European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday october 14.1986 columns William Safire Reagan s Summit stance sets 88 showdowns when or. Reagan Loo generously offered a 10-year delay in the deployment of our defense shield in return for deep reductions in both sides offensive mis Siles Gorbachev demanded much More the effective abandonment of our defensive strategy. The . President was forced to refuse end the Summit collapsed. Now the agreement that should have been will be a Central Issue m the american presidential Campaign. Triggered by the Onset of this sudden Summit the 1988 clash Between american personalities and world views took shape last week. Two politicians about the same age of equal intellect and ability to articulate new ideas each with about the same Good Chance of becoming the next president staked out contrasting positions. Gary Hart chose arms control As his theme in his Farewell speech to the . Senate. At the Core of his thinking is to have the . Lake the Lead in ending nuclear tests a ban on All tests for All  begin Iii a moratorium on deployment of sea launched cruise missiles with nuclear warheads and Stop Al nuclear tests hoping the russians will respond. His Louch Tonc is the Kennedy Iasi ban treaty. Less controversial is his Call for interim reductions of arsenals with the usual obeisance 10 improved verification Reagan sought As much in Ireland. Han pro poses Juirl crisis control centers to Avert accidental War and a sensible plutonium freeze to Slop other countries from building nuclear weapons before Hedri ii off into dreamy stuff Aboul cooperating to end William Buckley world hunger. Hart will blame the Summit failure on the Reagan attachment to Star  Republican rep. Jack Kemp speaking to he heritage foundation last week on realism or detente has wholly different world View he will Likely put the blame on the russian Leader s desire to Stop our defense system with empty and unverifiable promises m reduce offences. Kemp was wilting to have a Summit addressed to soviet invasions and subversion violations of human rights agr cements and yes about prospects for real equitable and verifiable reductions in offensive nuclear arms with a Clear american declaration that no limits be placed on deployment of  although president Reagan in the end held out for the Freedom to test space defences he was All too will ing to negotiate limits to deployment of whal Hart charges is a new Arena for nuclear War and Kemp thinks is a strategic masterstroke Kemp sensed realistically in my View that any Reagan willingness to make the deploy ment of ski iffy would be too Greal a temptation 10 congressional defense cutlers. Already under pressure from democrats like Hart to Slop testing anything to treat ski As a bargaining Chip Kemp said an ski research program with no definite consequences Lor defending America and its allies within the Nam 10years will not be politically  that is substantially what Cagan offered the russians in Iceland and was turned , saved by Gorbachev intransigence a relieved Kemp holds thai the russians have blatantly refused to Honor existing agreements and that to tin new agreements would Only demonstrate we Lack the will to insist on compliance. While Hart praises the codes of conduct and Confidence building measures recently signed in Stock Holm Kemp criticizes the agreement. We had pro posed each Side could inspect he others militate activity in its own air planes when the russian did no a Compromise was put Forward for planet of Neutral countries but the russians held out for inspections in their own planes with russian Crews and a went along with this mockery of verification in a vain Effort to get the signature Ball rolling. These two aspirants for the Oval office thus come at bilateral relations and assessment of this Summit with mind sets in total conflict Reagan after gambling on a Summit Triumph during an election Campaign will now strike the pose of having stood unto the russians. Hard liners will forgive his sudden softening but not forget the temperature in hades plummeted for a scary moment. The diplomats will pick up the pieces and put to Gether an agreement for signature next year because Gorbachev needs a respite and Reagan will be worried by chinese soviet rapprochement. Bui he big Deci Sions lie Post Reagan the great debate of 88 has its first voices in Hart is.  York times nows Sar Vicc ., soviets Are playing with different marbles the haunting thesis of Jean Francois revel revisits us Ever so regularly sometimes almost Punnoli Cearly As when we permitted the communists in East Germany to murder maj. Arthur Nicholson an officer of the . Army doing his duty sometimes Melo dramatically As in the Danilof affair. Whal Jean Francois revel Stid in his Book How democracies perish was that the democratic free world can t Hope to win against the totalitarian Monolith because they have marbles we simply do not have. If we had them we would not be an open parliamentary society in which event Why would the fight be Worth it in the first place the soviet Union had 10 win the Dan loft Busi Ness and did so. Consider the mini headline in Usa today whose Success is largely attributable to its absolute Domi Nance of the american idiom. In Usa today opinion what s important is that Nicholas Dan loft has been freed superpower tensions reduced seepage 8a Page 8a tells us exactly whal we would end eco to hear. Daniloff is free in t he and was l that the Point. The great engines of nuclear reconciliation Are re lubricated and we were headed for Summit conference and in t that the main Point i is Bolh easy and self Gratifying to lean Back and say Ronald Reagan should have called up Gorbachev and said to him Gorby i m going to turn off All the phones Between the United Stales and the soviet Union until the White House guard tells me that Nick Daniloff i at the Gate waiting to Sec me Well talk again Ufier that happens. Meanwhile any communication from you will be returned  there is such a Nice feel just thinking Aboul such it communication bul most americans know that no president who behaved in that Way would remain president for very Long. Why simple. The enticements of world peace Are Worth More than the syndication of Nick Daniloff. There in t very much Point in denying this because it is Flat out True. The residual frustration was less in the knowledge that we were going to the bargaining table to Deal with thugs for whom Nick Daniloff Are Mere ciphers we knew we would need to do this than in knowing that there was no likelihood of a change in foreign policy to fundamental As to bring Aboul a genuine change in soviet behaviour. Because it is a fundamental change thai we need if 11u of pwn up my i pm oof Junt and in room on Ihbe it Ftp nor Tomol in in Mlod  to to Vert