European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday october 25, 1985 remember you 6et along with me and Tom Wicker my boys Pont by Twe your store it won t be the same without candidate Ron the movers arc moving. I he twin ers arc sh.ikinj1, Anil the a in presidential Campaign is talk a forc upon us hut what Ever else of . Sec or a Cali. A nut i 8x 1. An election will be held that year. 2. Rennak Reagan will not be in it right tip in the the Voles Are Casl that second fact could be the one thai matters most. Sone no will have to substitute on the Republican ticket for one of the most popular presidents Ever to occupy the White House a like trying to play third base fur Kansas City after i Corgi Bret retires that same someone will have to take the blame for the negatives left Over from Reagan s eight years in office and there could be a lot without being Able fully to claim credit for the positives. Richard Nixon found out in i960 How hard thai is to do. And Hubert Humphrey Learned the same lesson in 1968. Still Hope ambition and the lust for Power Spring eternal. Vice president Bush inc front runner and rep. Jack Kemp and sen. Dob Dole he major Chal lengers have already made preliminary moves in Michigan. There a new Republican Delegate selection system actually will begin in 1986, giving Michigan the dubious Pride of place occupied in recent years by the Iowa caucuses. Former sen. Howard Linker also is forming inc customary political action committee and laying in a Slock of drip dry shirts to carry him around the air port Motel circuit next year even be fore the mid term elections Are out of the Way. The great mention or has dropped inc names of sen. Packwood of Oregon and former gov. Dupont of Delaware but it s not known if anyone is listening. Nor does an on know How Many re publican hopefuls might Rise on the wings of television from the ashes of the 1986 congressional and gubernatorial elections but there will be one or More. How about for example a it Tenor who could grab off Alan Cranston s California sen ate Seal even More is the Likely candidacy in i9ss. Of m pal Robertson of Virginia he Yale Law school Grad uate and television evangelist who Heads the Christian broadcast network with its 24 million viewers. Don t scoff. Richard Vij Sicrie the conservative activist has said he lakes Robertson seriously so has til Rollins the former while mouse political director. Rollins has signed on for Bush who might Well be the Benefactor if a Robertson Campaign split right Wing fundamentalist support away from Kemp. All this preliminary Republican activity and speculation seems peculiarly hol Low however with Reagan not even one year into his second term with Liis popu Larity High and undoubtedly rising after his decisive action in ordering the aria interception of the Achille Hijack ers. Reagan so dominates the political scene today thai it is difficult to imagine a presidential election in which he would not be standing it s not Clear however thai Reagan can consistently win legislative victories on lax Reform Budge reduction and other thorny issues particularly in the second half of his term liven if he could it s even less Clear that these achievements could be passed pm o the Benefit of whoever the next Republican presidential nominee May be. Ioni by York Tuinei George will Walter Polovchak s Case another Acle contradiction to Chicago in this City wonderfully Lumpy with Unic Llyd ethnic neighbourhoods in ukrainian restaurants glasses were raised this month to celebrate Walter Polov Chak s birthday. The Littlest defector is not so Little now. He has turned 18, secure from he soviet regime and the american civil liberties Union. Waller was born in the Ukraine. When he was 12, his parents were allowed inexplicably of emigrate to the United Stales. Waller s father indicated his intention to return instead of Selling his Home he Lent it to a neighbor and gave other possessions to a Kcjr official. The soviet embassy in Washington pressured the father to require Walter and his sister to return with him. The sister soon turned 18 and was Safe. Walter having seen what makes America cat Freedom and the Chicago cubs sought Asylum he Acle sided tenaciously with the fall or. If is deplorable that Only the Calendar Walter s birthday not America s courts gave Waller a decisive Victory. The closing of Waller s Case coincides with the Publica Tion of a Book the politics of inc Acle by William Donahue that shows How inc Acle has become a lobby for the left s Agenda. The s support for the right to distribute child pornography or use heroin is less Illuminat ing than this racial quota systems once vigorously opposed now Are As vigorously supported. This illustrates inc s result oriented approach to constitutional rights. Aaron Wildavsky political scientist at Berkeley and a former Acle member says inc Acle has reversed traditional american thinking about Equality. The traditional sequence has been duality of rights guarantees Equality of Opportunity which will produce satisfactory Equality of conditions. The Acle reverses the sequence Equality of condition is a prerequisite for Equality of Opportunity in inc exercise of equal rights. The contradiction in inc Acle program is that a government promoting equally must be powerful but the critique of society implicit in the Acle s ideology under mines governmental authority. It docs so by defining government As the Keystone of the system that sustains unequal conditions and therefore makes a mockery of rights and Opportunity. Another glaring Acle contradiction concerns children. Children once were chattels of their parents but Intilli gent Laws have limited parental discretion regarding inc employment schooling and medical care of children. No one least of All the Acle. Says the Law should not abridge parental sovereignty or take cognizance of children s rights. The Acle believes the civil rights of a child under is include the right to have an no Orion even when Bolh parents Are opposed. Indeed the Acle believes a minor s civil rights Are violated if her parents arc even notified when she acquires contraceptives from a federally funded clinic. The Acle has detected civil rights Ravis ments i school dress codes. Fifty states would remove Walter from the custody of parents who abused him. But the Acle which would Fly to court to fight any employer who tried to pity Waller less than the minimum wage supports the right of Walter s father to Commil the ultimate and a appealable abuse of consigning him forever to a prison society. Alan Dershowitz is a professor at Harvard 1 a school and a hyper kinetic litigant on behalf of civil liberties he says the Acle s behaviour regarding Walter seen in the Hughl of policies regarding children s rights to abortions and other mailers can be under blood Only in terms of an unwillingness to criticize Acle advocates say that those judicial and other govern ment actions that helped Walter were political in the it they look cognizance of the nature of the soviet regime but of course. The problem would have been different had Walter been resisting return to. Say Denmark where he would have been Iree to decide his future. Suppose Walter were Black and routing return to South Africa. Who believes inc Acle would have opposed him while the Acle was opposing him the new Jersey Acle was defending a child Mocase similar except for the fact he was resisting return to Chile. Walters Case involved ludicrous governmental brooding about whether were he resumed he would face persecution t lie vict regime which tortures is Inosia distinguished Citi zen Andrei Sakharov would take up where it left off with Waller who As punishment for his catholicism was Kopul school on Christmas Lac to chant Leninist slogans. Ten Yean of comprehensive non compliance with the Helsinki accords demonstrates that the soviet regime persecutes everyone guilty of an appetite for Freedom. Waller s Case is a splendid and timely embarrassment for the various Washington bureaucracies that Are toiling to pro Duce an atmosphere of false cordiality for inc Summit. The cordiality is supposed to facilitate inc achievement at the sum Mil or. Mic accords. O Washington poll
