European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday. December 1. 1985 columns Anthony Lewis obsess on with Russia Clouds nuclear arms policy after almost 40 Vaks l being deeply concerned about arms and arms Contri l. I be come to we look the wrong Road. We could not make a rational policy on nuclear weapons be cause we were obsessed with Russia. I rom the beginning with the in Bruch proposal we coupled How terrible the weapons arc with How terrible the rus sians Are so the More you describe the horrors of nuclear War the More you fear the russians. One does t think of them As human at All the diabolical russians we have wasted our substance now for .10 years and More fighting some phantom russian. We be neglected America in favor of Russia. It s time that we thought about America. I say get our own House in order to thine own self be professor . Rabi was talking Over lunch near Columbia University. If there is a grand old Man of physics today it is Rabi h7 now. Winner of the Nobel prize in 1944. Key figure in the building of the atomic bomb beloved teacher at Colum Bia for decades adviser to presidents. His subject was the somber one of the arms race but Rabi was not melancholy As he spoke of it. He talked with verve with an irony that was almost amuse ment. There Are people in this country who Hale the russians More than they love he said. We have made Russia Paramount in our thinking and you can see the results in inc deterioration of the United states. Japan is Selling steel at . Steel s Doorstep. Our electronics Industry is being mow did our economic troubles link to inc obsession with the soviet Union i asked. Our Best brains have gone else where he said to military research and development. And the supposed spin off from weapons to Industry did not amount to much. Rabi was not arguing that the soviet system was pleasant or its lenders Nice fellow. H Point was that for deterrence we do not need to go on building More and More weapons of mass destruction. We have spent $750 billion on nuclear arms since 1945, and we arc spending More right now than we Ever have. Americans arc not Rabi said. And we re educated on the horrors of James j. Kilpatrick these weapons. Yec l i on building them. It s no use arguer of with the people who say we cannot Slop the arms race or Russia will win. They invent theories fas Ter than you can refute the like Ward Teller warning .it inc russians would evade a nuclear test ban by testing behind the Sun i Don t know what our objective is vis a vis the russians to we think we can spend them into destruction country that recovered from devastation in world War ii and made itself into a superpower it is a recent new York times Magazine article underlined Rabi s Point about morbid fear of the soviet Union. The piece was by David k. Shiplor. Who was the times correspondent in Moscow for years. Shiplor Well knows the cruelties of the soviet system. But he was Slick on returning to this country from abroad by the frightening View of russians that per Vades american culture. Vicious and absurd caricatures of russians have become Standard fare in a current genre of commercials and films he wrote. There is the rambo image with gun Happy americans triumphing Over russians who look like nazis and even speak with German accents. We need an external villain Shiplor said. The russians fill role conveniently because they arc in a real ideological conflict with us and because our two cultures Are both evangelical each believing it has the most righteous Politi Cal and economic system in human history the United states docs have to worry about soviet Power. But it is not a rational response to inter Ryan arms race that has had destructive effects on our own society and has Given us no Secu Rity advantage beyond the deterrence provided by a few Hundred nuclear weapons. Are politicians really incapable of rationality on this overwhelming problem no president of the United slates can meet a soviet Leader and produce a Pat solution. However a president could come out of a Summit meeting with a reasoned Agenda for limiting nuclear weapons and with the message that while the communist system is repugnant to us. Russians and americans have in common the need to prevent Mutual annihilation. Pc new York time those were the 6oop of pays it Ltd j Law against sex discrimination also protects men a a she must be m Anaheim. Calif. To his Schrumn or ii. Ii Hir lir Kun non in Ai. Justice Josenh r firn in Uin lit i Fri. A. _ ii All began one Day in went to the metro car Wash. He was then an 18-year old Studen in Chagrin he Dis covered that it was ladies Day at the car Wash and women were getting a discount that he could t have. This horrendous imposition struck him to the Core. Determined to end the outrage Young Kirc brought suit against 11 car washes and seven bars that similarly gave special treatment to the girls. His Case failed to impress a Superior court judge in Orange county. It found no favor in the View of a three judge panel of the court of Appeal but last month the California supreme court reversed the lower courts. Farewell to ladies Day Young Koire brought his suit under California s Unruh civil rights act. It declares that no matter what their sex All persons arc entitled to equal advantages facilities privileges or set vices in All business establishments of every kind whatsoever. Speaking through chief Justice Rose e. Bird the California supreme court concluded that sex based Dis counts were an advantage forbidden by the Law. The defendants had argued that ladies to discounts were simply Good business they were profitable they brought in customers who might never have come in at in addition inc bar owners contended that their Cut rate cocktails encouraged More women to attend the bar. Thereby promoting More interaction Between the this they deemed to be a socially desirable goal of the state. Chief Justice Bird would have none of it. Any such social policy she snapped is a far cry from the social policies that have justified other exceptions to the the societal interest that justifies preferential treatment for old folks housing cannot be compared to the goal of attracting Young women to a the defendants further contended that no one really was injured by the special favors. The court disagreed the plaintiff was adversely affected by the Price Dis counts. His female Peers were admitted to the bar free while he hid to pay. On the Days he visited the car washes he had to pay More than any woman customer based solely in his -.m". Four Days after this decision in the matter of bars and car washes the California supreme court held that the boys club of Santa Cruz will have to give up its Rule of boys Only. The Uii Ruh act is Broad enough to encompass an incorporated non profit Community organization within the meting of business establish Mcnol. If a girl applies to the boys club for Mem he must be admitted. Justice Joseph. Grodi sought to soften he Impact of his decision by emphasizing certain facts in the Santa Cruz Case nothing we say requires a similar result in the Case of other single sex youth dissenting Justice Stanley Mosk disagreed. We saw Ilai a death Knell for fraternities and the two opinions in California arc not unique courts m i Pennsylvania and new York have issued similar Rul Ings. In july 1984, the . Supreme court held. 7-0. That the Minnesota Jay cacs Rould not exclude women from membership. The new Jersey supreme court held m 974 that Little league baseball teams could not ban girls just because they were girls. There is no denying that a Law forbidding sexual discrimination prohibit discrimination not Only against women but also again then. � so be it but let me Rue the judicial trend anyhow. It May be Mere chauvinism on my part but i see nothing inherently evil or morally wrong or socially destructive in a Little extra a i Vilge Olla Radics. Ladie i l Park is an ancient american the sensitive lad in California. I never Felt the Misti est sense of unfairness in the arrangement. C in Luerul Preu so Naiuli
