European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns comments William Safire Ira Iraq War could cause confrontation its still pretty Smoky Down says a examining satellite pictures of Iran Island Oil hit recently by iraqi a of smoke hangs Over that whole because neither dictatorship permits news the bloodiest conflict of our time is off the scope of our Battle deaths Are now estimated at 1 not yet the total of 15 million military deaths on All sides in world War but but tis twill thanks to Minachem begins nonproliferation it is not a nuclear War with millions of civilian a Quick situation or Iran is suffering but can win a War of which started the can not Settle it Short of because the Ayatollah is determined to win no matter How Many 12yearold boys lives he must because Iran cannot launch a successful invasion in the it has begun to move in the enlisting the Aid of oppressed iraqi kurd in Iraq has targeted Iran Oil shipping Cen Ter at Harg hoping to Cut Clown the 2million Barr Clady Oil shipments from there that arc financing its opponents if this is even partially As the smokiness Down there the Ayatollah will strike at the Arab worlds support of his Arab Saddam Hussein of the Ayatollah has at least three he can 1 use the iranian pilgrims now in saudi Arabia during the Hajj religious season to tear up the Host country 2 attack pipelines and tankers carrying Oil from Bahrain or anywhere in the Arab world 3 avenge Harg by attacking the saudi Oil Export facility at Ras using scud missiles or suicide what does All this have to do with us the concern of most in the absence of the horror of this War on the television is on the Price of gasoline at the if this escalation Oil prices will Stop declining for a adding to perhaps if s n m j my Hal i see Wendt Mere in the Refl the opening leading to a reduction of Arab financing of the leading to higher interest if the proposed Oil import fee were in stimulating Domestic production and persian Gulf stoppages would be less of a on the americans react to the Iran Iraq War As the dying mercutio did toward the Squab bling montages and caplets a plague o both your houses Iraq Leader is an aggressive and Iran Leader has been the source of grief to the for that unconcern is a a strategic Challenge May be in the and we should prepare for assume the War goes in where male children Are a family Only Security in old resistance is sure to Rise to the continued conscription of youths for providing a counterweight to Faas of most of the organized resistance to Khomeini inside Iran is strongly if iranian Antiwar sentiment or if Khomeini the temptation to the soviet Union cannot be in the czarist dream of a War water port is still cherished by the and an uprising in Iran would offer Gorbachev the Chance to make that ancient russian dream come the port is on the persian leading to the Indian it is As desirable to the russians As Danzig was to the in time of the red army could move Down from its troubled base in or Roll its tanks from the soviet Union through the part of Iran known As we can Hope that the has a contingency plan ready to meet a conventional russian military move Down through it would be Good to hear a reminder that we would interpret a soviet attempt to take advantage of unrest in Iran with a territorial grab As a threat to our ally the More Subtle for which we Are far less is for the soviet Union to arrange for a separatist movement of the Baluchi another ethnic like the ready to Swallow promises of comes the and the Baluchi set up in Cha Bahar and invite their russian sponsors Are we ready to sponsor a Force inside or outside Iran to Stop them hello anybody there in the Situa Tion room from Mere megadeath big conflagrations can to Avert we should make certain that the other big bystander knows what we Are prepared to c new York times news service David Broder Good not May get votes Idaho Here in the where the nations governors met earlier this the democrats chances of starting a 1986 comeback from the Reagan landslide of 1984 have precious Little to do with the debates about party philosophy and direction that preoccupy the Salon strategists in even in the Media the politics of personality still predominate in these lightly populated and in that Arena the democrats can still Idaho is an Reagan won almost three fourths of the vote Here in but democrats Are Given at least an even Chance of winning both the Gover Norship and a Senate seat next the reason has nothing to do with the states swing ing left or the democrats moving it is purely and simply the candidates the democrats can John Evans stepping Down after two terms to Challenge Steve Symms and former Cecil Andrus who is attempting to regain his old Are both old shoe Fig ures that even partisan republicans find it hard to an Apple grower who first came to Congress As a conservative beat the late Frank Church Idaho in 1980 on reagans Hes been As conservative As but the chatter among some Idaho politicians is that he has caught Potomac fever the same thing for which he faulted foreign relations committee chairman Church in their Andrus might be thought to be More vulnerable to that since he left the governorship in 1977 to become Secretary of Interior under Jimmy but Andrus preempted the criticism by coming Home and making it Clear that he and his wife would much rather live in Boise As governor and first lady again than to run against Symms and go Back to Washington social scene As a Senate two of Andruss old Cabinet mates Are eyeing 1986 races in neighbouring Washington and and Are taken once just As sex Brock Adams of Seattle is taking polls on his chances against Slade Gorton former Portland mayor Neil Goldschmidt has announced for governor of where Norma who was Oregon Secretary of is the Republican Choice to succeed two term Victor Atiyeh Adams quit Congress to become Carters Secretary of and Goldschmidt succeeded Adams in that the Carter Cabinet credential carries less than their personal Appeal As Candi perhaps the most vivid demonstration at the governors meeting of the dominance of personality Over policy is Nebraska Robert Kerrey a charismatic Vietnam War vet who dates actress Debra is a Strong favorite for reelection in 1986 and is regularly described As a rising Star of the National his Glamor won him appointment by democratic National chairman Paul Kirk As one of four Vic chair men of the party new policy headed by former Utah Scott but talk to Kerrey and you quickly find that he is to put it politely sceptical about the party whole image making exer Ive told Paul and Scott they have raised expectations much too Kerrey i dont have the capacity to sit Down with the mayor of Scranton and a councilwoman from Little Rock two fellow commissioners and write National farm that pre he i dont know if we need to change our image or our message at if people think the democrats will do a better Job of protecting their support if they they at Kerrey made his own popularity is based not on people agreeing with his policies but respecting his sincerity and political a major tax Reform aimed at ending exemptions in the sales tax and using the Money to reduce property was clobbered in the legislature by opposition from Farmers and just about everybody but he intends to Campaign on it again next Kerrey rejects All of the popular nostrums for curing the democrats although he supported Gary Hart for the presidential Nomi nation last he Doest want to remodel the democrats to fit Yuppie if All we talk about is growth in the new democratic he were encouraging some pretty unhealthy things the idea that people can enjoy consuming before they have produced something of although he concedes that a populist keyed to Farmers could carry that approach too is beating up on the Bankers and big shots is he but weve got some very generous Rich people who invest in productive things and have a real vision of the future of our so what do the democrats do in states from Nebraska the answer in 1986 is Likely to be forget the philosophy and rely on the c 1985 Washington Post writers group
