European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August columns David Broder two governors show More vision than president for More than 50 since the Advent of the new it has been an axiom of american government that leadership in planning and promoting the lon term health of the american econ omy must come from today that is no longer the Case and a Lucky As the Federal government and its the president of the United continue to flounder in managing the largest elements of economic the states and the governors Are stepping into the breach As far As they the contrast was dramatic earlier this on a president Reagan shot Down the plan designed by the re publican Senate leadership for making lon term reductions in Federal budget the cancerous growth of those deficits threatens the future of the american once Reagan put his Peculiar ideology and his past Campaign promises ahead of prudence and practicality and barred both revenues and entitle ments along with defense spending from consideration by the once he chose to avoid today painful choices and thereby increased the risk of tomorrows dire by the next two Gover nors were in Pittsburgh discussing How they Are attempting to assure their states economic futures by making the hard choices and seizing the abundant opportunities of government and private sector officials from More than 30 states came to the National governors association abundant evidence that the Issue is of importance across the one governor was a Liberal Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts the Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylva a Republican who is regarded As a Reagan administration their agreements far out shadowed the differences in their Dukakis was there because his state has become a National Model of successful economic transition moving from the old and dying textile based Economy to a modern High tech Economy with Low in Flora Lewis although unemployment remains Thornburgh Pennsylvania is now Well launched on an Effort to replace its de Clining Supply of steel and other smoke stack jobs with new service and manufacturing one key piece of Thornburgh strategy is the Ben Franklin partnership in that four univer sit based centers serve As the in which a Small amount of state invest ment is leveraged with larger chunks of private to nurture new technologies and new what both men emphasized was the need for states to do strategic planning and to pass up the lure of Quick fixes in favor of longer term Dukakis said that states have a natural capacity for doing because they can Fin tune plans for their own communities and regions in a Way the Federal government the close and cooperative relationships Between labor and education that Are vital for economic development to go for Ward depend on personal involvement by key leaders again most easily obtained at the state and local none of this will the two Gover nors unless the political leadership keeps the Public focused on the need for lon term in Thorburgh we tried to Tell people this would be a decade of transition to a More diverse and future oriented Thornburgh was elected to his first term in and pointed out that he spent More than half that term on a choices for Pennsylvania involving a Cross Section of the states Pri vate leadership in the design of a Long term economic during that first like other was buffeted by severe soaring interest Sharp Cut backs in Federal Aid programs i the deep recession of Thornburgh barely survived his reelection race in he said that despite those once the lon term economic plan was it became the Polar Star for everything we and As he Heads into his final year As the changes in unemployment compensation and economic development programs Are beginning to produce visible evidence of economic even As the shutdowns and Lay offs continue in steel and other older in the important Thornburgh is to commit the institution involved to see there is no Quick fix solution for the that you cant satisfy the voters or the stockholders if youre a Pri vate company with a Quick neither Thornburgh nor Dukakis uttered a word of criticism of Ronald Rea in a what they Are doing Ful fills reagans wish for More state initiative and less dependence on Wash what a contrast Between their concept of leadership and that of a president who cannot see beyond his imprudent Campaign promises or manage to put the future c Washington Post writers group a hens spreading culture to the Countryside for All the passionate there is a soothing Calm and serenity around the gentle Hills covered with the tempered greens of Pine and Cypress speak of the Ages and of spirits Ever re the Noble ruins where men once gathered to spend their strength and rival purities in sport instead of War Are re minders that there Are creative ways to release the human demons and that civilization and the love of Beauty Are old and the villages look there is a lot of houses Are with electricity and water taken for granted Farmers have benefited enormously from High common Market prices and Greece has come a Long Way in the last 30 further perhaps than its Peoples attitudes and habits of thought have some Wise Heads confess that we Are still a bit still a bit Oriental in facing the Young people Are bored with the routine of Vil Lage resentful of the Powers senti ally the which they blame impulsively for their own Una vowed feel Ings of not yet having caught up with Western but they Are proud of what has been there is a reversal of the wide spread tradition of a conservative peas Antry and leftist tendencies in the it is in the Countryside that prime Andreas Papandreou socialist party has its greatest the Green Pasok party banners far outnumber the Blue of the even old crones Tell City now we have the we Are on the government has achieved this popularity in part by another reversal of preempting for the left the fervent Appeal to nationalism that had been a hallmark of the in its efforts to stir the Long inert Vil Lages and the new migrants to the Pasok has resorted to a degree of shrill assertion that could become a Handicap for the stable foreign policy Greece strategic geography there has been an impressive Effort to use the ancient cultural heritage As a Way of instilling new Energy and at a scarcely excavated archaeological site with a huge Amphitheater near there was a beautifully staged performance of euripides medea the other it was done in modern greek and thus accessible to most people in the area for the first introduction of the in translation in the High schools remains intensely it was done some years ago by the conservative government before Pasok took purists argue that it debates the heritage and leaves the new generation without a sturdy foundation in the roots and deepest meanings of their everyday evolved too far to make classical greek understandable to them without special but opening the Long past and the Cul Ture of the cities to the newly literate and the isolated is evidently an element in the mounting it is an interesting encounter of the arrogant idealism of intellectuals and the earthiness of the peas Antry that has practical political results for the greeks Are now admitted to the National museums free Only foreigners must troupes Are sent to Distant provinces where people have never seen a live performance of theater or a and the villages Are flattered at the Atten there is television of and the state monopoly makes sure that it serves the propaganda Pur poses of the but spreading the sense of history May be More import Greece is certainly a special it has the advantage of ancient ethnic glory to underpin its contemporary and foolish it provokes musing about modern about the danger of which the old greeks under stood to be a fatal affront of mortals who presumed to Challenge the Powers of a the idea of reviving Ordinary familiarity with the origins of Western civilization is the greeks like perhaps too but the notion of appeasing general despair with the Best of Art and culture is such an old human urge that it deserves so it has brought c new York times news service 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