European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday january 27, 1986 Mary Mcgrory assassination consequences could be horrendous How to make Arafat look like a moderate,.skn. Howard met7.enbaum, of Ohio May have done us ill i great service by blurting out what number of people a ivc been whispering since the terrorist Nii ils tin airports in Rome and vice run. Austria. Maybe he said in a Cleveland id vision interview that is crackling across the land we re a i that Point in the world where or. Khad Afy a to be  there you have it a . Senator talking like a mobster a terrorist or an agent of the Cia in the bad old Days when taking out an annoying world Leader was in Vogue. We now Sec How terrorism maims minds too frankly. I have Iliff icky with my own thinking on  Mere Baum added As Well he might he was u critic of the rogue elephant that the Cia became during he Yean of targeting a Lumumba or a Castro Tor elimination with extreme prejudice revelations of which caused the Agency and the country shame Dis Grace find extreme Chagrin.  dropped his rom Bosque Bombshell again in an interview with he Cleveland Plain dealer lie was shown on the today show in the unlikely Guise of a Liberal wanting to unleash the Cia s William Casey and n Democrat making Ronald Reagan look Tike Little lord faunal cry in his approach o no crisis. I have difficulty in distinguishing Between a warplane dropping a bomb on the Headquarters or khad Afy and per haps taking he lives of dozens or hundreds of people or a singular kind of  nfct7, explained. A singular attack May be justified he said if khad Afy is truly behind the Christmas week atrocities in Rome and Vienna. Offing khad Afy might satisfy the blood lust of some americans but the consequences could be horrendous. The United states knows better than most the trauma of losing the head of stale in gunfire. Arab countries As unc. Would scream for vengeance and the hit squads would be dispel Chad to give equal treatment to Ronald Reagan and for that Mailer Howard . Besides possibly starting world War Iii the murder would be illegal. The executive order governing . Intelligence operations specifically forbids assassination no person employed by or acting on behalf of the . Government shall engage in or conspire to engage in  paragraph 212 forbids indirect participation no Agency of the intelligence Community shall participate in or ecu Ucol any person to undertake activities forbidden by this  nothing could be clearer. And met7cnbaum is a lawyer. It s sad said James ?.k, a former colleague of  s who is now chairman of the Ameri can Arab Ami discrimination committee. What kind of hysteria gets into people whose turn will it be next to show we can be As Barbaric As the terrorists but another solution to the problem the Hunting George will Fis,2 Down and elimination of Abu Nidal the alleged Leader of the Christmas killers poses no morn i Dilc Init for Many people. A progressive Catholic priest who mid he probe ably should t be talking that Way said that to him it was like Downing a gunman who is spraying machine gun fire in a shopping mall he is a menace to Public safely. Clark Clifford the ultimate Washington lawyer and former Counselor to president Truman has no qualms about taking care of individual terrorists. We Ore n government of Laws but now has come up a situation which is not encompassed by our concept of government by Law and what we must do is defend ourselves the Best Way we can lie told a press breakfast. It does t bother me a bit he said he docs not want the Law forbidding assassinations repealed. We should encourage Nidal s enemies to help us he said. Just get it done. Don t talk about  a Washington wimp today is somebody who wants the murderers caught but brought to trial. The reason Given for rejection is .1 curious one. A trial it is argued would mean publicity for the butchers. But what kind someone who murdered an 11-year-old girl in the Rome Airport would hardly Garner sympathy for his cause. What is most dismaying about All this verbal show of Force is that if the same Energy and boldness were Dis played in attacking the Root causes of terrorism the world might become a Sofer place. But nothing is said. Most see the Issue with Clifford As almost insoluble.1 and few american politicians have dared Beard the israelis on the question of a palestinian Homeland von Are going to have terrorism As Long As you have these million or so palestinians who feel they have been Dis placed from their country says Clifford. Says Abd Lirk a the More hopeless they feel the easier it is to recruit them for suicide  1c Universal Pretl Syndicate new Telescope could alter How we see ourselves from near the Edge of the uni verse and the beginning of time a duelling Stream of data will soon flow to the Johns Hopkins Campus it will Iii farm astronomy and perhaps Mankind s vie of itself. This August a space Telescope will be put in orbit. It weighs 12 tons is the size of a bus and is Mure precise than the finest watch. Its optical Mirror is eight feet in diameter and the average Devia Tion of its surface from a perfect curve is less than ii manometers millionths of a meter. J will be a clean window in the universe astronomy unfit Rcd by Earth s atmosphere. Astronomy looking through the Atmo sphere has been likened to Bird watching i rum the Bottom of a  a Small win Dow was opened in 1983 with an infrared astronomical satellite. The new Telescope will see things that Are 50 times fainter and t Liere forc seven times deeper in space. Just 10 use the space Telescope to aim it will require astronomy never done before. In a room insulated from vibration Shock proof machines make 7,000 passes up and Down photographic plates 1,500 of them mapping the universe. That is complicated because our Galaxy is composed of Bod ies in motion the Galaxy is in motion and the universe which has uncounted galaxies is expanding. Earth based telescopes can observe entities 8 billion Light years away. The space Telescope will see at least. 12 billion Light years away. It is a Lime machine for studying Light the evidence of processes perhaps us per cent of the Way to the Edge whatever that might mean of the universe Light from events 85 percent of the Way back10 the big bang the beginning of Lime 15 billion or so years ago. Astronomy has exerted a pow Erful pull on Mankind s imagination and hence on philosophy and theology. For Cen Turies and until recently science was considered a subvert or of religion. Do if a sense of Awe about the mysteries and Aston Ishin Gness of life is truly the wellspring of the religious impulse contemporary Astron omy could nourish that impulse. Galileo s discovery 315 years Jjo of satellites orbiting Jupiter was dispiriting to people who thought if things orbit things other than Earth then Earth probably is not the Center of the universe and Mankind. Loo May be a somehow marginal phenomenon. But consider what we ate about to see the space Telescope will peer into space that is duster and More violent than Man kind has thought when speaking of the Clear and peaceful heavens. Yet a strange serenity can come from contemplating it Early in this Century analysis of Light revealed that Many galaxies Are racing away from us. This tact and the 1963 discovery that the universe is bathed in radiation suggested that the universe is still expanding from an explosion the big bang that created it. And there is a wonderful literally a cause for wonder balance in the aftermath of the explosion a balance illustrated by the timely arrival of Hallcy s Comet. Perhaps the space Telescope by focusing on Lite most Distant fastest moving galaxies can determine whether the universe s expansion is slowing if it is this question is posed might expansion Stop and there be a col lapse had the big bang been smaller and the expansion less vigorous it might have collapsed Back upon itself in a few minutes or few million years. Were this mass to re Inal explode it would confirm the oscillating theory of the universe. The steady stale theory holds that the universe constantly creates matter As fast As it consumes it and a eternal had the bang been More violent it might have dispersed the dust of creation so Chaoti Cally that there could have been no Organiza Tion of Mailer conducive to life. Think How closely calibrated Earth s orbit around the Sun must be How Earth s atmosphere must shield some rays and admit others the continuing consequences of the big Dang is theologically suggestive Beer True us consequences arc staggeringly improbable. Contemporary astronomy strengthens the impulse to believe that say Dante s idea of god is sit least slightly More plausible than the idea that an accidental explosion caused the dust of creation to evolve into Dante. Or Cal Ripken who plays for Iho orioles Down the Street from Johns hop Kins think of it. The Smyc of the Art shortstop and state of the Art science both in Baltimore. Was Renaissance Flor ence in its glory More glorious to was Englon push