European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes. Monday june 8,1987 William Buckley rust might be German equal to Lucky Lindy it was five years ago thai a Youngish Brit decided be ought to have a Chal with the Queen of England and Howdy you get from Central England to the Queen it turned out to be quite simple. You go to Buckingham Palace everybody knows where that Isyou do a Little swivel shipping to make your Way past those red jacketed gorillas around the Gates walk in Dodge internal Security and staff you find the Queen s bedroom door enter sit Down at the Comer of her bed and just Chal Tor a while maybe give her a hint or two about what s right and what s wrong with Royal ritual. Welt at least Buckingham Palace was t celebrating Buckingham Palace Security Day pm thai tuesday. When Mathias rust decided he would pay his visit to the Royal enclosure of the people s Palace in Moscow he elected to arrive on the very Day the soviet Union was celebrating its Border guards Day and that decision alone showed the High form of the 19-year-old West German Bank dark. We Haven t really seen a full faced picture of him As of this moment but whether he looks like Lucky Lindy or not he simply has to come from the same Stock. We learn that Malhias is a quiet boy that he lived at Home sharing a room with his 15-year-old brother Ingo with whom he never quarrelled because that Way he could save a Tittle Money to feed his obsession with air planes. And when he left Helsinki to Fly Home via Stockholm he dutifully headed South West for a few moments and then Sud Denly veered Southeast. Just about at the Point in the Gulf of Finland where the Dar trackers in Helsinki lost sight of him an Oil Slick mysteriously appear Don the water. Rescue Craft were ordered out Pronto but there were no traces of a wrecked Cessna maybe Togo arranged to drop a barrel of Oil with a few ice picked holes in it to distract attention from his big brother s flight plan. Has anyone seen Ingo pretty Odd we Haven t seen picture of the younger brother of the most famous aviator since Lindbergh. And on Malhias went 400 Miles. At on Point we learn two migs approached him maybe doing 400, 500 Miles per hour George will while Mathias was plodding along at 120. What went on probably they tried to get him on the radio but Mathias does t know any russian As far As we know. If they had asked him in German questions about Bank clerking he could have Given answers. Or Aboul astronomy Malhias is big on astronomy. His third passion is Clas Sical music and perhaps As he flew Over the russian Tundra he was listening not to the radio but to a Walkman perhaps to the ride of the valkyries who knows 1 f the russians attempted hand signals the Best guess is that Mathias raised his hand and waved startling the soviet aviators who were never taught How to wave and per haps consulted their manuals in flight looking for the meaning of the gesture and could t find it. What went through their Heads one wonders. They could have shot Mathias Down but just who were they shooting Down if you find someone Fly ing nonchalantly Over the skies of the Leningrad Moscow corridor in a Little sports plane with West German Mark Ings you figure Well it must be a movie Star doing a picture and if you shot him Down you May find that you have just ended the life of the russian equivalent of Tom cruise. No that would not do at All. Then too it is always possible thai the Young Pilot who jabber Over the radio in an unknown Tongue is the son of a High luckily muck in the Nomen la Tura and you would t want to return to your military air base and find out you had just shot Down Gorbachev s son in Law now would you so what the hell the pilots roust have reasoned Gorba Chev s glasnost is taking to the skies. And then the wonderful Landing. Red Square Mathias must have been awfully Temple when he saw that Long line of people waiting to see the mortal remains of Lenin in the Tomb of my imagine Landing calculated to put a few Hundred Lenin worshippers into their own tombs All in one Landing but no. Instead Mahiai just Plain landed on thai cobbled area hulling no one at All in Sharp contrast to the mobs that ran Over each other in the wild Cele bration of the marriage of Czar Nicholas to Alexandra in 1894 just Here in the same Square. Nor do we know what were his first words when the soviet authorities materialized. Can you take me to the nearest phone might have been appropriate. Univ jul path Symel attn Bush Campaign risking the loss of the big to people who pursue the Fox of enlightenment or even just the Rabbit of entertainment through the Brambles of journalism were rewarded recently by a report from congested Iowa. It seems thai the George Bush Campaign has adopted a carefully calibrated plan of tactical blindness. Now. Making Bush Bland is not a Challenge Compa Rable to climbing Annaruma but the reasons for the Blandi fixation Are illuminating especially when help fully explained by a member of the Bush brain Trust using Hearty football Lingo. One of Bush s handlers commenting admiringly on the dullness of Bush s speeches says we re moving the Ball on the ground just Fine. Unless they make us put it in the air Why do it Ever time you Lake a position you know you la make someone that football thought has a distinguished Pedigree. Every real american knows thai when Woody Hayes was Ohio stale s football coach he regarded the Forward pass As a sin As Scarlet a liberalism. His teams ground out Yards on the ground. His philosophy was three Yards and a Cloud of Bush s doctrine for our troubled limes is three Yards and a Cloud of fog or As a coach once said i have nothing to say and i m Only going to say it a no damned nonsense Aboul ideas approach is an understandable temptation for a front runner and is to some extent an occupational necessity for a vice president. Regarding the latter. Bush s comportment in that inherently awkward office has earned admiration for the decorum and self denial he has shown. But by now Bush has earned the right to assert Wilh the delicacy he has hitherto shown in his reticence an Independent political existence. He should speak less blandly. And his aides should speak less. They especially should shut up about a strategy of running out the clock a strategy known in sports Par Lance As Silling on a Lead. The danger of it for a team or Campaign is of losing momentum sometimes called the big then the team or Campaign is As the vice president says in deep Doo Doo. Already derision is heard from rivals such As fete Dupont the former governor of Delaware Mother stale of presidential candidates. With Dupont and sen. Biden Delaware has a candidate for every 310,000 residents a record ratio Dupont once was an indigo horse but has risen rapidly and now is Only mildly dark. He says Bush is hiding in a Paul Laxalt. Also a candidate says Dupont s criticism is naughty because it violates the 11th com Mani Irnell Moses was a Democrat thou shall not speak ill of another Bui Dupont has earned the right to twit a candidate like Bush who is As economists say risk aversive. Dupont has the High est substance to blather ratio among candidates even on subjects As sensitive As agriculture policy and social Security. Steven Wright a comedian jokes about experienc ing amnesia and Dejavu simultaneously. For Bush supporters that is no laughing matter. Reagan s 1984 it s morning in America Campaign was a Cotton Candy Campaign gooey and substance less. It Wod Hira a second term but did not could not win him 1 mandate. Hence his second term lacked the big to. There is no reason to believe the electorate craves a Cotton Candy Campaign from Bush. Republicans who would Tike a candidate who does not believe in tactical blandness a candidate who takes six positions before breakfast May Only have to wait unlit september to find her. Jeane Kirkpatrick is about to go As is her summer custom to the South of France there to com plete a Book on foreign policy. A Book full of positions thai will make someone angry. Some True Blue busies must Blanch at the thought when she returns she will consider entering the race. If she does the Day she does she will become the intensity front runner the candidate Wilh the largest number of passionate support ers. Bush s principal problem is measured Fay what poll sters Call the anybody but Jesus question. The ques Tion is approximately this would you support your candidate against anybody but Jesus the question measures the Quality of a candidate s support. When it is posed to Bush supporters it Rcv Taji something that causes some experts to doubt that Bush will make it beyond new Hampshire Bush has a remarkable intensity deficit. That is a natural Conse Quence of silting on a Leid Lesl someone get angry. Waifung Chi poll Wildra group
