European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday May 17, 1986 columns James Kilpatrick u.$. Citizens Low How Many jobs the Gao and ins data is Clear taxpaying Law abiding industrious Amer ican workers in significant numbers Are being displaced by illegal aliens. When Congress writes a 1987 budget for the ins the operative verb can t be sub  it has to be  la Una hartal or Vodka in James Reston it $ time to change rules of diplomatic immunity something useful May come out of the recent acts of terror in the world after All. For they arc forcing officials to recognize that Many of the rules and customs privileges and immunities of old time diplomacy Are now seriously out of Dale. How United Stales embassies abroad arc built and staffed for example illustrates the Point. Most of them were built for show and not for Security. Many of them arc overstaffed and headed by overstuffed political appointees who know Little Aboul the history culture or languages of the nations they Are supposed to understand. Secretary of state Shultz is trying to appoint professional instead of political ambassadors and to get a few billion dollars out of the Congress to secure the embassies but even if he makes it hell still have some other problems for in the terror zones of world affairs even if embassies and ambassadors Are made More secure the foreign service officers and their families who live and work there Are at risk. Things have calmed Down a bit in recent Days but for minor embassy officials living in insecure houses and gel Ling their children safely to school and Back again is a constant worry. It s a special problem for the wives of foreign service officers living in these diplomatic War zones. They rebelled Long ago against being the unpaid servants of their govern ment and their husbands. This generation of . Diplomatic wives is belter educated and less subservient than any before. They have professions of their own and wonder Why they have to give them up and follow their Guys even if they love them into capitals where they can t practice their professions or even be sure about the education and Security of their kids. No doubt George Shultz has thought about this and if he has t you can be sure his wife will remind him. In All embassies including foreign embassies in the United states Many of the rules go Back to the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and before. Then As now embassies were regarded As part of National soil a private preserve far communication Between ambassadors and their governments at Home protected by diplomatic immunity for the conduct of the legitimate and necessary business of composing the inevitable differences betwee nations. Bui that s not the Way it has been working lately. The principle of diplomatic immunity for example has been used by some outlaw nations to protect people who commit crimes of violence As when the London police were fired upon from the libyan embassy and the Cul prits were Given Safe passage Home. Day by Day official messengers travel from one capital to another with their diplomatic pouches at their fee guaranteed Freedom from inspection by customs officers when they arrive. But these Days the pouches from some countries May contain not proposals for peace but plans and even instruments of terror. Under the old rules still in existence the soviet Union for example or Libya or Syria could Send As Many diplomats As they liked to foreign capitals or to the United nations calling them journalists or students or cultural professors though Many of them were nothing More than cops checking on one a Nattier or spies. In fairness it has to be said that the United Stales and the other Western nations have been playing the same game though not to the same extent but still corrupting the diplomats process through the Cia with fake news paper reporters and wandering  some things Are being done about All this but not to great effect. The United slates is trying to kick out Tome of the sowl cops from the United nations and every Day or so the British or French or spaniards expel some libyan or syrian diplomatic hug but that does t really it was a British ambassador. Sir Henry. Wotton who expressed As a scribbled joke that an ambassador is an honest Man who is sent abroad to lie for his country his Sovereign James i fired him for his indiscretion. But in some parts of the world an ambassador is sent abroad to murder for his country and when he is found put is merely expelled and then honoured As & hero whence gets Home. What can be done about All this is hard to Tell there has to be privacy and some kind of immunity for can cd embassies and their servants but not immunity for murder or parking their cars in the Middle of the maybe we need to reappraise the diplomatic Rule of the Congress of Vienna i my 5 was a Long time ago. And the world is full of experienced and retired diplomats who might like to go Back to Vienna and try to bring them a clone yen Tolmei