European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 10 columns the stars and stripes wednesday. January 13,1b88 Carl Rowan democrats know it s suicide to nominate Hart i know Jusi to the other Candi dates feel As they watch the orgy or at Tendon that the Media is lavishing upon Gary Hart. Yean ago isl after my 1960s stint in government i went to a noted University to speak Only to learn hat Timothy uary the gum of the riling drags cull was speaking on he same Campus the same night got fair to Middlin Audi ence of professor and old fogies while scary got a standing room Only mob or Slu dams and Young leathers. Never underestimate hit Power or notoriety the Dean said to me. We can l get 500 students to Lisien to a Nobel prize winning physics. But bring on someone convicted of almost any crime and the kids Wilt hang from the  so ii is in american politics Usa today reports that during the december 14-18 period Gary Hart got 39.31 min utes of network television coverage White Michael Dukakis got 2.84 minutes Bruce Rabbin got 2.75 and the other democratic candidates got less than a minute. Republican George Bush and Bob Dole each got six minutes or Over by even though both were involved in the High drama business of the Reagan Gorbachev agreement on abolishing Short and intermediate Range missiles. Han showed us that As the Dean said � Little scandalous behaviour Ems � Long Way in America. But How far docs it go far enough la propel Hart to Foitl Ninnor Lalus ahead of Jesse Jack son. Dukakis and the others nationally and to put Hart Al the head of inc demo cratic Field trying to win the feb. 8 Iowa caucuses. The latest pcs Monics Register poll showed Han favored by 29 percent or i Host surveyed with sen. Caul Simon of Illinois dropping from 35 percent to18. Bui the current Media fascination with him the polls in Iowa and new Hamp Shire could become n snare and a Delu Sion for Han and his supporters. The notoriety dial gels the former senior William Buckley from Colorado on National to will not necessarily win him the democratic nomination or the presidency. My observation based on attending Many political conventions and talking to Many political activists is that there is a perverse 30 percent who Wilt always vow support for Hart blame the Media and claim thai a Litile adultery on the pan of a presidential candidate is no body i business. But a slightly larger number of americans declare frequently that it is their business which is Why Chappaquiddick remains a formidable Barrier to Ted Kennedy Ever reaching he presidency. Because of this i think Gary Hart is und table and it would be suicidal for the i9b8 democratic convention to give him the nomination. The party leaders know this and they Aren l about to be bowled Over by glamorous notoriety. Or could they be7 we have seen since the years of president Eisenhower Brut american presidential elections ride More on Char isma skill As a to communicator racial and ethnic demagogue than on any candidate s position on things Tike a budget deficit the arms race racial in Justice the needs of the poor and Home Han is gambling that glamorous notoriety will make people forget Donna Rice Bimini and All thing related. I say that he is just As wrong now at he we when he thought he could keep secret his escapade aboard Monkey  american Catholic Bishops split on condom Issue a scholarly lady with apologies to he Isle Clare Boothe Luce whose impassioned Rule was thai lady could be used Only in such situation to otherwise would require the use of gentleman writ ing to the new York times has Given useful perspective on the Catholic Bishops condom Issue. For those who do not follow news of Catholic Bishops or of condoms or even of inc unlikely combination of the two. Anal came before was As follows a committee of Bishops acting Solo speak As an executive Corn Millic last month issued a longish paper the Burden of which was thai Catholic school should teach students about the uses of condoms in order to guard against the spread of the aids virus. Cardinal John o Connor of new York when he heard about the action of the committee issued a blast against the document condemning it As an invitation to promiscuity. He promised that several other Ameri can Bishops would join him in the weeks to come in Rojc citing the instr Mem and in due course Cardinal a Cunard Law of hosing came Forward Wajih an equally Slrine slam mint. And Les emphatic rejections were issued by a half dozen other Bishops. To the Iii Prisic of the Catholic Community what at first appeared to have happened just after Christmas was a formal recall of the controversial Siai Emcil pending a full ventilation of it at the next plenary meeting of inc Bishops scheduled for next june. But Iii recall was later denied. A recall of a statement issued by n committee of Bishops one gathers would be  in the a Niimd slates and the Mere him of ii suggests deep divisions. The question before the House is what Are those divisions exactly a labout it is True that the most conspicuously Liberal Bishops in America if that is the word for it wire the most enthusiastic about the condom is aliment namely Cardinal Joseph Bcrnardina of Chicago and archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle. The temptation is obvious to  that there arc some Bishops whose attitude is look let s just be grown up enough to recognize that Cai Homics Are of the same biological composition As protestants and jews and therefore no matter How much emphasis we place in their training on sanctioned Sci Al behaviour they Are going to prove their fallibility 70 times seven limes and since this is the Case we May As Well not have 70 limes seven Bisl Ards 70 times seven abortions and however Many More aids cases germinate from 490 homosexual unions. Before the proposed recall of the committee s de Cember declaration surveying the apparent confusion one wag remarked thai it looked As though the Calic lie Church in America was in favor of condoms except for birth control. It is such confusion that m. Cathleen Kaveny identified in the times As a candidate for a . In religious ethics and a Low degree at Yale University clarifies with exemplary lucidity. There is in Christian doctrine the time honoured Rule of double effect " Kaveny gives an example suppose a newly married Catholic couple who want nothing More than to Start a family discover thai inc Haemophilia a husband has contracted aids through a blood transfusion. To Foster the great Unitive Good of marital Intercourse they could uie condoms without violating the teachings of humane Vitae the vigor Ous 1968 papal encyclical opposed to birth control by artificial methods. If asked Why they were using con Doms their answer would be to prevent inc transmission of  thus the end aim or primary effect is entirely  As far As she goes Kaveny is clearly Correct but everyone will instantly acknowledge thai the hypothetical use of the condom in the example Given will tit very few married couples. What the o con orites Are saying in effect is look advertise the condom and its benefits and you advertise in i text mechanisms by which he consequences of sinful behaviour Are diluted. In doing so inevitably you increase the incidence of sinful behaviour. The Demardi Niles Are saying look Sini Are bad enough but sins thai Lead to aids bring on temporal consequences out of proportion to the sin committed moreover consequences As often a nor visited on innocent parties. One May Cavil that then is no such thing As an innocent party in male to Malc sex. Sliu we ought not to be accessories id death Lenien Ces Tor failure to comply with Christian Law. Such mortal punishment comes not Only to aids victims but also to aborted fetuses it is projected that there will be a Dis Eulatio on the question in june among he Bishops in private session. It s too bad there won t be any democratic congressmen there. It would be Good if somebody leaked Jit proceedings.