European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday october 1, 19b5 columns Ellen Goodman some lyrics Are hardly music to our children s ears to Ikra is something familiar about inc scene. A Public conflict by in can concerned mothers in silk and outrageous Rock stars in skin. A people Magazine cover Wilh a shop worn head line has Rock gone too far a meeting Wilh broadcasters one week a congressional hearing another week fur rowed brows lips that Roll the words sen violence. Rock v Roll into one. Haven t we been Here before How Many times before which Side were we on before surely the Golden oldies among us Tiller Over memories of the movement to restore decency the mid night record burners the prudes who Only televised Elvis from the Waist up. They As Elvis said arc just frustrated old types  and we were inclined to agree. Rock was born and bred to be anti establishment and despite the news that Ringo Starr has become a Grandfather yesterday s Rocker is Loach to become today s establishment. But even the most terminally tolerant of Rock fans knows that something has happened since the Days of the old hound dog. The outrageous  of Rock v Roll has shifted its focus from Elvis Pelvis to the saw protruding from Blackie Lawless codpiece on a . Album. Rock lyrics have turned from i can t get no satisfaction to i m going to Force you at gunpoint to eat  the veritable Prince of Rock is now writing ballads to his sister incest is everything they said it would be and Motley Crue has become the Bard of rape ill either break her face or take Down her legs. You do not have to be a frustrated old Type to Hope that your children Don t go around the House humming the words to  it s this heavy Metal message that is forcing an older generation of fans to become critics. One of them tip William Buckley 1b.sbwior.nn hweis6kxfkswecftuebwreostujst per Gore 36, wife of sen. Al Gore d-tcnn., Mother of four and a Phil Collins fan is one of those who said  she and Susan Baker wife of Treasury Secretary Jim Baker and two others formed something called the parents music resource Center. They have had As much publicity lately As Madonna. The women of the Pyrc have been attacked with such lethal epithets As Washington wives ladies and gasp housewives As if they were swinging pocketbooks at the Heads of Rock stars. Indeed some in the Industry portray the wives and their allies in the Pat As right Wing censors out to limit the free speech of the whole Motley Crew. Frankly. I think it would be Lovely if All the Bro id casters producers and musicians had the restraint to limit the amount of mayhem that went out Over the airwaves. You cannot direct adult songs specifically into i5-and-Ovcr eardrums. The lyrics Drift like cigarette smoke polluting everyone within Range doing inc worse to the youngest. But the goal of this group is really quite modest. They arc not trying to Cen Sor the . Ban the twisted Sisters or inflict pain and suffering on the Tor Ture Rock crowd. Their primary aim ii o get a Label on the Rock music records o win a consumer Victory for parents. They would also like to Brown bag the worst of the porn covers and to get the raunchiest lyrics out front so the buyer could be Ware. Pyrc has not been without effect. This summer the record Industry agreed to a mild pm rating providing that each company rate its own artists. But pm sounds a bit too much like of. The Pyrc would like a single Industry wide Standard and an r. The Pat for its part would like More specific ratings. I have reservations about ratings though not the same ones the record Corn panics have. The movie experience if mined at Best. Under the cover of an a the amount of violence has actually increased. The ratings Are often arbitrary four Tetter words arc More of a no no than Chain saw murder Sand there is nothing like a dirty Rumor to boost sales. But ratings Are a better guide  hat parents had before nothing ratings Are nothing More or less than a modest Way of reintroducing something called standards. It is a Way the collective Community of adults can say we  we disapprove of violence we disapprove of sexual exploitation. We do not want our prot cons to watch the . Smashing the head of a woman in chains. Does that make us the establishment docs that mean our kids will rebel frankly it does t really matter. What docs matter is that we let our children know what we think. C Boilon Globe Washington Post . Star wars research testing must proceed it is the eve of the showdown in Geneva and the talk continues to revolve around a so called Basic bargain that is strikingly unsatisfactory to the West and even mor. So to the United states. Recently. Henry Kissinger Analysed the Basic bargain and its weaknesses. The strength and focus of his mind were never clearer and it is Worth committing to memory the thrust of that analysis. What is it that would be hailed As a great Victory for disarmament in Geneva a reduction of 10 percent in our nuclear weapons Twenty fifty but not even a reduction of 75 percent which is not going to happen would meaningfully alter he existing invitation to disaster for the simple reason that a single launcher with the Advent of Mir technology can carry up to 15 deadly weapons and land them with utter precision. This boils Down to the need to survive a first strike capability As Long As the soviet Union has such u capability there cannot be Security. Now the Basic bargain toward which the soviet Union is once Tibig us culls for the reduction of launchers by 25 percent meaningless Okinu continued re search repeat research on Star wars but without testing meaningless and a reaffirmation of the abm treaty fatal. Under the abm treaty the United states already has the right to do research it is doing so As is the soviet Union. Moreover under the treaty the United states already has the right to test within Earth space which we have been doing As also the soviet Union. What the abm treaty deprives us of is the right to test in space. And this we need to do in order to pull Star wars out of the Laboratory. In the absence of & genuine neutralization of the first strike capability of the soviet Union we have no intelligent recourse than to develop our defensive capability. And that cals either for modification of the abm treaty or for its cancellation. Bear it always in mind that in 1972, when the abm treaty was signed explicit statements were made that after five years the treaty could be refined or jettisoned if we had not during that period moved successfully toward genuine disarmament which we have not done. Now the strategy of the soviet Union showcased by Gorbachev s mad Man Muntz salesmanship for the Benefit of Western journalists mad Man Muntz is giving away everything in his shop for practically nothing Muntz is mad but you arc the winners to mount Mas Sive pressure on he United states to sur Render on the one Point the soviet Union cares about namely our refined technology in the development of a defensive capability. Eliminate the soviet Union s first strike potential and you have eliminated for the first time since that Poten tial was arrived at enticements to nuclear War or nuclear blackmail. Kissinger proposes that we move for a ban on mired missiles stretching Over 10 years and aiming at 100 launchers each. And that during that period we go full steam ahead on the development of our strategic defense initiative so that As we build Down the mis Siles we build up our defensive capability. Deployment should be limited to the de sense of our abm nucleus plus the de sense of population centers Here Kissin Ger makes the sensible Point that both we and the soviet Union stand to gain Security from the almost certain acquisition of limited but devastating nuclear weapons by third world Powers. Such Powers fancy e.g., Libya under khad Afy ate much likelier than the major Powers to use even a Small inventory of nuclear weapons in a grand . Major Powers have All but committed Sui cide in the past but there is an organic reluctance to do so. And the Small Power whose nuclear weapons arc governed by fanatical impulses Are no easily deterred by threats of retaliation. They arc Best coped with by developing a technology hat intercepts their missiles before they land and kill a few million people. The pressures on Reagan by thought less disarmament fetishists the Type who would Hail the Basic bargain approach 10 the future arc High and arc deadly. Any return from Geneva without a full License to proceed to research and to test our defense weapons is a step toward the poli tics of surrender. C Universal Preu