European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday. June 28, 1986 David 5. Broder it s Rostenkowski s time on fax Reform front and now once again it s Rosly Lime on inc is Reform front the Republican Senate has done its work and reaped bipartisan Praise for its version of inc massive restructuring of inc Revenue system. The measure now Gwi to the House Senate conference where chairman Dan to Slonkowski d-i1. Of inc House ways and Means commit acc will be the key player he Man with More clout and a be More at stake Ihan anyone else this is Hii big moment the Chance to put his person Al stamp and his party s political imprint on the most significant overhaul of la Law in a generation. If his aides and colleagues Are Correct in guessing that Rosly won t stay around the House much longer ibis is almost surely the Chance of a legislate lifetime for him. Yet. When i picked my Way through a waiting room full of lobbyists to see he chairman last week 1 found him in a curiously Down Ca mood. His first words were i m concerned about How we approach this  one concern in developed was the momentum be Hind the Senate version of inc Bill Al s been building Ever since. Finance committee chairman Bob pack Wood r-ore., and his key democratic ally sen. Bill Bradley d-n.j., Mccasl their legislation around the simple and appealing notion of two Low rates 15 and 27 percent for individuals and a tidy 33 percent for corporations. President Reagan embraced the Senate Bill editorial Lise praised in and a huge Senate majority lined up behind i. Rusly would never concede a tinge of jealousy but he did say. I want to be sure we be got a level playing Field in which both House and Senate ver Sions get a fair look from the conferees. Although rates in his Bill run up to 3s percent he said he is not opposed to a 27-percent maximum on individual taxes. I think we can gel 21 percent if we get the reforms in the corporate area we House democrats put in Rosly said but the Senate pushed he panic Button on iras individual retirement accounts and sales Tan deductibility and we have to straighten that out. They can t have it Bolh  when i saw him he was in inc midst of doing what a Good Chicago politician always does ensuring the loyalty of his own troops. He was talking one by one with other ways and Means commit dec democrats satisfying himself that in he put them on the conference Commilles with the Senate he could count on Ihm not going behind his Back to Cut their own deals with Packwood. The Way he put was. I d like 10 be comfortable that the mouse members Are supportive of he House  Rosly is not burdened by Phil Muphy. I m a negotiator " he said. "1 Don t have the no Alanl task of saying this is  Pat Wood is much theime. Doth arc political pragmatists. Ready to Dicker and Deal. And both under stand the personal and parly stakes. This to Bill is the big Domestic initiative of Rea Gan s second term and a potential ten strike for the gop. Dos Lon pollster Brad Hannnon told democratic leaders in Seal Lac last weekend thai the Senate Bill very dangerous to them because in reinforces the idea that republicans represent change while democrats defend the status quo. Rosly sees the problem. Referring to Reagan s Quick embrace of inc Senate version of the Bill he says 1 d be Blind if i did t Sec they re trying to steal the Politi Cal  when Reagan introduced the legislation Over a Vear ago. Oily recalled i was told by Law House democratic leadership be sure it j a demo cratic Bill and be sure we gel the credit. I did Hal when almost no one though 1 could. Now the republicans have passed a completely differ Cal Bill and they re grabbing credit. I can t do anything Aboul  a but he can or at least he can try. He will do his damnedest to Sel up the conference so the Price for lower rates and continued Middle class benefits like iras must be paid by higher corporate taxes and More loophole closing. If republicans let the fight Lake Hal shape then democrats May Salvage some credit for themselves and maybe a useful election Issue. As for Rostus personal slake those who know hint Best say he d Iove to be speaker when tip o Neill Steps Down Lair this year bul they doubt he will Chal Lenge majority Leader Jim Wright a Texas. And they also doubt he will serve very Long in Congress under a speaker Wright. Some of his key aides Are already making plans of their own outside Congress. So this is it for Rosly his Chance to show he is not just a Paloska the late mayor Daley picked 28 years ago to carry his water in Washington but a heavy weight who can shape a major tax Reform and maybe help his hard pressed parly Imd an Issue. "1 think i m a smart Democrat he told me. When a conservative Republican president offers a Reform As generous As this one to Middle class and working peo ple my father would turn Over in his grave if i did t take advantage of  rest assured Rosly will try to take advantage. A ism. Witruk attn Feu Weinri group Flora Lewis spying comes with o certain amount of obligation the heavy spate of spy stories surfacing lately revives issues of what this business is really Aboul and what obligations if any in imposes on governments. The most curious revelation comes from Warsaw. The cynical and sarcastic official spokesman Jerzy Urban belied his own Leader s repeated claim that the decision to impose martial Law in december 1981 was taken Only after a breakdown of efforts to come to terms with the Ihen Legal Union Solidarity Urban s purpose was to discredit the United slates by showing that it could have foiled inc plans which he now admits Warsaw had meticulously prepared because Washington knew All about them from a High level spy. American intelligence sources do not deny Advance knowledge but say the United Stales could do nothing because in did t have inc Date of a Day. There s eyewash on both sides Here. Urban goes much Loo far in suggesting that the Reagan administration deliberately protected the Warsaw regime s secret because in expected a bloody conflict in Poland after martial Law and though that preferable to warning Solidarity. Since in now seems inc United states did have All the details it ought to have known How effective the Surprise blow was Likely to be in paralysing opposition. Bui the polish spokesman certainly has a Point when he says the carefully Laid plans would have been ruined if the United states had to in effect connived by keeping silent. A lot of people would have escaped arrest and underground communications and trans port so painfully put together afterwards would have been prepared. It is impossible to judge what might have been better for Poland. Perhaps if the Warsaw regime fell it could t succeed Wilh its own elaborately organized blow soviet forces would have intervened. Bul neither that eventuality nor the Flimsy argument that there was nothing to be done for Solidarity explains washing ton s behaviour. The purpose of intelligence is put in question. The likeliest reason for Washington s inaction is the classic compulsion of spy masters not to Lei the other Side know what they have Learned. Warsaw knew that col. Wlodzimierz Kuklinski and his family had disappeared but Washington probably was t sure if War saw realized he was a spy that he was in american hands and that he had Given away the operation. There is often an obsessive tendency in this business to keep Sec cos for the Sake of secrets Loiry to gel so Crews for the Sake of getting secrets without Loo much concern for the use of information pried out or denied. Once when Nikita Khrushchev was visiting the United Stales he told president Eisenhower that since Bolh sides hired so Many double agents they could save a lol by splitting the Cost. There is a realistic Edge to the joke. To a considerable extent spies on each Side serve to keep the other Side in work. Intelligence is important in a dangerous world and it has a proper purpose to provide warning not Only of military but also of political economic and other surprises Hal can do damage to the whole nation. All countries seek to find out what they feel they do ally need to know. There in t the vast moral difference presumed in probing the secrets of Adversa Ries and those of friends which can also hold thread in ing possibilities. It is be mainly Disia sinful 10 Leam Hal Israel which relics so heavily on american Aid Money bought . Secrets. But in is disingenuous to Call it exceptionally sinful. Not knowing what is really happening with friends can be As harmful As not being warned about foes. There was a massive . Intelligence failure in the last years of the Shah s reign in Iran in order id please the Shah by not going behind the Back of his secret police. Washington did l even know inc Shah was Termi Nally ill until after he fled Iran nor was it adequately informed on the scale of he opposition and its various movements. . Policy would have had to be differ enl instead of disastrously trying to prop up the dying Shah and the result might Well have been a quite Dif Ferent regime from that of inc Ayatollah Khomeini. America and a vast number of other people would have been far better off. In is not unreasonable to seek warning on grave is sues by spying if there s no other Way. But the Point i to make Betler policy and protect people. Otherwise it s expensive dirty  justification. Huh Yocic Timu no Sanica