European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday septembers 1986 William Safire seizure of . Newsman escalating cold War when the Ayatollah Khomeini seized american hostages in Iran the timorous Carter administration reaction caused a wave of revulsion hat car ried Ronald Reagan to the presidency. When Mikhail Gorbachev s Kab seized an Ameri can journalist in Moscow. Reagan s sluggish Western White House immediately Pui out word that this would not affect arms control negotiations or plans Tor a Summit. Even Jimmy Carter would have responded with More Backbone. The Central fact is that the american correspondent Nicholas Daniloff is a hostage. He was seized for a single purpose 10 Croaff a false counterpart to a soviet spy arrested in the . In the act or handing Over Cash for secret. What do we do about it our top priority is to assert our National interest refusing to Reward hos age Tak ing. The second priority is to secure the release of the entrapped and imprisoned american. The first trap to avoid is the accused spy Label. The soviet United nations official arrested while passing Money for information is an accused spy. The american newsman grabbed by eight Kab men after a sealed envelope was thrust into his hands is an imprisoned  equivalency is the russian propaganda game we should have no part of it. Gorbachev is trying to create a value a captured spy out of nothing to balance he Man we caught red handed. We cannot tacitly accept this while formally rejecting it. James Kilpatrick the second trap is let s not Bio this out of  after All the minimize cars will say this is just the usual tit for Tat espionage stuff such minor irritations must not be permitted to hinder the great business of arms control negotiations. But the real proportion of this brutal Power play is enormous. The trick of creating a false value by the simple assertion of a lie to be traded for a real value Isan old russian negotiating practice. If we Swallow it Here we will be confronted with it at the Summit. We Are obligated to Demon Sirac that bargaining chips can not be created out of thin , All negotiation is meaningless. The third trap is to  it All you see there Are these Good Guys led by smiling Mike open and forthcoming racer for an end to the arms race who Are opposed by the sinister forces of the . We have to understand his problems with the hard liners and reactionaries and recognize hat he needs some face saving Way of working out this ploy by his opponents within. Baloney. Gorbachev toadies his Way to the lop via Yuri Andropov of the Kab he has his own men in All the lop positions there and has purged the top eche Lons of the party and the red army of the old Brezhnev faction the correspondent for . News world report is Gorbachev s personal hostage. The final trap is to let this Widen the split among advisers at Home. The professional Sherpa and would be Summit ens will soon be accusing the press of putting irs own interest ahead of the nations and denouncing the exploitation of this Little misunderstand ing by  Hawks who want no arms Contra. At Issue is the degree of our willingness to tolerate Gorbachev s contempt for the Freedom of one Ameri can which Means All americans. In assuming we would go along with the Deal of trading a legitimate newsman for a real spy then a russian Leader has miscalculated profoundly. Nothing Reagan and his hip deep in molasses crisis managers do now should be allowed to contribute to that miscalculation. No Deal is possible that lies the release of our newsman to their spy that Way is appeasement of the creation of false negotiating chips and intolerable danger to any american on russian soil. As Long As Daniloff remains in his Celt sitting on the cot with him is arms control sum Mitry obscene Grain subsidies cultural exchanges the works. The hostage is the gun Gorbachev holds to Reagan s head precluding All civilized dealing. The Way to resolve this crisis is Clear let Gorbachev Call the unconditional release of Dan loft a. Unilateral gesture of Good  he will deserve no thanks for slopping the further descent of soviet behaviour into diplomatic state terrorism but he will get plenty. In setting his own ominous precedent of taking in american hostage Gorbachev let us Hope mistakenly has declared not just a renewal but a Sharp Escala Tion of cold War. It is for him to undeclared it. New fax tim.1 farm Price supports Are budget busting mess its not exactly a trivial question but try Treasury pays the com grower the difference of j1,17. In for size what area of Federal spending has increased this year the deficiency will be paid on g.3 billion most rapidly Over inc past five years defense wrong. Bushels of com. The wheat program works the same social programs wrong. For the answer consider the Way. Headaches of Richard Lyng. Lyns Tackno leaves that a great chunk of the subsidy goes to a relatively few super Farmers. Under the a no grower is supposed to receive More than $50,000 a year but the big producers costly have avoided that restriction. Anyhow says Lyng Given the bumper crops of 1985 and 1986, Many Middle sized growers surpass the ceiling. Until Export markets recover there s no alternative to the system. It provides More six months have passed since the 66-year-old californian took Over from John Block As Secretary Ofarri culture. He gave up a lucrative private practice As a marketing consultant to return to the department reserved As assistant Secretary and As Deputy Secretary. Some of the programs Lyng administers Rock along without much trouble. Food Stamps ineligibility problems have been pretty Well resolved. Long established far services go on As usual. It s the prior support system de Creed by Congress that is a budget busting mess. From 1981 to 1985 defense spending increased by 55 percent and outlays for Price supports increased by340 percent. In the fiscal year that ends sept. To farm ers will receive deficiency payments of nearly s26 billion. This is an open end entitlement program. Except for social Security it s the largest entitlement program. This is How the system works. The Law establishes a target Price on Corn of j3.03 a Bushel the Law also provides for a loan level of s1.86 a Bushel. When the Market hits the loan level which it docs the Federal than half of Farmers net Cash income. Then there s the Dairy program. Lyng puts the matter simply the country has 11 million cows and 10 million is All we  Congress came up with a novel plan the govern ment would pay Dairy Farmers to go out of business and 10 stay out of business for at least five years. Roughly 14,000 Farmers responded and the govern ment paid Idem  billion Lor the favor. One consequence was t