European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns comments William Buckley reagans conservative ideology still going Strong Tiik illness of Ronald Reagan has Force fed thought normally in repose thought about his Ana his commentators have canvassed Many aspects of the including highly improbable for in stance his when Dwight Eisenhower had his stroke late in someone asked Len re publican gop what the party would do if Eisenhower decided not to run again in to which the answer when we get to that Well jump into the complimentary and just the thing to say when you know that the your will read it the next Day in the but Here Are some differences Between Ike and Reagan Worth thinking about at this Dwight Eisenhower really want particularly there is a consider Able revisionist school that is having a successful time elevating assigning to him skills we know now he had but did not affect to Murray Kimpton wrote an article called the underestimation of Ike 10 years but even if we acknowledge that although Ike pretended to be aloof from which aloofness gave him the prestige he wanted while All the time he was As shrewd a Politico As mayor Daley he was not a president who had a considerable Impact on his country and his Impact on his party poli tics was when Eisenhower was elected in after five democratic presidential there was a higher percent age of registered republicans than when he left office in we by that five years after the first inauguration of the number of registered re publicans is at an Post for frustrated in particular after the last decided to Anthro Pomor political developments during the past few you it All has to do with Reagan you he magic he says All those dumb and people be Lieve and they go to the and they give him every state except Mineso but wait until he has left then you will see that in fact his own personality was indispensable to Republican All that has been done under his sponsorship will and the world will come Back to its Flora Lewis Reat farms pro Gnosis o o at the other end Are those who feel that the Forward inertia of the conservative movement requires fresh it was frequently complained about for by hungry liberals that the new Deal really went no further after having exhausted the ideological energies of its it was not until Lyndon Johnson became presi Dent goes this theory the welfare state finally the comparable commentary would have us believe that the natural rhythm of politics will require that further reforms come in the Post Reagan period conceivably much allowing for a hiatus either at the hands of a sleepy Republican or of an unlikely such further reforms As what for a foreign policy that encourages counter soviet salient in extra military areas for agriculture Between Europe and the United we Are keeping the soviet Union from in Domestic a Flat a voucher system in schools and a reversal of the most conspicuous a rotations of Power by the supreme some think that a president simply cant get much More than what he asks for during those few Golden weeks after he is first not Many people would be willing to say that the tax reductions of 1981 could have been introduced by Reagan in two lines of thought suggest them the first is that the tendency of the conservative As it has been is ratified not Only by the personal popularity of its principal but also by the ascend Ariey of the Republican and this tells us that such instability As is ahead of us in 1988 will merely be the result of different re publicans fighting for the that always and it is predictable that no Republican who wants the Nomi nation is going to Campaign on the plat form that Reagan was a bad or that his politics were too the doctors give news on the basis of which we can joyfully look Forward to the keynote speech at the Republican convention of by Ronald c Universal press Syndicate change in soviet style offers new Challenge something is changing in soviet american there Hast been any beyond agreement to Start serious preparations for the Reagan Gorbachev Summit conference in american trying to hold Down stress the continuity of soviet but soviet style is noticeably it showed in the Way the russians gave their upbeat version of the meeting be tween Secretary of state George Shultz and foreign minister Eduard it showed in their Gen eral Demeanour at the conference in the new foreign ministers Rosy round his slightly clownish wisps of White especially his willingness to smile and were of course a Sharp contrast to old Granite faced Andrei who held the Job for 28 that want what he and his colleagues did not say was even More important than what was they left out most of the familiar they were approachable and went out of their Way to be they didst As they have customarily against Shults Tough inventory of their human rights they just shed the charges with a ludicrous but completely Bland assertion that All rights Are fully guaranteed in their behind this substantial improvement in there is a lot of talk about the desire to improve rela a series of ideas has been floating to hint they Are getting ready to do some real business at the Geneva arms the United states says that if Moscow has some thing to it should be brought up in where specifics can be that Hast happened nobody knows maybe the russians Are probing for Advance signs of americas or maybe they Hope to create pressure on Washington through West Ern Public the is that instead of choosing to look Moscow now chooses to look inter ested in a far from denying that foreign policy int for bending no matter which Way the wind the russians Are emphasizing their priority on Domestic change and the possible Impact on relations with the rest of the in an unusual reference to inter Nal said in his speech at the Helsinki the foreign policy of any state is inseparably linked to its inter Nal our party and our state have been directing their main efforts toward accelerating social and economic development so As to make its achievements serve the goal of steadily raising the soviet Peoples the communist party Congress in he will no doubt be a major landmark in attaining these to implement its vast the soviet Union needs a durable this Doest necessarily mean any slowing of the soviet military buildup nor of rough but it is to be taken especially the reference to the february deadline for putting new plans into by then the soviet Mikhail Gorba would dearly like to have something to show in East West relations so his people will believe that better times will really come if they work hard for so he has Given away nothing to encourage the there Are even clues that Moscow is worried lest Washington thinks Gorbachev is in so much of a hurry for the United states is better placed to Stone reminders Are spread that now a Youthful team has taken Over the Kremlin and it can afford to outwait this sounds like old there Hast been any trans formation of but it is and a Good Deal More Subtle than the previous As Well As threatening have been for Many the West has been Able to rely on soviet soviet Gross soviet insensitivity and bludgeoning to hold firm to its own the new Moscow team is taking another the time May be coming when it wont be at All assured that Moscow will help the United states that now the West has to pay More attention to avoid its own its own the change in soviet style is a sophisticated c new York times