European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes columns William Safire child care will be the Sleeper Issue in election the Domestic Issue in the 1088 Campaign will be one thai hits Home hard child care. Considerably Mars than half of Amer ican women with preschool or school Nee children work and Many of the other would work if they could which Means thai a wide ranging approach to child care has become a lop National priority. Even politicians whose main interest i pulling welfare mothers to work writes i Schorr in Weihin our reach a new must read Book for political activists have recognized that they cannot achieve their objectives without vastly expanded and improved arrangements for child although the Federal government Al ready Scis a target of j7 billion a year in Aid and tax credits nobody disputes the Browing need for More and better care. The Issue it who will provide it and who will get it. The i5cmocratic answer is usual Calls for More Federal Aid. Sen. Christopher a adj s Bill Calls for s2.s billion a year to Stan. Limed at the pour. The example always cited is head Start Crown jewel of the War on poverty. Anthony Lewis Jesse Jackson has already upped the Ante in demands for More direct Aid and Michael Dukakis cites press clip about Massachusetts having " he nation s most comprehensive state supported Day care the Republican Moi Alert to the changing needs of families is sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. His j375 million Bill derided by democrats for not sufficiently busting the budget is geared to local initiative and private Enterprise and opens the system to children of the mid dle class. The Hatch alternative also deals with the matter of control. He put the establishment of standards and licenses with the slates a devolution of Power Al ways anathema to Democrat and permits churches and religious schools to Lake an Active part in the nation s child care Effort. Control is important Well mean ing Federal bureaucrats Art already mov ing in on higher education and would like to dominate preschool care. Conservatives recall Lenin s boast give us the child for eight years and in will be bolshevism Washington s control of preschool and after school care might not produce Little Gorbachev but in would not produce the diversity Anc individuality that Art a democracy s greatest resource. Other conservatives however Are much too Hung up on appearing to Dis courage mothers from haying Home and taking cart of their own kids. Of give everybody a new baby tax credit and re assure non working mothers that Paren Tal care is he Best child care but let us not deny that the gnat majority of work ing parents need child care help now. Liberals Are mistaken to derogate widely aimed Aid As baby Sitters for yuppies the Mother who is a Steelworker a no Yuppie. By addressing the con ferns of the Lar Forker family at the Slan we can avoid he segregation of a new generation of the underclass. Where is the Reagan administration on this late. William Bennett the ordinarily Gutsy Secretary of education and a possible vice president in a Bush administration has shown a cautious interest in current congressional proposals but wants Federal Aid Only for the poor. The member of the president s cab inet who has stepped into in vacuum is the new Secretary of labor Ann Mclaughlin. She quickly assembled a data base correctly characterized inc coming Battle As a work Force Issue not a we. Fare Issue and steered the internal policy dispute into Treasury Secretary James Bakers economic Council. The energized department of labor is now working overtime on a plan drawing upon but not limited to the Hatch approach. Ideas Range from child care vouchers to liability insurance guarantees to a care Given corps to incentives for companies and unions to develop More child care at the work site. Worker parents can be More productive workers and belter parents when companies provide on site child care. That is where the big Boom in new facilities could begin right away with local initiation and control class Blind and race Blind. Scorn of companies have taken the Lead if inc republicans can t encourage this Job Reward to become pan of the corporate culture who can come to think of it George Bush in a member of the Reagan Cam where is he in this internal administration struggle a Tot try tit Nawf 3ark future character of Israel As a nation is at stake Israel became a state on May 14, 19-13. A month later its government faced a fateful Issue. Airgun Vai a cum the right Wing terrorist group thai bad operated during British Rule tried to bring thousands of guns in on a chartered ship the Alvalena. David Dan Gurion. The prime minister saw ii As an attempt to maintain a private army and that he said would murder inc state he ordered the allele a shelled. The Shi p Sank off Tel Aviv. As Israel celebrates its 40lh anniversary it faces a Choice As profound and divisive As Trie Challenge of inc Altadena the question is How to Deal with the Territo Ries in has occupied since 1467, and with their 1.5 million palestinian inhabitants. Recent events have shown that what is at stake is nothing less than the future character of Israel As a nation. The Inci Donl in the West Hank Village of Bella Wasa somber portent. In the israeli government s handling of in we saw what the future May be is Likely to be if present trends continue. On april 6, 16 teen agers from israeli settlements Wrol for a nature walk near Bella with them were two armed guards both settler militants. The army had banned one from the West Bank City of Nablus after incidents of shotting. The other was convicted in 1984 of destroying evidence in the killing of an 11-year-old palestinian girl by a settler. The group encountered some Young palestinians who threw stones. One came Forward to urge the israelis to leave quietly the palestinian claimed afterwards. An israeli guard shot him dead. Villagers rushed out surrounded the israeli group and look them into Bucila. In the Village two More Peuck were killed another Young palestinian Man and a l5- car old israeli girl. Tina Porat. First reports were Ului 1 Orai had Bacn killed by a Stone. But Ilien an army inquiry found that a Buuck apparently from the gun of one i j a lift guards had struck her in the head. The chief of staff of the israeli army Gen. Hans Omron said on the radio that the people of Celciu had Leal worse from happening it s a he said. Thai the youngsters apart from the murdered girl gut out of there alive Noi because of Rescue by military Force but because some villagers did not allow them to be despite Shimron s words and despite the finding that Porat had not in fact been killed by a Stone israeli authorities imposed collective punishments on Dei la. Fourteen houses were blown up Groves of Almond Trees pulled out seven acre of Olive Trees bulldozed. Right Wing politicians called fur revenge against the pick the weapon israelis palestinians. Prime minister Yitzhak Shamir said at Porat s funeral god will avenge her at a Cabinet meeting Ariel Sharon the Trade minister said thai All the houses in Bella should be blown up. Tit Leader of the National religious party rabbi Chaim Onickman said inc Village should be wiped off inc face of the Earth that is one possible future an Israel so dominated by religious nationalist Fervour that the authorities impose retribution on palestinians without waiting for evidence or despite the evidence. An Israel that Cipols people from their Homeland in the Teeth of the Law. A Israel that loses its own values in order to suppress another people. And that is not ail that May happen. A further possibility openly discussed in Israel now is what is politely called Transfer of that is expelling the mass of palestinians from the occupied territories. Henry Siegman be Culive director of the american jewish Congress looked recently at these Shadow on Israel s future. He spoke before the incident in Delta. Democratic and humane value Siegman said Are Likely to be eroded even further if inc occupation persists indefinitely. Speculation about forced mass transfers of population has moved from inc a Hanc fringe to More centrist elements. Some even ques Tion publicly inc principle Tif the Sanctity of human life when applied to whether or not to go in that direction u Israel s Choice. But must americans stay out of the debate m sen. Albert Gore has argued must supporters of Israel be silent Henry Szejman said he could not be silent. I think most americans. Jewish and non jewish Wilt agree with him. After the Bucila incident an Abc television correspondent Carrie Dunsmore asked one of the lint i hikers Why they had gone where icy did at a Lime of tension. She replied we have to show them that we Are the owners of the the opinions cup Reed in it column us Chuom on ibis Puje or Natal time of us it Ikon us in u any to be con cred h Remc Nilita the to twi of the Stan an Sthen or it United Suin Orem rent
