European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 George will Nancy formidable Force behind the president Luck is a commodity that can take fortunate car oms into various Corners of a nations the presi dents Brush with cancer is Good Luck for thousands of americans whose lives will be saved by and because of the nation will learn that in Ronald reagans Long run of Good the Luckiest event was meeting Nancy reagans Brush with cancer will illustrate the fact that the misfortunes of the famous can be fruitful for the the most important thing that Ever happened to improve Public awareness and hence the condition mentally retarded americans was the birth of Rosemary the fact that the president had a retarded sister turned the Kennedy and especially into a powerful Force for demystifying the subject of because of president reagans millions of americans will choose to have proper medical and cancer will be less a subject surrounded by in Neil Simons Brighton Beach mentions aunt Blanche you her Uncle died six years ago from this they never say the they always whisper it was he whispers cancer i think there afraid if they said it out god would i heard that you said the dread just for i smite you Down with there Are some things that grownups just wont Dis for Many cancer the reticence and awkwardness of acquaintances is a Burden added to the Burden of Only through Public discussion can people become aware of the encouraging prognoses for Many kinds of cancer when detected Ameri perhaps with the Salk vaccine As a associate Public health enhancements with new techno but enormous Public health advances Are Avail at no government through altered behaviour no less More sensible use of nonuser of Early detection of Dis eases and conditions such As High blood fortunately for the and for a nation fixated by the the lady is a doctors daughter if the 25th amendment provided for transferring Power to first could have in just eight How formidable a person in a size four dress can in George Bush eight hours As acting the deficit increased Nancy never would have allowed one of her grandest attributes is her which is surprising because being a presidents wife is no laugh ing the applause and Power go to the to the first lady Falls the chore of being gracious to thousands of strangers who Are More thrilled to be with her than she is to be with to be first lady is to be first target of that portion of the carnivorous Media that serves one of americas growth Indus tries the production and distribution of when the reagans leave Washington on he really will constitute fully four percent of the nations presidential she is a Veteran sportswriters like to modify the noun Veteran with the adjective but it wont do Here of 20 years in the tumult of yet it is Only recently that who often Are the last to began seeing her As an important part of the Reagan phenom what makes effective presidents so rare is the fact that presidential Power is a function of Public of the Power of the office varies radically compare the presidency in and july it varies with the grip the occupant of the office has on the Public affection and reagans grip in Large from his Serene understanding that politics is like not he conducts his High office the Way Earl Weaver conducts the Aristotle of the Baltimore says this aint a football we do this every baseballs Best teams lose about 65 times a it is not a game you can play with your Teeth sometime in the americans grew weary of a government with clenched they have their fill of the loneliness and splendid misery and other rub Bish about the Reagan is an astonishing political Force because like his has a Talent for he also has there is an old fashioned word to describe his Nottall old fashioned the word is to the extent that Ronald reagans Success As president is related to his reassuring to that extent Nancy Reagan has and will now More than Ever an unofficial but not unimportant help in gov the explanation of the presidents Confidence inspiring Contentment has much to do with the first person he sees in the morning and the last person he sees at Post writers group David Broder deficits Are the cancer in economic system George will was exactly right in saying that president reagans illness will save the lives of thousands of potential cancer victims by ending their procrastination in getting tests and treatment for their own if this were a rational it would also end the governments mindless procrastination in dealing with the problem of runaway those deficits Are the cancer in our economic and the longer they Are left the More certain and pain Ful will be the end of our present Prosper it must have struck someone that four Days after the presidents surgery and two Days after the diagnosis of Colon Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker was issuing the same diagnosis for the when you operate on Bor rowed Money to the extent that we he said in congressional you Are living on borrowed it is exactly the same Point almost a word Forward paraphrase that Walter Mondale made in his democratic Conven Tion acceptance speech a year ago and that Many others of both parties have made before ana1 there is no serious Challenge to that proposition among those Bankers and economists who look seriously at the picture for that among Many of the administration and congressional officials who Are struggling with yet Senate majority Leader Bob one of those who clearly under stands the has said that the Goven ment is surrendering to the Dole expressed that bitter View in criticizing the unwise budget concessions Reagan made just before his hospitalize the White House has mismanaged this years budget starting with the unrealistic defense spending numbers of last january and continuing on through the Cavern on social Security costo jiving adjustments of which Dole a1hikp of Shlom but there is no one so blame free in this process that he can walk away from responsibility if it collapses As it recurrently has threatened to for the con Gressional budget makers to quit in Dis agreement would be exactly As indefensible As it would have been for the presidents doctors to throw up their hands when they found the new and cancerous the Basic strength of the american Economy is being sapped by three can closely linked and feeding each the first is the budget brushing billion a when added to the existing  National it guarantees that a multiplying share of each years tax collections will be consumed simply in paying runaway in Terest payments on the the second cancer is the rising tide of foreign borrowing billion a year from now until at least according to the latest congressional research service this that borrowing has made the United states a debtor nation for the first time in 70 by next we May be the worlds biggest the rapid growth of that foreign debt almost strips us of control of our own economic More and More of our future income will be sent abroad to pay those foreign and if they put the squeeze on us by with drawing their we could in truth be a helpless the third cancer is the steadily wors ening foreign Trade estimated by Secretary of Commerce Malcolm bal Drige in the mind boggling 150 Bil lion Range this that measures the inability of the american Economy to hold its own in International it explains in a time of seeming we Are continuing to lose jobs in and seeing Industry after Industry overwhelmed by foreign none of these facts is in dispute any More than the presidents diagnosis was subject to yet we continue to be lulled by Stock Market highs and summer sloth into thinking there will not be a Day of ignoring these economic cancers is As stupid and criminal As it would have been to say of Ronald he cant be look at that Tan Hes when reagans problem was diag his doctors did not hesitate or pro they did the he accepted the pain and discomfort in order to achieve what should be a every diagnosis of our economic cancer leads to the recommendation that the budget deficit must be Cut with what Ever Short term pain and discomfort dealing with Domestic entitlements and if reagans doctors had shrunk from doing what his life and health they would have been denounced and if this administration and Congress attempt to sneak off on vacation in August without acting on the budget they deserve no better if they and we cant read the message weve been and summon the will to act on we deserve the Fate we will surely Washington Post writers group the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing those of the stars and stripes or the United states