European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 Ellen Goodman a Forney playing politics with abortion his friends in the psychiatric Community would Call it his friends in the administration would Call it a Clever one week the attorney general of the United de stands before the american bar and in the purest tones of unsullied Legal accuses the supreme court of playing politics with the the very next week his minions throw a Ball at the top a Ball Damp with the juices of Reagan the a desc team filed what is technically known As a Friend of the court Brief in two abortion the tone was far from they lectured the court on the  of its prior rules on abortion and in a rare and hostile directly instructed them to overturn the 1973 Roe the paper probably should have been called a Friend of the fetus the argument sounded As if it were written by a political copywriter rather than by a at the very for they describe the pro Choice position As an intuition based in controversial moral and social theories of the Good this is a lift from the sort of righting brochures that caricature women seeking abortion As trendy regeneration the prose if nothing prompted Janet Benshoof of the Acle to they Are now using the office As an and this Friendly Brief came from the government in connection with cases the court will hear next the justices will decide whether two state one from Illinois and one from Pennsylvania both of which try to limit abortion in the Guise of regulating Are cons Titu one of the mysteries is Why the supreme court decided to hear these cases at the Illinois Law had already been a recent article in the National Law journal entitled was the court bamboozled suggested that the justices thought the a peal had come from the state and not just from two pro life the Pennsylvania statue has some bizarre wrinkles of its among other it requires that a doctor inform his even one who has been that a father is legally responsible for child but the statute is similar to the Law which the court struck Down by a 63 vote just two years that opinion came with a Clear affirmation of Roe the supreme court Chambers Are relatively leak so no one knows precisely Why the justices decided to let these cases onto the but the specs William Buckley lation runs since you need four justices to accept a it is Likely that one has changed his mind since Nev the Akron three plus one makes four not a its unlikely that the court will vote in favor of these let alone vote to overturn Roe Are the governments motives in making this full tilt frontal attack on the courts abortion rulings i doubt that they Are looking for a Quick Victo its possible they expect the ailing Justice Powell to be replaced by a Reagan appointee before the Case comes but that a bit ghoulish even for the Meese they have Little to but they have nothing to neither the court nor the Public is unaware that the administration would like to ban Abor Reagan has been Clear in his belief that a human life begins at the moment of rights lifers would like the embryo to have the constitutional rights of a but the troops Are growing unable to change the Constitution through the traditional political in the the prolife forces have either degenerated into or Are impatiently wait ing for the next appointment to the supreme what Meese it Al Are offering the troops is waving the antiabortion this Brief is not about the United states its about the Reagan its not written in Cool measured legalese that appeals to the audience of its written in the language that appeals to the audience of right Tolifey its Campaign season Over at the Justice Plaa aay Washington Post writers group understanding Rock n Roll and transcending history two nights before the i had not known it would take the woman on my right at whose husband is professionally engaged in the production of Rock told had not been disposed to go to Philadelphia for the but now she thought that if she did not she might in fact be passing by a historic with that before going out for dinner on i hooked up my vhf to catch the three hour abbreviation of the 16hour and when i got sat Down with my wife and watched the last 20 which began with Jack Nicholson introducing Bob Dylan and his two Jack Nicholson said for the they had saved someone who transcended no Here was an philanthropic in design All proceeds would go to africans being systematically starved by the implementation of marxist doctrine in Ethiopia and the Showbiz aspect of the great live Aid spectacular was not what engages the it is a plight one needs to not a purely private i would not write a column to explore the difficulties i experience in say of having a sixth i have become a truth seeker in the matter of the Rock and my problems i More people tuned in on live we Are than tuned in on the summer this Datum is absolutely Given that sports have been the Lingua Franca of internationalism through much of recorded and that there is an instantly communicable excitement to a sports event who going to win that does not attach to a musical the excitement of which comes in through a different sensory what is being said for Rock in is that the entire world is at its that the undisputed International celebrities of the world Are the Rock if this is then Why is it that they do not Appeal to me my other appetites Are could it be that there is a dirty Little secret no one is prepared publicly to namely that that kind of thing does not Appeal to a whole lot of people who Are not willing to confess their alienation from the Over whelming majority of the Young that kind of come on what exactly do you mean fair Bob Dylan came on and on either Side of him Are two famous guitarists from the rolling he last shaved three Days Why he is wearing Blue jeans and a scruffy shirt arrangement of Why trademark change trademarks the two guitarists arrive smoking Cigar which Dangle from their lips for the first minute or so of the first song Why their arms Are entirely and they otherwise Wear what looks like a dark coloured shirt Why then intense concentration on and neither 1 nor spouse can pick up a single word he has and we frankly doubt that anyone else Why the songs were without discernible the voice was with enough gravel in it to Stop Jeanclaude Killy in the guitarists were hard to listen to Why Why Why but we were engaged in transcending of one thing i am absolutely and that is that there is no doubting the sincerity of the Rock i know one or two who Are without affect and they in stretches of clap on their Walkman and listen to Bob Dylan before they will listen to or or or Cole obviously there is a generational and that should not whether one asks about relative you Gold enthusiasm for the rolling or relative you Gold enthusiasm for raiders of the lost but the totality of the mobilization of the Young appears to have swept with it the and one wonders whether the capitulation of the Middle aged suggests a cultural insecurity if All the world thinks Picasso cockeyed Dames Are Mas ought one to defer to Universal sentiment if one does not master Rock and is one closing the door on a trans formative experience is it the equiv Alent of inviting color blindness deafness impotence i have said and in payment for exercising the privilege of skipping the first 21a hours of i make a contribution to live reviving the movement of sticking a dime in the Nickelodeon to buy five min utes Universal press Syndicate the expressed in the columns and on Page rep those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As of the stars and stripes or the United states