European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday november 14,1986 he i he he i i government the Way we like it today s crossword by Andy Rooney the trouble with having our government do thing sin a secret or underhanded Way anywhere in the world is thai we lose Confidence in it. We like our govern ment to be better than the sneaky dishonest double dealing governments of some other countries. The average american voter is witling to admit that most Washington officials elected and appointed Are smarter than lie is bul he s still not willing to Lei the do whatever they want without letting him know whal they re  the great number of americans who support everything president Reagan docs Don t want to handover Complete control to him. Americans want to know what goes  who knows whal we re doing in Nicaragua won t talk and those who talk Don t know. Toe differ ence Between the contras and sandinista is of Little importance in our lives but still we re vaguely uneasy about what our government appears to be doing there. President Reagan s allies in Congress in the Penta gon and in the Cia want the politically left Wing government of Daniel Ortega thrown out by in right Wing contras. It looks to most of the world including a lot of americans As though the . Government is trying to make the overthrow happen by doing a of of sneaky dirty Iricks. Americans probably would i approve of those actions if they were put 10 a vote. The . Government is trying unsuccessfully to make i look As though this is a Home grown uprising or the people of Nicaragua bul no one is fooled. I m among those americans who without knowing whether the sandinista or the contras Are the Good Guys in Nicaragua Don l like to see our government doing a lot of underhanded things. Even if these acts Are being done for what our government says is the Good of our country we Don t like it. This Guy Eugene Hasenfus who survived the crash of the . Plane delivering weapons in Nicaragua is hardly an american hero even though he has the looks of one. For Money he engaged in an activity that could Only result in the death of a lot of  fact that these people would have been nicaraguans supporting Ortega docs l make them any less human beings. Hasenfus does t seem like a person who would himself deliberately kill anyone but he s As gush As though he had. He in t evil. He s just selfish an criminally dumb. He s an american foreign legion  Ore no real rules for International behaviour by governments. Every government sets its own Stan Dards. Those standards would be at least As High As the personal ethics of its  have to Trust our government to do everything right. It has to live up to the classic american Ideal of what s right. It has to be John Wayne Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant never mind whether Yoo and i Al ways live up to those ideals. We want our government to live up to  it came out that our state department had put out disinformation a Nice name for lies in order to accomplish something in Libya. Has in put out whal in called disinformation before is it Don often will in be done again soon we re bitterly  our dealing with the soviet Union we have excused ourselves in the past for below Standard action by saying that s the Way they do it that s what a bad kid says when his Mother catches him hitting his brother. He hit me  our government has to be better than bad kids evil governments and better than All of us As individuals. We want to be Able to depend on it and be proud of i because As soon As it slam cheating just a Little on the International level for a Good cause we know in 11start cheating us for our own Good and it u Nave most what we love in for. Cd to in a jul sync Tanuj inc us Plau Bull Wal � maa Nhah u coattails a midterm delusion by Russell Baker the shabby hate of american education May remeasured by the Large amount of misleading talk de voted recently to the president s coattails. Ignorance about presidential Coal iils seems to be almost univer Sal even among those who ought to be Learned if Nowise about such things. I refer to people who make a living by analysing Iheme Aning of elections. Most of these wizards have said the Republican loss of the Senate shows among other things that president Reagan has no coattails. Nonsense. Since the president was not on the ballot he was never tested for coattails. As they used to teach in High school civics class but apparently Haven t for quite some Lime the coattails phenomenon occurs when vast hordes turn out to vote for a highly popular candidate and As Long As they re there stay to Vole for the rest of his  principle is illustrated in a Sidney Hyman Story about a minor candidate on the new York democratic ticket in a year when Franklin Roosevelt ran for  m�ir4ir44ia i Noti Icilin a to i 4n#k rival ass Pali Island ferry Dock. Of course said the candidate. Then he had surely noticed said the Boss that when the ferry came into the slip great quantities of garbage that had Bee floating on the. Water Wen sucked in with it Root Rejc the Boss explained is going to be your Stai Eamand  ferryboat or coattails the principle is the same i the president does t run. You can t Tell the stale of hit coattails. What everybody has ignored is that president Rea Gan made a political mistake thai nobody who passed High school civics should Ever  they used to teach in High school civics but apparently Don t anymore and maybe never did where Reagan went to school presidents who become deeply involved in midterm elections can expect Only disaster. The classic citation when 1 was a school lad was Woodrow Wilson s plea to the country in the midterm elections of 1918 u give him a democratic  result Republican House Republican Senate the next president to err was Franklin Roosevelt whose attempt to purge i opponents in 1938 became his first and Only humiliation at the polls. Wisely president Eisenhower resisted pressures to slake i great popularity in midterm elections thus avoiding ignorant abuse of his coattails after the democratic landslide of 1958.analysis of the conservative persuasion despite their reputation for Superior schooling have show Litile grasp of recent history. Their favorite theme is that democratic Senate gains do not mean there willbe a revival of liberalism. To conservatives liberalism is like count  know it is dead they keep telling everybody it is dead bul their secret terror is that the make has no yet been driven through its heart could it Rise again not As a result of this ejection or to they have me announcing for the past week. If liberalism Means using Public Money to improve the Quality of Public life us years of Reagan ism have already made liberalism impossible for the foreseeable future. There in t enough Public Money to pay exist ing Bills much leu incur new ones.14 . Nett my smut across 1 top Dyer by Eugene Sheffer 87 theme Down Christie. 8 pig Nulion author in Nuna 13 the Emerald lite14 band member15 travel need it you said h"18 turntable part1 9 Aries 21weternindian.  2 paint 40 football s layer 20 give in Pink slip it tit oversee 26 frightful29 . 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