European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. November 19,19b6page 10 the stars and stripes Jim Fain new barriers won t solve . Trade deficit some hot eyed democrats Are eager 10 put their Senate Victory to the worn possible use by enacting new barriers to free Trade they say they re trying to level the playing Field but the notion that we arc a Simon pure free trader adrift in an evil world of protectionism is pure myth. About 40 percent or our imports arc strained through some kind of protective Wall. We May not match he japanese in exotic non governmental restraints but do one can touch us for arrogant self righteousness. Our latest farm Law for example i basically an Export subsidy. When other countries do that we Call i dumping we have bilateral restraints on steel autos. Microchips and Many other imports. What we try to Overlook is the Pogo Maxim our real enemy is us. We let ourselves get fat dumb and Happy. Wei Rcw away our competitive Edge through such follies As huge deficit that require High interest rates failure o save for capital formation educational decline and a myopic Industry that concentrates on quarterly profit rather than Long Range Market share. We lag behind every Industrial nation in productivity gain. In 12 years Japan has out gained us by 50 percent. We need an All out National Cru Sade to restore productivity. Instead. We Ait Likely to see a guerrilla War be tween Congress and the while House Over protectionist measures that if enacted will trigger a disastrous Tariff War. There Are tactical arguments thai could slow the Stampede. The Trade deficit finally is headed Down. While the improvement is entirely in imports not the expanded exports we really need the net deficit was Dow from a record $18 billion in july to si3.3 billion in August and $12.6 Bil lion in september. The eighth round of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade Nego lint ions has begun a process that should help the administration stall for time. The new Congress will have to renew the president s authority to Flora Lewis negotiate offering protectionists weapon but there s always sentiment for closing ranks while we re at the table. Most importantly the Whitehouse has belatedly recognized the productivity crisis and ordered a stud of competitiveness. If this group re fuses to become just another Reagan Naul stall for Raissez Faire fanaticism it could Dampen protectionist hysteria. Restoring productivity so we can compete in a free world Market is the Only True solution to our Industrial de Cline and economic weakness. This Means a Tough Agenda of educational Renaissance research sleep deficit reduction Bell lightening to Force Sav Ings for capital formation and tax counters to the Short term profit mania of our financial markets. Fortunately there s growing recognition of the real nature of the Trad problem. A bipartisan congressional caucus on competitiveness is being formed by 100 members of the House and Senate. John Young president of Hewlett Packard is organizing a Council on competitiveness wis members from business labor and Aca deme. A congressional economic leadership Institute is being formed o help the congressional caucus devise new legislation. All May have competing fish to Fry but there is an emerging consensus thai tariffs Are nol the answer that Only sacrifice on a heroic scale can make us fully competitive again. As that Cru Sade jells sign on. It s More crucial to National Security than anything going on at the Pentagon. Co a flows Sti vice Molotov took his secrets All the Way to the grave the report from Moscow said Vyacheslav me Lolo was buried after funeral services at  in the presence of a Small group of family and friends. He was 96. No soviet officials attended and foreign journalists were kept away by the police. So apparently Molotov took to the grave the Man secrets of the bolshevik revolution and the stalinist period thai were destroyed in Moscow s orwellian memory Hole. He could have told a lot. A Young englishwoman wondered when his death was announce cd what he had been like saying All she knew about him was the famous cocktail and she imagined him a romantic revolutionary. She did know Hal the flaming bottle called a Molotov cocktail was the device the finns used against the russian during the soviet finnish War of 1939-40 and had nothing to do with the revolution. Molotov s role a Premier during world War ii prompted the nickname. He was a Short Stocky Man with a neatly Clippe Mustache always Well groomed and he looked like a Small town banker. It seemed appropriate that whence visited president Roosevelt at the while House during the War his code name was or.  Buthe was a close accomplice of Stalin in the most Mur Derous years a mechanical personality who seemed to balk at nothing. Perhaps that was Why according to Story i was told years ago the Cia was emboldened to seek his defection or at least his debriefing by offering is million through a . Magazine for his memoirs whence was in Vienna in the Early 1960s. He was recalled to Moscow almost immediately afterwards and nothing came of it a pity for history. As part of Nikita Khrushchev s de salinization pro Gram Mollov had been demoted and sent to Vienna for a time As ambassador to the International atomic Energy Agency. Thai was already a big change fro the Stalin Molotov Lime when purged officials were automatically jailed and usually executed. Khrushchev made a slate visit to Austria in i960,and Molotov lined up on the railway platform with All he other local soviet staff members to Greet him. Hews placed Well Down the protocol line around 70lh. As he passed Down the line Khrushchev smiled said a word or two to some soviet officials occasionally kissed a child i stood opposite Molotov to watch the encounter. They Shook hands without a word or sign of recognition. Molotov was Mill alive Bui for Khrushchev he had slopped existing. Later in 980, the austrian government arranged a Celebration for the 25th anniversary of the treaty thai ended the postwar occupation. That had been Khrushchev s decision but Molotov who was still foreign minister in i95s, had gone to Vienna to sign he Irea by. The austrians wanted to invite survivors or their families and a minister Harold Macmillan Eleanor Dulles the sister of John Foster Dulles and Many others accepted. The austrian ambassador in Moscow asked the soviet foreign ministry where he could deliver an invitation 10 Molotov. He was told not to trouble him what he remembered. So the world will never know his thoughts about the crimes the betrayals the fears the calculations in which he played so Large a role before during and after the War. His Bland face was the image of Whai the writer Hannah Arenal called in another conical the banality of  now he is gone unmounted and almost unremembered the last survivor of an age of terror thai is hard for those who never knew it even to imagine. It is reminder of the importance of not letting history fade for Molotov had a Loi to do with the shape of the world today and the Story of his experiences would helpmate understandable much Hal seems inexplicable. The system he helped establish remains bul in didst conquer the world in did t make his people Prosper it neither Rode the tide of history nor brought the workers Paradise in whose name he Sandhu Mentor Stalin imposed such. . Life Goe on