European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday september 23,1986 William Safire soviets put marxist Unity ahead of detente the following speech draft was filched from 3 while House Bur bag it was not delivered by president Reagan monday in his Welcome to the . Delegates. My fellow citizens of the world we gather today at what Many of us thought would he the opening or he third Era of detente. Instead in response to the Prospect of a visit to Moscow by the Leader of China the soviet Union has placed world communist Unity ahead of super Power agreement and has turned 1936 into the year of As a result when inc . Last month prevented inc abuse of Iti hospitality by arresting a soviet spy masquerading As a . Official the soviet Union trumped up charges against an american newsman and offered to Trade an innocent Man for a guilty one. We cannot accept that if we allowed a bargaining Chip to be created out of a false assertion thai would end All Hope of arms control. In what has turned out to be the gravest diplomatic error of my presidency i gave the soviet Leader my personal Assurance of the american s innocence. By then branding our reporter a spy and preparing a show trial or. Gorbachev in of Jeci called me a liar. There is a line in american Western folklore written by the novelist Owen Wister. It goes when you Call me that smile i do not shrink from or. Gorbachev s year of reciprocity. The . Has nothing to lose and much to gain by a series of Steps and Coumar slips to bring about a new parity in our diplomatic relationship leading to a level playing Field in the Field of espionage. First. 1 am ordering a re examination of the curious arrangement agreed to by a too trusting predecessor that has placed the huge soviet embassy in washing Ion on mount Alto and the . Embassy in Moscow in a swamp. We should not have to put vibrators on All Northside windowpanes of the White House to defend against eavesdropping beams from mount Alto. A new and precisely reciprocal site will be offered the soviet Union which will be fairly compensated for the vast electronic surveillance Complex it has built in our capital pans of which can be used to Monitor Low flying ducks As we move the embassy to the Tidewater area of Maryland. In that regard i am ordering strict reciprocation in embassy servicing. Today not one american works Tor the soviet embassy in Washington within 90 Days not Otic soviet citizen will work Tor the . Embassy in Moscow. It May be difficult finding maids Anthony Lewis and gardeners to replace the Kab employees now doing those jobs for us but we will persevere even if our ambassador has to least to use a vacuum cleaner. Second i am speeding up my order to reduce the number of russian spies operating under soviet . Mission auspices. 1 have already specified which 2s Are to be resumed Home without replace ment by oct. I next week i will publish a list of the 200 others who arc to leave by the end of the year. In addition. I Call on the . Secretary general to reduce the number of soviet citizens on the . Staff by half As an Earnest expression of our Good will the United Stales would be willing to finance a study of a move of inc . Headquarters to Moscow with the same number of . Employees to work there As rus sians now work for inc . In new York. Third i intend to rescind the approval of the United states of the Helsinki final act. This is in reciprocation for the repeated failure of inc soviet Union to observe its agreements on human rights that agreement was the great Triumph of the second Era of detente under or. Brezhnev. He was Able to gel inc Wisl to go along with russian claims to vast land grabs in Eastern Europe after world War ii in return for what we now see were empty promises. Small won Der that 20 million copies of Hal agreement have been distributed in inc soviet Union. We no longer need to legitimate those claims 10 expanded Borders. We do not need a forum for the useless Exchange of complaints. The Helsinki agreement is not a treaty but a declaration of without Senate ratification it was signed in Good Faith by one president and can be nullified by another if he sees that the soviet Union s intent was a fraud. My re vision May distress inc cottage Industry Here that enjoys its junkets and expensive reports but the Prin Ciple of reciprocity must be observed. These acts arc in saddened and sober response to the buildup of unfair advantage in espionage capped by the false accusation of lying made by the Kremlin s great and when i Call him that 1 do not smile. 1c now Yortis tme3 new sur web attack on Justice Brennan goes almost unnoticed the department of Justice Over its Long history has had a relationship with inc supreme court of particular re Spect and Confidence. Even m the 1930s, when a conservative majority was strik ing Down new Deal Laws the Justice department officials who lost those cases would not conceivably have made a per Sonal attack on a Justice. All thai is in the past now in the Rea Gan administration a High Justice department official makes an extended Public attack on a member of the supreme court. He puts words in the jus lice s Mouth and denounces the invented statements. And hardly anyone notices so accustomed have we become to offi Cial disrespect for the decency is. The attacker was William Bradford Reynolds assistant attorney general in charge of the department s civil rights division. In a speech recently he excoriated Justice William j. Brennan jr., calling Brennan s jurisprudence a major threat perhaps the major threat to individual Liberty under our cons Titu Here is in c Way Reynolds characterized Bremen s constitutional views Justice for Conan s essential Point made Unate Hedly and apparently with out qualifications is hat the Constitution is essentially a dead letter a document that has probably outlived its usefulness except As a fond memory to celebrate every so readers would assume i suppose thai the quoted words came from Brennan that he called the Constitution a dead there Are quote Marks around the phrase in the text of Reynolds s speech issued by the Justice department. But Brennan did not say that. William Bradford Reynolds said it. The idea is As absurd As the fake quo tation. Reynolds purported to find the View that the Constitution is outmoded in two speeches of Brennan s in the last year. In fact Brennan spoke of the Constitution with reverence As he has in the opinions Over his 30 years on the supreme court. Of course judges interpret the great phrases of the Constitution differently. They always have and they always will. There can be no certainly and promises such As due process of Law or free Dom of Reynolds real complaint is that he disagrees with some interpretations by Brennan. Reynolds charged Brennan Wilh pursuing a radically egalitarian jul he said the Justice sought unlimited judicial Power to further a personalized egalitarian vision of Socie by Way of evidence Reynolds quoted some remarks of Brennan in a speech last summer about the 14th amendment. Thai is the amendment added to the Constitution after the civil War that forbids the states to deny people the equal Protection of the Laws or to de Prive them of life Liberty or property without due process of Brennan said the 14th amendment had served As the Legal instrument of the egalitarian revolution that trans formed contemporary american Socie it bad been summoned he said to the Protection of a Broad Range of civil rights and far from being shocking those statements summarized historical facts. One reason for adoption of the i4tb amendment was to overcome the dred Scott decision holding that Blacks could not have the rights of citizenship. The purpose was squarely egalitarian and after decades of neglect the supreme court starting in the 1940s and 1950s, at Usi began vindicating the Promise of equal rights to Blacks. Beyond race relations the due process clause of the 14th amendment has been held to protect individuals from Many stale infringements of Liberty torture for example and censorship. Every single Justice who has sat on the supreme court car the last 60 years has agreed that such state acts violate the Amend ment. Finally Reynolds excoriated Brennan for saying that the Promise of the i4lh amendment had not yet been fully realized that ugly inequities continue to mar the face of our if Reynolds does not see inequalities in America in 1986, he is wilfully Blind. In the political life of a civilized democracy office should impose a certain dignity a certain decency of speech. For a lawyer in High office to vent distorted spleen on a supreme court Justice any Justice is not just a matter of taste. In this episode we Sec the attitude of the present department of Justice to Ward the rights that have made Thil country so extraordinarily free. That Atti tude is a major threat perhaps the major threat to individual Liberty under our Constitution. C now Vork time
