European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday Mac Ember 9,19b6 columns Jim Fain Aquino s handling of Tough Job fools experts while Media gurus in the United Stales and abroad sorrowfully predict catastrophe philippine president Cory Aquino keeps churning Oul one Miracle after another. Amazing  the pundits then write nest time the poor Lille thing will be eaten  no Mailer that this woman has toppled a tyrant staffed a far Flung new government in a trilingual nation of 7,100 islands and 54 million souls fired a rebellious defense minister along with her entire Cabinet and negotiated n cease fire with a 20-year rebel lion. Nice lady but too indecisive he commentators insist. And echoing Henry Higgins in my fair  Why can t she be More like a Man after All Maggie Thatcher is Manly so were Gokli Cir and Indira Gandhi to say nothing of Catherine the Greal. If a woman wants to run a country Wisdom argues. She must be Macho. Where is it written who says bluster is bravery hype heroism or self of fact men self doubt the strongest often arc the least shrill. Aquino knows who she is and seems serenely Unior tured by inner demons. She moves at her own Pace. Judge her by results not rhetoric. Those who mistake loud mouthing for leadership ought to take another look at what s happening to the Reagan Rule. Aquino knows her country Well. It has suffered with remarkable patience colonial exploitation japanese occupation and years of pillage by its own tyrants. The filipino people arc hard working Well educated cheerful and largely idealistic despite mar Etc deprivation. They love Cory and Are not expecting overnight Success. They will give her Lime. In the end she May not be Able to pulpit off. The Economy is a shambles de spoiled by Marcos rapacious greed. Though the . Is sympathetic it will not be generous. Japan ought to provide James j. Kilpatrick huge inflows of capital but probably won t. Most americans still think of the is lands As an Extension of our military Power. Washington sees Manila primarily in terms of Clark Field and Subic Bay. We have made our policy hostage to our bases since world War ii. We also View the communist move ment there in terms of our cold War with the soviet Union though filipino guerrillas arc an indigenous group thus far unlinked to Moscow. Indeed the new people s army is not a particularly effective Force. If the philippine army can be rained and adequately equipped it should be Able to wipe Oul the insurgency assuming the cease fire fails. It is unrealistic to expect Aquino to form a puppet government fulfilling All the expectations of . Military planners. Our Basic interests will be Best served by a stable democracy not a client stale. Nor is there reason to expect Aquino to perform with the pomp and arro Gance of a pre Iran Reagan White House. Her Way is More contemplative More open More honest about problems and  finally she fails As commentators have been predicting since before her election it will not be because she re fuses to strut and throw weight around. She has the strength and determination the inner fire and knowledge. She act when she s ready. Style is nol her prob  s just that she s been dealt a Tough hand. She s playing it superbly and May yet produce the climactic Miracle of a stable government in a steadily improving Economy. Chauvinists ought to Stop lecturing and Leam from  news 5wvw. Aun Luad b�8w Nan York to i Trifas to Cha Menge religious names for . Cities a series of stunning lawsuits will be filed in the near future seeking to nullify the names of such famous cities As san Francisco san Diego St. Paul and Corpus Christi according to Eton Sierita newly appointed chief counsel for Church and state for the american civil liberties Union. The decision to make a dramatic assault on any thing that might smack of a governmental act respect ing an establishment of religion follows the Acle s recent Victory in the matter of Bernalillo county in new Mexico. There the Acle won a court order Abo Lishing the county s official Seal. The Seal depicted a Cross and carried the legend con Esta Venc emos with this we conquer. In an exclusive interview with this correspondent Veritas said the Acle s position is clean our purpose is to wipe the last vestige of religion from the Public life of  for government to Sanction the Nam ing of towns cities Ana counties after saints he said is a blatant violation of the Constitution that has been tolerated much too  the first suits will be filed in Federal courts in Texas and California followed by similar proceedings in Missouri Florida Arizona Louisiana and new mexi co according to Veritas All but 13 states have municipalities named for taints of the Christian religion. He estimated that from 220 to 230 entities will do compelled to find new names. This will cause some minor degree of inconvenience Erius conceded but the Constitution comes first no secular purpose is served by such names. The time has come to put an end to  the Acle s litigation if it succeeds would re quire Federal judges to order referendum on new names. So Long As the new names Bear no religious planned. Veritas will not ask that the names be expunged from vital statistics records of marriage and prior court proceedings. Neither will the Acle shoot at Santa Claus. That would be going too far he said and the Acle does not wish to work undue hardship upon anyone the first suits to be filed in . District courts in California will be aimed at such cities As san Bernar Dino san Joaquin. San Jose and Santa Barbara. Cali fornia has an estimated 45 offending place names. Texas has 20. Such new England states As connect Cut Massachusetts Vermont and Maine have none. The Acle s Board has not decided whether to bang suit against Providence . It s a close question Veritas said. Over the next five years the Acle will carry its Campaign to Many other areas of american Public life. A major test Case will Challenge the exemption of Church owned property from local real estate taxation. Another suit jul attack the constitutionality of Federal and suite Laws that permit the deduction of contributions to religious entities. Obviously these tax Laws favor organized religion Erius Aid every Dollar in taxes that u saved by a Church is a Dollar that must be made up elsewhere and elsewhere takes in half of our people who belong to no Church at All suit will be brought in the District of Columbia to strike Down the 195fi act of Congress that established in god we Trust As the National motto. Entas will file a similar complaint against the 1954 act that added under god to the pledge of allegiance he is undecided about a suit to eliminate the fourth stanza of the Star spangled Banner from the National an them. Nobody Ever sings it anyhow he said. Still More proceedings will ask an injunction against the expenditure of Public funds for chaplains in Congress and in stale Legislatures to practice we upheld As recently As 1983 in Marsh i a numbers but Zerilas says the Acle agrees with Justice Willia Brennan who dissented in the Case. Brennan said that if legislative prayer were judged through an unsentimental  it would have to be struck Down As Clear violation of the establishment  Al the Acle said Zerilas we always look at things through an unsentimental Eye some consideration has been Given toward a suit to ban the display of religious paintings and sculptures in publicly owned museums and galleries. Intaj said a decision on this proposal will be reached next summer. Meanwhile we will have our hands full because obviously we expect some modest degree of opposition to our suits he said. By 1991, the 200th anniversary of the Bill of right there won t be a Trace of religion in our Public life he said the people will support us on  the foregoing Lickle is writ  Pott s Tow mom Makaaa h in Hora a a docent on to atm  cd n to now to i Annaa