European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday october 19, 1985 George will under est May no fhe dynamic of the soviet system so Krai years i heard Percsi Donl Reagan say approximately this i would like in Lake lie soviet leaders up in a helicopter Over los  Here i thought Good he is going to push them out. But no 1 would Point to All the Small houses with swimming pools and \ would say those arc he workers houses " surely Ronald Reagan does not think the hard men of the Kremlin arc mis guided Kane Kirk lands. Labor leaders mis taken about How Best to raise living Stan Dards. But Reagan May illustrate inc great and perhaps fatal Paradox of american politics he is thumping by successful because he is thoroughly american moderate amiable reasonable and convinced that others arc Loo. That is. He has the constricted political imagination natural in a sheltered Liberal nation to which history has been kind. Hence he is As the most successful american Lead ers arc most Likely to be especially Apt to underestimate the terrible dynamic of the soviet system. One mania Blat Ion of this mis understanding is the Sweet thought that the regime s leaders would be susceptible to the taming example of american Freedom and affluence. Ellen Goodman i mention this now because the Washington Post reports that recently the presi Dent was flying Over new Hampshire and said to the governor How much he would like id Lake Gorbachev to any House Down there to meet the working peo  what does the president think such a visit would accomplish perhaps the Gorbachev Palm slapped to the Gorbachev forehead and a thunderstruck exclamation Marx goofed i have seen the future and lots of Kitchen appliances and it and they work. So dismantle the gulag is this another it s All a horrid misunderstanding theory of the cold War usually the misunderstanding is u Mutual  of the other s peaceful intentions. In this Case the supposed mis understanding concerns How Best to satisfy the common Man. This theory founders on the fact that the thin slice of soviet society that has Power also has material comforts. The re Gime derives its legitimacy such As it is from the pretence thai it is custodian of history s progressive impulse. That is Why the soviet regime is not cannot be in the live and Lei live business. If the Leader of this regime were not following in the shuffling footsteps of three cadaverous leaders he would in seen to have the Charisma of suet pudding. Yes he is resplendent in his gleaming White Shin words from the introduction to his self interview in time. But he is also a truculent liar he is truculent when Dis missing As insubstantial All complaints about soviet violations of its Helsinki undertakings. He is a liar explaining How tickled jews arc about the privilege of remaining in the soviet Union. The bold new arms control proposal is bold in offering something so old it is traditional soviet algebra x equal. X plus y plus 7. The soviets offer x so percent reduction of strategic Force the United states will give a and will count its intermediate Range forces As strategic and will kill its attempt to catch up with the soviet strategic defense initiative. The so Viet Side wins not by getting us to accept their equation bul by getting us to talk exclusively inc arcane Antiseptic algebra of arms control. It is axiomatic control the pc Summit conversation and you control the event. And look what is happening. Throughout arms control As the Centrepiece of . Suvit Rel Lions today we Sec a Gre Sham s Law of political discourse. The dry  of Arm. Umi Irnel has driven out Aik of ail other thing1including Afghanistan Poland. Ang , Nicaragua yellow rain terrorism. Arms co Irrol violations Hal Inki violations Etc in another Way. Too America is paying the Price of its arms control obsession. So caper were the Nikon and Carter administrations for agreements they pre Nego to i cd in Washington proposals compatible with the Jiei buildup. Then they Sci led for agreements that were essentially Mere snapshots of the rising Force lev Els. But soviet Levels Rose faster. Today they arc so Large and varied that a Mutual Cut of 50 percent could be tailored that would leave the soviets with an enhanced strategic advantage. The lament of Correct thinkers within the administration  the soviets would never attend a Sakharov  or an Afghanistan Summit bul Here we go to a " Star wars  and the definite article inc question already is what will Reagan give up to nuke it a Success this Loo is a reason Why when 1 hear people Prais ing summits t want to take them up in a helicopter and. O Washin upon poll will Cabinet s next female Secretary take shorthand in the end. Margaret Mary o Shaughnessy heckler was Lucky to be sent to Dublin. The Way things arc going she might have been Send for Coffee. As a Loyal employee. I Tucker look pretty Good dicta Tion from he president. Hut the next woman who be comes ,1 Secretary in the Siragan Cabinet meetings will probably he taking shorthand. Showcasing time Al the White House is Over the election has come and gone gender Gap anxiety has waned and Donald Regan Lias gone Back to the while male Lac no Agency for his Central casting. Betty Heilman who  the National Republican party describes the change in atmosphere More benignly what has happened with Donald Regan is thai he s restructuring the White House so that it s More like a corporate Board and ave Rome reports in him As c1  when Regan was last a chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch there was one female managing director. Now that heckler is following Jeane Kirkpatrick there is Only one woman left on the Board of this Corpora Tion 1-li/abeth Dole. Regan must feel right at Home. Not a single woman attends senior staff meetings at the White House. Not one regularly Sils at National Security meetings any More nor. Since Faith whittle be j departure from the Job of Public Liaison to be ambassador to Switzerland is there any woman who reports directly to Hie ? Only Nancy Reagan has risen in   a other women have fallen in real Power 1 it Irie someone like heckler is re moved Nancy is a uni i As an invisible remover. In effect in thu r  i a gel thee to an embassy because    needed. She and Dole were appointed  n m s of each other in 19k3. When in looked it i1 w Ait Lucians better have a few highly visible women i r i i. The Reagan administration s voice of c itip.s.,.  Lor Soprano was brought on the political  ail through the Campaign As a  to the  theme song about  in the last five years or so. Heckler had a Lough Lime finding a place for herself As a moderate Republican woman. Pro Era and pro Reagan she was often caught in the Middle. She loss re election to Congress in 19h2 to Liberal Democrat Barney Frank. Even feminist organizations endorsed Frank because of heckler s re Cord opposing abortion. Bul As the head of health and human services she both toed the Reagan line and sometimes held the line. Conservatives complained thai she was t ideologically pure enough. When push came to shove there was less support for heckler than there had been for labor Secretary Rojy Donovan. The administration has slopped worrying we d Uke Tretak  &5signmeot. & promotion really. Deliver to .em8ass/  about the women s Vole. Heckler had lilt a political base left in inc party and no old girl network in the administration. Obviously she was a goner. For Many of the same reasons the women s place in the White House is much shakier. In general the administration s record on appointing women is better today than in the first years. In i94, 17.4 percent of what congressional quarterly Calls  appointments went to women and in i9s5, the figure is holding Al 15.5 percent. Bul when you look at the concentric Cir cles of real Power the inner rings arc nearly void of women. White Luscy once the ranking woman in the while House and an anti Era conservative realised this As she drove away from her old Job on Pennsylvania ave nue. She Lold the Wall Street journal All i saw was a sea of men coming and going in those cars. I began to think maybe they re right women Aren t Welcome in the White House " even Kirkpatrick a Soldier of conservative Fortune. Talks about the Campaign to keep her in Check one male colleague. Said that i was too temperamental to hold a higher office. What do they mean Loo temperamental once a month the Public attack on heckler was not of tempera ment but of incompetence. As she said in a perhaps prophetic interview there s far More tolerance of in in itch i 1"- 5 Fiir " Obs rec " " Amer a judged by that old double Standard any woman less than  As Good was t Good enough. Likes la s1inln orc Mem and widow dressing. Hul today without elec is pc or or Octy network of women on the imply of Dows Are beginning to look awfully l Boilon Globe within upon pol