European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes thursday. October 10. 1985 James Reston a sensible suggestion from our Canadian neighbors the canadians our Best and eld est friends have .1 quiet of coming up Riih sensible and suggestions in limes of trouble and they did it the other when president Reagan needed a helping hand. Me was out at a soap factory in Cincin Nati peddling his tax Reform plan which is next year s Issue. Me was flying around defending and then withdrawing his sup port of Israel s raid on the Plo head quarters m Tunisia. He was responding to Mikhail Gorbachev s a notifying clarifications of soviet nuclear policy and he was fussing Margaret heckler out of the cab inet into Ireland which had done nothing to deserve or provoke her in Short. Reagan was t having a ver Pih d week. Amid All this the prime minister of Canada. Arian mul Runcy came Forward with a proposal that unlike All these other tangles. Reagan might be Able to do something about. Economics geography common sense and the National interest Mut Roncy said dictate that we try to secure and expand our Trade with our closest and largest trading this is a sentiment right out of Ronald Reagan s Book of maxims and inc Crit ical words in Mulroney s sentence arc common Trade Between the United slates and Canada this year will exceed si20 billion which is More than . Trade with Europe or Japan. It s not exactly equal about 75 percent of Canada s exports come to the United states while Only about 22 percent of . Exports go to Canada Mulroney. Like Reagan is a . And it can probably be presumed thai in suggesting a More Liberal .-Canadian Trade agreement he was not thinking about Washington s prob lems or being indifferent to Ottawa s. There Are some awkward prob lems As Between All neighbors. For exam blk Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Aldric one of the most sensible and thoughtful members of the Reagan cab inet noted last week that 80 percent of Canada s exports to the United states will come in free at the end of the Tokyo round of Tariff reductions compared with 65 percent of our goods going North liven among friends that s some difference. Specifically the Guys who Cut and sell lumber in the United slates arc not amused by the fact that in the last 10 years the Canadian share of the . Softwood lumber Market has increased from 18 percent to 34 percent. And there Are other conflicts Over fish and aulos and labor unions and the Pas Sage of . Ships through the ice at the top of he continent and the cultural in fluence of . Television on the Canad an people. Of says the new Canadian prime min ister let s Stop fussing about our differences in the press. Congress and the parliament. Let s get some knowledgeable Guys together and show the world what Freedom and cooperation can really accomplish he s not suggesting a common Market As Reagan did during one of the most hopeful moments of his election campaigns or even free Trade but a practical analysis of the economics the Hopes and anxieties of our two countries. Also Mulroney happens to be talking about one of the few Reagan convictions on foreign policy that has the support of All the political parties in Canada namely that the firestorm of Trade protectionism in the Congress is a threat to the Alliance and the economic order of the world. Reagan welcomed Mulroney s proposal but he and his Cabinet arc so preoccupied with he problems of outer space and the inner cities with the budget Defi Cit the farm deficit in the Middle West and the terror in the Middle first that they Haven t had much time to think about our common problems with Canada or even of the tragic human and economic problems in Mexico. Some powerful Canadian forces of course Are worried about gel Ting too close to the United states. As former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau once observed living with the United slates is like sleeping with an elephant. But clarity like Charity begins at Home and not in dreams of Star wars in the 1990s. If we go on concentrating on whal s in Gorbachev s mind or in Ria Gan s mind Al the Summit we could wind up in the cellar. Belter to make a fair and Liberal Trade Deal with the canadians. C new York Timet William Safir Ellimo Marinc . Shamed by its failure of support Israel in . In . Position on International terrorism has 250 marines Hilling inc identified perpetrators of the Ford administration vetoed a similar protest the. On International terrorism has just turned to Mush. All of George Shultz s Fine oratory Aboul inc ethics of Power in striking Back at vipers nests that can be she in to be the source of hostage taking and Murdi r m ills revealed As so much hot air. In recent nionil.-. Tract two boatloads of terrorists from Tiv s Force 17" who were Irving to slip into thai o or 10 kill civilians. A score of these invaders were , Ilo in captured. The Plo struck Neil where Israel could not defend in nationals. On Cyprus. Two israeli men and one woman were held Husinga on their boat then brutally murdered by a hit icam thai was Ihen Laken Inlo custody on that Island. The members of Force 17 already captured by Israel when shown pictures of the murderers held on Cyprus triumphantly identified them As members of their elite Force. They trained together at the Plo Camp in Tuni Sia current Headquarters of this War against Israel. Israel s Legal and moral justification for National self defense was unmistakable the source of the terror was sharply defined the military necessity for action was Clear. Israel s air Arm reached out across the Mediterranean and struck Back destroying what the Plo thought to be its Sanctuary in Tunisia. At first the while House reaction was exactly right this strike Al the source of terror was an understand Able legitimate act of self defense. In fact Israel did what president Reagan so Oflyn talked of doing after the bombing of our embassy in Beirut and the death of 25 hitting the id Celifie per Clealor crimes swiftly and surgically. Bui then the Arab world got to our stale depart ment. Sulu her Cioffre a hard liner on terrorism began waffling although we did nol condemn inc israeli real Ilion we did nol condone in. The instruction went from foggy Bollom to the Shile House let s just shut up. Let the israelis Bear the Brunel of error isl fury. The reason kor tiptoeing away was simple Shult was fearful thai any . Moral support for the strike might Cost inc lives of american hostages or encourage demonstrations at . Embassies. Simply Pul. He was afraid of associating our country with toughness toward terrorism. The moment of truth came at the . Security Council where Tunisia demanded a Vole of censure against Israel for an act of armed Cave in counselled our new ambassador to the . Vernon wallers fresh from a is Lenl Mission to Damascus his excuse we had asked Tunisia to provide Refuge to the followers of Arafat after their defeat in Lebanon and owed Tunis support when is go cols were that country. That is palpable nonsense did Reagan commit inc . Al the Lime to the use of Tunisia As Safe Haven for the launching of terrorist attacks any nation that agrees to Harbor terrorists takes the Rispon Sibilly foreseeing Hal its guests remain peaceful. Israel s foreign minister appealed directly to Shutlz to veto the corrupt condemnation just As the . In the Ford administration vetoed a similar protest by Uganda after Israel s Entebbe raid. Israel pointed out thai a state had a lawful right to Sirick Back at centers of terrorism provided in had Given warning about its policy and acted with proportionality. Israel had done both. Shult said thai inc decision was up to the president. The israelis found it hard to believe that under Ronald Reagan the United slates would permit the Security Council to condemn its ally and Call for reparations for of All things practising what the president and the Secretary of Sale have been preaching. Walters beginning his service Al the . By bullying a great career provided the necessary Fig Leaf Lor a sellout by asking the Arab Stales to remove the words slate terrorism in the Resolution and to change sanctions from mandatory to voluntary. Re pan s initial resolve collapsed. He agreed to let our . Ambassador abandon Israel in the Security Council to abstain rather than to raise his hand to say no to the notion of stale Sanctuary for killers. But we did not put our vote where our Mouth was our ally stands censured and betrayed and our nation stands shamed by moral cowardice. C new York time
