European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 10 the stars and stripes tuesday. May 10,1938 Andrew j. Glass Many things worse than reagans astrology after it came out that Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy share an interest in astrology the president fell obliged 1o Tell while House reporters thai the Stan Haven t influenced his policy decisions. But i say what s wrong with a bit of liar gazing once in o while after Ali it s Clear that readers in honkers if they fail to find their Pel astrology column in the paper while they show much tolerance when a Washington pundit s efforts at rational though similarly disappear. Public persons ought to be permitted a Pec Cadillo. The late Everett Mckinley dirkson of Illinois once an impressive Republican Senate Leader and a perfectly serious Man had a secret yen to be a Rock Star. In 1966, dirkson even quietly col a record. He might have gone on to enjoy some Success in that demanding Field had not a scornful press chased him Buck to the relative safety of a political career. Jimmy Carter whom Reagan chased out of inc while House loved to fish in secluded places As alone As he could pos Sibly be. In 1979, Carter s partiality to such solitary recreation led to a Nasty assault on the president by a Large water borne Ollack Rabbit. It happened when the two of them crossed paths in the South Georgia swamps near Carter s Home. Carter swore to Jody Powell his press Secretary that the attack occurred. So Why should non fishermen doubt his word unfortunately for Carter Mem Bers of the White House press corps then As now a Callow lot met his account with derision. One could even go so far As to speculate thai Carter on you quite on, i never one to mis it up with the Guys and gals on the press bus did himself Infin by letting that Kilter Rabbit Story make the rounds it was Ali the news hounds needed to get even. Earlier on one should note Carter Anthony Lewis gained political ground because his presidential rival Gerald Ford had a Way of falling off air plane ramps or Felling spectators with Golf Ball. Actually font was a suburb athlete retaining a High degree of fitness late into life. But it really did not matter for nowadays image is everything. Ronald Reagan for All one knows could be a closet astronomer using in the m Iddle of the night to watch from the South portico As Mars trans Crucs the tidal Basin. For the ancients astrology and astronomy were one and the same thing should t we Lake a tolerant Alti tude toward the first couple even if from time to Lime they decide to blow away a Rig in the persian Gulf because Mars wobbled a bit As it passed Jupiter you chuckle Fine for humor is one Means of Selling limits on even the most Jovian of presidents. And when they truly go off inc deep end As did Richard Ninon in the watergate affair we can always kick them out. Usually however Milder sanctions will suffice. Nixon s idea of fun was to study an intelligence briefing on a hot summer Day wearing his Best sunday suit with the while i Louse Nir condition ing system turned Down to 60, As a Blaze roared away in an Oval office fireplace. Onetime however Nixon returned from a state visit to Romania where the communist Honcho had filled his Palace guards in Zany uniforms right out of a Lilly operetta. Ninon insisted he would do the romanian one better. He finally abandoned his goofy Enterprise dressing the White House guards in cutesy uni forms but Only after people laughed at it and at him. Reagan in t running anymore. So Why should t aquarius heed the wanting of his feminine cancer soul mate in going off to see the muscovite Pisces under the twin sign of the gemini he could do a. Lot worse. Administration Oil wet on Legal alien Challenge thirty five years ago the supreme court held that an alien legally resident in the United slates can not be made to leave without a fair hearing. Hii Slat us As a person within the meaning and Protection of inc fifth amendment Justice Harold h. Burton said cannot be capriciously taken from the Reagan administration is now challenging that fundamental and Long accepted principle. A Man who has lived in Hie United slates since 1975 took a two week trip abroad in 1986. On the basis of that trip the Justice department is trying to in Row him out of the country summarily without disclosing All the evidence to him without a hearing before an immigration judge. Fouad Rafeedie 31, comes originally from the West Bank town of Al Birch. He lives near Cleveland went to Youngstown stale University in Ohio and is mar ried to an american. Four of his Brothers and two listers arc american citizens. Rafeedie also applied for citizenship years ago but inc immigration and naturalization service has delayed acting on his petition. The apparent reason is his activity on behalf of palestinian and Arab causes. He has written end spoken publicly in the Cleveland area on the Middle East criticizing . Policy As unfair to inc palestinians. In 1996 Rafeedie told the ins that he was going to Cyprus and got a re entry permit in fact it appears that he went to Syria on his return he was questioned by immigration officers and Jave what the service be lick is were false answers designed to conceal his connections with the Radical popular front for the liberation of Palestine. At that time he was paroled into the country and went Home to Cleveland. Nearly a year later in March 1987, the ins charged him with being excl Dable As a subversive person or one whose admission would be prejudicial to the Public interest. The Case was scheduled to go before an immigration judge in the usual Way but at the last minute he ins brought a new proceeding under a Section of the me Carran Waller immigration act that allows entering aliens to be excluded summarily without evidence or hearing. The ins said it was acting on the basis of confidential that Section of the Mccarran Wauer act has never before been invoked against it resident alien according to immigration Law experts. I use would make an enormous difference constitutional and psychological in inc status of Legal aliens. The fifth amendment says that no person in the country May be deprived of life Liberty or property without due process of a the supreme court has said the amendment makes no distinction be tween citizens and aliens. But the argument pressed by the Reagan administration in the Rafeedie Case would allow the government to take an alien from his Home and family in inc United slates without anything that we would recognize As due process. The ins would bring the charges and judge them. In effect a resident alien would no longer be a person under the fifth amendment. The Reagan administration s lawyers try to gel around the constitutional Point by saying that Ravec die is being treated not As a resident alien but As one seeking admission who has no rights. He lost his stat us during his trip abroad they say because he trip was for a bad purpose. But that argument begs the question which is How the nature of a Feldic s trip or of his life is to be judged. Maybe he has done something wrong. But under our constitutional system people Are not convicted on secret evidence with the prosecutor u judge. Not so far anyway. There is a profound free speech Issue in the Case Loo. The Justice department argues that it should be Able to act against Rafeedie for advocating palestinian causes in ways far Short of the first amendment requirement of inciting imminent lawlessness. Again if that is the Law aliens would live under a different Constitution. All til is and More is at stake in a suit brought for Rafeedie by inc Center for constitutional rights to Stop the summary ins proceeding against him. The Case was argued in the . District court in Washington last week before judge Joyce hens Green. The Justice department Brief invokes National Secu Rity and says that that interest permits inc downgrading of the Dill of rights Justice Robert h. Jackwyn commented on Ihal argument in an immigration Case 38 years ago Security is like Liberty in that Many Are the crimes committed in its no Yurt Tamja in re the opinion expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent lbs of in author and at in no nay to be considered u representing the item of the Utran men. E conserve u represent Sun and stripes or the United stale
