European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday december 3, 1585 Carl Rowan in Manila Marcos sings that sad old Saigon song on Jan. 18, 1981. Amidst rejoicing Over the release of 52 american hostages by Iran 1 wrote j column warning thai the same kind of damage to . Strate Gic interests involved in the fall of the Shah could happen again soon in the  i had been to Mindanao eating octo pus squid and some sea critters i did t want identified As i listened to filipino peasants Tell me that they would die rather than go on living under the dictatorship of Ferdinand k. Marcos. In hat column of almost five years ago i Drew this parallel the Shah ruled ruthlessly employing political mailings physical torture and worse thus building up a vast network of people who hate him. Marcos has ruled the Philippines through martial Law. Jailing or exiling his foes with More than a few dying mysteriously and he has created a horde of  in the intervening years Marcos and his cronies have held Power through even More draconian measures including Mur Der. The uprisings on Mindanao and other parts of this 7,000-Island archipelago Havi grown with the Marcos brutalities. State department officials have asserted that civil War on a massive scale will erupt in the Philippines unless Marcos institutes far reaching  president Reagan recently sent his close Friend sen. Paul Laxalt r-ncv., to Manila to warn Marcos of . Fears that he was inviting a possible communist takeover. A More immediate . Fear is that it could lose Access to Clark  and the Subic Bay naval station two facilities that arc crucial to the . Military role in the far East. The communist new people s army now embraces some 16,500 fighters enough to frustrate Marcos 300.000 Mcm bar armed forces and the spa ranks Are growing with More and More Clandestine support expected from the so Viet Union. Marcos is singing an old song from Saigon claiming that even though filipino deaths 4.500 so far this Yea. Arc up More than 50 percent Over 1984, he will have Defeated the ragtag spa within a year. I rest these  i but Marcos own defense minister Juan Ponce Enrioc said publicly that it would be at least a decade before the communist insurgency can be contained even with a combination of military eco nomic and social problems. Some americans May be confused about the magnitude of the troubles with in the Philippines because of a roaming embarrassment a cd Jerry talk cell. Yes inc same Rev. Jerry Falwell of the group called moral majority who made a fool of himself by going to South Africa to give Aid and Comfort to the apartheid regime and wound up apologizing for calling Nobel prize winning Bishop Des mond Tutu a  Falwell has just visited the Philippines where the evangelist lauded Marcos and his wife for making the Philippines a Paradise a great land and a free coun  Falwell demanded that the Reagan administration Stop Kcf leaching about Marcos Rule. Falwell is possessed by a demonic notion that no regime however evil must be disowned if there is even a Remote Chance that communists will then come to Power. Marcos has proven himself to be one Slick and devious dude. He has stunned the opposition by calling illegally per haps for election of a president and vice president on Jan. 17, 1986, some 16 months ahead of schedule. Falwell was endorsing Marcos while going through ministerial pretensions of neutrality. The Reagan administration is warning Marcos that the elections must be free and fair something that is utterly impossible considering Marcos Long Iron grip on a inc machinery of govern Cal and the electoral process. This is not Dejavu Iran. It looks like Vietnam All Over again. C Newi America Syndicate James Kilpatrick Justice much depends upon whose of is gored All kinds of people arc having conniption fits these Days at president Reagan s shaping or revolutionising the Federal judiciary. It Walter Mondale had been elected president i might be having conniption fits Loo. So goes inc Ball game. At the last count Reagan had named 223 judges to the District and circuit benches. Eighty five slots arc vacant. Before he goes out of office in 1989, Reagan will have nominated More than half of the 761 judges now authorized. In recent years Only Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisen Hower have paused the 5c percent Mark. No question about it Reagan has sought to select nominees who qualify As conservatives. Overwhelmingly his choices Are White male Republican and Well to do and in the judgment of the american bar association most of them Are highly qualified. He deliberately has reached for Young candidates. We want them around after we re gone says while House coun Sci Fred Fielding. Among the choices at the time of their appointment Richard Posner 7th circuit 43 Frank has Herbrook 7th circuit 36 j. Harvie Wilkinson 4th Cir Cuit 39 Edith Jones 5th circuit 36. The controversial Alex Kozinski who just won his confirmation to the 9th circuit is 34. Thai Prospect of longevity gives me great Comfort it gives Norman Lear great pain. Lear has founded some thing called people for the american Way the better to oppose judicial nominees who do not think the Ameri can Way i.e., who do not think the Way Norman Lear thinks. There s tolerance for you. Other critics arc yelping. Harvard professor Alan Der Showbiz says Reagan s judicial Agenda is to set Back civil  professor Pete Rowland of inc University of Kansas says the fix is on these Guys Are very poli  the liberals who run the Alliance for Justice and the american civil liberties Union arc filled with gloom and consternation. Alas for common cause let us be honest about these things. Most presidents name justices who they think will Vole the Way they would vote Justice William o. Dougla once observed. That is what i would do were 1  Reagan is following precisely the same course pursued in other years and other administrations by George Washington Woodrow Wilson. Franklin Roosevelt Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. Loot at the record. In his first term Reagan named 68 District judges of whom 97.1 percent were republicans. Carter s 202 judges were 94.1 percent democrats Johnson s 122 choices were 94.3 percent democrats the percentages Are not significantly different. Carter picked such reliable liberals As Abner Mikva and Pat Ricia Wald for the court of appeals for the District of Columbia Reagan has chosen such staunch conserva Tives As Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia. This is the Way the system is supposed to work. In greater or lesser degree every president has sought to influence the ideological lilt of the Federal courts. Some presidents have been gravely disappointed Eisenhower named Earl Warren and William Brennan to inc supreme court and lived 10 Rue his nominations As inc dumbest thing he Ever did. Rich Ard Nixon chose Harry Blackmun and Blackmun wrote for the High court in the great pro abortion Case of 1973. You can twin Emall. Reagan intends to win on the big constitutional issues that come before the Federal courts Over the next 20 to 30 years. In this determination he is following the High example of Franklin Roosevelt a president much revered by the Hikcs of Norman Lear Roosevelt Pul Hugo Black William Douglas and Felix Frank Funer on the supreme court. Black stayed on the court for 26 years after for s death in 1945, Douglas for 30 years Frankfurter for 17 years. Sauce for inc Goose is sauce for the Gander. It All boils Down to anole or proverb which teaches that much depends upon whose of is gored. If a future Reagan court one Day should reverse on per missive abortion the Harvard professors and the folks at common cause will be howling of judicial activism. But it was judicial activism thai gave us Roe v. Wade in inc first place. Their activism is my judicial restraint and my re Strain is their activism. They should have elected Mondale. But they did l. C Una trial Preu Syndicate