European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday june 16.1936 columns Mary Mcgrory threats reveal conservatives schizophrenia Cia director William Casey s threats against the press Tell us not so much about conservative Para Noia non i the press As Ghoul conservatives abiding schizophrenia Aboul government. Conservatives arc or two minds Abdul the Federal establishment regarding in alternately As Beauty and inc beast. On the one hand government is this greedy slaver ing monster that scutes on the backs of honest decent people robbing them of income hobbling them with crazy rules and sapping them of Dinghy. Initiative and the Good life. On the other hand Casey is expressing this Side of it conservatives regard government As a Lender Flower fragile vulnerable As threatened As a Beautiful Maiden in a fairy tale who must be protected against villains who steal its Sec acis. Pulici a its collies and weaken intolerably ils capacity docs 1st and survive. The Reagan administration. Despite its professed demotion to individual liberties is in the interests of Proli cling Beauty s Honor eager to polygraph great masses 01 civil servants who arc suspect anyway be cause they work for the beast and drink Coffee and read newspapers on time owed to honest taxpayers. Any Lime some item is divulged before its Lime All Areto Roll up i hair sleeves. Secretary of siae George Shutlz walked at the of Jar and of Cnoc. In today s jumbled value system a hero of civil liberties. The Reagan administration has Cut Back on the Freedom of information act. It sought o re move pens from the hands of officials with Access 10 classified information so that they can never write Best Sellers that make use of government Sec acis. Two government employees have been fired for dishing out inc dirt. A former naval intelligence analyst has been prosecuted and convicted of giving spy satellite photographs to a Magazine. Casey is out with his tin sword and shield striking out in All directions against those who would divulge Beauty s secrets. Several weeks ago he warned Washington Post editors that they would be hauled into court if hey published certain information he deemed harmful to the National  he said he was t sure what statue applied. Now James Polk of Abc has caught Casey s Eye for reporting thai accused spy Ronald Pelton told the soviet about Ivy  an operation by which . Submarines eavesdropped on Soviel Shore conversations. This information about Jay Bells formerly known As Holystone who says incr arc no poets in government has been moving around in the Public Domain for Many years. Iffy us to mss my hot confined. Of Sam in the old Days leaks were called tips by the people in government who Lold friends in the press Aboul matters that had not been made Public. The reporters who received i his Clandestine information called their stories  often they related to Federal schemes that belonged under rocks. Exposed to fresh Pir the plans evaporated which is what the tipster had in mind. Nov., for reasons that have never been investigated forbidden stories Are known As  both by those who give and those who receive them. By any name they Are deplored by gave Imonti of any Stripe although the aver Sion reached historic proportions during the administration of Richard Nixon who probably had More secrets to beep than any other chief executive. The rage culminated in the formulation of he Hus ton , a blueprint for a Home grown Kab that was a much Corr for the late a Edgar Hoover and the formation of the infamous White House plumbers unit which was masterminded by Charles Colson an undertook activities that led to jail terms for him and his confederates. But since history is not a favo rhe subject of this administration the idea or a plumbers unit has been resurrected at the while House. An Arm of a Cabinet level anti leak task Force has proposed a special strike Force of Fri agents to pounce on leaders immediately Vicin the drops Start falling shades of he break in of Daniel Ellsberg s psychiatrist s office the mad plan was promptly leaked to David Hoffman of the Washington Post and May in Conse Quence Mulder on the drawing Board. It is inevitable though that it will be replaced by some comparably crack brained scheme reflecting la conservatives View thai what bears government does unless it looks Good on the evening news is none of the citizens business but that when a scheme leaks out. Beauty government must be avenged by fair Means or foul. Of where is the world court now that we need ii its verdict on the mining of the hard to of Nicara Gua a Casey special would give the country material to make a judgment about the judgment of the Cia director who wants to keep the press in the dark Aboul what else he has been up to. George will voice of radio Marti sets up echoes in Cuba o l a Cool morning recently Jay Matlin was coolly telling a reporter that the radio station for which Mallin works As news director cannot be Hea Ven forfend blamed for successful escapes from Cuba. Granted radio Marti s weather re ports broadcast from Washington and transmitted from Florida Are More de tailed than reports broadcast by cuban government radio Marti s Long term forecasts and information on tides ate closely listened to especially by persons often of military draft age who Are considering dangerous floats to Freedom on inner lube rans. Granted also such people Are especially Apt to listen 10 Marti the , government Spanish language station now beginning ils second charter As Well As the Wisdom of ils administrators from incitements. Mallin tolerates no name calling. Cas Tro is referred to As the Leader. Mallin has had Castro on his mind for Many years. Born in 1927 in new Vork into an american family with two generations of roots in Cuba he was working for time Magazine during the revolution. During Castro s Victory March to Havana in Jan uary 1959, the Lead car carried Castro the second car his Security people and the third car the time life continent. Ernesto Betancourt Marti s director supported the revolution in the 1950s and represented Castro s movement in Washington in 1957-1958. He left cuban i960, when Castro s anti dam Coralic intentions became Clear. Marti s Impact is measured anecdotally but by lots of anecdotes. There Are interviews with travellers from Cuba sur Veys of emigrants from Cuba often arriving through third countries correspondence from Cuba to relatives Here. Mail 10 and from Cuba is measured intones. Thirty thousand Telephone Calls Are attempted daily from Miami and 6,000 get through. Castro does not attempt maximum Jam Ming of Marti partly because of the Rosl. Cuba is a mendicant nation Selling its Young men As soldiers in Exchange for soviet subsidies. Jamming is expensive. The soviet Union spends about s490 million a year to Jam . Non English broadcasts tothe soviet Union. Such . Transmissions Cost Jusi 126 million. All soviet jamming involves 15,000 technicians at 2,000 Jam Ming stations costing approximately $1 billion annually. Aside from the Cost Castro s vanity causes him to avoid full scale jamming which would affirm Marti s Appeal. Marti with so correspondents costs just 110 million annually Ess than one advanced fighter plane. Marti is a magnificently Cost effective weapon. Cubans Are ravenous for news from Angola and Ethiopia where 400,000 cubans half of them civilians have served Soviel purposes. Castro s worship of so Viet technology caused a four Day stunned silence in the cuban press after chernobyl. Marti instantly broadcast not Only the news but a nuclear glossary and interviews with exiled cuban scientists Aboul a nuclear Plant soviet technicians Are building in Cuba. Because Cuba is governed by scientific socialism Here Are by definition no crimes or other serious defens. How Ever since Marti has been broadcasting Aboul developments in Cuba cuban broadcasts have been giving More Atten Tion to crimes and to problems like aids which until recently cuban authorities said did not exist there. From Marti cubans teamed of the massacre of dozens of Young people when planes and gunboats Sank a pleas ure boat sailing toward Freedom. Marti Lold cubans about the attempted Kidnap Ping of a cuban defector by cuban pm Basse officials in Madrid. Marti has re ported the shambles of Cuba s sugar production Cuba is reduced to buying sugar in the world Market. Then in kill that for less than it paid for it to East bloc nations to pay for Soviel subsidies. An especially popular program on Marti u family Bridge on which cubans and americans Call Marti on a toll free number and give personal messages that Are beamed to Cuba. Aunt Maria s operation went Well and Jost is  but even More popular than the broadcast of jew top 40" Rock v Mil and baseball is a soap opera Aboul  she Esmerelda that is is one reason cuban broadcasting is improving. Totalitarian regimes politicize every thing and Ealing with the Freedom not to think about politic. The growth of my to i audience for its non political programming has forced cuban broadcast ing to lighten up. There is now More programming for the restless Young and More first run movies in prime time. So the voices beamed from the studios in the building it the foot of Cut Piziol Hill have produced in Cuba until stirring something like a Crocus sprout ing through a crack in Concrete. And life however frail 1m a Way of triumphing in Lime even Over Stone.