European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday november 25, 1985 columns Anthony Lewis military Industrial Complex is stronger than Ever Mikhail Gorbachev provoked american officials on the eve of he Summit by telling hem that the military Industrial Complex has great influence in the United states. Military contractors he said arc push ing president Reagan s strategic defense initiative in order to increase their profits. American diplomats and common tailors put those re Marks Down As soviet misinformation. How hard it is they said to Deal with a Leader who has such an unsophisticated Vic of America. Unsophisticated that Label should be applied rather to an on who doubts the Power of the military Industrial Complex in the United states. Since president Eisenhower coined the term in his Farewell address in 1961, and warned americans against the Complex s unwarranted influence that influence has grown beyond his worst nightmares. On the Day the Summit meeting began in Geneva the Washington Post published a Story under this headline defense contractors arc worried arms control plan could Cost them. Lucrative contracts might be affected by superpower  the Story said defense contractors viewed the proposals for 50 Pyrc Cal cuts in nuclear weapons As Omi  it said Many  contractors fear that weapons they have researched and developed for years will be come objects of superpower bartering before entering the lucrative stage of full  on the same Day a comprehensive article in the new York times listed the contracts already awarded in the ski. Or Star wars program. Try co. Has contracts Carl Rowan totalling $424 million Boeing j2i7 million. Lockheed $192 million and so on. The most lucrative missile contracts the article said have gone to Many of the same companies. That also build minuteman missiles the my missile and military  a defense analyst for first Boston corp. Wolfgang h. Demisch. Said the aerospace companies had to look to Star wars because the traditional defense budget clearly in t going to grow much in the near future. Every company is on notice that if they want to be a Long term player they can t let ski get  that s what Gorbachev said. Americans naturally resist the notion of capitalist conspiracies. Before world War 11. When 1 was growing up we used to laugh at the marxist Click c that capitalist economics depend on War and military production. Things have changed in this country since world War 11. That was exactly Eisenhower s Point and he was no believer in marxist cliches. Until the latest of our world conflicts the United states had no armaments Industry Eisenhower said. But now we have been compelled to create a Perma nent armaments Industry of vast proportions. Added to this 3.5 million men and women Are directly engaged in the defense establishment. In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous Rise of mis placed Power exists and will  when the makers of missiles and space interceptor object to arms control and push for More and More military hardware they do not do so out of evil. They do it out of self interest. What worried Eisenhower and has grown much worse since is the absence of a larger View of american interest. The narrow Outlook has led us to the Lunatic position of thinking that the idea of a 50 percent Cut in our vastly excessive and burdensome nuclear armory is  nuclear weapons have acquired what seems to be an unstoppable moment. In 1985 dollars we have spent $1.9 trillion on the weapons and their delivery systems since 1945. We have More Han 25.000 nuclear weapons now and arc building new War Heads at the rate of about five a Day. Many forces in our society push in that one direction military bureaucracy and the 7cal of the scientists in the weapons laboratories As Well As the economic motives of the aerospace Industry. And yes patriotism As thai word has been cheapened. To doubt that More weapons arc Good for the United states is to risk being considered soft on communism. Worst of All we Are hooked on the drug of military spending As the Way to create jobs. That is what the arms makers Tell us and we have come to believe it. In fact Reliance on military production is sabotaging our ability to produce and compete in civilian goods. From his grave Marx must be smiling at the Ameri can military Industrial Complex. C new York Tolmei Newl service 2 republicans dared to support affirmative action if yol cherish a glimpse at what makes the United slates a remarkable nation and the troubles it faces in staying that Way. You should have watched lbs to s face the nation earlier this month. It was a program that the Reagan administration did not want on the air. It focused on affirmative action require ments in Federal contracts and the Campaign being led by attorney general Midwin a Csc to weaken or wipe out a 20 year old executive order that was de signed to give qualified women and minorities a fair Chance at employment. A majority of the Reagan Cabinet Senate majority Leader Robert Dole and House Republican Leader Robert Michel All Are opposed to changing the executive order. But the Reagan administration for bade assistant attorney general William Bradford Reynolds Iii. Linda Chavez the staff director of the . Civil rights commission or other officials from appearing on face the  lbs went ahead with a cast of charac ters that says something profound about America and the gop. Clarence Pendleton the chair Man of the civil rights commission and probably the most discredited Black per son in the land in the eyes of Black americans wound up defending the Reagan administration although a while House spokesman insisted to me that Pendleton is not part of the administrator the White. Republican mayor of Indi Anapolis ind. Richard Hudnut spoke eloquently against Mccase and the Reagan administration s tactics. A Black Republican. William Mcewen of the Monsanto co. Spoke on behalf of the National association of manufacturers Nam in favor of affirmative action and against what Messe is trying 10 do. Viewers saw the Only in America spectacle of a Black Man Pendleton rail ing against preferential treatment and vowing that president Reagan would Stop it of a while mayor. Hudnul saying that Icse people who arc promoting the Effort to dismantle the affirmative action if edme sewere a founding father Pont hire until programs want to turn the clock All the Way Back and dredge up All the old tur Moil and All the old discrimination that existed before president Johnson and president Nixon put in their orders which established goals and timetables and a Black businessman Mcewen speaking for the Nam. Which embraces 85 percent of All the manufacturing jobs in America saying that the executive order has been a very useful tool in getting us to the Point where we take advantage of All the resources available to us. Voluntary compliance does not  Meese t co. Were hoping that if the administration refused to provide a spokesman lbs would never let Ameri cans hear Hudnut a mayor who rep resents dozens of other City officials who Are resisting Justice department pressures for them to ignore Federal court rulings and consent decrees and wipe out affirmative action programs. Hudnut was eloquent in saying that if Meese can wipe out a general american commitment to the fulfilment of the american dream which is one where everybody has equal Opportunity. You re going to be taking a step backward into the old kind of discrimination where while males got All the  the White male Republican. Hud nut. Said i Don t fault the president. He s gelling bad . He s Good Man. And a kind Man but i think that Brad Reynolds de Mcnese and the civil rights commission arc trying to Force = con scr alive social Agenda in a very doctrinaire i i f Way on the american  that face the nation program a a pleasant reminder thai americans of to political stripes still care for Justice at know when something mean and Defini Tive is being foisted upon Ihm. This Trie Casl was evidence anew that Republican like Hudnul and Mcewen Are free enough and Brave enough to speak out it w As a half hour that made me fed Good about both television and America. C Newt America syndic it ii i to it.  a i us Ranum. M a flirt my to b. We blvd rat Sam my is How it in imm sum