European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 letters the stars and stripes August 1985 William Buckley celebrating1 the anniversary of Helsinki accords the idea of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki accords is on the order of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Hitler Stalin or the 10th anniversary of Basket three of the Helsinki As it was sounds nowadays like Telegraph Ese for Basket Case you will recall it was Basket three that was to extend the rights to to Convene in peaceable and to free the fruits of Basket three Anotoly facing 12 years and As they put it in russian shorthand seven in a labor five in internal Yuri convicted of antigovernment agitation and propaganda in is still in Losif sentenced to sevenans drive in Andrei in exile or in prison or not in three Helsinki monitors have died in labor of the 20 original soviet monitors of the Helsinki Only two remain not in labor Camps or in and one of Naum is in a very real sense a prisoner soviet authorities refuse to per Mit him or his who is dying of to Immi grate to Meiman explains there were too few of us and we  take Young be cause we knew that in a Short time they too would be there was a considerable Agenda in the soviet Union announced a unilateral suspension of All nuclear and asked us to do the same the relevant outstanding agreement puts a limit of 150 Kilotons and specifies underground we take two the first that the soviet Union might not adhere to its and that we dont have Means refined enough of detecting surreptitious Loyield the that the soviet Union is merely suiting its As it did when in 1961 it unilaterally suspended a voluntary moratorium and dropped a 100megaton number in order to prove some thing or if soviet scientists to the Kremlin advise that they have no need to test for five months Odd stretch of then Why not make it a pea Cenik Point and proclaim your unique Devotion to disarm while feeding the cause of disarmament Only Static of there was the Call for More new since the soviet Union desires More spy to run that operation in san where they stole All the naval soviet officials had to operate from a consulate 125 Miles and that fuel costs being what they and rus hour and then there was the Call for cooperation As the new York times put measures to increase the safety of com Mercial one Way to increase the safety of commercial aircraft is not to shoot Down commercial Flora Lewis but that too simple for modern its like securing human rights by securing human disarming by seeking peace by seek ing and and granted that diplomacy is con ducted by the Aesop an still it is True that the soviet Union is paying a Price for publicly agreeing to observe human the soviet Constitution of 1936 Guaran tees All manner of human though subordinating them to the preeminent concerns of the but the diplomats will Tell you it want until Helsinki that we inherited the right to inquire into the state of human Freedom behind the Iron in two years before Helsinki the soviet Union ratified the United nations human rights technically that subjects the soviet Union to monitoring by instruments of the United nations of the soviet Union can exercise a veto that tends to paralyse inconvenient in by As signatory to Hel the United states can on its own motion initiate we together with our done resulting in protracted meetings in Madrid and in Ottawa that proved nothing very much except that the soviet Union continues in its totalitarian ways and what cares about Public opinion answer the soviet Union does care about Public sufficiently to mitigate its policies that is the heated soviet denials that the Kremlin has Ever been guilty of anything More than double parking Are grudging testimony to a Central fact about which the historian Christopher Dawson wrote a Book 25 years ago called the movement of world although they dont value human they know they should pretend that they and that is Worth c 1985 Universal press Syndicate in the soviet human rights monitoring group Marks the tenth anniversary of the Helsinki no Maffer what its always americas fault Greece is becoming sharply polarized the villages have two Coffee shops one where sup porters of prime minister Andreas Papandreou socialist government gather and one for the so they can denounce each other in Friendly surroundings free of the capital has two each within its own closed members of the government speak with exhilaration of dramatic of newfound Independence though the facts have been modest so members of new the opposition on the intone dire warnings about a coming on party state and economic they agree on few one is that Turkey is the and the other is that whatever they find its really americas the latest Frothy scandal is Over the testimony of the newly appointed Robert at Senate confirmation he said he hoped for better on a More equal basis rather than As As in the postwar the government spokesmen jumped on the saying it showed America had admitted previous greek governments were the opposition saying it was a dirty blow by Washington to Curry favor with Papandreou so As to keep american Lead ing figures in new democracy argued among them selves whether they should reject Keeley for insulting their the fuss is really a reflection of How much America still matters to this whether As Scapegoat or most greeks blame the United states for the seven years of dictatorship following the 1967 colonels and for not preventing the 1974 turkish invasion of some emotional officials even claim the United states Hast fulfilled obligations in return for Greece part in world War such righteous extravagance is accompanied by angry denials that anything Papandreou has said about the United states could be consid ered nobody pretends to have a Clear idea of Papan Reous intentions now that he has been reelected for a second fou year he has vowed not to give any More which leaves things murky but May not be a bad idea Given his propensity for casual Provo the government has toned Down its americ bashing foreign policy want a major Issue in the recent although there is a lingering Chance that Papandreou tactics have made the world give Greece More of its due attention and the trouble is that this Doest address the main which is the seriously deteriorating econ Greece is Likely soon to become one of those coun tries obliged to creep under the Stern Tutelage of the International monetary that will renew the dilemma of whether to relieve feelings by More rhetoric or try to convince those phantoms called inter National Bankers that Greece is still a Good among the people who love to talk there is an atmosphere of an impending of some moment of decision just ahead that will determine the country but it seems the impression is More one of groping and bumbling on the Long Road of transforming a Rural Economy and archaic paternal politics into a modern Eleni the dauntless editor who passed the colonels regime relentlessly and now gives Papandreou similar says flatly i am free to say whatever i but they those in Power Are equally free to ignore me so there is no by that she Means Lack of Effort to seek consensus and heightening polarization Between ins ail uts mcreasm8 politicization of state which ought to be nonpartisan but have always been linked in some degree to in the there int much the United states can or should theres no reason to Swallow and no reason to at this whatever the United states its Likely to hear from greeks that what goes wrong is All americas c new York times