European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 27, 1985 columns & comments James Reston Uncle Sam gets some advice from the children in . , the Quieti hideaways around Washington lie along inc  of the i Tlumac. And always when he is the itch. Uncle Sam drops Down from his heavenly abode o ask How things arc going. This week the old gentleman drifted Down Over the Blue Ridge with his whiskers and red White and Blue tails Hying and landed on the Lawn of Donald Regan s House near Jen. Washington s old spread at mount Vernon. There he was met by leaders of the Cabinet the con press and their children. Is it True asked the visitor that you arc having some Money problem the while House chief of staff said that was no longer his department and turned the question Over to Jim Baker the Secretary of the Treasury who gave him a dirty look. Inflation was Down Baker said interest rates were Down unemployment was Down there were eight Mil lion new jobs in America since president Reagan took Over. The United slates is doing Beiler than All the Western european countries together. Uncle Sam that s not saying much. How about the budget and the Trade deficit Baker not so Good but that s the fault of the democrats in Congress. Sam Well get to the faults later. What about that Rostenkowski Rosty they blame us democrats for everything including the earthquakes in Mexico. If we had our Way and their Means we would t be in this mess. At this Point there was a cry from a child on the Edge of the chief of staffs Lawn. Go out and play Laid Regan quietly. Grandpa insisted the child. Get lost said grandpa not so gently. Uncle Sam if 1 could have just the facts or. Secretary. Baker the budget deficit this year will be about si80 billion give or tale a few. As i figure it we will buy about is 50 billion More abroad than we take in at Home which of course is the fault of the unions and the democrats. Uncle Sam 1$ it True that we now borrow More abroad than we lend abroad and that the United states is now the no. I Borrower in the world Baker no sir Brazil is still ahead of us but if the Congress will raise the debt ceiling to 52 trillion this month Well soon be no. 1. Grandpa grandpa came a shout. Uncle Sam let the child speak. The child came Forward in the Sunshine and said maybe i should t have been listening but i just thought if you could t agree to Cut the budget or raise taxes Why not just pass the hat go out and play said grandpa. Go out and play yourself said Uncle Sam. Let the child go  Well i was just thinking that since the country was Good to us in trouble we should be Good to it in trouble the child said. Baker maybe the kid s on to something. That s what we do at our school the child continued. At the end of the year everybody just iries o help out. Grandpa does it at his  acc said grandpa that s what we do at our coun try club too. We just dewy up the debt voluntarily. No taxes on members no debts just sort of working together to Deal with the problem. I Musl Tell the president about this. He d like this spirit of free  Uncle Sam by the Way where is the president grandpa he s out to lunch with Cappy who thinks he s Churchill and is explaining How to organize outer space. Uncle Sam i want to talk to the children. These old geezers have lost their Way. So saying or. Whiskers took the children Down to the end of the Lawn where they looked quietly Over the Potomac and he pointed out to them Gen. Washington s place and told them to keep going on this idea that the people should save the government rather than the other Way around. And it came to pass Hal inc children got together and created a vast Rescue operation under the direction of Uncle Sam and with the support of the chief of staff in the White House the Secretary of the Treasury and the chairman of the ways and Means committee Dan Rostenkowski. They called it operation 1989" and vowed that on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution they would not Only balance the budget but prove that grandpa was wrong and have fun. How did you do it asked grandpa. We just looked at Uncle Sam the child said. Such a Nice old Geezer. We did t want him to think we d let him  moral of the fable if you Don t know what to write about on sunday write about the children. New York times news service William Safire it s time to get Tough on soviet spying activities in the new soviet embassy compound atop the District of Columbia s mount Alto 350 feet above sea level laser beam listening devices Are now being in lulled by soviet technicians. They have a Clear line of sight to the White House and the Capitol. Aimed at windowpanes the Lupe bugs will be Able to pick up conversations in All the rooms with North facing windows. During the Nixon administration our Nalio N.J.Security Agency so secret that its initials were said to stand for no such Agency joined with the Cia and the Fri in objecting in writing to the assignment of mount Alto to the rus sians. Somebody nobody will now say who overrode those objections. As a result the russians have a huge advantage in electronic espionage. Washington is beginning to get the feel ing Long held by new yorkers surveyed from a Tower in Riverdale 70 percent of All local Telephone conversations in the capital will be wide open to mount Alto s big ear. What arc we doing about it Reagan has signed a National Security decision directive ordering millions of secure phones with underground line at huge expense for government officials and defense contractors. That costly scrambling will be quickly Over come moreover the vast majority of private Calls in our capital including those that make the russians such wizards in commod Ity trading would go completely undefended in a country whose citizens Are supposedly to be protected from unreasonable  the Way to Stop this rape of our privacy is to inform the soviet Union that such espionage is against our Law and to make them Stop it. A no say some of our spooks. You see we do the same thing Over there albeit from a much less advantageous spot. If we close Down their listening they la close Down ours since theirs is a closed society we learn a lot More about them than they do about us. I wonder about that conventional wis Dom. Years ago when we were secretly bugging their limousine transmissions we knew which marshal was seeing which Prima Ballerina causing much cackling at Langley. But that Edge is gone both sides know of the other s surveillance has any team been assigned to ask if we arc really getting More relevant data than we Are losing is the demeaning Trade Nec Essary sen. Daniel v. Moynihan d-n.y., has put Forward the foreign surveillance Protection act to slam the door but it is opposed by the administration. That is not the Only attempt to Stop known rus Sian spying that Reagan resists. In the . Embassy in Moscow Over 200 rus Sian nationals make the Beds serve the food and spy. Not one american works for the soviet embassy in Washington the american ambassador in Moscow knows his Driver is a Kab colonel. Last March we Learned probably from the brits who had a Good Kab source that the typewriters in our mos cow embassy were transmitting every thing written to the White House directly to the Kremlin. Of course russians in Side our embassy serviced these machines. And the carcinogenic spy dust found throughout the embassy was spread by soviet nationals to facilitate surveillance. Rep. Jim courier r-n.j., offers a Bill requiring replacement of All soviet Citi Zens by americans in our Moscow embassy within a year. The state department response How about half that would mean Only the Best Kab personnel would continue to make the Beds. Under con Gressional pressure state says the Central . Facility there will be free of rus sians but that the compound will have Drivers and others who arc not Ameri cans. Why state is fearful that the americans will be seduced and turned into spies that they won t be As effective in getting people on the phone that they May get in trouble or accidents. Apparently it would rather have full time Kab agents on the premises than . Citizens because get this such close Contact keeps our diplomats Security conscious and enables them to Send messages by talking to the chandeliers. State also moans about How hard it is to get Drivers and Domestic servants to work Over there but that s Malar key let the department advertise. The russians arc regularly penetrating our Moscow embassy and increasingly penetrating our Telephone and office conversations in Washington and this presumably hard line administration is doing nothing about it. If William Casey and George Shultz have gone so soft on secrets our secrets the time is overdue for rigorous congressional oversight. C new York times Newt service