European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday May 11. T9b6 James Reston Libya Ukraine issues f sidetrack arms talks the United states and the said Union Are now Alan Oiher or Lical Point in their Long struggle 10 control the nuclear arms race and it s being complicated by the Issue of error in Libya and the nuclear reactor explosion in the ukr Ninci what s the it s asked in Washington of negotiating u nuclear arms agreement with the russians if they conceal Lite Ruih or their deadly radioactive Acci Dent not Only from their neighbouring nations bul from. I hair own people How could we Trust them w abide by Uny nuclear treaty with us. What s the use it s asked of supporting european allies when they Don i support us in our air Ranii on Libya to Miami Nair Kha Dufy inti control slate terror ism these arc Papular questions put Forward in All sincer Ity by some influential members of the Reagan administration and Congress and apparently supported by inc american people who Are now cancelling their summer plans to �0 to Europe and the Middle Wasl in fear of terror which in a Way is a Triumph for khad Afy. Keeping the major question or controlling nuclear weapons from being Side trucked by Libya and the disaster in the Ukraine is now the problem. Clearly there has been a wide swing of Public opinion in the United states against the soviet Union since its cover up of he nuclear fire in the Ukraine and also against Mast or the european allies since their opposition against . Air raid on Libya. Bul Long before this recent crisis the chief Justice of inc . Warren Burger observed in 1981 that terror in the United Stales was much More alarming that terror abroad. ,. For the last 10 years he said Many of oar National leaders and those of other countries have spoken of inter National terrorism. Bul our rate of routine Day to Day terrorism in almost every Large City of the United Stales exceeds the casualties of nil the reported International terrorists in any Given the state department reports thai 23 amen cans were killed in terrorist attacks abroad last year and five americans were murdered abroad in the first four months of 1986, while 1,384 were murdered for one Rea son or another in new York City alone in 1985. The new Republic reported recently thai More americans drowned in heir own bathtubs last year than died in terrorist attacks. This is not in say that president Reagan and the other leaders of the Industrial nations were wrong to com Damn stale terrorism though u should be noted that each insisted on protecting its interests and dealing with it in its own Way Don t cull us Well Call you Flora Lewis Center Fertile Crew Inaho Dama Day the. Us inmates was juju tvs but it is to say thai inc main problem in the interest of All nations is 10 prevent khad Afy and the disaster in the Ukraine from blocking he negotiations Between Washington and Moscow to control nuclear weapons. This is the Central question of the last years of the Century. Mikhail Gorbachev misjudged the Caia Strophe in the Ukraine und very late tried to recover by calling for help from the International atomic Energy commission officials and inviting experts from the West to help he poisoned wounded. What the leaders of the Industrial nations seemed to understand perhaps More in their meeting in Tokyo than any of their meetings in the Pas is that their economic and financial policies like Ike nuclear Cloud from the Ukraine Drift beyond their Borders and influence the lives of people beyond their control. They came out against terror but terror has Many faces including he staring eyes and swollen bellies at children in the hungry two thirds of the world. On this tragedy they had nothing to say. Adversity and even tragedy has its uses. And it May even be that Gorbachev Learned something by the nuclear disaster in the Ukraine. Maybe he thing including he dangers of modern arms and technology As president Reagan has Learned since he recent failures of his satellites. But we can t be sure. Anyway though some May be saying what s the use of going on with More Summit meetings on Arm control and others May be rating what s the use of allies who Don t behave As we like that s no really the View of Reagan or his principal advisers they see at least some of them do the possibility of some kind of Compromise on Afghanistan and even Nicaragua that would ease the tension and Lei them go on to n Reagan Gorbachev meeting later in the year to break the crisis of Confidence and make some limited Progress on inc main problem of nuclear arms control in new von Tolmei new str let after Summit Japan braces for economic changes Tokyo the Tokyo Summit will go Down As a Milestone some participants said a threshold toward a new level of acceptance thai the world s Economy is in Irie ably linked. Several limes in inc last generation the Western world seemed headed for the kind of economic explosion that produced the great depression of the 1930s. It was t warded off by Luck but by conscious Effort. At last the realization is dawning that this Effort has to be steadily sustained. For no country will the required transformation be More profound and wrenching than for Japan. It will Avreet habits and cultural patterns that go Back through history and in Wilt reverse same of he Basic assumptions of Japan s contemporary society. Thai is an enormous undertaking and he great debate about in is beginning prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasonc has come under fire for proclaiming the new goal without National endorsement. The first angry reaction to he Summit Here was hat he failed to secure International support for a ceiling on the yen whose soaring Exchange Rale is crimp ing japanese exporters that has Hurt him. But the underlying Issue he has provoked will remain u Calt for social As Well As economic change at Home to make Japan a member of the wide world that it has entered so fur Oaly As trader and investor. Nothing less than the confucian work ethic is challenged in his proposal that he japanese should consume More work less live belter and worry less about personal conformity. As one senior official put it we Nave Al ways lived like the am in Aesop s fable. Now we have to learn there is also something to be said for the grass hop per.". If this sounds familiar to Hose who remember inc 1960s acid Early 1970s in the United Stales with attacks on he protestant work ethic the parallel should not be drawn too closely. Japan sees its problem As How to live up to its new wealth after centuries of extolling poverty because there was no Choice not How to live wealth Down and to disdain materialism. There i sensitivity resentment and a certain fear in response to the irate Western criticisms of the Way dil Igent disciplined Japan has been flooding the world s markets. Many thoughtful people have come to recognize the Ruilt of the Midas malady the Fate of the mythical greek King whose touch turned everything to Gold and so was doomed 10 die because Gold can neither nourish nor nurture despite their Lack of resources the japanese Are in something of he position of Petroleum producers when they suddenly skyrocketed Oil prices. They Are taking Loo much Money Oul of the world trading system and they have to find n Way to Recycle u or it won t do them any Good. There Are really Only two ways possible spend it abroad on imports investments and development Aid or spend it 21 Home. Bolh ideas but up against deeply ingrained japanese tradition and the japanese feel strongly that it is their traditions that define their specific identity. At the same time those who advocate what they readily Call changing mentality argue that one partic ular japanese Trail is the capacity for drastic change particularly under intense outside pressure. The Good things which sparked japanese culture All came from abroad said an energetic politically minded High tech scientist. First of course from China. Then with the Meiji restoration a Century ago from Europe and after world War ii from America the american occupation is credited not Only with instilling the idea of democracy but Wilh providing a solid foundation through land Reform and a Redis Tribu live tax system lha has reduced the Gap Between he of earners and the Bottom earners to about b Tolar More egalitarian than in the United Stales. Now those who think beyond method such Asin reforms aimed Ai reducing the incentive to save or in creasing government spending talk of forcing a change of society could be As Greal As the change brought by America s Commodore Perry who battered open fortress Japan and Ted to the 19th-Century renewal of the met emperor s supremacy or by Gen. Douglas Macarthur s occupation regime. Both japanese and american officials lend to speak in technical economic terms but a cultural philosophical even moral transformation is involved and it won t Hap pen overnight. Id urn York Tumcl my service _ the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons a this paste represent Thoie of the suitors in an in now a to Law considered us representing the Erlewi of the Sura and stripes or the United Stales totem men. 1 a i y
