European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday october 4.19b6 Carl Rowan Robertson May be just the Man for White House television evangelist Marion g. Pat Robertson has moved his Dollar grabbing smile a lol closer to r run for the . Presidency in 1988. This worries Liberal in people for the american Way conservatives like education Secretary William j. Bin Nult and other Republican presidential contend ers among them vice president George Bush rep. Jack Kemp of new York and Sens. Robert Dole of Kansas and Paul Basalt of Nevada now i Haven t signed any of the petitions or Cheeks that Rev. Robertson is demanding but want 10 Tell inc scoffers and critics that the to preacher has some claims to 1hc presidency that ment our consideration. Robertson says he wants a balanced budget which makes him a run of the Mill politician until you note that. Lord help us. He May be the Only candidate who can wipe Oul our increasingly crippling budget deficits. Robertson claims that through a special connection to god he can heal the sick and the lame. Our budget is partly out of Kilter because we arc spending192 billion on medicare and $25 billion on medicaid this year. Robertson could hold a few massive hands on ceremonies in assorted stadiums of America and Pray away the need for medicaid and medicare. Truth is anybody close enough to god to cure my arthritis ought to be Able to prevent me from gelling old. You too. So away with this social Security pro Gram thai other politicians won t touch even though it costs a budget busting $200 billion this year. On wednesday night Robertson asked his haul to Pony up s100 a piece and said he will activate god s will and run for inc while House on a u ? million registered voters sign affidavits supporting him by sept. 17, 1987. There s a Cool $300 million in that Little political Man Euver and a Guy who can pull that off surely can outwit the japanese and wipe out Ameri Ca Trade deficit. Bush Kemp cd Al Are Correct in not taking Robertson lightly because this preacher is Likely to become the candidate of the insurance companies of America and of All americans who own property along the san Andrea fault in the Tornado Belt in the outer Bankson North Carolina and other Hurricane territory. Robertson claims that he talked to g9d last year and redirected Hurricane Gloria so it did not devastate the Carolinas and other parts of America s East coast. The preacher has a Liny problem with voters on Long Island who got hit when Robertson and god sent Gloria there. But that old cop out clause act of god can come out of All insurance policies because when Robertson William Buckley Kkt it then becomes president there won t be any acts of god that kill any ofus. Bennett is upset because Robertson keeps equating loyally to America with being a Christian this sort or invidious sectarianism must be renounced in the strongest terms the Secretary said. Now 1 know some of Robertson s born again christians. Their bigotry makes it dear that they did t get it right the second time. Bui should 1 we assume that Robertson will have them bom again an try to get it right the third Lime maybe since Robertson thinks christians Are More Loyal citizens he will come up with a religious test that will free America fall this spying especially from christians like John Walker the Scourge of our Navy who grew up and was educated in roman Catholic schools in Scran ton a. And we must t forget the possible foreign pol icy advantages of electing Robertson. We have had democrats and republicans trying futilely to get Points across to soviet leaders. The soviets Don i know what we re saying about Poland Afghanistan or much of anything else. Robertson however can speak in tongues unknown to most of us but surely one of them is understood by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev. If someone asks you to sign n petition and a $100 Check for Robertson Don t kick him or her off your Doorstep without thinking about All the reason Why our next president should be someone who cad Clear sinuses raise Money real fast Send hurricanes and earthquakes to communist countries and Ulk to got when he s in doubt about anything. C not a Lorica Syndi Cau 2 big name advisers join opposition to ski once again we have those big name advisers counselling president Reagan to abandon his strategic defense initiative. But this Lime a found there Are two names not usually associated with the soft school on soviet diplomacy Melvin Laird s and most conspicuously Brent scowcroft s. They signed a 3,500-word paper addressed to the president by Harold Brown who served president Carter As Secretary of defense. What is going on 1. The abm treaty concluded in 1972 is variously interpreted. There Are those who read in it a prohibition against testing the technology appropriate to the development of a space shield ski the restrictive interpretation. There Are those including the counsel for the stale department who read it otherwise the permissive Reading. The question which of the two readings is Correct would of course be Mool if Reagan were to exercise his prerogative which is to Call an end to the treaty 2. For reasons of his own certainly not for reasons that Are obvious Reagan has not exercised this prerogative. Instead he has said he would go along with the restrictive Reading for uie simple reason that has not reached the Point where in becomes relevant to ask finally which of the two meanings of the abm treaty is binding. Along comes the soviet Union in the course of Hose endless disarmament talks with one of those modest proposals it special izes in. Why not say the russians a accept the restrictive interpretation and b extend the treaty for 20 years ii a Only surprising thai they did t add and. C give us the statue of Liberty. Reagan a d no no. But he did say that he would be willing 10 guarantee not to deploy any ski weapon in less than seven and one half years but that he would wish to be free to test and develop during that period. The soviet Union has of course taken the position that Reagan s alternative is outrageous. In a Way the soviet Union is Correct Reagan should not give the soviet Union what the soviet Union is Holly engaged in trans forming into a veto Power Over plans devised by Ameri Ca for we Protection of America and americans. 3. The Brown scowcroft memorandum advocates a ban on testing ski for up to 10 years. Why the reasons Given Are presumably that any precipitate Success with our anti missile technology would destabilize the current balance of terror. But this is one of Shote orthodox projections we have been following for More than a Genera Tion during which we travelled the Road from massive strategic superiority to strategic inferiority. Two aspects of the space shield program stand out. The first is its emancipating vision the idea of Liberal ing America from threats of massive destruction by creating a space shield As an alternative preferable to blowing up 100 million russians. That is the visionary approach and the principal engine behind the idealistic Ascendancy of he ski. The second aspect of the space shield pro Gram is its awful vulnerability. H in l vulnerable directly to soviet pressure against it. But soviet pressure has t in recent memory been As isolated As that. Sovi t pressure equals a combination of soviet plus amen. Can pressure. Now one expects the fellow travellers and the Sof headed set to Rustle when a soviet wind blows but one docent expect in of such As Gen. Snowcroft who three years ago headed the commission Hal Tola a we needed 100 my missiles for the National Security. Of the we have got none. And nothing in political life u More surely predictable than that what u happening happened to the my win happen to the space shield Jowe put off financing it vigorously the president asked Lor a 75 percent increase this year got 30 percent Brown scowcroft wanted 10 percent testing it at Rule peed ahead and moving As last As possible toward deployment. Are there conditions under which we might abandon ski sure. If we reached an Ann agreement the effect of which was to make it impossible for the soviet Union to destroy the United slates then there would be no need for ski. Henry Kissinger a Mart thin once pointed out that the survival of ski Hapl Bitely depends on its immunity from workaday Alfo Uakini with the soviet Union Eie ept As a component or i general agreement. A Telephone Call verifies he continuing belief that the space shield should not Bettima Lizett ski is the kind of thing one is witling to Trade u return for of Lenin s Tomb or More concretely unmistakable evidence that the soviet Union to done preparing for aggressive nuclear War. Thote who argue to give ii up before that time Are doing the work of the soviet Union
