European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday july 10,1986 columns & comments a ?. George will court s dec son won f Dera Gramm Rudman about 30 years too there was a Jolly and judicially Correct song that said you can t chop your Momma up in Massachusetts we just Don t do in her thai  the supreme court in a sin itar spirit of Breezy frankness has ruled 7-2 that Congress and inc president can t chop the budget in exactly the Gramin Rudman Hollings Way. The ruling was technical Loo much so according to Justice White s persuasive dissent. In ils consequence the ruling will be trivial according to sen. Fritz Nellings. Or a requires the Federal i fill tube reduced in five equal increments to itto by 1991. The president proposes his menu of plans for achieving that. Con Gross can ratify his menu or write it sown. Failing that the directors of the office of management and budget an the congressional budget office jointly submit deficit estimates and across the Board program by program cute to he comptroller general. He reports to the president who is required to order the spending reduction sequestration the comptroller general stipulates. The court says the comptroller Gener Al s role violates the constitutional Doc Trine of separation of Powers doctrine not often the topic of table talk in Many american bungalows. The court says or a vests the comptroller general with executive Powers. Thai is impermissible because of a 1921 Law giving con Gress Power to remove the comptroller general. To Vest executive Power in him would be to allow Congress 10 control the execution of its acts. Justice while Blackmun also dissented says it is disproportionate to de rail one of the most novel and far reaching legislative responses to a National crisis since the new Deal on the basis of a technical provision of a 65 year old statute. There is he says no potential for serious disruption of constitutional balance. All inc comptroller Gen eral was to do is apply detailed criteria written by Congress and signed by the president the comptroller general was not to exercise discretion. Anyway says while Congress can control executive Branch officials legislatively by imposing duties or increasing or decreasing funds or even abolishing a William Buckley particular office so Why make such a ruckus about the potential for Congress to control the comptroller general As he performs a pro forma accountant s duly never mind says the a of or a. The ruling is Small Beer. Mailings is the Only senator who some limes requires subtitles like a swedish movie. During Hollings 1984 presiden tial bid Lara Erik Nelson of the Newyork daily news rendered a Hollings statement phonetically a spin Fotchen Yahres own a skewed  Hollings has Spint Huddy Yahres in serious politics he was elected South Carolina s governor in 1958 at 36 and there is no need for translation when he Sayi thai technicalities do not control the sort or politic that fuelled passage of or a. Last year Hollings says the president declared that tax Reform was his number one priority and the Media were preoccupied with terrorism and arms control. But in the summer recess Congress got an earful from the Public concerning the deficit. Hence or a. The Public Hollings says May be noticing thai the first thing the govern ment does every morning is borrow an other $500 million to pay the interest on the Money it has borrowed. Rounding off the numbers be says we Are spending $300 billion on defense 1300 billion on entitlements 1200 billion on the rest of government and $200 billion on carrying charges. In 1940, when he was a Cadet at the Citadel he was a Page supporting Rob Ert Taft at the Republican National convention in Philadelphia the one tha stampeded for Wendell Willkie. Young Gerald Ford was in the Balcony chanting we want  like Many South Ernen Hollings it a connoisseur of lost causes but he does not think or a can be lost in a courtroom. In the last year Congress has wrapped itself in or has in the Flag so has the president. Besides or a ii already hard at work. In the Senate recently $900 million was knocked out of a is culture spending Bill on a Point of order. The Point was that the Bill in creased spending without providing for compensating revenues or cuts hence it enlarged the deficit hence it violated o re. The problem that concerns the court ii easy to fix change the 1921 Law nuking the comptroller general removable by the president. Anyway Congress had doubt about the constitutionality of the comp troller general s Rote and built into or h a Fallback provision whereby Zongren legislates and the president must sign or veto the sequestration order. So legislatively Here is a Way to do it. All this i untidy and or a May be a ten. Thumbed Way of cutting the deficit but no one Ever recommended democracy for its elegance. Contros have Little Chance to oust sandinista the president won a noisy moral Victory in the House when he turned in around on the question of Saidlo the contras but polls indicate that the level of enthusiasm Tor nicaraguan Aid has not increased in the three months since. The reason for this is Plain we have not charted course Tor overthrowing the san Dinicu government. Every single word Utle Rcd by Reagan in his speech before the vote could As things Are going As Well be uttered two years from now. He warned that Nicaragua ii under the sandinista engaged in totalitarian Izig the country. He is Correct and two years from now twill be said of Nicaragua either that the totalitarian Iza lion continues or that in is completed. We do no know what exactly it is that will Mark the Day when the sandinista can say the opposition is gone that the people s Republic of Nicaragua is totally unified i be Hind the sandinista. But there is not very much that the contras plus $70 million can do to arrest the trend that now prevails. There Are 1,000 cuban military advisers in Nicara Gua and an estimated $600 million Worth of War Mak ing Materiel sent by the soviet bloc. The Nicaragua military is by far the largest in Central America. The forces there in Short Are sufficient to contain perhaps to overwhelm the contras. In is the unhappy earmark or the Century that in technology of suppression exceeds in sophistication the technology of resistance. That technology of sup pression in t merely quantified by assigning a Dollar value to the weapons at the disposal of the sandinista army and police. One needs to add or rather to Multi ply the Factor of will. If Somoza had exercised the will to Power the sandinista show he would never have been overthrown. If Marcos bad engaged in full blooded totalitarian practices he would be reigning today. Chiang Kai Shek if he had imitated Mao would have died in peking there is no Way ii Central can overthrow the existing government and a year from now what we Are mos Likely to be hearing about is feats of terrorism initiated by the contras. Now these Are not the kind of data designed Logen Erate continuing american enthusiasm for the Ideal of enabling a resistance movement to oui the Sandi nista government. But Reagan declines to declare him self further. He has not said that it is distinctly a . Responsibility to see to it that the sandinista do no succeed in the Way thai Castro succeeded in Cuba. In order to make such a guarantee he would need Loa knowledge that there Are Corum glances under which we would need to engage our own military  his fear of saying this because it would antagonize the marginal congressmen correspondingly aggravates the situation. So Long As the United states shrinks from nuking the whole commitment the sandinista government fed relatively secure. If we cannot affect their strength can we Ket Pihe sandinista from becoming stronger Well we Eta blockade their shipping searching vessels for Intro ments of aggression. But to do this Means protracted engagements with International protocols that provide for Freedom of the seas. Although we have announced thai we will no longer font cd. Atli i 4i.nlk. Fit. Or 1-1 of _.&44j,�ultm47  i Pic Ai me pram i in traded lawlessness under the Aegis of what goes by the name of International Taw. Bui even if we slopped the military flow by Tea Howare we going to prevent the cuban air transport beet from Hying into Nicaragua the machinery of Gore we do not in America engage in oblique military activity Over a prolonged period of time with any Itic Mma. It is inconsistent with the american temper proceed at a fitful Pace. We have after All been Doitt this for five years it has been just about that tool raft we turned around on the san instas and Acino Ledw that they were not at All interested in introducing a Moc racy to Somoza land. Consolidating. Reagan to the extent that he holds p the present Effort As the High water Mark of our Cefic Fen amen can policy May be Riding for a very Crft