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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday april 7, 1986 columns William Safire former Reagan aide peddling Access in a big Way of f a Stii t  a a a i the growing Reagan Access peddling mess was presaged in this space four years ago in a suggestion that Michael Caver Public relations Man to the presi Dent might be advertising for clients in his complaints about the hardship of living on a White House salary. You implied that i am using my White House position to obtain clients for the future protested Caver or assisting former clients for personal gain. I resent the  one year later came the announcement of the White House diet a publishing venture in which Deaver was to supple ment his salary by using the White House imprimatur on a diet Book. That private exploitation of his Public position was tac itly approved by ethics guardian Fred Fielding but when it was pointed out Here that the project was shaped to bring in $300,000 for Deaver the Book contract was quietly shelved. The setback did not Stop him. A few objected to an unseemly perk saving $8,000 by using his office to import a West German car but most allowed the sleaze level to Rise without comment. Now Deaver is on the outside peddling Access in a big Way the by bomber representation Deaver s firm represented Rockwell International before Reagan became presi Dent during the interregnum in 1980-81, he arranged for Rockwell executives to Brief Reagan National Security aides. Sub sequently Deaver often sat in on National Security Council meetings at which this subject May have been discussed. Now Deaver is representing Rockwell again urging the administration to increase air Force purchases of by bombers. Is this Legal if so should it be the puerto rican tax break puerto Rico hired Deaver to help protect its $600 million subsidy from tax Reform ers. Time Magazine reported that he placed a ground to air Call to air Force one As it flew to the Geneva Summit to preserve the subsidy. If True that would be against regulations forbidding such lobby ing of former associates within a year of leaving government. Deaver who took my Call declares the time report inaccurate i never called air Force one in connection with any  William f. Buckley mouse or is 6erman visit Advance Man Michael Deavil a Fly Whit with the pr6sfi6l s or Brof ,fldh6n and w0nber6 the acid rain turnaround former Reagan aides say that Deaver while still in the White House took an uncharacteristically substantive interest in the Central Issue Between Canada and the United states. Canada became one of the ear Liest Deaver clients and the Reagan position was changed. Michigan rep. John Dingell has asked the government accounting of fice to investigate for possible conflict of interest. The ambassadorial appoint ment involvement while in the White House Deaver took part in recommending ambassadors. When a Deaver operative telephoned . Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin to ask him to make room for the next appointee Gavin hotly refused and Reagan later reaffirmed his appointment As envoy. Even without his own Choice in Mexico City Deaver won a piece of the mexican account. The saudi policy reversal two weeks after hiring Deaver at $500,000 a year saudi Arabia is being import Ned by George Bush to bolster Oil prices in a flip Flop of our free Market position. Says Deaver i have not discussed Oil prices with anybody in the . Government or in the saudi  the South korean approach Ever since the ton Sun Park scandal South Korea has searched for Washington influence. I am told that during a trip to South Korea after leaving the White House Deaver called the Csc staff to arrange a meeting Between Reagan and Kim Kihwan a Trade official and president of the i Hae foundation. Deaver s largest Cli ent is now South Korea. Says Deaver about the report of this Call i Don t  Robert Mcfarlane then National Security adviser says the same. But the meeting took place. This is a pattern that suggests the ethics in government act May have been violated. Attorney general Meese meets regularly with Deaver on the Board of trustees of the Reagan presidential foundation of which Deaver is chief fundraiser. Since the Justice department is compromised the Gao is ill equipped and allegations Are wide spread the time has come for the appoint ment of a special counsel. When i leave i have no idea what i will do wrote the irate Deaver in 1982. I could very Well not return to the  i did not believe him then about not preparing for his future i do not believe him now. C new York times senator equates anti be mimics with anti abort to nisus politics deals in hyperbole but it is one thing to expect hyperbole another to become so cynical about its exercise As to decline even to notice it which brings us to sen. Bob Packwood a Ore. I have Here a dear Friend Money raising letter from the senator the first half of which is devoted to denouncing a Kook anti semitic outfit called aryan nations which apparently threatened to kill sen. Packwood in retaliation for his support of Israel. If aryan nations is going to kill every legislator who supports Israel we re going to have the greatest massacre in the history of Legislatures. And if aryan nations goes on to kill every american who supports Israel Why that will reduce the population of the United states about As a first strike by the soviet Union would reduce it. So sen. Packwood wants to publicize threats against him by mad dogs of. But before you know it the senator commits a Little elision. All of a sudden he is talking about anti abortion groups some of which have rated him As a principal target in the forthcoming elections. Here is the connective tissue Between the jew haters and the anti abortion folks As executed by sen. Bob whose letter goes out under the Banner dear Bob you do not stand  somewhere some kid who has never known a jew where Are such kids kept in the smithsonian and does t under stand the holocaust sits in the dark of the night and listens to this filth. And to that kid their message May make sense. Kids like that Don t get messages just from the aryan nations or other Radical groups. They also hear from those who use these groups tactics. For example because i support the right of a woman to make a Choice about whether or not she wants to have an abortion some extreme right Wing groups have labelled me senator death and targeted me for political destruction in their literature they describe me and All pro Choice people As having the blood of millions of inno cent human lives on your hands and it troubles me that the same kid who listens to the message of the aryan nations will listen to this message As Well they All show a totalitarian inability to hear both sides of an  they Are intolerant and  now sen. Packwood is Here saying that it is intolerable talk not to be distinguished from that of genocide for jews talk to say that abortion results in the death of innocent people. Talk about moral deafness which the senator is ostensibly deploring. If one believes that a fetus is entitled to the Protection of the Law which position was the near unanimous position of the state Legislatures up until 1973, How else does one reason then that abortion re sults in the death of innocents sen. Packwood like so Many others who favor the right of abortion is himself flagrantly guilty of what he charges the opposition with being guilty of failing to understand the arguments of the anti abortionists. If one holds that an unborn child has rights apart from those of the child s Mother then there is no possible conclusion other than that the Abor Tion of that child is a bloody violation of human rights. Highly civilized people believe that the Mother ought to have that right. But the opposing position has got to adopt the Syllogistic imperative you can t oppose Abor Tion without concluding what the anti abortion people conclude. Just As you cannot believe in human rights without concluding that anyone who believes in or countenances the Slaughter of jews is to put it gently an inconsistent believer in human rights. Sen. Packwood is engaged in the disreputable exercise of polemical sleight of hand by suggesting that the kind of people who oppose abortion Are the same kind of peo ple who believe in genocide. It would seem to me that whether abortion is right or wrong those who oppose it on the grounds that a biological entity minus one Day old is More nearly alike to an entity plus one Day old is much More Likely to respect the Universal right to live of All people irrespective of race or Creed than those who have trained themselves to believe that infanticide is a term Only applicable to those who extinguish one Day old life before which anything the Mother wishes is a of. The abortion Issue to one Side what hurts is the brute mauling of the civility of democratic discourse. Oppose abortion and single out the democratic Way those who disagree As political enemies. That is of to do if you disagree with your senator on economic policies night to work Aid to the contras whatever but if it s abortion you Are the kind of Guy who listens curiously patiently ardently to aberrant jew killers. C Universal press Syndicate  
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