European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 10 the stars and stripes tuesday August 12,1986 columns William Safire will Reagan s Jar wars really be voluntary the president of the uni cd Stales proudly handed Over a Sample of his urine saturday before an unrelated urological examination. 10 prove that the Oval office is a drug free  the vice presi Dent Aslo deliver his specimen in drug a Esters Moi Day demonstrating he Hai neither a narcotics Addic Tion nor a mind of this own. This pc i Laile is supposed to he an example to us All. By showing i hair readiness 10 Suhnel to Anasis of Bod fluid. If nation s iwo highest elected officials arc saying Sec nothing to in. If we arc willing to prove ourselves innocent if dig abuse Why not you .1" they arc setting an example All right but of some thing else. Once again in Panicky response 10 Public concern about weakness in la enforcement the Rea Gan administration is undermining three of the most Basic rights guaranteed b the founder no person shall he required to lentil against himself each of us is protected against Unk Bulut in Arches. And every person 11 in Nikitis until proved guilty. A. But you Sec a the Drugo rats who claim the criminals Are Loo Muth for hem All this is voluntary. Nobody is being forced to bring a specimen to work every morning. What sopi Ustav. I Oes anyone think that when the president said 10 Bush i m doing this How about you the vice president had any Choice about volunteering or not if he Hud declined poor George would Hae been under suspicion of political disloyal by softness on crisis management and hiding an uncontrollable habit. Like everyone in a voluntary drug test he was forced logo along by employer expectation and peer pressure. Consider what else the White House example has shown. Nancy Reagan whose drug consultant came up with this crack brained slum is not personally leading the i Mclean demonstration. Why not does she have lome Lhing to hide of court not. Mrs. Reagan is not in the urinalysis Parade because in would be a Ladylike and distasteful. She must know too thai if she joins Jar wars she will be asked about visits to the White House work place by her son Ron Reagan. He s under 30 and writes for Playboy will he be denied entry at the Gate without proof of non use where does this example setting end in could end by changing the nature of the Nalion. The Pentagon claims thai such testing has reduced drug use in the military by 67 percent. Although such Tell Irving internal surveys Art suspect assume he claim to be True do we really want to live under the code of military Justice or the contracts of the Cia Tom Wicker in the same Way the defense department is cooking a lest to show How wonderfully effective polygraphs arc in protecting secrets we can expect those rigged results to be used by ail employers who want o Check on any employee s private deviations from the Norm. Because soldiers and spies choose to give up certain precious rights the res of us need not Volunteer to accept lower standards of civil Liberty on the contrary we should resist the coercion of those who seek to make the substandard the new Standard. Mike Peters the cartoonist for inc Dayton daily news shows a Cabinet receptionist saying to a caller Sony. Shultz is haying a urinalysis. Mcnese is taking a polygraph and it s Weinberger s turn on the  such ridicule is useful As is sen. Hollings s re Mark that the administration s concern about leaks is going too far but inc policy of coordinated personal intrusion is no joke. Chief Justice designate Rich Nuisl had trouble with the effect of a painkiller does this mean supreme court justices must follow the Reagan example if eight Volunteer and one dissents where docs the new threshold of impeachment begin the problem of drugs is real and often tragic and those who show telltale signs of being zonked out should be subject to investigation. Bui not everybody for no reason by far the greater danger to the Republic than drug deaths or stolen secrets is the Reagan policy of undermining the founders Intuni to protect the people from the government. Because inc president likes to set examples that cause greater problems than they solve How about this let him Volunteer to be hooked up o � so called lie Detector at his next news conference. Let the indicator Needle showing nervousness and stress be inset on the screen for All to Sec. Then let him handle a few questions about whether Michael Cayer set 11 his meeting last year with South Korea s Kim Kihwan or if he would support a presidential candidate with the Guu to refuse a test that demeans the office of president and reduces the personal Freedom of every american. C now York to left Reagan handed stiff overdue rebuke by House the House of representatives has handed president Reagan a stiff and Long overdue rebuke one that May result in a congressional limit on the nuclear tests he has been conducting at will often for specious or hidden reasons and in Defiance of world opinion. By a surprising 234-155 margin the House voted to withhold funds for a car tests above the yield of 1 Kiloton fur one Yeam inn Iii Jan. 1, 19b7. Provided that the soviet unit agrees and permits sufficient on site monitoring Imler minis. The Republican controlled Senate is unlikely Loac cent this amendment to the department of defense authorization Bill. But the Senate did approve the Day before the House voted a non binding Resolution urging the Reagan administration to seek ratification of two ensling treaties that would limit nuclear testing ind to reopen negotiations for a comprehensive test ban treaty. Reagan has steadfastly refused to negotiate for a comprehensive lest ban trealy the first president to Lake such a stand. And he wants to renegotiate rather than ratify the 1974 threshold test ban treaty and the 1976 peaceful nuclear explosions treaty arguing that they require stronger verification procedures. The emr Ordinary margin of the House Vole will give that body much leverage in a conference with the Senate where passage of the non binding Resolution suggests that there is considerable anti testing sen i Mcnol. Thus House sponsors of the one year test moratorium _ icy included Les Asp the chairman of the armed services committee believe a House Senate Compromise limitation on testing May be Possi ble. Such a Compromise could take one or both of two forms. It could impose a limit on the number of tests for which funds Are provided or it could approve a ceiling say a yield of 10 Kilotons above which no tests would be permitted. Even such a Compromise and certainly the House approved moratorium on tests above 1 Kiloton probably would Rule out nuclear tests thai could pro Duce a Ray lasers. Such tests would need to yield in excess of about 20 Kilotons. Thus. The pics Ideal s cherished strategic defense initiative to which the a Ray laser is crucial could be Sci Back. Limiting nuclear testing to smaller yields scientists generally agree would Rule out inc development of new strategic weapons. Tests below a Kiloton yield the Only tests that would be permitted by the House amendment have Little  meaning. The House Vole was particularly significant for two reasons. One was that in was the result of a carefully crafted Compromise entered into by moderates like Aspin and rep. John m. Sprat of South Carolina. The amendment would allow the administration to con duct scheduled tests Between now and Jan. 1 and it would not go into effect in the unlikely event that Reagan should negotiate a test ban treaty with mos cow. In fact it s the Hope of the amendment s sponsors that congressional limits on his ability to lest will Force him to open negotiations for a comprehensive lest ban treaty. The House vote also was significant in that in came despite the leaked word that the White House had sent a High level team to Moscow to talk about nuclear issues. Whether this one was so designed or not such moves often come before important congressional votes and cause members to fear they will undercut the president if they vote against his wishes. One reason for the Strong House action was he belief Hal the russians after refraining from testing for the year thai ended aug. 6, appeared to be Senous about a lest ban. Another was members impatience Wilh Reagan s unconvincing arguments for continuing to test the novel Contention Hal weapons in the ensling Arsenal have to be spol checked for Efficacy and the supposed difficulties of verifying an agreement against soviet cheating. There s Little doubt that his real reason is the desire to develop new weapons and continue his arms buildup. Just last week in rejecting a one year lest moratorium proposed by Mexico Argentina Greece India Sweden and Tanzania the so culled five continent peace incl Talivaa slate Depar Irnell spokesman called the idea dangerous As if. With something like 50,000 warheads in american and soviet arsenals stopping nuclear less could be More dangerous than developing new nuclear weapons la new soft tuis