European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes saturday May 24, 1986 Mary Mcgrory Waldheim belongs on state department nazi list Austria should be do Nazif cd. Llis Long overdue. . Attorney general Edwin macs can begin the process by putting the name or Kurt Waldheim candidate for the presi Dency of Austria on the watch fist the Roll of suspected War criminals who arc barred by Law from entering the United Stales. The office of special investigations of the Justice department has recommended it. The . Senate concurs. We Bear some of the onus for Austria amnesia about its nazi past. In an Effort to coax Austria away from the Axis we designated it Hitler s first  in fact Austria was not invaded it was annexed by the nazis who were welcomed wildly by the natives including Kurt Waldheim former Secretary general of the United a Lions. He joined a nazi student Union and volunteered to be a storm trooper he says now to protect my  Austria always Waltzes away from an discussion of its anti semitism and its weakness for Hitler. The germans under our prodding have studied their War crimes. They teach Hitler in their schools Lake their children to Dachau and other death Camps. The austrians by contrast pretend it never happened. No War criminal has been prosecuted in Austria since the end of the Allied occupation. Waldheim simply hollers slander when the world jewish Congress which is on his Case unearths yet another document that proves yet another lie on his part. In his memoirs Waldheim wrote that he bad Farewell to arms in 1941, after being wounded. In fact the papers in the National archives show that he served for three years on the staff of Gen. Alex Anderlohr who presided Over massacres of yugoslavian partisans hostages and jews an supervised the deportation of 60,000 jews from  world jewish Congress has presented evidence that Waldheim received medal for Merit under fire on the Battle Field after a particularly bloody  says it was a unit citation he was just an  makes the sickening claim these allegations help  also says i am  he May be right in this. He came within Points of winning the election and faces a Runoff in june. Waldheim has not apologized for what he did. He has not apologized for lying about it. He regrets the dirty War and Points out that the germans suffered losses too showing a disgusting Chenhan did Ness to perpetrators and  this month the anniversary of the holocaust was. Observed. Elie Wiesel the haunted gifted chronicler says the victims died not Only because of the  died because of the indifference of the  formulated the doctrine of individual responsibility. It was never More powerfully or movingly shown than in a half hour documentary called the Cour age to care which pcs is giving an anniversary airing. It makes All of us who watched it ask ourselves what we would do under such pressures and terrors. A handful of euro Pean non jews answered the question unhesitatingly. At the risk of being killed they sheltered jews because they were human beings because As one of the says you cannot kill murder people just because of their race or  most pulverizing passage of the film is about a polish woman who was a nazi major s housekeeper. She hid is jews they were my friends in the cellar of the officer s Villa. One Day when she had come Back from the Public execution of polish family and the jews they harboured she was sitting in the Kitchen with five of the jewish women when the major walked in on  did you do this he asked. And she answered in a voice that trembles As i must have 40 years ago i have had to do  Waldheim have to do what he did did he have to lie about it for 40years? Israel Singer who has been leading the world jewish Congress search for the real Kurt Waldheim and who has Wade through "3,000 pages of deception says it is Austria s business if it wants to elect nazi As president. But he wants Meese to put Waldheim name on the watch list now so that aus Tria will at least know that it is like the holocaust the world s business too. Universal press Syndicate James Reston Reagan plumbers can t plug leaks from the top the top Reagan officials Are miffed these Day when they read leaks in the press about what they re doing in private and you can t blame them. For if it Ever got out what they were doing or no doing in private they would really be in trouble. It s disgusting the Way stuff leaks out Secretary of state Shultz said the other Day. And we be got to find the people who Are doing it and fire  George has been around Here Long enough to know that this is a silly idea and if he does to Bernic Kalb his spokesman can explain that there s no Way the official plumbers can Stop the leaks. The executive Branch is the Only known vessel that leaks from the top. It leaks the baloney it thinks people will Swallow and threatens to sue anybody who publishes information it wants to suppress. But this plumber s game of slopping the teams can last very Long. Too Many people have to be in on the president s decisions at Home and abroad if they re to be effective. He has to consult with Congress and talk things Over with the allies before he acts and in the process everybody talks. Democracy at Home and Alliance politics abroad is Gabby business. There s no Way to shut people up. The allies will speak in their parliaments and bureaucrats at Home will speak out if they think the people Are being deceived. This is the Point president Reagan May have  thinks that what is popular is right but the Republican leaders in the Senate and House disagree about his budget deficits and Are insisting that he Compromise or risk losing control of the Senate this year and maybe the White House in 1988. The administration has a valid Point about press disclosure of coven or secret operations. It is put in an awkward position when reporters publicize its efforts to Block the communist intrigues m latin America Southern Africa or the Middle East. This is what bothers William Casey at the Cia who wants to take the newspapers to court for interfering with his Covert operations and even putting his spies and the sources of his information at risk. Here the press has to be careful and discuss with the government what is fair or dangerous reporting. So far this conflict has not been resolved Between responsible officials of the government and the Media. The Reagan administration is trying to Deal with this problem by dismissing officials who leak information to the press. It is even demanding that hundreds of thousands of Federal employees take lie Detector tests to prove their loyalty to the Reagan administration. More than that it has suggested that Grants of Federal Money for scientific research do denied to scholars unless they approve of the administration s Star wars pro Gram. The Freedom of information act is now under attack on the ground that it is interfering with the administration s defense of the Republic. Strange things Are happening in the name of Security. For example Michael e. Pillsbury assistant under Secre tary of defense for policy planning was dismissed on the suspicion that he had leaked information about . Stinger missiles to anti communist rebels in Angola and that he had flunked a lie Detector test during the investigation. The administration is not kidding about these  wants to put lie Detector tests on everybody privy to sensitive Security information. It is really concerned that there Are More leaks out of this administration than any other in recent memory and it does t understand Why. One reason May be that the administration has no persuaded its civil servants that it s telling the truth they know the difference Between propaganda and  Short they Are the inside lie detectors and in Defi Ance of this administration Public relations techniques Are the source of most of the leaks. The president cannot really Deal with this problem by playing the plumber s game to Stop the leaks. He cannot preside Over a policy without consulting with Congress and the allies. They have to know what s going on and they will talk not Only among themselves but to the network of communications All Over the world. Also even his own people won t play this game. Propaganda is a self limiting disease. If the president does t persuade his own people that he s on the right track they will oppose him and leak their opposition to the press