European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and Stampes monday april 13.1687 Carl Rowan us. Took wrong approach to ensure secrecy surely never in its history has the United tales been victimized by so Many devastating episodes of foreign spying in so Short a period. The grim irony is thai it was under a Reagan administration that is almost obsessed with secrecy hat the soviet Union. China and Israel managed to steal Man of this nation most vital secrets. While american leaders were Irving to Force Federal employee 10 make lifeline pledges of secrecy and broadening the use of lie detectors the soviet Union was exploiting lax administrative and Security proce dures greed sexual passion and racial hostility to steal enough secrets to leave this nation virtually naked to its Moil powerful of perceived enemies. . Officials Are now reeling under revelations that Marine guards allowed soviet intelligence official to roam the most secret areas of the . Embassy i Moscow. There seems to be an Effort in Washington to cover up the extent of the damage but almost certainly the soviets got data telling them How to decode the most secret of . Communications. Soviet agents May have found a Way to listen in on discussions in the embassy s super secure room where the most Deli Cate of talks took place. Mikhail Gorbachev probably never met with Reagan or the soviet foreign minister with Secretary of slate George Shultz without the russians knowing what the . Game plan would be. The Kremlin apparently knew who the us. Agent sin Russia were and what they were revealing about the soviet Union which put the Kab in a position to Killor incarcerate some spies and use others to feed disinformation to Washington. This is a serious blow to american Security. So were the cases of Jerry Witworth and members of the Walker family who for years sold our Navy s crucial communications codes and other secrets to the soviets. Edward Lee Howard a disgruntled Excia employee who lied to the soviet Union and allegedly put he Finger of death on soviet citizens who were provid ing important intelligence information. Ronald Pelion a deeply in Debl employee of the super secret National Security Agency Asaho sold immensely compromising secrets about . Submarine operations around the soviet Union. Larry Chin he Cia officer who passed a poly graph test in the midst of his years of spying for China then argued just before he committed suicide thai hews enhancing sino american relations. Jonathan Pollard who sold bushels of secret . James Kilpatrick documents to Israel out of a belief that he had a special obligation to toe jewish state. This is an incredible record of intelligence and counterintelligence failures failures so great As to suggest serious misfeasance within the highest offices of . Government. While our officials have been fiddling with meaning less secrecy oaths tie detectors that Don t always work and playground schemes to sneak Money and arms into Central America the soviets have been picking our vaults of secrecy clean by using the oldest proce dures of the espionage game. The russians allegedly appealed to the anger Over racial injustice of Marine sit. Clayton j. Lone tree an american Indian and Cpl. Arnold Bracy Ablack to get their attention. Then they offered the bodies of soviet women and a Little Money to enslave these marines to an alleged scheme to let soviet agents raid the american embassy.1 cannot understand How in a tight Little Community like the american diplomatic Mission in Moscow Noone from the ambassador to the lowliest clerk knew or was alarmed that several marines were dating and fornicating with soviet women. Nor can i understand Why a Cia that knew of Howard s wild bouts wit drugs and booze could let him skip to Russia or Why the Asa never took a hard look at an employee who was spending Way beyond what hit government salary made  in the Reagan administration have been so gave probable cause for suspecting that they might betray their country. The administration Musl rethink its strategy for protecting the so Crews and Security of this nation. Halt Amulet syndic at cultural inheritance should t be squandered More than so Yean have passe since a boy in an Oklahoma High school his voice cracking from falsetto Lobass stood before i classmates and carefully recited his Homework the Stag at eve had drunk his fill where danced the Moon on Monan s Rill and deep his mid night Lair had made in Lone Glen Artney s Hazel Shade,." the boy had no very Clear image of Aslag. He was a Little Uncertain about the nature of a Rill and he could Hazard Only guess Hal Glen Artney was somewhere in Scotland. He tended to pronounce it Lihe Sia git eve and he vaguely comprehended that this was not the greatest masterpiece in the world of poetry. But inc class was spending a few Days on sir Waller Scott and the opening stanzas of the lady of the Lake had to be put to memory. Later in that same semester when the class got to Byron the boy would plunge Inlo this the assyrian came Down like the Wolf on the fold and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and  he would join his fellow students in gelling to know Kubla Khan who Buzil that stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. He would have a go at Hamlet in his senior year and he would give his older sister the giggles by asking with lady Macbeth i this were a Dagger gestures of horror that he saw before him the handle aah toward his hand. All this came to mind a few Day Sago with publication of a provocative Book cultural literacy what Ever american needs to  the Princi pal author is professor . Hirschjr. Of the University of Virginia. The publisher 1$ Houghton Milt Lin. The authors premise is that our predecessors left us a cultural inheritance and Hal we Are squandering it in our own Lime. Our legacy includes a treasure of names events phrases and allusions drawn from history and from literature that educated people once were expected to prize. To have at least a nodding acquaintance with Ulysses and Aeneas with Galileo Pythagoras and Newton with tiny Tim and the mad toilet this is literacy. In an interview with the Roanoke times and world news Hursch observed Hal Many High school students an College students As Well make n flying guess that the great gatsby was a magi Cian. They identify Socrates As an Indian chief. Who was Machiavelli what was aloud disc when was the reign of terror they Don t know. Not All of our cultural inheritance is of ancient origin. A literate person today should at least recognize the names of Adolf Eichmann Andrew Carnegie belly Friedan and Frank Lloyd  High school graduate who is ignorant of Kent stale Peart Harbor and Browns. Board of education has missed the cultural boat. Fifty Odd years ago the Oklahoma Schoolboy was debating either Side of the question resolved that Independence should be granted the Philippines. To their credit Many High schools Stillfield debating teams but Many others have abandoned the old forensic exer Cise. The boy Learned to recognize and Homine arguments. Years later alas he Learned to employ them the boy look French and Lilin by part of the accepted curriculum. Just about everybody look French and latin and some of them very few even mastered the ablative Case. It was Gibbon if memory serves who once remarked upon the Universal ten Dency of Mankind to glorify the past Anglo deprecate the present and perhaps that is All i am doing Here. But much evidence exists education Secretary Bill Bennett cites it All the time that our cultural legacy is not being enhanced it is being diminished by the lightweight schedules that characterize far too Many Public schools. I doubt that professor Hirsch s collection of 5,000 items of cultural inheritance will do much to remedy the Siniua Tion but it surety provides a useful reference source his Catalon ranges from abolitionism to zionism with gradualism " liberalism and surrealism in be tween. He submits that today s educated person should know what Karl Marx Wasp to in Das  the cultural lit Erate Riding along in an interesting con venation ought not to be a horsed by references to David Hume Adam Smith and lord Keynes. Perhaps we ask too much of to Day s High school students and of i her overburdened teachers. Perhaps. There Ismore la life than quoting Shakespeare on the death of Caesar but when Idaho sea. Sieve Symms voted the other Day to abandon his president and to Vole to override a veto today s student should have recognized a poignant question Etta. Brute Urt jul Vej