European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the Star band stripes Daniel Schorr Higgins posting was repeat of a bad mistake editor s Mote Dinlfo Schorr writer it in list for National Public Ridin role this Irtack for the Cox no assess the damage. Vice president George Bush has said that concern Over Buckley s torment was in Large part his motive for supporting the arms for hostages Deal. Observers find in astonishing thai even As Congress last june was gearing up to investigate the Iran con Ira affair another american officer whose record made him an inviting target should be sent to Lebanon. Equally astonishing is the tact hat Reagan should assert Hal the terrorists will have "0 hard time learn ing secrets from Higgins. Cei howl Stimch Back in the 1950s, when construction of the is. Lawrence Seaway was a big political Issue Harold Stassun came up ii a better idea. Instead of simply providing a deep water shipping route from the Greal lakes la the Atlantic Ocean the Farmer Minnesota governor wanted to connect the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic. As it turned Oul. There were some tech Nical problems a key Clement of the is Aiscan plan was to dig a canal from the Brulc River to the St. Croin River in Wisconsin to link Lake Superior to the Mississippi River. When someone pointed Oul Hal the Brulc flowed North and the St. Or Iii South Lassen s plan was summarily interred in the graveyard of political brainstorms this is not to say Hal politicians can t change the i acct Ian of a River icy did in Yean ago in Chicago to keep the City s sewage out of its Lake Michigan drinking water Supply. Works jus Fine thank you. Nur ate runaway daydreams about vast water projects restricted to land locked Midwest criers Franklin d. Roosevelt was. Entranced until the Day he died by the Prospect of generating elec trip ii from Ihu massive tides of Passa May noddy Bay in the Border. People still arc trying to figure out How to do that in any Case it does seem thai presidential campaigns do bring innovative sometimes will ideas 10 Public at Tention. For example sen. Paul Simon s idea for giving a Telephone to every poor fam ily. The Illinois Democrat advanced the proposal in a Hook he wrote a while Back though lie did not make it one of the planks in his presidential Campaign plat form Thini year. I he Mas reminded of it at one of Lull the candidate debates this year and gave a stirring if Short defense of the idea As a Way to fight crime and Deal with the isolation of the elderly poor. He did con cede some bugs needed to be worked out such As How to keep the free phones from being used for Long distance Calls. Former Delaware gov. Pete Dupont had a new idea for How to keep High school Kidi from using drugs threaten to Lake away their Driver s licenses. Head mined at one of the cop debates while he still was a candidate Hal the plan might not be the answer for teen age drug abuse in inner City neighbourhood. Alexander Haia. Another departed candidate jumped in Dupont with the comment that his worry was " he drug Gies who want to steal the wheels off my sen. Albert Gore p-ttnn., entered the big idea sweepstakes with his plan to help solve the Day earn crisis declaring that he and his wife Tipper would set up a Day care Center in the while House. Gore May not know hem hard in is these Days for people who Are not presi dents or senators to get into the while House. Some of those Little kids May be ready for Pete Dupont s teen age anti drug program before the Sec Rel service clears them through the Gate finally 1988 gave us Jesse Jack son s fifth sunday plan to raise Campaign funds. Noting that january was one of those rare months with five Sun Days the democratic presidential hone Oulen fill suggested that churches Wou miss he Money if incy passed the i on Hal extra Sabbath for his Campaign. The i clubs Aren t in on that project but in is mentioned Here because this year had a feb. 29, which comes even less often than a fifth sunday we have Jet to learn what Jackson May have had in i Fly for that extra 24 hours. We Uttof m in
