European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday november 21, 1985 columns William Safire criteria by which to judge fhe Success of Summit a Knova. mow do a Jill Jim i Sut Init what criteria do of use bal ure pm Raj they to t Giorc Oul of this i world opinion than we or we sure avoided another Yalta Here in this Neutral City where Parad ing protesters were heaving firecrackers for peace ii is Clear what the standards of self judgment should not he i did the leaders gel along Well .1 they will and the inn l. La is in the interest of both to a publicly that the other was Lough and Businesslike. While saying privately the other is burdened by hard line ideological hang up to the extent that handshake photos conceal deepening differences the personal touch hurts rather than helps. 2. Did this Summit the 14th Between the i to countries reduce tensions another phony criterion our purpose is not merely to reduce tension but to gel at the cause of tension. I or example the soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan unused president curler to impute a Grain embargo and sus Pend cultural ties. President Reagan lifted the embargo to no Good effect and now prop Mes to resume people to people visits but the rape of the afghan people goes on. In this Case reduction of tension is not a Suc Cess but is or admission of the impotence of impatience. We re tense for cause relaxation should be tied to a cessation of hostilities. A was a breakthrough achieved in arms control that was already achieved when the russians Sei de the Star wars excuse to drop their insistence that we not respond to their deployment of new mis Siles aimed at 1 Drupe. The russians Are pressing to make this a pure arms control Summit seeking a major Concession to perpetuate their offensive advantage and setting a false criterion for a break 4. Did we break the ice by getting into the agreement signing habit agreements lie in the Bottom of diplomatic drawers to be drag ged Oul for signing car crony purposes. These tinge from High sounding statements of principle like he meaningless Helsinki final act. To agreements to open consular offices As if we needed a solemn occasion to learn to bake Chicken Kiev. 5. Did we agree at least to meet again on a regular basis this sounds Normal und sensible and is a mistake. A Summit should be an acknowledgement of Progress in humdrum diplomacy and a political stimulus to bureaucrats not an annual Cir Cus to celebrate stalemate. Iia Vinc averted those false Crite Ria what standards can we set for Suc Cess the Field 1. Was a connection made and accepted that behaviour in one Field cannot be Sepa rated from All others in other words did linkage Triumph Over arms control Isola Tion we cannot expect the soviet Union to change dramatically on suppression of dissidents harassment of Rufu Schiks expansion of espionage or Export of communist sub version. But we can keep up the pressure at All Points rewarding Progress with Trade goodies and dollops of detente. 2. Was the first glimmering of realism shown on arms reduction his protracted denunciation of space based a lenses has provided Gorbachev the Fig Leaf he needed to return to the bargaining table without the removal of our per things from Europe. If he chooses to freeze on the Otar wars Issue As the demonstrators urge him to do that will demonstrate his internal political weakness but if he faces reality the Long process can resume. For us the measure of Success is in our perseverance. 3. Was any damage done secret agreements that invited later disputes dangerous misreading a of the will of the opposition and simple blundering have marked several Parley. The would be healers of the world s wounds should mind the Hippocrat Coath do no 4. Did it provide the cover for real move ment summits give leaders the Chance to pretend to Lessen their distrust of each other. That is Why Reagan talks naively of reassuring the russians that we mean them no i seeming to accept the notion that soviet expansion is rooted in fear of us rather than in their own desire to dominate. In the past Hitt has bred contempt it is now hoped that the psychological Concession will provide an Opal ing for Gorbachev to use inside the Krum Luif he wishes to reduce further red army influence. Using those criteria this sum Mit of sinking expectations might produce a modest gain for both sides. As i kept trying to explain to Talleyrand even in a world of linkage not every Pius has to be somebody else s minus. C now York Timm Carl Rowan homicide other crimes Are pubic Hea Fth problem i watch Ikid the local news on my favorite television one night and was dismayed by the string of horror stories about americans attacking their fellow Citi cons. A 17-year-old Model student in a Maryland sub Urb is shot to death in Broad Daylight in an Annex of his school building. The trial begins of nine Young men and one woman who Are accused of the sexual mutilation and murder of a slightly built. 49-year-old Mother of six. A 22-year-old paralegal whose body was found with her Throat Cut in the bedroom of her locked apart ment is cited As the third employee of a Washington Law firm lobe murdered since 1981. Another trial begins of a 47-year-old Man who reportedly admitted that he stabbed to death a 3-year old girl who cried while he was having sexual inter course with her Babysitter whom he also killed. I knew that this newscast reflected the reality of violence and crime in every big City in America. But i was especially disturbed because i had just had lunch with Margaret heckler outgoing Secretary of health and human services who cited the recent report by a task Force that she commissioned on Black and minority mrs. Heckler had asked me to help make americans understand that homicides muggings rapes and other violent crimes Are not just of concern to those who run the criminal Justice system police the streets or Man the prisons. She asked me to believe and asks you to understand that grievous problems of mental and physical health must be remedied before we can Hope to make America a less violent society. Mrs. Heckler and or. Thomas e. Malone. Chairman of the task Force called my attention to the finding that in 1983 homicide accounted for More than 19,000 deaths in the United states an Overall rate far higher than that of any other industrialized i also Learned at the luncheon that for americans of Ages 1 through 65 homicide ranks fourth among All causes of after heart disease homicide accounts for More excess mortality among Black americans than and other cause of homicide is the leading cause of death for Blac males of Ages 15 to 44. But violence in America is not a racial matter. That tuesday telecast that carried an overwhelm amount of stories of violence visited by one humid being upon another did not really prepare me for what was said wednesday morning on Abc s today to by the surgeon general of the United slates or c Everett Koop. Fresh from a , va., workshop on Violetw and Public health or. Koop noted that some 4 run lion americans fall victim to serious violence every Yea murder rape wife beatings child abuse Mug int. He said that this violence no longer can be re Alt As just a problem of Law enforcement but that Lett � Public health problem that involves rage including Cial hostility poverty and joblessness and other fact i that must be dealt with by health professionals. Listen to a newscast tonight and you will get a Stark lesson in what Secretary heckler and surgeon general Koop arc concerned about. We have be Cooie terribly violent society with the aggression Assa Luw killings respecting no barriers of race wealth or a class. C news America Syndicate
