European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 William Buckley getting a handle on the definition of peace activist Ark you i peace Well you that How do you define a peace activist for last week there were 29 peace activists in Nicaragua who what made them peace activists they said they were peace they said they were opposed to violence in Nicaragua in opposed to violence in Nicaragua they were very Concrete about they said they didst want Washington to Send any Money to be used by the contras in Nicaragua to cause More violence in the in against More violence even if it is violence committed by the what do you Call it when political dissenters arc put in jail or when they arc executed or tortured what do you Call it when you buy tanks and air planes and int that the contemplation of violence you do not if the contras were to leave and if the United states were to ignore then the situation there would Settle Down and there would be less but int that like saying there would have been less violence in trance after 1940 if the resistance haunt opposed Hitler you Are obviously missing the we were at War with but wars Are Arent they so How can you be in favor of a War against Hitler and still opposed to violence getting exasperated the 29 people who went Down to Nicaragua arc attempting to minimize violence by giving revolution a Chance in Nicaragua but giving revolution a Chance in Nicaragua Means acquiescing in totalitarian Rule is a peace activist a pacifist certainly there is no record that the 29 who were detained in Nicaragua by the contras Are Paci they Are peace and that is something very Why dont they Call me a peace activist thirty percent of All the taxes i pay go to support the Ameri can the american military is the deterrent Factor in the world today it is what keeps the what deters so Why int it Correct to say that the greatest peace activist in the world today is the Pentagon and that everyone who contributes to its which Means All americans who pay Are peace activists you Are playing semantic you can hardly Call an outfit that presides Over the deployment of 200 Mil lion limes the explosive Force of the Hiroshima bomb a Anthony Lewis peace i that really is Bend ing the language like that to make your Little debaters but wait a you Are the one who called those nicaraguan with their accompanying baggage of 18 peace i am saying that they Are no More entitled to that term than others who stand and but who Are serving up peace by contributing to the Cost of deterring in i think ill go a Little further and say that if i were writing a dictionary right i think i would define the term roughly As follows peace derives from peace Confer dating Back to the world Congress of partisans of peace in 1950 in successive peace councils have always been organized by a term used to designate an opponent of counter soviet a per son who associates himself with any movement designed to diminish relatively the strength of the West the soviet a citizen who regularly opposes military expend and activity abroad designed to weaken communist or left dominated that is sheer i am no More a comm than Mahatma Gandhi was a Mccarthy got a lot of things but he distinguished Between the communist and the fellow the former knows what he is the latter As for he was an acknowledged but he was also an activist for the Independence of the con tras Are activists for the Independence of Nicaragua is not now Independent it relies totally on and Cuba relies totally on the soviet Are you telling me that when you read a reference to a peace activist from now on you Are going to con clude you Are Reading about a fellow traveler but i will assume i am Reading about a fellow traveler until convinced that the peace activist spends at least half his time arguing for the demilitarization of places like Nicaragua and the soviet i give you Are a peace c 1985 Universal press Syndicate efforts Are extensive to reshape chivas Economy imagine a bicycle manufacturer who finds he has to pay sharply different prices to get the steel he needs from to a ton for the same steel now you have an idea of some of the strains chivas Economy is undergoing As it moves toward a Market bicycles Are necessities in and so the National planning system requires that every bicycle Enterprise make a certain number at a fixed the manufacturers get steel at a fixed too about a but the bicycle manufacturers who meet their official quotas Are encouraged to go on and make they can sell those bicycles at free Market but they also have to buy steel at higher Market they obtain it at 600 productive materials markets around the country where Industrial goods Are or they can barter bicycles for complicated a chinese economist who advises the government on its economic Reform programs uses the word chaos in talking about the Price another song tingling of the state com Mission for restructuring of the economic said the aim is eventually to end the two Price Well reduce the Supply of fixed Price materials bit by year by he and enlarge Reliance on the one reason for phasing out the system of fixed prices for Basic necessities is that it relies on state subs which Are extremely every kilogram of cooking Oil sold at the fixed Price costs the government about 60 subsidies for Staple foods add up to billion a no Staple food prices were released in song said the intention was to free Staples such As in but he emphasized that need for we have to let people get used to the idea of prices Chang he we cannot run fast at moving Industrial prices toward a Market basis which is just beginning is especially Tricky because of the local interests Industrial enterprises May be set up in China not Only by the National govern ment but by provinces and with each fixing its own production targets and the City of Ying Kou for set up a factory that makes Wash ing machines a year with knowhow from a japanese abandoning All rigidity and going to a Market system would be in the Short run at because materials Are in such Short Supply that prices would China has Sellers markets in just about every steel is so and hence so costly on the free that the local producers mocked As backyard steel Mills in the great leap Forward 30 years ago have apart from another fundamental dilemma of the economic Reform process is the question of in a competitive system the inefficient Are sup posed to but is that notion acceptable in China failure is the Core of the the economic adviser i met if we dont allow the nation or locality has to subsidize the bicycles indicate the problem China has three bicycle companies whose brands Are valued and Are in Short Supply while others Are in  the latter manufacturers be allowed to fail but in the Peoples Republic of China the Enterprise the unit is the Basic social it provides health care to its and if it is Al Lowed to where will the safety net come from the economic reformers Are talking about a National scheme of social perhaps handled by an Independent financial listening to the one has to forget All past notions of what a socialist system May song re marked that individual Bank savings have reached nearly and there were plans to put that Money to work in solving the housing families would be Able to put their savings Down for private Commer Cial the changes to make chivas Economy responsive to Market principles Are staggering to a whole new system of business taxation has officials say there will have to be bankruptcy tax collectors ones head the complications All present a Chance for sceptics and conservative opponents of Reform to fight the pro Cess As it goes no outsider can accurately weigh the chances of its going but the undoubted successes so far the Sharp gains in agricultural production and in the variety of retail goods available give a certain momentum As the formidable task of reshaping a Back Ward Industrial Economy c new York times news service