European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday october 20, 1985 James Reston some Friendly Advie to Gorbachev on the Summit from soviet embassy Washington to Gener Al Secretary Gorbachev As is Well known the . Government is preparing for our meeting with president Reagan at Geneva next month and i. Doing so with  usual awkward cunning. In an Effort to deceive us about its policy and purpose at the Summit it is putting out a series of confusing and contradictory statements All carried obediently by the captive capitalist press radio and television. One Dikiy. In  wickedly calculated Campaign it has Weinberger from the Pentagon questioning the integrity of our past commitments to peace and nuclear arms control and wondering whether any new agreement at Geneva would have any meaning. The next Day Shult at stale is suggesting that while our generous offers Are deeply flawed there could be real Progress at the Summit if Only you would agree to his policies. It is difficult to interpret the voice of America there Are so Many voices. For example Mcfarlane at the National Security Council who was supposed to have a passion for anonymity now appears regularly on meet the press where Here is no press. Sometimes he agrees with Shultz s interpretation of the abm treaty sometimes with Weinberger a but most of the time you can t Tell which. Much will depend on Reagan s Choice of advisers at the Summit but we must be careful. Wein Berger sounds Tough but is really rather elegant and Meek. He likes to collect weapons but not to use them except at places like Grenada whereas shull/., the William Buckley Man of  prefers fewer  mis but might u e i Hern. There Are Marn reasons thai of in the  be Lieve you should approach the Summit with the utmost Confidence. Our Alliance is Strung. When we Tell our comrades in Eastern of urn pc what to do. They do h. When Reagan asks his allies for a Little help i hey to As icy please. Witness what is called collective  a form of common action in which Italy. Israel. I Egypt and even our former comrades in Yugoslavia All acted on their own in the latest palestinian incidents. With our Unity and their Freedom to disagree we have nothing to fear even from George Bush in China. On the economic front the Reagan administration now has the largest budget deficit and Trade deficit in the history of the nation whereas we balance our Bud get every year and arc still Rich enough to buy Grain from the impoverished american Farmers. It has been noted Here that you Are now in the pro Cess of producing a new economic plan to guide he .s.r, into the 2lst Century and Are housing younger men to see it through. This has made a Strong impression Here where the Reagan administration is won Dering How to gel through the next two years with a new team at the Federal Reserve. Comrade Gorbachev you have asked for any suggestions we May have about How to negotiate with the americans at Geneva. No such request has Ever been proposed to this embassy before but we venture to propose the following j take sour wife inn fur the ride. It had t occurred in people Here until recent that members of the politburo had wives. And always help her Down the Steps from the plane. Reagan is very  at this. It s Alwa s Wise to pm phase a peace on Earth and in the stars As you did in pans but unwise to talk of  thai is regarded Here As deceptive French word that should never be used in the House or even in the Senate. Hold a lot of press conferences around noon Geneva time just before the evening to news Here and preferably with Reagan he Hales press conferences especially if asked for details about inc details of any. Thing you be been negotiating. If asked about Afghanistan or human rights you can do one or two things say you re for them though they re not on the Agenda and ask about the lynchings in the South. Say you think these Summit meetings arc a great idea and should be held cry summer in the soviet Union and every Winter in California. That will give the press mob u Chance to live High on their expense accounts and give Reagan a Chance to get Back to the ranch. One other thing Tell Amatin not to waste too much propaganda on Star wars and in that Between now and the beginning of november. The baseball championship of the world is on Here now and nobody will be listening much to either of or Reagan until it s Mer c new York tines no service Gorbachev is far smoother than his predecessor the principals Are circling in and Vance of the confrontation at Geneva and Gorbachev is doing the usual things and in the classical Mode. But he is much smoother than his predecessor. You will re Hajj that when the communists tried in 1983-84 to intimidate West Ern a Uroic into refusing to deploy the theater nuclear weapons aimed at compensating for the soviet is is andro Pov and Gromyko huffed and puffed threats and cajole ments. It did t work. The style this time around is More Clas Sical Divide and conquer. Thus Gorba Chev a intones the comprehensive danger of . Research into Star wars and b suggests that France and in grind might make individual deals with the so Viet Union respecting nuclear inventories. Meanwhile Reagan smilingly Maura is his main Point which is thai nothing is going to Stop him from pursuing research into alternative ways of protecting people from nuclear War other than Mutual assured destruction. And Caspar Weinberger previews an analysis of the outstanding soviet 50 per cent offer by suggesting that the soviet Union is in fact suggesting something along the lines of giving up half of their most obsolete instruments while we give up our most modern instruments and All of our technology including the most modern instrument of them a which of course is Star  an assistant to French president Frt n Cois Mitterrand Analysed Gorbachev s appearance As using Paris As a platform to speak to others once again that s a Standard soviet technique. The head of the soviet Union whoever he , Stalin Malenkos uhrus Chov arc a nov Andropov Gorbachev always finds Echo Chambers in the West for those allurements peace and plenty with which the soviets seek to Charm the world while practising Iligir Wiles terror ism and starvation. But Gorbachev does it particularly Well. The Union of concerned scientists in which hundreds of distinguished Ameri can scientists Are enrolled thinks nothing of beginning a routine communication to its members this Way president Reagan i. / swaps wicked up my tapdamc6r sets be $ dome Totake Vou away from All this. Believes that he Lias a Strong mandate id continue his aggressive Campaign against the soviet Union and his massive buildup of nuclear  Well there is nothing we can do to launder the rhetoric of soviet leaders save to Appeal to reason. Confronted with the above sentence two leading members of the Union of concerned scientists declined to specify How president Reagan was waging an aggressive Campaign against the soviet Union except to say that president Reagan has said things about the soviet Union that Are provocative. Right to. And Moses said things to the infidels that were provocative. Then Vou ask what happens if you provoke the soviet Union a nuclear War and they answer impossible. No one can win a nuclear War next you ask then what harm is done m provoking the soviet Union and icy decline to specify save to Tell you that inc arms race will resume if you counter that the arms race never ceased where the soviet Union is concerned they tend to change the subject As would you if you had that position to defend. It becomes every Day More Clear that the soviet Union is deathly afraid of our Star wars technology. Viewed a Strally. One wonders Why anyone should Ocil raid of someone else s . The Only serious argument against the development and deployment of sir wars assuming it can be made to work and this we cannot know for sure until a try it even As we could not know for sure we could land on the Moon until we did so is that our development of the Strate Gic defense initiative would so undermine careful soviet strategy for a first strike or an ultimatum that the soviet Union would actually go so far As to strike first. But the people who argue along such lines Are always arguing along parallel lines to the effect that All nuclear wars Are necessarily suicidal. This presupposes that the United slates would fight Dack. And As Long As Cagan is president that. Exactly is what would happen. I Roni All of which it is comforting 10 know that there is no Chance of a nuclear War in the immediate Days ahead and a very Good Chance of developing an effective deterrent nuclear shield. Copyright i9bs  Prici Syndicate