European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday. November 29. 1987 Andrew j. Glass what do the masters of the Kremlin really Hope to achieve As the Summit Between Ronald Rea Gan and Mikhail Gorbachev draws near two contrary theories arc heard. One maintains that the soviets in their desire to stick it to the West deviously use arms controls to Advance their ultimate nefarious goals. Another holds that after 70 years the soviets have at Long last conic to terms with their revolution and want nothing More than to live like the rest of us. With trim subcompact lucked into inc driveways of their suburban Dachau. These contrasting beliefs will underpin the com ing clash Here Over ratification of a treaty that rids the world of intermediate Range nuclear forces inf. There s Only one intellectually honest basis for opposing the pending inf Deal a conviction that the soviets in seeking to Rule the world Hope to exploit the missile Accord to Lull America into a false sense of Security. In virtually All respects the agreement embraces the Reagan administration s maximal position. While it would be undiplomatic to say so Reagan s negotiators know that they wound up getting nearly everything they had sought. Those circumstances however won t bar hard line Republican senators and presidential Candi dates from seeking to torpedo the inf arrangement on inc dubious Assumption that Reagan and his advis ers were duped into signing something they had demanded be signed. From the conservative perspective the inf treaty should be scuttled because there s a Good Chance it will Lead to warmer tics Between Washington and Moscow including another round of arms cuts. Hard liners believe that if the inf Deal unravels a totalitarian but weakened Kremlin would withdraw into ils godless Shell. And that would suit them just Fine. Rather than air these thoughts the right wingers prefer to prattle on about the prospects of soviet cheat ing. Yet governments can no More prove that All inf missiles have been destroyed than theologians can prove the existence of god. More importantly these missiles have served the soviets As political weapons. The missiles continued existence or their total destruction will not alter the strategic balance Between the superpowers their real role has been to create uncertainty among America s allies and. In so doing to try to arouse respect for George will us one honest argument against inf Deal Good 80v, shul7z., now fetch this muscovite thunderbolts. A hidden soviet missile How Ever would t carry the same threat. Even As the hard liners draw their Battle lines Rea Gan s image makers have begun to hype the inf treaty As Well As prospective favourable fallout from the sum Mil As the Best thing since fresh sliced Rye bread. And All because Reagan Hopes to go to Moscow in the Spring and to conclude his presidency by idling inc Sovil people Hal he s a Man of peace. Thai s whal was behind inc abortive White House bid for a Gorba Chev speech to Congress a failed bit of potential reciprocity yet those who argue Gorbachev s priorities match Reagan s he s just a regular Guy trying to bag a favourable mention in the pages of history need but read his new Book to Clear out their men Tal cobwebs. Gorbachev says he s for democracy so Long As it s practice under one party Rule inc communist party. Gorbachev says any honest open talk even if it arouses doubts should be  but he fires Boris Yeltsin As Moscow party Boss for raising doubts that the vaunted reforms arc working. Be do not like certain aspects of american politics and Way of life Gorbachev writes. That much we already knew. It s Gorbachev s statement that politics is the Art of the possible which must be tested anew As Bolh societies vie against elements from within and without to achieve Oul of la Summit some measure of enduring change. Wrong approach to men s right of privacy. N c., m.,Thorc uni ii  i. But if women were those admitted would general what a mighty thing a preposition can be. Consider the for in the title National organization for  it connotes a heart As big As All outdoors. Now is for women All of them unlike the people who arc against women. According to now the ranks of those against include supreme court nominee Anthony Kennedy who now says is a  his Scarlet sins include membership until recently in a males Only club. His resignation from that club is a Bow to the zeitgeist. Thai Gist would be improved if everyone would read Roger Starr s men s clubs women s rights in the Public interest Magazine. Starr argues that the drive to outlaw such clubs can destroy a valuable form of privacy. Not Long ago men s clubs were gently ridiculed As collections of overstuffed old men in overstuffed old chairs. Now they Are seen As sinister instruments of male supremacy. The Batlle has been joined ferociously in Manhattan where govern men is uns Leeping on behalf of the underprivileged. Starr s special interest is the Century one of three private men s clubs under attack. His concern is that the term private is be coming problematic. When the supreme court upheld California s Law forbidding the Junior chamber of Commerce from excluding women it argued Hal the organization is explicitly vocational not social and makes no Effort to select members Wilh care and discrimination. There fore govern men supervision of membership practices is justifiable. Feminists say thai clubs like inc Century Are crucial to the contacts and deals by which business people Prosper. But says Starr members actually belong be cause the clubs Lack significance meaning narrow utilitarian purposes. Members join for congenial conversation. The reasons for the male Only Rule Are not enumerated. Bui Starr says the Rule probably reflects the fear Hal informal conc Asalion Balw can people who do nol know each other Well changes when Bolh sexes arc present. When they Are the right of disparagement is impaired by traditional rules of Courtesy. Such rules defy revolt lion even the sexual revolution. It remains awkward for a member of one sex to disparage a member of the opposite sex whom he docs not know Well in the pres ence of strangers. Why is the disparagement import land because if Brevity is the soul of wit disparage men is its driving  Starr May be mistaken. The Day probably can and should come when inc requirements of Courtesy will be considered compatible with the vigorous exer Cise of the right of disparagement regardless of the sex of the disparage or disparage. But surely Starr and Kindred spirits have a right to be wrong about this. Whal is under Way is a bullying at Cpl to break an other sphere of private association to the Saddle of the slate. The instrument of compulsion is a cynically drawn Law using fallacious reasoning and false Poilu Latch o fact. New York s cily Council has conceded a Legal oxymoron to justify controlling the clubs la says these highly selective clubs which receive no tax break or Oiher government Aid Are Public accommodations so women Musl be admitted on the same basis As men. But generally be people established in satisfying careers and seeking congeniality. They would not be struggling Young women on inc prowl of business opportunities. How Ever the cily s Law so strongly emphasizes the alleged business expediting function of inc clubs inc City will be compelled to charge discrimination if a club rejects the application of a woman who frankly says she seeks membership for a reason commercial advantage inimical to the club s character. Therefore clubs will be compelled to admit the kind of women least Suita ble. Starr who once was a colleague of the new York times distinguished architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable recalls his wonderment when he heard her lament that her career had been blighted because she could nol join the Century. It was Starr thought a remarkably invisible blight on the Dean of her profession a member of inc american Academy of arts and sciences recipient of innumerable honorary degrees and Anvil Lions to lecture. Her lament is that Access to the Cove  status of victim is a new entitlement a privilege not to be denied the privileged. If in the end All i rec targeted clubs Are compelled to admit females and males in equal numbers fewer than 100 women a year will be admitted. The other 4 million women in Newyork will Marvel thai so much has been made of this struggle by organizations and individuals eager to advertise themselves As for women All of them. C Washington poit