European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday december 30. 1985 columns & comments William Safire Reagan s lie Detector plan punishes the innocent two Yak trs a o. A Arnst if Aducci of his chief if stiff. His Icca counsel ind i Sec Flarv of stale. President Reagan signed National Security decision directive x4. Stripping Over a Hundred thou Sand americans of their right 10 privacy b forcing them to undergo so called lie Detector tests. Secretary Shutz ice it be known he would resign if he were no longer trusted the Congress stepped in and said no with an election coming up. The president rescinded the order thai might have helped him scare government officials from leaking embarrassing information. Now there arc no More re election re maints a month ago a National Security planning group chaired by inc soon to Diriart Robert Mcfarland. And including the new chief of staff Donald Regan put inc Abor Nin ii Urt into Nidd 196. Recommending that the . Government adopt in principle the use of Aperiodic non lifestyle counter intelligence Type polygraph examinations. Reagan did no l show inc document to a Hill hims counsel Fred Fielding nor to Treasury Secretary James . Who opposed the plan to plug leaks under cover of fighting espionage. He put it before inc president who signed his name under i have decided this policy should be Stab  Secretary shall Ihnn objected on Prin Ciple in Public the president said shucks this does t mean we would flutter big . And his spokesman pushed the pre tense that 196 Only had to do with spying Nui leaking. When an admin Ermion source com Ibe Washington Post that the president said privately that he had not been fully briefed on the measure that it had been railroaded through  with out comment by counsel spokesman  Scakes affirmed thai the Percsi de in knew exactly what he had signed. Believe that. Ronald Reagan is not pull in the hands of the cases win Burger me Csc Axis. He has his own Dink Side and has Long wanted to put the fear of the lie Detector in anybody who talks about plans to overthrow khad Afy. Tud with spying in the news he has William f. Buckley have it take pow8raph test his Chance to crack Down on internal Dis sent by using he concern about espionage. The Central fact is that the polygraph is the spy s Best Friend. The professional agent is trained to fool the machine. When Cia Boss William Casey challenged James Baker to a polygraph test on a conflict of sworn testimony about Deb Legate he was taking no Chance the director  a lest cacs by the highest polite Cal social economic standards it is a mess though by less than the highest standards it is less than thai is not our doing. If the Philippines is yet one More of those scores of countries that can t yet handle democracy ii is no More our fault that this should be so than in is our fault thai Bolivia has had 50 revolutions in this Century. One might Cavil by saying. But in was America thai conquered the Philippines in the course of pursuing our Brief War with Spain at the turn of the Century. And what followed was a half Century of colonialism. To which the appropriate answer is yes. We can plead guilty of a bout of imperialism. But we did a fairly convincing Job of expiation when in 1946 we pulled out of the Philippines leaving its people with a dam Coralic Patrimony to be sure insufficiently fertilised. Our Trade agreements were successively modified to suit nationals philippine ambitions. The military relationship the two countries have is unusual. We liberated inc Philippines from a japanese domination that exacted a toll of 1 million philippine casualties. We proceeded to build our bases there at huge expense to pay Well for the use of the properly and incidentally to support Lens of thousands of filipinos hired to help create those bases. Manila was the Silc for the launching of the Southeast Asia treaty organisation in 1954. And the Philippines sent combat troops to Korea and engineers to South Vietnam. Relations Between our countries have been As cordial As those Between any two countries with this Grain of Sand in the machinery. I Iii Pius Plu Lvi in. But Here is where the distinction Musl be Quito whereas philippine politics is an indigenous concern a balance of Power in the Pacific is an american Contra and Ferdinand Marcos sees this. This is the moment of skillful diplomacy. We need logo a step further Len 10 leave our bases in the Philippines at the mercy of demo cratic whimsy. It is usually better not to be Loo specific of describing sensitive negotiations and the direction they should go. But it would be a failure in american s inc Point of today s lesson that