European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns Mary Mcgrory reagans rejection of test ban raises questions Mikhail Gorbachev announcement that the soviets will suspend All nuclear testing for five months and continue the moratorium thereafter if the United states were to join in was treated by the Reagan administration like something Between a social error and an act of the White House responded with Swift and effective it said a test ban was out of the the soviets were totally out of they were engaging in a propaganda seeking to divert attention from their multiple human rights Embarrass ments in they were mounting a sneak attack on Star although it is advertised As requires nuclear testing of one of its com the xray an insulting invitation for the soviets to come in Stead to Nevada with their instruments to witness a nuclear test was it was a of of emphasizing our chronic displeasure with verification which the Reagan administration avers per Mit continual soviet violations of existing the administration officials have conducted a veritable orgy of testing being caught can rest for five months and make fools of us if we Are naive enough to go when Robert the presidents achingly Earnest National Security was asked on night line Why the president Lias rejected the proposal out of he responded because the president wants to get serious about arms another White House operative put the politics of it More baldly it had to be stamped out so people begin hoping it might Mcfarland said sternly that the soviets had entered into a moratorium in i95s and broke out of it when it suited their he had prompted president John Kennedy to turn against a inspected there those who thought that Gorba Chev had made an entirely appropriate gesture to observe the 40th anniversary of the first bomb dropped on a civilian in a few made wanly hopeful on minute speeches on the the demo who arc desperately searching for a distinguishing have been scared off arms control As a party in the frantic or recess they were engaged William Buckley in a bitter struggle to undo the treachery of the House conferees who had added billion to the defense Bud the usual suspects from the peace movement were rounded up for a press conference on Capitol Hill Edward Patricia Berkley Iowa Edward d and representatives of physicians for social re the Center for defense information and the nuclear they noted How easy it is to get a test ban if the political will is president Kennedy in a speech at american University on june that the United states would unilaterally suspend nuclear testing in the less than two months the limited test ban treaty was nary a word about this modest show of support for the Gorbachev test ban has appeared on the evening news or in some Western ambassadors expressed Surprise at the brusque reception Given the what do you have to lose one of them from Europe where most of the continent is out of the peace movement is burned and leaders Are mane vering for places at the Star wars trough came a great Les an obdurate says he cant understand if we think the soviets Are bluffing we dont just Call them on to Paul Jimmy Carters arms control Nego it is quite this administration does not want a test it is not interested in arms Gorbachev initiative seems to have sunk like a Stone to the Bottom of a but Here and there within the even among the indignant there is a Ripple of the Appeal of a test however manhandled by Ronald could have considerable Appeal in new Japan and even West if the soviets Hammer away at the idea at the upcoming nuclear nonproliferation treaty the sum and in it could be come people May come to think that it was not just the thing for Reagan to reply to an invitation to a Dove with a bid but happiest ab00tthe Srap Chiwu to breakfast in the desert with not even the soviets can make a nuclear test ban an inherently bad a moratorium could slow Down the arms since first strike weapons that cannot be tested might never be and that could save two countries a great Deal of Money and the world no end of c Universal press Syndicate traitors should pay Tor the crime with their lives a few years ago 1 was asked if i would publicly debate before a Southern legis Laizure a prominent american who has devoted much of his time to the cause of abolition of capital it was to be a very big televised affair designed to move the politicians of that who were divided on the one Way or the i i did so because there Are causes one defends which causes nevertheless leave one uncomfortable in the role of in recent months i have gradually inclined to the position that we cannot Suc unless we give up Liberal democratic in eliminating Street and that therefore we Are probably better off licensing the drugs and mounting huge campaigns against their the result has once invitations to advocate on Public Media the legalization of drugs which invitations again i have de it is one thing to make the Case for a particular another to identify oneself As an activist in such a if memory there is a Law some where in the Dusty archives of the Connecticut code dating Back to the 17th Cen Tury that specifies hanging for the crime of i would not spend a major part of my Public hours arguing for the repeal of that but i think that us regards capital punishment i would leave my and argue advocate capital punishment for i have in mind that passel of dirty human beings who Are being tried for turning Over to the soviet Union the keys to american of course they should have a fair but if they Are found guilty As they should be this is said Only in part in reaction to the magnitude of their the recommendation issues also out of considerations of imprisoned traitors Are at the very least attractive nuisances at the cause of terrorism and kid Israel has several times debated the dilemma the israeli Constitution for bids capital punishment except for Adolph and so innocent peo ple die As a result of the efforts of others to pry Loose guilty and there is the further Point spies and terrorists tend to live Long lives in the 20th Century because amnesties Are in As often As not in the volatile govern ments of the third this months traitor is next months Lloyds of London probably has especially cheap life insurance rates for bolivian political plot but one returns to the crime every society should hold some things terminally and such a thing is treason it is less than healthy that there is really less than what one would think of As wholesome indignation against this new slate of in England a dozen years ago the daily Telegraph gave to lord Birkenhead to review the autobiography of Kim the British traitor who gleefully consigned to death any number of British and wrote now blithely about what he had who in his youth was arguably Britain greatest and wit Tiest concluded his review we shall never know How Many agents were killed or tortured As a result of Philby work As a double and How Many operations he is now Safe in and we aban Don any Wistful dream of seeing this Little Carrion and Birkenhead finished with an observation that haunts us for its applicability to modern one also the feeling that if Philby were to reappear in he would go Over to Oxford or somewhere to lecture on the transcendental cause he and be instantly acclaimed As a Prophet of the new and the no doubt about the traitor Alger Hiss writes a solemn indictment of the excesses of Reagan ism in the letters column of harpers Flag burning so popular during the Vietnam Are by no Means there is More Felt indignation in America Over apartheid than Over treason in the let alone excesses in one has the feeling that in executing Ethel and Julius the United states used up its entire Reservoir of capital in and and yet what would be the response if a Call came in to Congress to execute american traitors we have such a applying Only to the theft of atomic there Are few if any atomic secrets the soviet Union does not what is secret is just How we plan to frustrate their designs against our lib these Are the secrets Worth both dying for and killing c Universal press Syndicate
