European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday october 27,1986 columns Tom Wicker Reagan establishes himself As doctor spin. ,. .-_-._. I  a. La _ Unni a Mill Onmi Ottav met that of Etc spin doctors Are the hot new item in 1986 politics though they have Long been Wilh us under other pseudonyms. However called they put the right spin on the Ball in 1968, when they saw Light Ai the end of the Tunnel i Vietnam and in whatever Guise they were setting up the hitlers in 1981 with he message Hal Lam could be Cut Mili tary expenditures raised and the budget balanced nevertheless. Spin Doc Lon will discover encouraging Progress in a poll showing their candidate 20 Points behind or if he is 20points ahead their fund raising letters will declare him in mortal peril. If unemployment is 7.15 percent this month As rest 7,25 last month spin doctors see Economy on a Roll. Now in our Lime we be been privileged to meet the one and Only doctor spin himself the master curve Bailer illusionist and smoke Blower of the Day. Maybe the All Lime Champion of dips do. He turns out to be not unlike the wizard of of our president Ronald Reagan As familiar Friendly and lovable As Frank Morgan. How do we know the recent achievements of it Maestro provide the Only needed verification one of his own terms of Art 1. Who bul he could have swapped As Ovist spy for an american journalist while assuring us Hal it was t a Swap or Ifil was our horse trader got the bet Ter of their horse Irader 2. When leaked White House documents documented a government Dis information Campaign aimed not at the soviet press but at the . Press was doctor spin dismayed nol in the least he denied thai disinformation had been planned or planted while Junior spinners asserted that if it had been it would have been justified. 3. When a . Plane formerly used bythe Cia and owned by a company with links to the Cia was shot Down in Nicaragua a surviving american crewman said he had been told that he worked forthe Cia then named a supervisor with links to the Cia and to vice president George Bush a former Cia director. Doctor spin and All the Little spinner explained that they knew of no links be Mary Mcgrory tween the plane and the Cia and any Way since the sandinista Are a Bunch of reds what s the beef but All of this masterful bridging of credibility Gap was eclipsed by the legerdemain of doctor spin and Bis stagehands in the aftermath of the ice land Summit s collapse. Or men As yet is Nota Summit swaps of captives Are swaps War is Mots Fitjar face Staw Tail permit policies Are unborn will some Day curse the Fate that denied them an eyeball View of the Mas Ter s Peak  of state George Shutlz seem ing near teats told a National television audience on sunday night that he was deeply disappointed by the Summit fail ure. But by monday a fully orchestrated administration Wilh the doctor on the podium was spinning out the Melody mat breakthroughs and sweeping potential agreements breathtaking phrase had been achieved at  this Post Summit phase More Geni us while House spinners logged 71"media events a Golden oldie53 involving top spinners like Donald Regan and Shutlz who recovering from his disappointment personally spun out the we news for the networks and the new York times Peter Rousset a Deputy spinner spoke Pride fury of a Media  some carping was heard. Mikhai Gorbachev unfortunately does not seem to believe that the superpowers Are a close to an agreement on nuclear testing As . Spinners say they Are no no there could t be such and there want he insist Sand the records of he Summit talks in Iceland such As they Are suggest thai the two sides Only Reite rated their Basic incompatible positions. Gorbachev declared also Hal any con Cessions he had made at Iceland were part of a package Hal represented a bal Ance of interests and concessions and concluded no package no  but Hal was Duck soup for the doctor who knows the value of an upbeat it s heartening he said in mis Souri to find or. Gorbachev agreeing with me that the proposals we made in Iceland Are still on the  even at Home senators want to know i the president agreed Al the Summit to the ultimate elimination of strategic ballistic missiles or As Gorbachev asserts and Reagan himself once seemed 10 confirm to doing away Wilh All strategic nuclear weapons a far different matter. The White House has t Yel found jus the right spin to put on that Ball by the polls Are up and doctor spin is on in Campaign Hail. One More win for the Gipper May be in sight and that fellow rubes is the name of the  vat than White House Dart Board could save a lot of grief _. F. . �. A la i.w1 in uni Thamrin when Tuv of tvs Tufi Secretary of state George Shutlz simply could t understand Whytall the fuss was about would t any red blooded american be glad that his government was pulling the Wool Over a terrorist s eyes if the . Press got taken in Loo that Stough. The Wall Street journal which ran a front Page Story on aug. 25 telling us that Muammar Qadhafi was acting up again and could respect another dose of Dyna mite simply Luned in to the wrong Channel the disinformation was intended for Export and if american reporter got bum inside dope thai was not intended Lor them it is not Ronald Reagan s fault Shutlz put his fool into it with his de sense. He was t supposed to Confer accuracy on Bob Woodward s Washington Post Story about a White House plot to deceive the Public about Gad Aii s cur rent activities. According to Reagan the whole thing never happened. Reagan actually moved from shouting to speaking Range for reporters trying to interview him Over the Din of the Hal copier departing for Camp David. We Are not telling lies or doing any of those disinformation things he said even though the rustled cattle were lowing loudly around him. The Issue is important to him because be american people give him great Trust. They put up with his misinformation when he says Bolh Side cheated in the Philippines election Hal the soviets Are ahead in nuclear weapons thai the poor Don t suffer from cuts in poverty programs or that South african Blacksure liberated. Americans think they know whal he meant or thai he does t mean in at All. I1ornswoggung the american press ii not something invented by the Reagan administration. H j always been done. And Reagan has Long since Learned to discount the importance of the fourth estate. U can be fobbed off easily wit seven press conference year by presi Dent whose Public approval Raunft is near unanimous. When Woodward s disclosure of White House plans for a disinformation program appeared in the Post thei Tele they Are paying taxes to be lied to bul raged against the disclosure of things they Don t want to hear about thai iceman in the while House adm. John m. Point Weer the National Security adviser was not ruffling his Supen ois feathers by suggesting his disinformation program. What is the press except on Arm of the government thai s the soviet View of it As the Nicholas Dan loft Case proved once again. Larry speares says the president has full Confidence in  Means that if the Fri investigation directed at finding out How the Wal Street journal came to write a Story not intended for Home consumption leads tothe door of the Admiral or hit subordinates the criminal prosecution that has been called for in the cases of other leak ers May be scrubbed. Another investigation which May Bemore vigorously proved will be aimed at hacking Down the Varmint who gave Woodward the vivid detail of How administration biggies joked like common toughs at a Corner bar about what they would like to do to Qadhafi. The person o May have Learned most from Tail episode is Mikhail Oor Baches who owned up to an Accident Ona soviet nuclear submarine recently. Be fore poin Deiter sat Down to write Gorbachev might have been tempted u claim that the soviets had no ubi i North Atlantic Waters it s 100 much to Tope for probably that the Admiral will be my to put jul time to More productive use like i Jinn Oul How to get the american Hottum to Lebanon borne safety. Bancea Are Bah simply be asked to turn Hia Type Jer. What the Best of i should Bope for is the installation of a dirt Board inthe White House situation room or wherever administration officus meet when their blood is up. The to i to Ouzel be Qadhafi in one of hit outlandish gel up. Let them All try their skill until Ibe fit of the moment passes. A Catt a Dart Board duri Zuj Ite in by Yean would have Lave Dewry one a of grief. Presidential of sewn with can often Lea to. Pm