European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday november 19.1985 Flora Lewis racial assimilation challenges european cultures inner City riots arc clearly linked to High a employ Western Europe is coming to face a problem of different from the throng and to Call attention to them selves. Though they sometimes dress aggressively they so. A a passive group but they belong to the world of other rising generation of their children hold citizenship in their new Homes by right of birth. This is creating problems of assimilation and Community frictions that americans know Well but that Chal Lenge Basic assumptions of old european nations about who they Are. It May be the ironic revenge of colonialism. Europeans who were quite Content to run other societies in Africa and Asia Are finding it hard to Deal with what they consider exotic aliens in their own coun tries. Arc Young West Indian Blacks who riot in Tottenham and Brixton As English As the football Hooligan of Liverpool does the symbolic notion of France include North africans who Cluster around Montmartre in Paris and what is called the Nasbah of Marseilles Are turkish youths in Munich and Rotterdam As fully Ger Man or dutch As their neighbors Only in France so far is the question being put in this harsh emotional Way and it is going to be an Issue in next Spring s elections there. It is ahead for much of Western Europe especially As Hopes recede for an encompassing european identity to absorb old nationalism in an integrated european Community. In Britain at this stage it is seen As a problem of Law and order. Government officials tend to deny that William Safire evidently a now the riots seem to have been a political plus for prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Upheaval up sets the British and they tend to see her tory party As the most determined to restore order. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd is aware though that it won t be easy and requires a better Effort at multiracial conciliation and immigration As Well As support for the police. Senior British officials show an almost touching gratitude to the Rev. Jesse Jackson because when he was Here for an anti apartheid demonstration recently he publicly urged More Blacks to join the police Force. There Aren t any visible Black or for that matter Paki Stani or Indian political leaders of their communities in Britain. Apart from sports there Aren t even people of prominent achievements to serve As models. The importance of the change of faces in american to and advertising generally Over the last generation is highlighted by the contrast Here. Americans Sec every Day that a face can be Oriental or Black or Brown As Well As White and still be undoubtedly american. Bri tons have come though often grudgingly to accept a lot of accents As English but not a lot of looks. There seem to be Many More punks in London than in any Continental City. They go to great lengths to look hese Are More than pass problems and Fadi. They signal the Onset of deep social changes in a society that clings to tradition and the reassuring weight of the past even socialists say they Are particularly glad of Hie role of the Royal family at this period because u head of the whole Commonwealth it brings a certain cohesive some also regret the failure to have moved More energetically with positive measures against racial barriers sermons obviously Aren t enough though the Brit ish and the French see themselves As especially tolerant societies. Legislation and affirmative action Are Nec Essary tools to overcome the blockage. Racism which Many europeans thought was a Peculiar fault of americans has developed in countries that believed they were above it without noticing that they took National identity As one race for granted. The United states has t solved its own prob lems bul it has surmounted the biggest hurdles of ugly habit. How much that has helped sustain America s vitality should be remembered when arguments Are made to abandon affirmative action now. America has gained a Lead and it is coming to inspire europeans who Sec the same problems ahead for themselves c new York to Laws Reagan determined to pursue shield sharing idea when the president gets an idea in his head that he believes to be fundamental to his purposes he clings to it. Though the idea is scoffed at by his opponents undercut by his bureaucracy and ignored by the press the relentlessly cheerful Ronald Reagan keeps dragging it Back in laying it on the Agenda the Way the family hound drops the same smelly Bone at our feet. Never mind the breath freshening new rubber toy he is inexplicably attached to the inelegant old Bone. Such a notion u his proposal to share space based defense technology with the russians. Almost everyone from concerned scientists to starry eyed warriors has said what a Sappy idea. In debate with Fritz Mondale Reagan suggested we say to the russians we ii give you this one so that we would both know that no one could his democratic challenger was horrified that he could think of giving the russians the most dangerous technology we can Reagan be serious does he mean we will Knock ourselves out build ing a nuclear shield at a Cost of untold of Fiuero Wing secrets that you could be incarcerated for even thinking about and then share this technology with Moscow his answer to All this incredulity has always been a maddening Why not two weeks ago he told the bbl what would be safer than if the two great super Powers. Sal there with defensive weapons that ensured our safely he was asked. You would t offer it to them would you off the shelf Back came Why not he said there could t be anything better than if both of us came up with it but if Only one nation did Why not pursue this matter of worldwide sharing unfortunately he be fogged his position in an interview with soviet writers making it seem he predicated shield sharing on Elimina Tion of offensive weapons which resulted in much hooting at his but he came Back the other Day same Bone in his Teeth in a pre Summit interview with foreign journalists who seem More interested than most of us in his idea let me give you my dream of what would happen. We have the weapon he postulated. We Don t Start deploying it. We get everybody together and we say Here Here it is. And Here s How it works and what it la do to incoming missiles we will make available to everyone this weapon. I Don t mean Well give it to them. They re going to have to pay for it but at with misplaced frugality he has modified give to sell at Cost out he will not be scoffed out of his Central idea. The work would be safer and the United slates better defended if both superpowers had Access to a shield that would make an effective knockout on a first strike impossible. No defensive system would have to be perfect to acc a plish that. Shield sharing is Good propaganda but not Mere smoke blowing to show we re not trying to gain superiority. On the contrary after it has been thought through it can become an integral part of the Strate Gic balance the president was briefed in detail about it three weeks ago. Both sides have their defensive research Well under Way. Let s not flatter ourselves sharing would not be the simple turnkey Sale of our system to them. On the contrary our Lead in computers optics and sensors is partly offset by their Lead in the technology of Neutral particle beams and once the concept of sharing u accepted it would have to be on a two Way basis Trad ing to fill the gaps in each other s shield for the safety of both sides. The russians at Geneva will resist this mightily since any discussion of defense undermines their offensive advantage and since the shield sharing idea so attractive to other nations pulverizes their propaganda about our destabilizing intent. Most of our own negotiators will resist this too believing it to be one of those simplistic notions about which the president must be Humoured. Ours is not the Only delegation with its act not fully together Mikhail Gorbachev s Surprise derogation of Anatoly Dobrynin suggests that one reason for the unexpected rus Sian peevish Ness is internal policy wrangling As indicated by the soviet flip Flop on re search doubting Thomases on both sides take note shield sharing is not wholly a stunt. The soviet Union May scorn it this time around but it is lodged firmly in Rea Gan s Noggin and is not going to go away. C new York Tumi Cross my Palm with 30 billi0ks or so for started
