European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily gazing a civics course on the Reagan style by  or. New York times Secretary of stale George Shutlz. Who was once a professor used his appearance before Itie House foreign affairs Commilles last week to Loach the Congress and the country a Halle about the Way the United states is and is not governed in the Reagan Era. In the process in shed some Light on How Iho Iran arms controversy May have developed and on his own stewardship of american foreign policy. His Lone was alternately avuncular apologetic angry perplexed and resigned. Bui throughout his two hours of testimony he gave an insider s View of a kind More Ollen heard at Georgetown dinner parties and in the White House mess than on National television. Nothing Ever gala settled in this town Shultz told the committee Al one Point it s not like running a company or even a University. It s a Seething Deb along society in which the debate never slops in which the people never give up including me and that s the atmosphere in which you  just such a debate has raged Lor years Over american military Aid to the nicaraguan rebels. And it is the View of Many in Washington inside and outside the administration that the unwillingness of president Ronald Reagan. Shultz. And others to be up on i Ihbe idea even when a Law was passed forbidding such Aid May in part have led Marine i col. Oliver l North and his colleagues to seek private Means of dubious legality to keep the Aid flowing the Secretary himself testified Hal it was Clear thai from private sources presumably some Aid was towing to the people fighting for Freedom and wanted nothing to statutes. President dismissed North for example but than described him As a hero. Secretary of slate George Shutti taking the oath before the Hotto foreign affairs committee last week. In a Washington Post oped Page article attacking republicans for deserting Reagan at a time of crisis Patrick j. Buchanan the while House communications director Well further. He compared North to some americans who May have broken the Law in the past in Pursuit of a cause those who opera led the underground Railroad for escaped slaves before the evil War those who ran guns to Palestine in 1947 and 1948, and Franklin d. Roosevelt when he secretly ordered american destroyers to rack German submarines and inform the British Fleet of their movements before the United states entered world War ii. Buchanan applauded North s action in diverting profits from secret arms sales to a Swiss Bank account controlled by the contras and said the former National Security Council stall member has been willing to risk his own career to buy time for his own distracted and indifferent countrymen one of the main themes of Shultz s testimony was the degree to which a was Cut off from information at some stages of the Iran operation. Intentionally or unintentionally he dramatized Hal theme with the disclosure that he had discovered Only now that the . Ambassador in Beirut theoretically his subordinate met repeatedly earlier this year with key players in the diversion of funds to the contras without telling him and had communicated with Washington not through the state department but by a Clandestine Back  the Secretary s frustration at being bypassed spilled out when he was asked How it was possible Lor other agencies to conduct foreign policy without his knowledge if there is a lesson out of All this he said insofar As How things operate Are concerned i think that the lesson is that operational activities and the staff for conducting operational activities out of the National Security Council staff is very questionable and should t be done except in very rare  the example is Given of Henry Kissinger s diplomacy with China he added. And. Of  was spectacular everybody refers to it and it was a wonderful thing. On the other hand to the extent that it causes other people to aspire to be Henry Kissinger it can get you into trouble. There s Only one. They broke the Mold when they made  sunday december 14, 1986 a photo Shultz with re Egirt output the Whit House. The stars and stripes Page 13