European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday september a 1985  Carl Rowan . Should Tell nato to shape up or forget it in the midst of the second Dix mating spy reve lation of this generation in a vim Germany nut to men Tion i be Frog Binning Walker spy Case in this country i want to a trn americans that soviet espionage agents could be trapping us Down the Road to our destruction. It is not just that we suffer the disadvantages of being an open democratic society in which soviet agents move about with impunity bribing scaling blackmailing seducing key americans into handing Over to Moscow critical bits of information. Whether he meant it or not. President Reagan talked of sharing with the soviets whatever we learn from our Star wars research. The grim reality is that the soviets need no Gilt from Reagan. Whatever we learn in trying to fashion a strategic defense initiative will be known by the russians within hours of our discovery especially if we Transfer this critical new information to . Allies in great Britain and West Germany. The evidence is overwhelming that to give life involving information to either Britain or West Ger Many is to Compromise the freedoms even the lives of millions of americans who have committed themselves to hgr Iling the communists. Which is to say that the United states May want to reconsider a policy of relying so heavily because of common racial heritage on european allies in nato and other arrangements la guarantee the Security of the Western world. America used to rest almost unquestioningly on a number of alliances conceived by John Foster Dulles. There was Seato the Southeast asian treaty organization involving the Philippines Pakistan and others James Kilpatrick . The Central asian treaty organic lion. Embracing Iran. Pakistan Turkey and others anus i defensive arrangement Between Australia. New zealand and the United states and then nato the Linchpin of the Western world s plan to a i cd the expansion of communism into Europe. Asia Africa and. Most of All the United states. Now Seato is dead like Cento. With new Zea land barring . Ships carrying nuclear weapons and the . Assailing that tiny Pacific nation anus is Little More than a laugh to the soviets. But nato americans in both democratic and Republican administrations refuse to believe that it is moribund at Best and a soviet manipulated instrument at worst. . Officials Here look askance at journalists or others who ask Why. 40 years after the end of world War ii he United states must have 185 bases and 249,753 troops in West Germany 18 military bases and 28,964 . Military men in great Britain nine bases and 14,653 soldiers in Italy. They Don i want you to know that for four decades the United states has Given Western europeans such a Crutch that they Don t much give a Damn about building up their own defences or setting up their own reasonably impenetrable Security systems. Britain with its scandals involving Kim Philby Don Ald Maclean Guy Burgess and others has been a sort of direct conduit from . Military and intelligence Agen cies to the Kremlin. There a a claims that a former head of Britain s most sensitive intelligence Agency was a so Viet mole for 30 years and May have been the most damaging spy in the history of the Western world. And West Germany in 1974 Chancellor Willy p u Brandt was forced to resign of Hon a top aide Gunter Ciui Laume was exposed As an East German agent. Now the government of Helmut Kohl is divas cd by reve lations that Hans Joachim tic dec the Man in charge of tracking East German and other soviet bloc spies the Man who trapped Guillaumo has himself defected to East Germany probably putting in great peril the lives of Many intelligence agents from the ., West Ger Many Ami other Western countries. Nato cannot be Worth a Damn when this kind of to communist treason occurs in West Germany the United kingdom and other nato countries. What is nato really Worth when no meaningful secret can be transmitted to governments that include devout communists. Or leftist dissenters including Spain the nether lands France Italy Greece Portugal and More the . Has a colossal disadvantage in having to treat suspect european governments As equals sharing with them grave secrets while the soviets treat Poland Czechoslovakia and other Eastern bloc countries As slaves telling them nothing that the Kremlin is reluctant to reveal. I say that it is time for the  to say to Western Europe we re closing our bases bringing our in. No Home leaving you to decide whether you really wan a collective deterrent to soviet aggression. We arc leaving you to decide what you Are willing to  and How hard you want to work to maintain Alliance saving  the sooner . Officials get the guts to take such a stance the sooner we will put some clamps on soviet spies. C Newt America Syndicate teen Bible study group runs afoul of school Board a Little More than a year ago Congress passed the equal Access act. The act said in Brief that in a High school benefiting from Public funds student religious groups must be Given the same Access to Schtoil facilities that is Given other groups. Thai equitable proposition horrified the american civil liberties Union. Through out the land Chicken Littles of the Liberal left cried thai the sky was falling. Horrid visions were raised our High schools would be overrun with swamis gurus Bell ringers and sawdust my Siahs. The cultists would take Over and before the school Day began our children would be handling rattlesnakes or sipping Kool Aid cocktails. A calamitous future Lay ahead. Well it has t worked out that Way at All but the delicate problem of student religious groups has led to a court Case that merits our attention. The Case is Bender v. Williams port area school District. It will be argued before the . Supreme court on oct. 15. The facts Are not in dispute. The Williamsport area High school a few Miles North of Harrisburg pa., houses 2,500 students on 147-Acrc Cam pus. The school Day begins at 7 45 with a 12-Minutc homeroom period. On tues Days and thursdays before actual classes begin the homeroom period is followed by a 30-minute period for voluntary extracurricular student activities. Two years ago this was before the equal Access act was passed45 students formed dub called  their purpose was to discuss the Bible and to Pray. They agreed not to Public a their meetings through the school s bulletin boards or student newspaper. Principal Wayne Newton authorized an initial meeting of the group but the District superintendent and the school Board then sought the advice of counsel. When it appeared that to tolerate the meetings of pc Ros might be to support an establishment of Reli Gion further meetings were prohibited. The students went to court. In the District court they won a right to hold their meet Ings. On Appeal by a member of the school Board they lost that right. Now the Case will 1 of t at to Nek of Kab Ems mnn6, be decided by the supreme court. In my own View for whatever it May be Worth of course these students should be allowed to meet. In 1981, in a Case involving the Kansas City Campus of he University of Missouri the High court held that the Stu Dent religious groups should be accorded the same rights accorded to other student groups. The pending Williamsport Case involves High school students not College Stu dents. That is the Only material difference and it seems immaterial to me. Twenty five other student groups arc meeting during the pc school period. Williamsport High school is hospitable to a speech club a drama club a Spanish club a literary club. It tolerates future Home makers and students of business English. It has provided classrooms for an Archery club an aviation club a chess club and a Bird watching society. In the name of the founding fathers How can it make a constitutional difference if a voluntary student group is talking about Birds or bibles government is supposed to be Content Neutral in these matters. The Basic principle of a free society lies in the accommodation of diversity. In this Case there is no Clement of compulsion there is no peer pressure. Under school policy a faculty member sits in on the meeting of every Stu Dent group but Only to Check attendance and Tif Fijor la to preserve order. To contend that Pennsyl Vania is fostering an establishment of Reli Gion by treating the members of Petros in the same Way that chess players and Bird watchers Are treated is absurd. One suggestion is that Petros meet somewhere Csc but the nearest House is a mile away and the period is Only 30 minutes Long. By offering not to seek the routine publicity accorded other student groups these students have Bent Over backward to avoid any entangle ment of Church and slate. Their plea is to be treated As others arc treated. K Universal Prell Syndicate