European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday. October 7,1987 columns William f. Buckley maybe there should be room left for inequality the other Day at lunch with the Dean of a prominent Law school i listened to How Robert bark might have approved the invalidation of inc anti contraceptive Bill that has got him in rouble. What happened in Griswold is. Connecticut was that tin ancient 19th-Century Bill backed by protestant Connecticut in 1879, forbade the Sale or the use of contraceptives. Nobody was Ever prosecuted under this silly legislation Ana by 1961.nobody was really for keeping it on the books. The protestants had lost interest in contraceptives or rather in Laws prohibit ing their use and although Itic catholics did t much care for the Law the archbishop did t mind people thinking that the Church Wai Strong enough to bar the Law s repeal. So a mrs. Estelle Griswold set up a birth control clinic to prescribe contraceptives to patients. This was All but acted out in the Middle of the new Haven Green in order to attract maximum attention and professor Thomas Emerson of Yale a first amendment expert pleaded in the Nam of privacy Lac illegitimacy of the contraceptive Law the supreme court because it thought the Law silly granted. Suddenly we had a thing oiled privacy the right what right to exactly what privacy was something the supreme court More or less proceeded to determine on its own. Bokk got into hot water and re Mains in it for insisting tent the Griswold decision was inadequately argued. Well How might it have been argued the Taw school Dean takes us immediately into the question of abortion allying the two cases abortion also was ruled against on inc grounds of women s privacy. You could plead the Dean said that since Only women get pregnant then a Rule involving women thai was voted on Only by men violates equal Protection under the Law and Ihen there was a third ave nue Connecticut s Laws permitted Abor Tion in inc first trimester in the Case of rape or whatever. That Law could have been singled out As conflicting with Iheama Law and the latter struck Down on grounds of legislative contradiction. Something of the son. James j. Kilpatrick contender Torone politicians but we find ourselves in interesting Waters contemplating the limits of the right of one element of a Republic to legislate the behaviour of a different element. Consider Tor instance the current complaint of Many servicewomen that they Are denied combat assignments. They maintain according to different women s groups testifying before a House subcommittee that this exclusion prevents them from Ascendancy in the ranks leads to sexual harassment and is a discriminatory application of hit Laws. They want to fight and one Congress Man rep. William l. Dickinson of Ala Bama says he supports women for com Bat assign mints insisting Only that they compete again men for these assign ments. Ten years from now a president will appoint some judge to the supreme court who ruled in 1987 that women were not entitled to join infantry combat units because gender related regulations by the chiefs of staff Are nol outlawed by the 14ih amendment sen. Edward Kennedy and sen. Joseph Oliden will Rule thai anyone who took so archaic a position on the rights of women in 1987 is obviously not fit to sit on the supreme court in 1997. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum will say thai he has spent 10 years trying to persuade women to come Back to Ohio from mexi co and Canada and other places they fled to in fear of judge bark s nomination and now the whole thing is about to begin again. But let s face it you cannot dismember a collectivity without atomizing it. Will we be saying that old people May not Vole on the question at what age minors May legally Purchase alcohol and Are Only those voters under 62 to a permitted to vote on How much social Rity older people will get Given thai they the younger generation Are paying for it or is it the other Way around Only old people can vote on How much Money they should receive two weeks ago surveying the end bits of the titanic 1 wondered whether if a boat went Down today men would As a matter of course yield inc in placet on the precious lifeboats to the this be denounced by the kind of people who qualify in sit on the supreme court As acts in implied contempt of inc 14lh amendment i swear if there is no place left for inequality there is no place going to be led for the philanthropic dimension. My god in t affirmative action threatened sordid Fae of espionage brought Bock to life now and then a Book comes along that ranks As a can a Pul i Lowner. Ordinarily books Are novels. This month brings Howard Blum s i pledge allegiance a work of non fiction As gripping As any tale by Tom Clancy. It is the biography of a rat John Walker or. I could t put it Down. Moil of us have a Short memory Span. Outside . Navy the Story of the Walker family already has begun to tade. Blum brings the sordid tale of espionage brilliantly Back to life. It was a Story spread Over three decades from the time 18-year-old Johnny enlisted in the Navy in i95s to the Day in 1985 when a . District judge in Baltimore sentenced him to two con current life terms in prison. Along the Way. Walker sold out his country to the soviet Union. He did t do it for love. He did it for Money. He did in for the fun of it. John Lehman former Secretary of the Navy has described the Walker Case As inc most costly act of espionage in the history of our country defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has called the loss of cryptographic secrets because of the Walker family the soviet Union was Able to decode thousands upon thousands of secret messages before Johnny s wife at last blew the whistle on her traitorous husband. Yel there was nothing so very unusual about Johnny Walker. He was a reckless teen Ager. He got in trouble with the Law. Lots of teen age boys gel in trouble with the la. He developed a Talent for making radios work. Nothing Odd there. He went into the Navy did his Boot Camp Al the Bainbridge training Center in Mary land went to Fleet sonar school and sailed on the Johnnie Hutchins a destroyer escort. At every step he impressed his officers As a Bright Clever Alert energetic Young Sailor. His evaluations As a radioman were practically perfect. Johnny s ambition was to serve on submarines. He moved from a sub tender the Howard Gilmore based in Charleston s.c., to the submarine Sabalo based in key West Fla. He served on the submarine razor Back based an the West coast before winning a coveted assignment to the Maiden trip of the nuclear sub Andrew Jackson. His last seagoing assignment before the trouble began was to the submarine Simon Bolivar based in Norfolk a. By this time Walker had moved up from senior chief in 1966 to warrant officer in 1967 a remarkable achievement for a non com. He also had attracted troubles to match his hash Marks. His marriage was in shambles his wife a near alcoholic his four children More of a Burden than a Joy. He was deeply in debt. He hungered for Money he hungered for excite men. An idea began to fester he could get everything he wanted by Selling cryptographic material to the soviet com become a spy. It was amazingly simple. Warrant Chi kor Walker had no problem stealing and copying a month s Worth of settings for the top secret kl-47 cryptographic machine. He drove from Norfolk to Washington found the soviet embassy at i6ih and l streets and announced himself to if Guy with the i want to talk with someone in said Johnny Walker. There was a Long pause. Follow me the Guy said so it began. Before it ended Johnny had entangled his brother his Best Friend his wife and his Young son Michael in the web. He came under the control of a High ranking officer in inc soviet Kab. He Learned How to make drops of stolen material and for every drop he collected a wad of i so Bills. He Learned How to operate a camera How to communicate with his soviet masters. Before Long he was rolling i Money. The scam asted for 17 years. Johnny ran scared bul Johnny ran Rich. He got out of the Navy set himself up in the private detective business and continued to fee the soviets sensitive material obtained from his accomplices. Meanwhile his family relationships soured. He abandoned his wife. When she turned him in he slaved Tough. He ratted on his co defendants As part of a plea bargain. The Fri kept hounding him to make a damage assessment. Precisely what secrets had returned Over to the soviets he had turned Over every thing if i had Access said Johnny Walker color there is no moral to this Siary. Walker was a con artist Firel class. He joked he teased he played around. He was always laughing Abdul something. Blum s Book gives vivid meaning 10 Hamlet s Obser vation that one May smile and Smik. And be a at least said Hamlet it May be to in Denmark. It was this Way with Johnny Waller too. Granful it big a no it
