European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments David Broder Reagan Speaks but carries a Little stick the Teflon is still in judging from the but there Are increasing doubts among his sup porters that president Reagan has the toughness they supposed or that effective leadership requires in these As the latest terrorist incidents in Lebanon and Al Salvador slip into the history conservatives Are questioning what Ever happened to reagans 1981 Promise of Swift and effective retribution for attacks on american the sad truth is that hundreds of american lives have been taken by terrorists in the past years and no one has been after picking up a cheap win on Grenada in 1983 and lobbing a few naval shells into Lebanon in 1984 to cover the withdrawal of the marines from that misguided Reagan apparently has forsaken the threat of Force in International now the conservative heritage a source of people and ideas for the Reagan has raised the embarrassing question of reagans unilateral disarmament in Domestic it asks How deficits have reached record Levels under Reagan without his systematic use of one of the great constitutional Powers any president enjoys the its a pertinent question As Congress returns and Reagan begins to involve himself again in the unsettled Issue of the fiscal year 1986 in a policy paper issued last James Gatluso and Stephen Moore of the heritage foundation staff put the Issue in two succinct paragraphs Seldom has a president adopted a tougher stance with a Congress than has Ronald Reagan in the first months of his second he has vowed to veto con Gressional efforts to raise taxes or pass budget busting spending he even has taunted Congress to make my Day by passing a tax the message is Clear and Welcome Ronald Reagan would appear to relish vetoing the actions of an irresponsible he seems to recognize that the veto is a presidents Trump the problem is despite the Tough Reagan actually has been very timid in playing this Trump thus far in his this apparent aversion to vetoing May seriously impair reagans ability to prod Congress to act particularly in slashing Federal spending where a few major victories have been won since Reagan has not shunned the Early this he vetoed an emergency far credit his support was so evident that the House democratic leadership did not even attempt an but in his first Reagan used the veto Only 39 times barely half the annual average of All presidents during this Century and even further below the average James Kilpatrick for presidents who have faced a Congress partly or entirely controlled by the opposition White House chief of staff Donald Regan has argued that there has been nothing Mammoth to but that statement is hard to reconcile with the administrations repeated assertions that Congress is to blame for the massive deficits facing the the heritage study asserts that Congress has presented Reagan plenty of Bills of dubious Merit which he chose to sign rather than the examples it cites Range from farm subsidies to education and Grant Naid pro they explain part of the climb in Federal spending above the Levels Reagan had but the heritage authors do not acknowledge that much of the deficit they deplore stems directly from the tax reductions Reagan pushed through Congress at the outset of his nor do they examine the Point made by congressional democrats that Congress has rearranged spending priorities but not increased Overall appropriations beyond budgeted the thrust of their criticism is in Domestic policy As much As in foreign Reagan has tended to Huff and puff rarely to blow the House he is observing the limits of the arms control treaties he once denounced and moving toward a Summit conference with the Leader of the soviet a Symbol that detente is once again Back in he would rather threaten retaliation against terrorists than take Concrete actions to punish those who kill and he would rather complain that con Gress wont give him new item veto Power than use his existing veto Power As predecessors from Franklin Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford so reagans rhetoric has convinced people that he is a Man with the strength of his own but As time goes More than the conservative ideologues will begin to suggest that this Man is something of a paper Post Church finally wins a round in Ohio court ruling it escaped widespread report ing in the but a court decision last month in Ohio provided some Good news in the continuing conflict Between Church and the Church now and then Man Ages to win an occasional the Case arose six years ago in when Linda a teacher at the Dayton Christian informed the schools principal that she was the principal subsequently wrote her that the school believes mothers should stay Home with preschool children her con tract therefore would not be renewed for the next Hoskinson then made the mistake in the Schoofs View of consulting a lawyer with a View toward bringing Legal action on charges of sex that did for failure to follow the biblical Chain of she was summarily Hoskinson took her grievance against the school to the Ohio civil rights the states civil rights adopted in makes it unlawful for any employer to discriminate in the tenure of employment by reason of the commission proceeded to fall upon the school like a Hawk on a Chip the school fled into District court with a petition for an several years passed while the matter Hung in but in january the District court dismissed the schools Peti the school and last month the 6th circuit reversed the Ohio civil rights commission will have to leave the Dayton Christian school the evidence overwhelmingly supports the circuit courts that the school is a pervasively religious institution could not be teachers Are required to be born again As a condition of teachers must sign a statement of beginning with a declaration that i believe the Bible to be the inspired and the Only in fallible authoritative word of teachers Are required to infuse Christian tenets into every aspect of their deviation from a religious Way of life May be grounds for the Ohio civil rights commis Sion was not the least impressed by these in response to Hoskinson complaint you May now draw a Long breath the commission demanded from the school employment employee handbooks and rules and regulations written policies on disciplinary a employee employee performance con tract renewal and grievance procedures Job detailed information re Garding All employees who were pregnant from to Date of similar information regarding All employees who were discharged and minutes of specific Board and Complete files for 14 the commission demanded Back pay and a Public last speaking through judge Leroy Contie the 6th circuit found that the commissions assault violated the first amendment in wholesale the parents of schoolchildren were denied their right freely to exercise their the states formidable intrusion into the policies of a Christian school amounted to excessive entanglement by the state with an establishment of Reli the appellate courts decision represented one More significant Victory for William Ball of Over the past 15 and especially since his 1972 Victory for the Amish in the landmark Case of Wisconsin Ball has built a solid reputation As the nations most successful defender of religious this was a big win for counties ruling was a big win for the first amendment those who believe the first amendment should accommodate and not be hostile to have not been winning the big ones these values were implicated in six cases heard by the supreme court during the term just one of the a Connecticut Law forbidding employers to require their employees to work on their declared was a bad Law it should have been thrown and it defenders of neutrality and accommodation lost three of the remaining five they barely won the other two by 44 decisions that have no precedential for the time at thank god for the 6th press Syndicate