European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday april 13,1607 Carl Rowan . Took wrong approach to ensure Reey surely never in it history a. The unite states been victimized by so Many devastating Epi Tades of foreign spying in so Khoii a period. Tie grim irony is that it was under a Regan admin foliation that la almost obsessed with secrecy that the soviet Union China and line managed to steal Man of this nations most vital secrets. While american Leaden were trying to Force Federal employed to make lifetime pledges of secrecy and broadening the use of lie detectors the soviet Union a exploiting lax administrative and Security proce dures greed sexual passion and racial hostility to steal enough a Cruls to leave this nation virtually naked to in most powerful of perceived enemies. . Officials Are now reeling under revelations thai Marine guards allowed soviet intelligence officials to roam the most secret areas of the . Embassy i Moscow there seems 10 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 state George Shultz without the russians knowing what the . Game plan would be. The Kremlin apparently knew who the . 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 Yean sold our Navy s crucial communications codes and other secrets to the soviets. Edward Lee Howard a disgruntled Excia employee who fled to the soviet Union and allegedly put the Finger of death on soviet citizens who were provid ing important intelligence information. Ronald Petlon a deeply in debt employee of the super secret National Security Agency Asaho sold immensely compromising secrets about . Submarine operations around the soviet Union. Larry Chin the Cia officer who passed a poly graph lest in the midst of his Yea of spying for China then argued just before he committed suicide that hews enhancing sino american relations. Jonathan Pollard who sold bushels of secret . James Kilpatrick documents to Israel out of belief that be bad a special obligation to the be this is an  of intelligence and counterintelligence fail ref failures so great Aslo suggest serious  the highest offices Otheus. Government. While our of pals have been fiddling with meaning less secrecy oaf. Lie detectors that Don t always work and player Orla schemes to sneak Money and arms into Centna Merica the soviets have been picking our a a Huff secrecy clean by using the oldest proce dures of pfc espionage game. Russians allegedly appealed to the anger Over Cial injustice or Marine set. Clayton j. Lone Breejen american Indian and Cpl Arnold Bracy to get their attention. Then they offered the s of soviet women and a Little Money to. Enslave pese marines to an alleged scheme to let soviet agents raid the american embassy cannot understand How in a tight Little Community like the american diplomatic Mission in Moscow Noone from the ambassador to the lowliest cleric 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 bout 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 his government salary made  in the Reagan administration have been so Busy planning and trying to impose sweeping soviet style restraints on All americans that they did t have the time or the sense to Deal with the individuals who gave probable cause for suspecting that they might betray their country. The administration must rethink in strategy for protecting the secrets and Security of this nation. North  cultural inheritance should t be squandered More than 50 years have passe since a boy in an Oklahoma High school his voice cracking from falsetto to Bass stood before his classmates and carefully recited his Homework the slag at eve had drunk his fill where danced the Moon on Monan s Rill and deep his Midnight Lair bad made in Lone Glen arts is Hazel  f the boy bad no very Clear Ima of Stag. He was a Tittle Uncertain about the nature of a Rill and he could Havre Only guess that Glen Artney was somewhere in Scotland. He tended to a pounce it the Stoggie eve and he Wumely comprehended that this was of the greatest masterpiece in the Worl Jbf poetry. But the class was spending a few Days on sir Waller Scott and the ening stanzas of the lady of the Zajf had to be put to memory. Later in thai Saie semester when the class got to Byrry the boy would plunge into this the assyrian came Down like the Wolf on in fold and his cohorts were Ewing in fur pc and  he would his fellow students in getting to Kubla Khan who built 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 gigs by asking with lady Macbeth if Turere a Dagger gestures of horror r that he saw before him the handle go 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 is Houghton Midlin the authors premise is that our predecessors left us a cultural inheritance and that we Are squandering it in our own time. Our legacy includes a treasure of names events phrases and allusions drawn from history and from Liler lure 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 Hollcr this is literacy. In an interview with the Roanoke times and world news Hirsch observed that Many High school students an College students As Well make a flying guess Hal the great gatsby was a magi Cian. They identify Socrates As an Indian chief. Who was Machia Clu what was a Luddite 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 Fried in and Frank Lloyd  nigh school graduate who is ignorant of Kent slate Pearl 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 to Munem arguments. Years later alas he Learned to employ them the boy took French and latin As part of the accepted curriculum. Just about everybody took 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 arid perhaps that is All i am doing Here. Bui 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 Loo Many Public schools i doubt that professor Hirsch s collection of 5,000 items of cultural inheritance will do much to remedy the Situa Tion but it surely 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 conversation ought not 10 be a horsed by references to David Hume Adam Smith and lord Keynes. Perhaps we ask Loo much of to Day s High school students and of their overburdened teachers. Perhaps. There Ismore to life than quoting Shakespeare on the death of Caesar. But when Idaho seen. Steve Symms Voled the other Day to abandon his president and to vote to override a veto today s student should have recognized a poignant question Ella brute in Raul Fust