European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday october 28,1986 George will new Jersey s Kean could be Republican Savior soon Clouds or candidates will be mixing cast gallon of rivals with supplication of the distracted Citi Zens of Iowa warning that floodgates of ruin Are about to burst washing society from its foundations unless voters elevate to glory the one suitable Savior. A voice that probably willbe missing from he candidates Cho rus is the one Wilh the improbable new England accentor new Jersey s governor Tom Kean. It should not be missing. Before 1981, democrats held the governorship for 24 of 28 years in 1981, Kean won his first term by 1,700 votes out of three million cast. In 1985, he won with 70 percent the largest margin in new Jersey s history. Although democrats have a 2 to i registration advantage he won every county and All but three Small towns among the state s s67 cities and towns. He won 68 percent of Hie votes of Union members. Hewon so percent of the Black vote. Newark s mayor said Kean goes to neighbourhoods where people Seldom see a Ali it person and never six a Republican. Any governor of new Jersey is an America Caesar the most unfettered executive in his Domain. New Jersey has no elected attorney general no Lieuten ant governor of any sort. The governor appoints a most everyone. He has not Only a line item veto but Asa gift from the state s hyperactive supreme court he even has Power to revise language in spend ing Bills. Kean is has a name pronounced Cane not Keenan accent a slightly Mushy diction and a Gap Between his front Teeth. .11 of which Campaign consultants have itched to change. His indifference to such reforms is the Confidence of a personality often called Pat for new Jersey Confidence is Only an Aspira Tion. The Chip on new Jersey s shoulder has bin Iacre since the Isth Century when it was called a Valley humility Between two mountains of the mountains were Philadelphia and new York today Loo Many people know new Jersey Only As a ribbon of Turnpike running through refineries Urban Dclay and air As thick As chowder. New Jersey docs not relish is role As the Rodney danger Field of Stales As Gary Hart can attest. Late in the 1984 primary season Hart commit cd a joke saying How fortunate his wife was to be campaigning in California while he was Rel galed to new Jersey s toxic waste landscape. Kean says polls showed thai 60 percent of those who voted in new Jersey s primary Mondale 45 percent Hart 30 percent had the joke in mind when they entered Lite voting Booth. Given the state s let Hinss about its lowly William Safire rudder Wiship Ster centrist status it is perhaps understandable that it adores a supremely confident governor who is As new Jersey As now Slop that do not say acid rain Bruce Springsteen. Bruce thai is in Brooks Brothers clothes. He is the son of a congressman grandson of a sen Ator direct descendant of the state s first governor William Livingston and Iacre is a Roosevelt Teddy and a Stuyvesant Peter in branches of the family tree in a recent presidential preference poll among East Ern republicans Kean finished third behind Bush an Dole. However he says a sitting governor other per haps than governors of new York and California to whose capitols television cameras will come is too lied Down to run for president. His other problem it i really his parly s problem May be ideological. He says few governors arc ideologues and to is hard to lab a working but National re View the keeper of conservative orthodoxy tabs him Anco Mode talc Crapio cd Nidrist sym. It cites his support for the supreme court s abortion decisions affirmative action disinvestment in South Africa. During his tenure crime has declined in every major City and 20 percent statewide five tax shave been Cut Jack Kemp s idea for Enterprise zones has been implemented the slate has the third lowest unemployment rate among the 11 major Indus trial , such Are the parties litmus tests these Days it probably is impossible for a Republican who supports or a Democrat who opposes Liberal abortion Laws to win a nomination. Another new Jer Strite sen. Bill Bradley flunked the democrats test when he sup ported did for the contras. It would be fun to Sec what mild heterodoxy might do if say one among a dozen Republican aspirants in to a in 198 8 endorsed � few of the policies that gop orthodoxy Calls Cardinal sins. There might be a respect Able plurality of sinners even in Iowa. Besides i Hearty with the shortest list of unforgivable sins wins. Poal it Lilac group time lbs dish out the criticism but con t take it Minneapolis beware daring to criticize Media giants. Ronata Adler is a respected author and critic with training in Bolh journal ism and the Law. In two Long articles in the new yorker this summer she exam ined the reportorial excesses exposed in the libel trials of Sharon is. Time and Westmoreland is. Lbs. Her critical judgments based on sworn depositions and the trial record were devastating. She concluded thai time and lbs both of which escaped libel judgments had been shown 10 be guilty of twisting facts and lying to cover it up. Book publication was scheduled for september. But then the Media empires supposed defenders of the first Amend ment and their far left bedfellows Wem to work. Time s editor wrote a letter to the editor of the new yorker attaching lengthy refutation of the Adler series Ana asking the Magazine to run it. Nothing wrong with that the new yorker ought to run letters from tar gets us time does. Bui then time tried egregiously. The letter was transmitted by time s counsel Robert p. Marshall. A lawyer s cover tet Ter automatically sets off libel Bells put Ting lawyers Al the new yorker and at the prospective Book publisher. Alfred a Knopf on notice. Time s improper pressure May have been inadvertent but lbs is going All out to suppress the Book and harass the author. Van Gordon Sauler then head of fobs news Drew up a 10,000-word As Sault and lbs hired press agent John Scanlon an engaging Panja drum of the East Hampton rat puck at s 5,000 a month to discredit the charges. In Early july even before a copy of the lbs counter blast was delivered to Knopf digs began appearing in gossip columns and in the far left press. Sly suggestions impugned Adler s motives. Such publicity May have helped to generate a libel threat from one of the former spooks who testified on lbs s behalf at the Westmoreland trial. Probably emboldened by this heat lbs s main accusatory source in its Vietnam deception show warned Adler at a Yale symposium this weekend you la be hearing from As a result of All this pressure abetted by time s use of it lawyer in its objections the Book s publication Date keeps slipping. A detailed rebuttal of the de tailed whining by lbs and time had to be prepared to satisfy Well chilled Knopf lawyers. Maybe Adler s Book Wilh a epilogue that exposes this harassment will come out in november maybe not. Kitty Kel Ley s his Way had Only Frank Sina tra s Legal intimidation to contend with and she was Able to publish Renata Adler s reckless disregard faces an array of offended Media giants Radical Ratchet men and suing spooks. This is a Case of prior Book restraint triggered by powerful news organizations Quick to denounce prior restrain by government. The danger to their reputations from the Westmoreland and Sharon cases is As nothing compared Wilh the damage they do to press Freedom by this furious vindictive attack on a reporter who dares id touch their most sensitive nerves. Time should immediately withdraw its of so polite lawyer s letter if its editors want to Savage Adler s criticism in print whole pages of time s Book review Section Are available and it is free to ignore the writer s slinging counter rebuttal. At lbs chief executive Laurence Tisch cannot blame this breach of ethics abuse of Power and waste of asset on previous management. His press agent insisted last weekend that lbs tried to intimidate no one Ana charged thai is. Adler s work contains glaring examples of false report ing and grossly misrepresents the re Cord of the Tisch should publicly dissociate his company from All lawsuits and efforts to Block publication of this Book. The Media conglomerate that owns Al Fred a. Knopf should Tell its in House lawyers White lipped and trembling to stiffen their tines and get on with publication. Reckless disregard no mat Ter Bow condemned by the stranger. Bed Fellowship of radicals and wounded Media giants is Likely to be a Best letter and sure to be required Reading it Syra Cuse University s new House school of journalism. I thought generals Westmoreland and Sharon were wrong to bring their libel suits and was glad that the press s free Dom to be in maliciously Sloppy we upheld at their trials. But the vehement arrogance of Media overreaction to the close study of the Uriab records Mig Genu that the finals served a Good purpose. Get out of the suppression business lbs. Those who dish out accusation of conspiracy should be Able to take Cut
