European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday september 5, 1985 columns is a William Safire fall program lineup features a network of spies which to network will win top ratings this fall answer the one that comes up with the most far fetched spy thriller. Abc suffering from defections of older viewers and expert in father son husband wife detective teams will enter the lists Wilh father spies the warm human fast paced Story of a Typ ical american family of espionage agents. There will be a sitcom a comedy watched in the situation room revolving around inc adventures of an armed serv ices family that augments its pay by sell ing secrets for hard Cash. Here is private Enterprise in action without those ideological hangups of the Rosenbergs and other family spy series of a generation ago. Featured will be the studious father errant brother Madcap son and the Ding Bat to incr who turns them All in. Lbs. In its romantic tradition of dal Las and Knotts Landing believes that love and Money conquers All. Black Rock will soap up the evening schedule with infiltrating each other alternative title los Angeles about an Fri agent who Falls in love with a Beautiful Kab agent wife of another soviet operative the Kab husband putting duty before marital Fidelity urges his wife to seduce the Fri Man. Who in turn is willing to break a few rules of his own in Hopes of using this poor woman to infiltrate the Kab and thereby to become director Webster s agent of the month. Efrum Zimbalist or. Will not Star Abc appealing in High style to the tidy yuppies with heroes who never Luck in their shirts will get a Miami Vicc like grip on its new series set in Paris and Auckland be Dupar tement de Mauvais Tours originally titled four frogman William Buckley and a girl but frogman was rejected lest it be taken As a slur. The Central character of Mauvais Tours that s French for dirty tricks is capt. Dominique the woman who puts the provocation in agent provocateur. Clad in a Bikini and accompanied by four handsome rubber fetishists she is As signed to blow up redware the boat commandeered by crazed environmentalists on the Lam to new zealand. When the plot misfires Marine explosions Are always handled better by Abathe president of France appoints a Patriot to cover up our heroine s exploits. But Cool Dominique soon turns from Jeanne d arc to John Dean and brings Down he government. Pcs devoted to Low key non violent drama and adept at capturing the nuances of nagging nannies will present 13 weeks of Subtle tugging and hauling be tween the East and West German Intelli gence services. Schmeiler s Volkin is a leisurely examination of the motives of a Bonn counterspy chief upstairs and his typing Pool downstairs in the Federal office for the defense of the Constitution a nest of Weinbrand besotted debt Ridden euphemisms. Sch Eilcy world weary spy crat defects to the East burning 168 Allied agents and demonstrating to nato that West German intelligence remains a Security risk. The last Chancellor so embarrassed was forced to resign the current Chancellor hero of bit Burg desperately seeks to push the blame onto a rightist political rival. For viewers lost in the complexities of this espionage chess Alii Lair Cooke will explain everything. Home Box office brings Cable customer in from the cold with an original movie for television exploiting its need Lor foreign locations to enhance world wide sales. Hob s excuse my dust is set in the . Embassy in Moscow. Trusted clean Tai women secretly equipped with powder Pun supplied by the Kab. Dust All the Doorknob Ana bedpost with a carcinogenic yellow powder scented with suit cd Mot caught in the act by american Public diplomacy agents the russian cleaning women refuse to sign an environmental Impact statement and stick to their cover Story their yellow Kab follow me Der leaves Spaso House furniture looting lovelier longer than Lemon scented Pride As the viewer punches the Button on his Remote control dealer leaping from one ludicrously fictional espionage drama to the next he will wonder Why every program this season has a spy plot. Whit happened to the old sitcoms and shool pm the Only people who know Why spy plots Are so prevalent today Are those Waco get better to reception than an " although the president s foreign i gence advisory Board cannot find Why the new soviet embassy in Eufr in ton sits High atop Dobrynin i hid and its huge Antenna picks up every oat of those spy programs loud and dear along with All our Telephone Calls. While westerners vie for position to to. Come the network of spies the russians grab new Yorac t1mi the time has come to end instructions to South Africa somebody ought to Tell the White House i herewith Volunteer to Cut out the mini it by minute instructions we have taken to issuing to All and sundry in South Africa. We have got hooked on the Neces sity to instruct president . Botha on what to do and the temptation is now so Complete that we have taken to instructing opposition leaders in what to do. In mid week press spokesman Larry Speaks denounced Bishop Desmond Tutu for de Clining to meet alongside other Church leaders with president Botha. At the rate we arc travelling we will in due course find ourselves advising the South african cab inet on How to pursue a healthy diet or i supp Cne in the Case of that Cabinet How to pursue an unhealthy diet. And of course we get denounced in turn. Bishop Tutu proclaims that Ameri can policy has been in the High polemical temperature of current exchanges Between South Africa and North America disastrous is meant As some thing less than disastrous. It require a whole lot of historical revisionism to blame apartheid or its prolongation on or. Reagan who has always condemned apartheid but condemned also the notion that the Way to end it is to impose on South Africa economic measures we de Cline to impose on the soviet Union. And then of course we have the Rev. Jerry Falwell who announced from the bowels of South Africa that Bishop Tutu is a phony. A phony Bishop no a phony diagnostician. Why because says the Rev. Falwell the overwhelming majority of the Black people of South Africa Don t want disinvestment by foreign companies Ergo Bishop Tutu is a phony for calling for disinvestment in the name of Black africans. Now one can understand or. Fal Welps Point but it docs not survive hard intellectual scrutiny. Because even if it were so which it almost certainly is that disinvestment is opposed by Black africans who would suffer most directly from it it does not follow for that reason alone that we should oppose Dis investment. 1 personally pledge myself some years ago to be guided in these questions by the advice of Alan Paton because no one has come so close As he to depicting the tragedy of apartheid in such tones of transcendent biblical Beauty. This he Lias done in his epochal novels cry the beloved coun try and too late the he has been the literary spiritual Leader of the Anli Apa Roneid movement since its beginning and he counsels most earnestly against economic Boycott reasoning that the emancipation of Black South africans will come about Only with economic upward mobility. But the advice of or. Paton to one Side it is altogether possible to advise a course of action that is unpopular even with those who Are designed As its ultimate beneficiaries. There Are situations in which one might come out in favor of the draft even if the overwhelming majority of were opposed to the draft. We can carry that Forward it is frequently the obligation of the Prophet to counsel action opposed by the majority for their own Good. So that even if it is so again As i assume it is so that the Black majority Don t want Western disinvestment thai fact alone docs not make a phony out of Bishop Tutu. But we really should remind our Melvoi that there is something to be said for restraint in the matter of specifying exactly what other countries should do. It is oof thing to preach racial fraternity another exactly to stipulate the Agenda of racial reconciliation. On the same Day Asu Tutu Speakes Falwell exchanges the principal moderate Leader of the sikhs id India was murdered the response of Sikic bitter Enders to the Accord reached by the sikh Leader and prime minister Raji Gandhi nearly a month earlier. Will a now hear from or. Speaks and from Jesse Jackson and from Teddy Kennedy and from Mary Mcgrory How beat Gandhi should approach the problem of religious and ethnic separatism in India professor Ernest Van Den Haag of new York writes in the upcoming foreign affairs Magazine that recently an Iii Al Friend of his suggested that the United states designate a special envoy to Mote ate the differences Between Ulster and Dublin. His reaction was why7 How Are american interests involved that re action is not a Retreat into geopolitical to lation ism. It is the recognition of the limit of reasonable engagement. Great Britain did t Tell us exactly when to end Jim Crow exactly when to pass the civil right Bills. Our Agenda evolved from organic pressures that told us when and How to act. Such pressures work elsewhere in the world and we should restrain a tendency to prurient intervention. C Una Vernl Para
