European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday september 7,1986 columns Andrew j. Glass a Smiloff arrest changes the rules of the game it took the Santa Barbara White House Crew awash in California Sunshine quite a while to discern that business As usual with the Kremlin could t continue so Long As an american correspondent languished in a Clammy Moscow prison. After the soviets destroyed a korean jumbo Jet in 1983, president Reagan decided nevertheless to godhead with the Geneva arms talks. Had the Kremlin however threatened to shoot Down another jumbo each week the White House reaction no doubt Wouldhave been far More Stem. The sole . Message Likely to make a real impression on the Kremlin is one that says no More business can transpire until an innocent american is freed. The arrest of Nicholas Daniloff on phony spy charges reveals the risks both sides run whenever they break the rules which have Long governed the East West Power struggle. In the past the soviets have Felt free to expel Overly snoopy Western reporters. When such expulsions occurred. Washington would inevitably toss outa soviet correspondent. The threat of retaliation proved sufficiently inconvenient to the soviets to Dampen moves against americans in Moscow. Such arrangements were based in turn on a quiet understanding Between the Cia and the Kab. Under their Deal the Cia refrains from recruiting . Journalists As agents although the Kab makes no Compa Rable Promise. In return even during the Frostie stays of the cold War the Kremlin has never jailed american arrangements were shattered when Daniloff was thrown into an 8-by-10-foot cell As a Kab prisoner. The decision to hold him in Kcf Ortolo prison had to have been approved by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev. Daniloff was framed because the Kab resented his free Wheeling style. Had he not fallen for the bait however another Pigeon within the . Press corps no doubt would have been found. The russians did a number on Daniloff to pay Back the americans for their handling of Gennady Zakharov a Kab agent who operated without formal diplomatic cover under the Guise of a . Scientific officer. Zakharov fell into what has become a fairly Stan Dard Fri trap. He was deliberately fed titbits of accurate but minor intelligence data to whet his appetite. Then when he sought to buy Jet engine plans for$1.000 from his Fri run Contact they seized him. He David s. Broder was arrested at a Queens subway Stop. The Fri commonly seeks to entrap soviet opera Tives to keep the Kab off balance. That Way the feb reasons the russians must continually fear that they Are being offered poisoned in the past Washington officials normally Hustle such spies Back to Moscow on the next Aeroflot flight. This time however they raised the Ante by holding Zakharov without bail. That gave a stung Kab an excuse to entrap Daniloff just As in the Kab s eyes their Man had been entrapped and jailed in new York. Privately soviet officials let it be known that had Washington played by the former rules releasing Zakharov before expelling him the Nasty Daniloff affair would have been averted. Reagan countered by approving a Deal to Spring Daniloff while trading Zakharov for a genuine . Spy or perhaps some dissidents later. That May turn out to be the Only Way to get Daniloff out. But that Deal carries its own considerable Price henceforth whenever the soviets want to get one of their spies Back they need Only to snatch another . Reporter. The equating of Daniloff with Zakharov changes the rules of the game. One suspects that it won t be easy to reinstate them. C Cor Nat service Lewis a deserving Winner in Georgia primary political reporters arc supposed to keep their emotions in Check and usually that s no big prob Lem for me. But when i woke up the other morning flipped on the television and saw John Lewis face grinning in Victory i cheered. If there is any person in american politics who has paid his dues worked and struggled and suffered and survived it is Atlanta s next congressman. When Lewis beat the glittering state sen. Julian Bond in the Runoff primary for the democratic Nomi nation in Georgia s 5th District it was a Victory for All the infantry grunts in the world Over the air Force Glamor boys. It May also Send a message about what voters value this year. Peter d. Hart the democratic pollster has been saying that the Best claim a candidate can make in 1986 is simply i can make it not ideology not party Label just practicality and reliability Are what the people Are searching for and that is certainly what they will get in John Lewis. I have nothing against Bond but things have come awfully easily for him. He is handsome articulate engaging and polished. He achieved instant political martyrdom when the Georgia House refused to seat him 16 years ago ostensibly because of his outspoken views against the War in Vietnam. That martyrdom made it appealing for some liberals at the 1972 democratic convention to give him sym Bolic votes As the first Black Man in Contention for a major party vice presidential nomination. And from 1972 on Bond has been a National celebrity travel ing the lecture circuit and the Liberal cocktail parties even when it sometimes kept him from his duties As a stale legislator. Nothing has come easily for Lewis. I Fin met him in 1963 at the civil rights March on Washington the 23 year old head of the student non violent coordinating committee standing up to pressure from the elders of the movement to tone Down what they saw As the inflammatory rhetoric of his speech. He was jailed at least 40 times in that decade hospitalized from brutal beatings in Selma and a dozen other battlegrounds. But he came away As devoid of bitterness As he was of ego or pretension and he moved into voter registration drives and other political action campaigns of the 1970s. He tried for the same House scat in 1977 when Andrew Young gave it up to go to the United nations. He made it through a Large primary Field but lost the Runoff to Wyche Fowler a White Liberal. Uncomplaining he took an unglamorous Job in the Carter administration and then went Home to the in Chic duties of an Atlanta City councilman. In this race Bond had the Money the endorsements of the Atlanta Black establishment and the help of his glitzy friends from Georgetown to Hollywood. Lewis barely made it into a Runoff but then reversed the result of the first primary by cutting into Bond s mar Gin among Black voters and rolling up a big Edge among the District s White voters. The fact that he won Only 40 percent of the Black vote and 80 percent of the White vote in the Runoff will be held against Lewis by some chauvinists in the Community but will not keep him from beating Token re publican opposition in november. Eddie Williams the president of the joint Center for political studies in Washington a major Center of research on Black politics said the Atlanta establish ment will drape itself around John now. They know there s no Way he s going to turn his Back on concerns of other Williams said he thought Lewis work ethic Campaign contrasting his own constant attention to constituent services with Bond s frequent travels had a parallel in last Spring s Newark mayoralty where Sharpe James Defeated incumbent Kenneth Gibson on a pledge to attack Newark s problems at Home rather than blame them on Federal policies. The work ethic ties to self Reliance Williams said and that is a growing theme in the Black Community Lewis Victory also reflects the reach of More and More Black politicians for White support a rain Bow coalition More realistic and less rhetorical than the Rev. Jesse l. Jackson s version. It is what rep. William h. Gray i d-pa., did in 1984 in winning the chairmanship of the House Bud get committee and what l. Douglas Wilder did in 1985 in becoming lieutenant governor of Virginia. It i what rep. Charles Rangel d-n.y., is trying in his bid to become House democratic whip in january and what los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley a Democrat and Wayne county executive William Lucas a re publican Are attempting in their Uphill fights this no vember for the governorships of California and Michi Gan. It is part of a great coalition building tradition thatis in fact the Genius of the american system. John Lewis has understood that system even when it was raining blows on his head and frustrating his dreams. He told me in a 1979 interview that even in the darkest hours of the civil rights struggle we Felt somehow the american system was just and that if depressed hard enough and Long enough and kept our Means consistent with our ends it would respond. Andi Don t think we have changed our it will be a wonderful moment when John Lewis my oath in january As a member of the100th Congress since the founding of this Republic. C
