European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday january 15, 1988 Mary Mcgrory Reagan s anti Sand a Sfa Campaign coming apart Ronald Skacan has no problem with Congress in regard la Nicaragua lie can doubtless bully its members Ima voting military Aid Tor the contras especially now that he by he has found himself some cubans in combat. No. His problem with the country the hemisphere and the world none of which stands will him in his a Csc Sion to overthrow the sandinista government. His muscular and violent Central american policy is a hit on the right Wing banquet circuit where culls for supporting the contras draw Stormy applause else where it gels Boos or yawns. Livery Day. More . Churches offer Sanctuary to Central american refugees. Several american cities most lately i is Angeles i tvs proclaimed their intention to resist no Liori Trai seeking lode Pari political fug lives. Recently Bishop Thomas j. Gumbleton of Detroit cum to town us the Leader of an ecumenical Organiza Tion called quest for peace which has vowed to raise in million for the people of Nicaragua to counter the $27 million Thill the House of represents lives meekly voted Tor the contras ins june. The Bishop announced cheerfully at a press conference attended by representatives of protestant and jewish groups that it was his Hope to reverse the policies of the  nine million dollars has already been collected. The resistance of the Catholic Hierarchy to his cloak and Dagger moves in Central America is a particular Cross for Reagan to Bear. He constantly reminds them that the nicaraguans heckled the Pope during his visit to Managua that the sandinista government is restricting the movements of its most vociferous clerical critic. Car Dinal Obundio y Bravo yet they declare at every Opportunity thai no military Aid should be sent to the area. The rest of the world understands no better. Not a single country not even �1 Salvador has joined in the economic embargo Reagan imposed on Nicaragua last May in a melodramatic speech the president once again wrapped himself in the Mantle of defender of the Church no institution More deeply embodies or Glori fies or seeks to perfect the moral and spiritual goodness of Man. Yet in Nicaragua the Church is the  nobody seems to be listening. Except of course. Congress which his received notice that he is going to make support of inc contras a Campaign Issue and  who do not go along. The cuban charge was aired by Elliott Abrams assistant Secretary of stale for inter american affairs who has won favor with his superiors for representing things in Al Salvador As belter than they arc and in Nicaragua at worse. Like the administration s previous charge of massive shipments of arms from Nicaragua to Al Salvador it is undocumented but the mention of cubans anywhere makes Congo is James Kilpatrick Sionil blood run cold. The presence of Castro s men in Angola is being used to drum up u rerun of our disastrous intervention there. One sponsor of Aid for the maoist rebel Leader Jonas Sav Imbi rep. Claude Pep per d-fla., remembers with a shiver being called red Pepper in a losing Campaign for the Senate 20 years ago. The president said and he was talking to cringing House members not the country if Tom nicaraguans can get material support from communist states and terrorist regimes and prop up a haled communist dictatorship should not the forces fighting for liberation now numbering Over 20,000 be entitled to More effective help his hemispheric rationale for keeping the contras in the ring is unravelling. Supposedly the reason for soldiering on is our responsibility to Nicaragua s neighbors who arc it is said privately cheering us on their actions Are speaking somewhat louder. Honduras is stubbornly refusing to move the 127 million in humanitarian Aid to inc contras. The president sent his new National Security adviser a do John Point Ceil or to the area to straighten the hondurans out. But while poin Duxler was lecturing the hondurans the newly elected president of Guatemala. Vinezio Cert 7xwas calling on his neighbor the dictator in designer glasses As Reagan Calls nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega. Crezo called on other neighbors too. The significance of his Stop in Managua was that he is not about to treat Ortega like a terrorist pariah which Reagan thinks would be appropriate. Reagan officials a miffed at Crezo and growl about cutting Down on the military Aid to Guatemala. When he was clubbing the House into voting the s27 million for the contras Reagan promised to talk with the sandinista. He never has. His message to Congress is that real men Don t negotiate and that Only wimps seek regional solutions. A travelling Man looks Back on a year of Travail my travels in 19k5 took me to Tokyo and Back and i flew on 11 major airlines and slept in hotels that ranged from the Howard Johnson s in rapid City. S.d., to the Plaza in new York. They were about on a sorry Par. Many other persons of course travel far Mure thin this wandering correspondent. Old dad meaning me Cut Down from 100,000 Miles and 100 Days in other years to maybe 70,000 Miles and 60 Days in 1985, but i suspect my impressions of life on the Road arc widely shared. A conviction grows that what counts for most is people the desk clerks Bell men Cashiers the waiters elevator opera tors cab Drivers the ground agents and flight attendants the whole Rosier of men and women who serve the travel Industry. Are they pleasant arc they in to crested in making a customer Comfort Able if something in t right do they try hard to make it right a second conviction Fallows the first goad people Are a function of Good management. I know nothing of management us the Hyatt and Marriott hotels but i would bet that in heir schools for new employees is a required course called friendliness 101. At some of the other big chains i think of Holiday inn Sheraton most person Nel have passed the course but others have flunked it. Management simply is not doing the supervisory Job that management should do. An arriving guest has certain reason Able expectations. If the guest has a confirmed reservation and arrives at 2 or 3 o clock he expects that a room will be ready for him. The room will be clean the to set will work All the lamps will turn on the bathroom will have soap and towels and the Tele phone will be so situated that he can nut it to working use. The decor so Long As it is not really dreadful is of secondary importance. There should be ice conveniently available on the floor. Room service should function with reasonable promptness. It seems Tittle enough to ask and it is up to management to provide it. When these expectations Are not fulfilled the guest has every right to squawk. Most of my own travel experiences in 15135 were pretty Good. I would give four Slars to the Iyalis in Atlanta Minneapolis and Maui though the Maui Hyatt is outrageously overpriced. In Washington d.c., where 1 spend so much of my time tourists will find a dozen first class hostelries. The Gem in the capital s Crown is the hotel Jeffer son under Rose Narva s management. The Madison s High reputation hold up. The remodeler Mayflower the Hay Adams inc Sheraton Carlton and the new . Marriott on Pennsylvania Avenue nil get High Marks. My own favorite Home away from Home is Stouffer s across the Potomac in Arlington where i have averaged 36 nights a year far the past 10 years a whole year of my life in room 1003. The worst Hole i hit Al year was the Drake in Chicago. The desk clerk had the airs of an exiled grand Duke. Room 142 at ii to a night offered a Scenic View of the fire escape. The doors on the to cab inet had been poorly Bung so the screen was obscured. The Plaza in new York was As poor cracked tiles in an antiquated bathroom chipped paint on the Woodwork wretched elevator service Small bucket of ice for is plus tip. The room itself was is 85. Some hotels suffer from a decorator s schizophrenia. The governor s House in Montgomery ala., offers a Telephone in the bathroom but no lid on the j Ohn and no door on the closet. The Sheraton grand Al i he foot of Capitol Hill in Washington houses a to Sci in an elaborate Credenza and positions the sofa so no one can Sec the to. The Howard Johnson s in rapid City provides a suite with a refrigerator but the refrigerator contains no ice cubes and no trays to make some. The doral country club in Miami has Lovely amenities and Beautiful grounds but on u Cool morning in March it had no hot water and an in different desk clerk when i complained could t have cared less. Well you take the Good with the bad. The year was mostly Good and for the record i was fortunate enough to Fly first class on Japan airlines from Honolulu to Tokyo. Someday i May Miike it closer to heaven Bui no by much. Clun Larul Prett san Dietry