European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 Colour runs Mary Mcgrory the stars and stripes thursday january 1960 courting of Porcupine May end up hurting Dole with All respect to Tom Bro Kaw who acquitted himself admirably from the Kremlin o the Kennedy Cen Ter the Best question in the All in presidential debate was asked by Gen Alex Ander Haig. Haig threw a grenade right at the foot of Republican front Ninner George Bush. It began with Evidon glee George you be claimed to be the co Pilot of this administration and we be known that on occasion you be been the then he demanded to know where George was when the decision to sell arms for hos tages was made. Were you in the cock Pii or on an Economy ride in the Back of the planet Bush his newfound serenity ruffled for the first Lime limped through a totally irrelevant discourse about the Best anti terror report any country has Ever Haig noted thai he had not answered the question. That was the High Point of a i Lively and entertaining i to hours that did no materially Advance the action or add 10 he substance. The democrats were Nice to each other and Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis continued to exhibit on camera Case although he ducked the question of lairs so insistently put for Ward by Bruce Babbitt who stood up to make his Point. What the meeting mostly did was to deepen the mystery of sen. Bob Dole Bush s Only real rival. The question is what is Dole doing Why does t he Chal Lenge hush on his most exposed nerve his involvement or non involvement in the Reagan administration s worst Bush was lunch the answer seems to be thai Dole is trying id negotiate a separate peace with the right Wing of the Pany. Every time Bush looks at Dole he must be glad thai he got his Graveling Over with carb on. Lie aha cd himself in 1985. He licked the boots of Nackly s. Loco publisher of he terrible tempered Manchester Union Leader he threw his arms around Jerry Falwell and the evangelicals he paid his respects to the National Kielc association. Now thanks to the intermediate nuclear forces to Caty which Bush supports with Alt the Fervour he gives to any Reagan cause no Mailer How ambivalent the chief May be about this ant he is Able Jim Fain to come on As a moderate. Dote meanwhile is deep in the rituals of courting the Porcupine. Dole was notably Cool about the treaty. He did t say whether he was for or against it. He said lamely thai he had to read in study for a Man who eals Bills for breakfast it was a curious Eva Sion. And who is the audience he reaches by dodging the Issue eighty five percent of the american people favor the treaty. No More passionate constituency exists than in Iowa where Bush and Dole face each other for the first Lime in precinct caucuses. It s a hotbed of peace Niks. Iowa s democratic senator Tom Larkin. Says that the craze for peace crosses parly and economic Iines. Former Nevada sen. Paul Lai ajl Dur ing a recent test of the presidential Waters was startled to encounter unilateral disarm Nurs among the Cornfields. Dul Dole has been persuaded that he must pass through the Needle s Eye of conservative republicanism in order to get the nomination. Democrats regard him As a far More formidable foe than Bush in a general election but he is concentrating on the primaries and feels he must do everything right no matter Whai the Cost to his reputation As a Strong minded Leader and an acute politician. One of his earlier moves was to risk his standing with Blacks who remember him for his Bravura performance on the Vot ing rights renewal Al by voting to up hold the president s veto of South Afri can sanctions. Just How far he feels he needs to go in order to appease the implacable was evident in his Wishy Washy answer to Brokaw s question a to which report of the Iran Contra committee he sup ports. Actually said Dole he likes both. The Republican report called the majority re port Dole s Friend and pow Erful new Hampshire Backer. Sen. War Ren Rudman. One of three Republican who signed it called the Republican ver Sion so Dole looks like � Man with one fool on the Dock and the other in the Boa not a Graceful stance for one who would be Leader of the West Ern world. No one reacted More swiftly or decisively 10 news of the secret arms for hos Uges Deal than Dole. He called for a Spe Cial session of Congress if necessary to begin investigations. Bui the right Wing Haies the majority report and Dole feels in imperative to be leery. Some Senate colleagues predict that Dole will come out in support of the inf treaty Well before the Iowa caucuses can urn into a referendum on War and peace and that he will guide it with his usual skill o ratification. But right now. Bush is the Republican Pence candidate and Dole is left 10 say he is a slow Reader. Newsweek ouf of sep with end of de cafe Issue Tok l9hqs ended oct. 19, 1587, after six Viars 11 months and 15 Days news week Magazine recently proclaimed. It failed to mention which hour minute second and lick marked their demise. Mow did the Magazine come by ils sidereal scoop for one thing the Sud Den fall of Jim and Tammy Bakker was a Clear sign the 80s were whether this Kitschy portent emanated from eras or Jehovah was unclear decades Are not a function of Calendar time Newsweek explained. They begin and end in the Middle of the sometime when everybody is looking the other Way Marv. As they said in the turbulent 60s." someone should clue in a Biler. He thinks decade Means i a group or set of 10.1 a period of 10 Yean. 1, a division of the Newsweek found the departed 80s a Peculiar decade that enshrined greed and allowed us once again to be fascinated with weal i h and Power. Ilses sence yuppies whom Newsweek mod Estly admitted having declared 1984 the orwellian year of. The fact that a yup pie never seemed id actually enjoy him self while he was out having fun elucidated a peculiarly 80s notion that the Pursuit of Good limes could be a Joyless function in said. Obviously the film classic la Dolce Vita was 30 years premature to say nothing of the prodigal son. Such overblown pop sociology is Typ ical of trend famished journals thai find endless Summers in a single Swallow. The use of decades As ils measure probably stems from the Cay from the standpoint of language corruption that s appropriate. Gay had a different meaning then. In this Century we be been afflicted with such monolithic cultural segments As roaring 20s," fabulous 50s," turbulent of and the 70s, which Newsweek dismissed As a decade of limits and frustration and All a bag of pretentious wind. Even t Don l remember the 90s. But the 20s were marked by severe farm de pression a Florida real Stalc bust and impressive scientific and artistic achieve ments. The anti War upheaval did not begin until the 60s were half Over and embraced More of inc 70s. At for the hos being All Boom and greed try telling that to inc rust Bell or Oil Patch. In is fast food vending of my history Newsweek says the 80s gave us a sense of i remondous rightness about our place in the of maybe the Gipper and his minions fell that Way but Many of his countrymen were Jusi oui should. They were disturbed by our actions in Nicaragua Teal for nukes and callous Ness toward suffering. Sure we have cultural swings. Action reaction is a truism. It i How society Al ways Tuu corrected excess. The difference now is it s Light years faster bul that has nothing to do Wilh decades. Faith pop Corn a woman whose name is a metaphor for the pop a biology of news magazines makes her living spoiling these fleeting rends for commercial vendors. She does t Dole them Oul in decades. To see such cultural cycles at monoliths and name 10-year chunks of Csc uni by for them is a twist on the schlock tabloid game of Selling up a Straw Man in one edition and knocking him Down in the next. Before Newsweek launches the 21 is Century Neil May. It should be sentenced to 1,000 hours in Fields factories ptas saloons and Beauty Parlours learn ing the complexity and ambiguity of human reality " kid Wartnow on my not a w mw1 #4 in to new i to u m the Jbf nil Fitim
