European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday october 27,1987 columns William Safire Gorbachev trying to exploit Reagan s troubles when sorrows come said he King in  they come not single spies by in battalion of Trust Mikhail Gorbachev to Lake full advantage of Ronald Reagan s tribulations the defeat of his supreme court nominee the Shock of the Stock Market plunge the illness of the first lady by breaking his repealed promises Ofa treaty signing Summit. Just As at Reykjavik a year ago the soviet Leader dangled All sorts of arms reduction goodies before our Secretary of state Caus ing the Western world to salivate. Then in a classic double Cross becoming known As last minute linkage smiling Mike suddenly became Stony cold and tied everything to abandonment of testing of the american nuclear shield. You might think we would learn from this treatment that Gorbachev s Assur ances Are meaningless his negotiating technique duplicitous his commitment to equitable arms reduction spurious. You would assume Reagan would icam that the More he shows his eagerness for a Summit meeting the higher the Price the russians will make1 him pay. But Secretary Shutlz blandly says he will await the mailman for the soviet double Cross in writing. A new York times editorialist promptly demands Reagan Start compromising on his Star wan  next we can expect the democratic Senate having just turned Down a Justice for being too legalistic now will embrace the Ivga films of sen. Sam Nunn in sup porting the soviet interpretation of the abm treaty. And our bedazzled Kremli ology corps eagerly awaiting the soviet Leader s propaganda tract Pyrc Stroika $500,000 Advance from Harper & Row will assure us that the last minute linkage is not inc fault of smiling Mike but comes Only from his enemies who keep getting ousted or killed in helicopter crashes. Now is the Lime for Reagan to forget his photo Opportunity in history and to remember America s place in the world. Under pressure from both the double dealer in the Kremlin and dovish Nunn its in the Congress he should react not angrily Lite a Summit eur a pumped but coolly like the Leader of a superpower. How much More proof do we need that the russians regard his strategic defense initiative As the answer to their intercontinental missile dominance the russians evidently know something about the future technology s ability to Knock Down missiles that our Union of worried physicists and flippant editorialists do not know. Gorba Chev Hopes to outwit or outwait Reagan on what we see is the Central strategic Issue of our Lime we cannot let him succeed. First the president should Send a Clear message thai he will not be victimized a third time by last minute linkage. He should appoint Gen. Edward Rowny to a new pan of arms reduction oar. The soviet Side knows him to be an experienced hard line negotiator who Speaks russian fluently George Shutlz and Max Kampelman arc patriots and Wilt put the need for o switch in Lime ahead of any personal consideration. Next in the Rowny round at Geneva it should be made Plain that Start negotiations about the reduction of Long Ranee missiles capable of Hilling the . Take first priority. We should seize the soviet desire for linkage the inf negotiations de sired by the russians about missiles Ca Pable of Hilling the soviet Union from Europe will have to wait until the Kremlin gets serious about reducing the missiles that threaten the . You want a package Fine you la remain within medium Range missile Range until you get serious about a package. Third Ranald Reagan should make Clear that our red Carpel is going to be rolled up and mothballed in March he will pay nothing for the privilege of showing Gorbachev around. The next Opportunity for a Summit meeting will not Roll around until late 1989, if that soon under the next president the democratic candidates a Well As Mario Cuomo should be ready to say that delay will get the russians no easier terms. To show we mean business we should go All out now on building our nuclear shield. The Nexo ability of deployment will provide the Only incentive for Gorbachev or his waiting replace ment 10 Slop the duplicitous minuet and make a Deal on arms reduction and space defense cooperation. Gorbachev is aware of the battalion of sorrows marching on the Reagan presidency and senses he has the battered Reagan at his mercy. We will soon see if he has miscalculated his opponent s strength of character. No Voth Tiwi no Stivic a Martin Gottlieb Freedom s just another word to glasnost fans Abc s nigh line did a program this month that it billed As inc first open discussion of human rights issues Ever broadcast to soviet viewers. American viewers May have Learned More from it than soviets. Glasnost is generally becoming an educational experience for americans. We Are surprised to learn that Many soviet citizens arc sceptical of inc whole idea of Freedom. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev jays he warns to release dissidents because it is essential to mobilize the so called creative intelligentsia on our  tie needs allies because he s got so Many ene Mies. His problems conflict with our desire to believe that the thirst for Freedom is Universal somehow built into human beings. The nigh line program suggests another area in which we May be naive. We have a nearly unbridled Confidence in the free Exchange of information. We believe truth must emerge from it. One of our presidential candidates sen. Al Gore of Tennessee says in a typically american proposal that he wants to wring from Gorbachev an Opportunity to deliver an Uncan soned speech to the soviet people. He apparently expects that major Good would result. Thai s doubtful. For Nicholine members of Congress Gath ered at Capitol Hill. Members of inc supreme soviet a Dummy legislature gathered at the Kremlin. The two groups were linked via satellite. Viewers teamed How easy it will be for the soviets to contaminate whatever information glasnost allows to get delivered. For example the soviet politicians insist that their policies on human rights arc More or less Normal. In a discussion in which both sides relied on anecdotal in formation they brought up the recent Case of the american protester whose legs were severed by a train whose passage he was trying to obstruct. In fact what happened to him was a Gross Aberra Tion in the american approach to demonstrators. But in trying to explain it a perfectly Able american con Gressman sounded a lot like a soviet bureaucrat talk ing with a Long face about the need for investigation and All that. Perhaps one lesson american politicians should draw from the debate has to do with anecdotal Debat ing. It is a technique now Universal in America because of Ronald Reagan who has taught pols that the Way to make a Case is with stories about specific people. Maybe if even the soviets can us he technique successfully there is something dishonest about it the soviets also mentioned the american practice of keeping certain communists out of the United states because of their views. Two members of Congress severely criticized the Law that allows our government 10 do that a Mccar thy Era relic. They said icy were proposing a Bill to change it. They sounded a lot like the soviets who said yes there Are flaws in our system but we Are working on them. A soviet quoted former United nations ambassador Andrew Young to the effect that there Are about 500 political prisoners in the United states a figure he noted with a Little smile much like the number of soviet  he was not rebutted. U does t take much such nonsense to contaminate a discussion hopelessly. The soviet politicians lied on  they twisted. They grand stranded announcing the approval of one very old application for emigration. They omitted egregiously. In All they probably left their Home audience More misinformed than informed. Most of the techniques they used Are used frequently by democratic politicians. Denied far an evening the Powers of totalitarianism they used the Powers of incumbency including the Power to wave the Flag. 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