Public the governments mind was indeed an open its policy was an even Han redness too scrupulous to notice distinctions As Between americas enemies and allies Between kidnapping and military deter everyone should release everyone held policy proclaimed the the the equivalence of terrorists kidnapping americans and Israel detaining persons All protected by israeli Law who menaced israels withdrawal from Lebanon into israels Northern the terrorists were dealing from a stacked deck the Reagan administration had helped a crucial card in their hand was dealt Many weeks before the Epi Sode it was dealt by the state department declaration that israels detention of those people violates the Geneva con assume for a moment that the state departments opinion mean spirited and probably wrong is All it involves is a technical offence israels detention of the shiites would have been Legal if Israel had detained them a few Miles North rather than South the lebanese the terrorists goals almost certainly included More than the already promised release of the the now probably included demonstrating the emptiness of rhetoric about terrorism and All and driving a wedge Between the United states and its Only ally in the Middle the terrorists also achieved this Bonus the president praised the antiterrorism of the syrian regime that was with one truck for the bloodiest Day the Marine corps has suffered since iwo the brutalized and murdered Navy Man was not buried before the hostages captors had found among the hostages an energetic Allyn an Oil Man who makes his living Selling things in the Middle he was not Content with serving As a megaphone for the terrorists and a Tutor to the world on the Fine Points of israels failings under International when the president demanded the release of the seven Ameri cans who were taken As hostages Long before Conwell Conwell criticized showing such inconvenient concern for too Many monday just when you thought it was Safe to turn the television Back there was the irrepressible Phyl Lis George saying Conwell would make a splendid candidate for Public sen Ator from Oman things came out co Wells Way the other seven Are still the government had used the word in Sist in demanding the release of the seven it had said it would not ask Israel to Cave in to terrorists and then see paragraph two incited Ameri can jews to do just the administration denies that it pledged not to it says it will now build on the heightened Public concern about but the sitting in the Oval sanitized the syrian which his administration says practices stat sponsored terrorism of the sort that blew forces into Retreat from there is no reason to think that regime will abandon such a successful and risk free there is every reason to think that the presidents Praise for a soviet has immunized it against any retaliation for the terrorism sequels it probably will help this As every policy regarding retaliation is next time this policy is diplomatic cheap and durable and it has to because it is used in All the terrorism episodes it c Washington Post