European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes sunday november 10, 1965 William Buckley there s no easy answer to Philippines question the Case of Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines poses a fascinating problem or in United Stales. It s a problem for which then simply in t any Quick fix either from liberals . Rep. Stephen so Larz and sen. Bill Bradley or from those of Superior political understanding . Jeane Kirkpatrick Henry Kissinger. Here Are the Givens in the situation Marcos saved his country from anarchy a dozen years ago by invoking emergency democracy. The alternative would have been chaos and just about every right minded observer of the event agreed that Marcos did what he had to do. Things went Well for a while but in due count what almost inevitably happens in one party states began to happen in the Philippines. They Call it Over there cronyism and there it no denying that the friends of president Marcos began to Gei creeping by Rich and in due course were becoming galloping Rich. Forces of democratic opposition opposed Marcos with fitful successes but in the South a moslem uprising would t quite go away. And it grew in due course into a marxist uprising a kind of maoist insurgency animated by what Theodore Anthony Lewis Agar once described As the anarchic Pas Sion to smash. The estimated strength of the communist insurgents is something on the order of 12,000 guerrillas but what stands out in the picture is that although he has trebled the size of his army mar cos has not succeed in eliminating the insurgency and Bright people Are saying that in another five years Marcos army will be paralysed or even outgunned much As Batista s Vas by Castro s insurgents in the closing Days of 1958. Meanwhile the democratic opposition was decapitated by the assassination of Benigno Aquino. That assassination it is said by some was the doing of Marcos which i doubt because it was the worst thing that Ever happened to Marcos. It stiffened the opposition discredited mar cos army and its chief of staff but also left that opposition without any responsible Leader Here defined As someone at least As anxious to rid the Philippines of marxist insurgents As of Marcos. The United states got quickly into the act for reasons both sentimental we More or less owned the Phillip Ines for 48 years and geopolitical. Clark Field and Subic Bay Are the two most important installations we have West of Hawaii rep. So Larz took time off from his preoccupation with South Africa to travel to the Philippines to denounce Marcos and demand that we reduce our Aid to the Philippines. The House acied favourably on the proposal whereupon Marcos who is a very Cool and very courageous cat suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to accept a decoration Pim the soviet embassy harking Back to Marcos Brill inn record against the japanese occupation. The Little ceremony reminded Washington that the real estate we have on the Philippines is crucial to the strategic balance in that part of the world. So the Senate diluted the solar punitive expedition to roughly Zero. But no one can deny thai the Philippines is coming slowly apart under a Lender who does t control his country. One could say about Marcos today what one could have said about Chiang Kai Shek in China in 1949 he is infinitely letter than the organized opposition but it is not at All obvious How either to keep him in Power or to get rid of him. We had enough of direct interference when in 1963 we reached into South Viet Nam and eliminated diem. It s hard to find anyone this Side of Gen. To Nguyen Giap who thinks in retrospect that that was the smart thing to do. But How do we get Marcos to enact those reforms we believe would change the National image of him it is the Uoo kind of problem we have in Mexico. If we asked president de la Madrid to Collar every mexican who had got " by taking graft from the p.r.i., the i party we d contribute something  the decline of the population problem. But in the wreckage would be de u Madrid and Marcos using still to stand on. You would be facing something on the order of saudi Arab if you tool Awty its Oil or Frank Sinatra without to voice. Marcos would look you in the flee and say you must be  Well it s their problem up to a Point. The safety of the Western Patuc is primarily our problem. Back in 1m6, when we turned the  Loose to i should have done something about Sgutt and Clark Akin to what we did in qom when we carved out Guantanamo Bay. A it too late c ims Only Firul prot Sendl Catt r it 1 Meese Reynolds undermine civil rights policy one of America s acute problems by anyone s reckoning is the exist enc of a Black underclass underemployed locked into deteriorating neighbourhoods and bad schools. The whole society s health depends on breaking the Cycle of deprivation. It is a matter not Only of Justice but of the majority s urgent self inheres a. Most americans understand All that. For a generation there has been a nation Al consensus in favor of action to undo the effects of centuries of discrimination to help deprived Blacks onto the economic ladder. A poll jut two months ago showed More support than Ever for affair the Waters of our.  native action programs in jobs and Edu cation. The attorney general of the United states is not part of that consensus. For years now de Meese and the Justice department s civil rights chief William Bradford Reynolds have been working with zealous ferocity to sabotage the country s civil rights Laws to abandon the whole Effort at Healing the wound in our society Brad Reynolds was honoured recently at a dinner in Washington. Some 500 conservatives paid tribute to him led by attorney general Meese and sen. Orrin Hatch it Utah. The dinner was the perfect Symbol of what has happened to conservatism in the country. A political philosophy that used to be devoted to conserving institutions and knitting society together has fallen into the hands of people who Divide and wreck and Rule. A movement that used to Revere the Law honors a Man whose Public career has been distinguished by Lawless Ness and misrepresentation. When the Senate judiciary commit tee last june rejected the nomination of Reynolds to be associate attorney Gener Al Republican Arlen Specter of Penn Sylvania explained that he Taw in Rey Nolde. A a. Pattern of disregarding established Law of putting himself above the  other members turned against him because he had milled the committee and the Senate. The extreme views of Reynolds and Meese repeatedly have gotten president Reagan into awkward political tangles. He has been rescued by conservatives of the old variety pragmatists interested not in ideology but to keeping the system functioning. The voting rights act wat a telling example. In 1981 the House passed a Bill to renew this most Basic legislation. The vote was 389 to 24 Rea 6?,? a Kesdy � Condo Rae a e House Bill. And de th6 tv4at roars the following Spring As obstruction of voting rights legislation became a serious political embarrassment. Senate majority Leader Robert Dole stepped in to Rescue the administration. He proposed a or Nina j close to the House Bill and this overwhelmingly passed it. To minute Reynolds worked fever Block it. When the Bill pasted hailed it. Even now Reynolds has not Given of Hope of sabotaging the voting Law. Jul and Meese urged the supreme Cou read it narrowly in a pending cake View that Dole and nine other tent a Counte Brief called a misguided. A or j  the Republican committee Alto tiled a Brief i Reynolds Meese View. Then there was the episode to exemptions for racist schools. Rufy tried to slip that through without in either Congress or the courts. Wat outraged and the supreme a humiliating 8-1 vote i omitted Ltd nolds petition at baseless in Law. Right now Reynolds and mme it trying to wreck he 20-year-old federal5" policy of requiring government Contra tors to tet goals for hiring Miod film and women. They talk about the dial " of a Tutti but the executive of Raj solved happens specifically to quotas. What really Bothen Reynold Meese is Plain the executive order work it has actually brought Tome Blacks Matt j the economic system police officer by Indianapolis for example at the or Street journal outlined in a recent Totcy. This time the pragmatic Conter Vauvil Are trying to Stop the Reynolds " zealotry at an Early image before i Comet policy and has to be undone 1 opponents include Dole. House Mil Leader Robert Michel Teven the Cabinet and the National a of manufacturers. Who will win tie for the president s mind remain the.  clearer contrast of of cuff new conservatism exists than in them rights area or of old and new rep to can ism. What used to be the Pat from Lincoln is now to a significant extent � parly for Brad Reynolds