European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes monday May 26,1986 today s crossword russians will always act like re Brand Rooney we have to be not to Lake any pleasure from Llic nuclear disaster in in soviet Union. We been so prop dislike the russians and to consider them the enemy my Cairnes for Good reasons that it would be Natu ral to enjoy their and news. Even though do should t Lake any pleasure from it the disaster ii chernobyl is evidence for the whole world id set that inc russian system in t working As Well u they like to make us think it cancels bul the Bud impression the world Gal or american competence when he shuttle Chal Lenger blew up. President Reagan can organize an overthrow of in government of Nicaragua and Congress can Send billions of dollars Worth of weapons 10 the m Iddle East to Africa or to Central America in an a tempt to prevent the spread of communism but nothing will prevent ill spread Asef festively As the perception among the people of any poo country that communism does t work very Well. Hie rus sians May Force people la accent a dictatorial socialist government bul they can t Force people to like it if it in Good for them. The soviet Union is he first country that Ever challenged our opinion that a society that s free and open in both its government and the Way its people conduct their business is Best for the most people. Americans have Bee surprised thai anyone could possibly disagree with an idea thai seems unarguably right to All of us. If the rest of the people of the world arc going to accept democracy it has to prove than the russian system. One of the reasons democracies like ours have survived and even prospered is that we change things quickly when things go wrong. People get a lot of information from newspaper and television and if something s wrong there pressure from All of us for it to be filed. In Russia the government does t have to move quickly when things go wrong because soviet citizens Don t know about them. Soviet papers Don t print much bad news. Controlling information May seem to russian authorities like a Good Way for them to survive but if it works As a deterrent to changing and repairing their broken system it could be their eventual undoing. Even without newspapers the russian people Are going to realize things Aren t going too Well if they can t gel bread or drink the milk. You might say thai Ihbe nuclear disaster in chernobyl i just one isolated incident but it always surprises me to see How often an isolated incident is typical. That s True of people Loo people go around being just like themselves All Day Jong i m so much like myself sometimes that it makes me sick. And the russians Are always russian. Day in an Day out they act like russians. In the last few Days most newspapers have Laid the secretive Way the soviet Union has treated its nuclear disaster to the communist system but it has More to do with the russian character than with communism. Rus sians love intrigue. They love mystery. They love secrecy. The russian revolution was started by men who though the capitalist system was run by greedy evil corrupt businessmen. Capitalism has had a lot of those but people Are people and what the russians did l realize was that when their communist system got going those same greedy evil corrupt people would still be around and they d be a lot harder to get rid of As indented government bureaucrats than As businessmen in an open we can Hope is that this terrible event will bring on some changes in the soviet Union. Communism really in t working very Well. Maybe they la realize russians arc just people like us. We have to Hope something Good comes out of this disaster for them and for the rest of the world. In Tattum Media Sorvick one Man s secret is another s leak by Art buc Vald two of the most important positions in the administration Are the president s keeper of the secrets and the chief leaker of information. Although i hair offices arc next la each other they Al ways seem o be working apposite sides of the Street. A Shah is the keeper of secrets is called becomes livid when 3 government secret appears in print and wants to Send everyone to jail. Possi on the other hand works diligently to Plant secrets lories with the Media that will further the cause of the administration. ". 1 ran Inlo a Shah at a fancy restaurant the other Day How can we run an anti terrorist intelligence operation when you people print thai we broke Libya s code he asked. We did t break the news. President Reagan reveal edit himself on a Shah was burning did in Ever occur to you that the libyans Don t watch american to bul they do read the Washington Post and the new York times. I said ninety percent of All the confidential new concerning the government is leaked by this administration and the other 10 by the opposition. Why Don t you go after the leaders instead of those of us who Are no More than relay stations for inc information i deny the administration is now or has Ever been the source of leaks a Shah said. I confronted him. Have you Ever heard of a while House employee named ass St a Shah went red. The name Doest ring a Bell would it Surprise you to know that Pessl has been leaking an average of 10 stories a Day with the approval of the president s team you re making it for heaven s Sake Man who do you think has All the stuff about Caver we would t leak about Denver he s one of correction he Zaionc of you. Except for the presi Dent and Nancy everyone in Itie White House seems to want Mike to Wist slowly in the a Shah said i can understand our doing that to Siock Man but not to nevertheless you want to Send us All to jail for stuff Tut psst leaked to make the Reagan administration look Good. If you keep putting on pressure we won t accept an leaks from your a Shah turned his Back on me and i walked Over to the cloakroom. 1 saw Possi standing by the door handing out secrets. 1 said i be just been talking to a Shah and he told Mere wants to put All of us in jail for using your psst guffawed. He s just saying that to scare you. The Only time the Justice department will prosecute is when you print i leak that was t leaked by us. I have just As much authority around the White House As a Shah seme Days even in describing your work is Ilok. To say your major tasks Are to hand out classified material Deal in disinformation and Send up trial balloons there s a bit of that involved psst said. Though sometimes i la leak a Story to Hurt someone politically As Well.". Will you be walking the streets if the administration Puis the lid on a secrets More guffaws. Whoever heard of a government without leaders while we were talking a Shah went by and angrily put his Finger Over his lips. 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