European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday. November 10,1996 columns Andrew j. Glass great Powers should act like great Powers a former National Security adviser to the presi Dent of he United states arrives in Tehran the nerve Center of islamic fundamentalism aboard a dc-8 leased by inc Cia. La bean contraband american made arms which had been loaded in miracl. He carries a phony Irish passport and a Pound cake in the shape of a key. The cake Symbol is a Chance to open diplomatic doors Between Washington and Teh ran doors which have been slammed shut for inc last seven years. But hungry revolutionary guards at Mehraban air port eat the cake. The former adviser then rides off to a hotel with Cia agents for company. For the next five Days they Are held under House arrest in the Plush High Rise hotel. They Are barred from leaving their rooms. But he iswet1 , presumably bugged to the Oval office. Finally they Are expelled. A synopsis perhaps of a hackneyed spy novel not at All folks this stuff comes from the True to life adventures of Robert Mcfarlane the no longer so secret emissary dispatched by president Reagan to Iran in a bid to win the Freedom of american hostages being held in Lebanon. Just imagine a National Security official from another administration say Henry Kissinger involved in such comic Book Amio. While Kissinger undertook his share of scent missions Tor Richard Nixon he invariably travelled with a certain sense of style. No one Ever asked for his passport. Place a direct dial Call up to once at a party in the Early 1970s, a guest rushed i t Kissinger and gushed of or. Kissinger thank you Tor keeping the Middle East from going up in flames without missing a beat Kissinger replied you Are  Mcfarlane a More modest Man of More modest talents had More modest goals in mind to win the release of the hostages their keepers have iranian ties _ and to Dampen if possible. Iran s new found interest in the soviet Union. In theory this made sense. As the mullahs mulled Over their moves Urey kept the Channel open by arranging to Spring in succession three of the americans iwo clerics and a Hospital director being held in Lebanon if and when he is also freed. Associated press re Porter Terry Anderson will have a Story to Tell that Wilt make Nicholas Daniloff s Brief ordeal in a Kab prison look like a cub scout picnic the trouble is that the islamic jihad which still holds Anderson and at least one other american pursues an Agenda of ill own Freedom Lor More than a dozen terrorists now held in a kuwaiti jail on the persian Gulf. What makes things really Dicey a that most of the terrorists Ace related by blood to the hostage  the Cia would put in Mcfarlane has been blown out of the game. He can no longer pitch cakes or any thing else. Perhaps the people who pan for moderate in Tehran these Days will consent to Deal Wilt a new secret Reagan envoy one who will no doubt Bear More arms. Vet i suspect thai this hostage business is Mikean Ever Normal granary soon As Terry Waite. The anglican negotiator pops them out of Beirut . Hostages will go into the Hopper As fodder for future  the Long run great Powers Are better off behaving As great Powers should behave. A president need not have to accept bugged Calls from an agent in Tehran to establish his  another president Lyndon Johnson had problems he would sometimes Bellow to an aide Tell that no Good so and so that if he does t come around five bad things will happen to him. And Tell him thais just before  that s the kind of talk an Ayatollah could relate to. Con n0wb seme James Reston democrats Reagan face fest of cooperation the democrats have come Back to Washington proclaiming their Victory in the Senate election Ana promising to cooperate with the president during his last two years in the while House. It would be risky to bet the family s savings on this Promise particularly on issues of Domestic policy but they will have a Chance to prove their Good Faith in the continuing  negotiations on the control of nuclear weapons. This is still the most important Politi Cal question in the world today but the Progress made by president Reagan an general Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik last month is slipping. The soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze was not Only decidedly negative but wickedly sarcastic in his meetings with Secretary of state George Shutlz and other nato foreign secretaries last week in Vienna. He dismissed Shufu s efforts to clarify he Reykjavik proposals As a mixed bag of old mothballed views and approach  and convinced some officials there that Moscow had Given up on reaching an agreement with Reagan and will wait for Reagan s with them in reaching a bipartisan nuclear policy. This would require Reagan to take the leaders of the other party into his Confidence and even into the negotiations As presidents Roosevelt and Truman did at the end of world War ii. There Are some differences now be tween the parties particularly on the president s Star wars policy but these Are not insurmountable and fortunately the democrats expert on defense. Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia will become the next chairman of the Senate armed services committee. Another argument for reach ing a bipartisan agr Mcmeni before another Summit meeting with Gorbachev is that any agreement would have to be confirmed by the Senate and this could not be achieved without the help of Nunn and the democratic majority. The immediate problem however is to disabuse inc russians of any notion they might have that they can Divide the parties and count on a different Deal with the next president. For the moment Reagan ii in so to prevent Moscow from taking advantage much will depend on How the Leaden of both political parties act to Ward one another after they Analyse their new Post election positions. The while House chief of staff Don Ald Regan has taken a rather hard line since the voting. The administration will simply go on As before he says insisting on its own Agenda. The president had some rough Lan Guage Sot democrats particularly sen. Alan Cranston of California the demo cratic whip and has been talking since the election of still fighting for his Star wars policy unchanged and for a line item veto and a constitutional Amend Mentlo balance the budget. Likewise some democrats have been blowing off item about How the Yare now going to insist on their own legislative Agenda for the next two Yean but All this boasting and posturing is so much political smoke. The fact ii Taftt the democrats do have a 10-teat margin in the Senate which is something but not enough to overcome presidential veto. So both parties Are stuck with one another and Moil Coop the problem Roosevelt and Truman mastered by cooperation not confrontation with the republicans so maybe what s needed now is a sum Mit meeting Between the president an democratic leaders on Capitol hid if the Promise of a nuclear Compromise is not to be  yet twi Hon struck Hetem wet Yean is a Long time when Ether Are producing about six additional Nudera weapons every Day. Accordingly it might be useful if the democrats made Clew to the russians that on this presid ing question of reducing nuclear weapons they really mean to cooperate with the president if he is willing to cooperate uses Dea Tovje so Naff Case of the country and in by the despair then in a White House Ditino oration of the aus and the Delight of the rus it wimm Fol nut a Kwh  of in Silas. Me lit a nit Nowac  program followed by the capture of in american gun runner in Nicaragua and finally in some tort of hocus pocus to allow arms shipments to Iron in Exchange for american hostages. Reagan facet the problem Woodrow Wilson rumbled when he refused to co operate with the democrats Over the for mation of tie league of nations in 1919,