European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes columns Terence Hunt Summit patterned after Washington meeting president Reagan Cav this week for a sum Mil in Moscow that under a diplomatic code of reciprocity Wilt be amazingly similar to soviet Leader Mitt Hail Gorbachev s visit to Washington last year. Begin with their cars. Gorbachev shipped his Zil limousine to Washington instead of relying on his Host for transportation so Reagan Wilt follow suit sending his armoured Cadillac of Moscow. Gorbachev met in Washington with american writ ers actors news executive and businessmen. Reagan will meet in Moscow with monks dissidents students writers Arliss and filmmakers Gorbachev gave an interview in Moscow to Abc Anchorman Tom Brokaw. Reagan sat Down at the while House with Moscow television correspondents Valentin Zorin and Doris Kalyan in for an interview that will be broadcast Friday in the soviet Union. The two leaders gave dinners for each other in Washington they will do the same in Moscow. White House planners coca counted the number of meetings the two leaders had in Washington and checked the time they spent together. That provided the basis for planning the Moscow Summit. I would expect that the actual formal meeting times will closely reflect the meeting times Here Marhc a Little bit More but not an awful lot said Tom Cir Iscom the while House communications chief and a key architect of Reagan s trip. You can blink your Eye and see a difference Here or there but it is set up so that there is a commonality to what we re doing Griscom said. Reagan will arrive in Moscow on sunday after a four night Stop in Helsinki Finland. He will be the first american president in 14 years to visit the soviet capital. Officials in both countries say there is no Chance the Summit will produce a new arms treaty to curl strategic nuclear weapons. However they arc expected to sign a variety of other agreements dealing with issues such As Ocean pollution search and Rescue missions at sea fishing and cultural programs. Moreover minor agreements on providing notice of missile tests and on nuclear test ing also Are expected Tobe ready for signature. Reagan will Sec Gorbachev on sunday in St. George s Hall in the Kremlin Palace the first of five official Summit meetings. Two rounds of talks Are planned at the Kremlin on monday another meeting is planned on tuesday and the fifth and final official session is set for wednesday after which time has been set aside for a signing Cere Mony. In Washington Gorbachev held a news conference after the Summit. Reagan is scheduled 10 meet with reporters june i the Day before he leaves Moscow for in overnight Slop in London on his Way Back to Washington. There will be some Smalt twists in the schedule in Moscow. Jim Fain for example Gorbachev has invited the Rea Gans to the Bolshoi theater for a special Ballet presen tation wednesday evening followed by an intimate dinner at a country i oblate outside Moscow nothing like that occurred in Washington. Moreover Reagan will arrive on a sunday and de part on a thursday visiting with Gorbachev formally or informally on each of the five Days on his trip to Washington last december Gorba Chev arrived on a monday but did not Sec Reagan until tuesday they held three Days of talks with the soviet Leader departing on a thursday. The planning for Reagan s trip actually started when the soviets were in Washington last fall arranging Gorbachev s december visit. What we tried to do was to recognize Las year thai whatever we did in washing an would probably have an Impact on what we were going to do in Moscow and that reciprocity is very important Griscom said. And so in looking at this schedule coming up we used the Washington Summit schedule As the Model 10 build from particularly for the official part of the schedule the number of meetings dinners and things like unlike Gorbachev who received his visitors at the soviet embassy Reagan will go out to his audiences instead of bringing them to him. The major speech of his trip will be delivered on May 31 before students at Moscow University. A quiet Tion and answer session also is planned. Reagan also plans to visit a monastery on the out skirts of Moscow to watch monks restore icons and Mohave lunch with writers artists and filmmakers at the House of writers. Reagan is known As the great communicator and Griscom said pan of his communication in not just the spoken word nil where it delivered How it s delivered t think the fact that this president will go to Moscow University to speak to the stud cols will have an Impact on tend to think that they will appreciate that fact hat he came to them that he was willing to Lake time out to come to where they were rather than to lift them up and move them 10 where he might be Gas com said. To twin in jul to of vow to Hwy cull the opinions expressed in the column and cartoons on this Pige represent those of the authors and it in no Way to be considered is representing the Lewi at the stars and stripes or the untied slates Torero knt inf ado May have Little to do with actual pact the Senate has begun to debate the intermediate nuclear forces treaty 1 Orcsi Donl Reagan and Mikhail s. Gorba Chev signed with such self congratulatory pomp in december. If you be never seen pouter pigeons fully puffed drop every thing and come at once. It s a Model treaty. It would eliminate missiles of 300 to 3,400-mile Range from Europe but leave intact strategic missiles capable of taking out Alt Poten tial targets five times Over. It ought to be ratified As a sign of willingness to get on with meaning fun arms reductions. Al most surely in will be but not without inner ringing theatrics. Like much of what goes on in Washington the sound and fury will not be about what it purports to be. The debate will have virtually nothing 10 do with inf. Ii will have a great Deal to do with senatorial noses ground Loo frequently and too thoroughly in the dirt by a confrontational White House. It will be mightily concerned with fears of what comes next. Sen. David born a okla. Is upset because he has Laboured manfully at the impossible dream of gelling president Reagan s attention. Born chairman of the intelligence committee is convinced we need to beef up our reduced sat Lille spy capability before we get into any strategic missile agreement the White House promised him in would actually pin Down a few minutes of the president s siesta time for a Brief ing ii has t and born is talking filibuster on inf not that inf has any thing to do with the satellite Issue. It s just that such irrelevant barter is How the system works. You Vole against closing my defense base and i la get you tickets to redskins games. Then there s sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., who s been nursing a legitimate grievance Ever since Reagan s storm troopers told him the Senate should not have taken n lion s word for what the 1972 abm treaty really meant. Reagan wanted to reinterpret the treaty to permit Star wars Nunn will Lake his revenge by a crossing every t in the inf pact. As usual the Reagan administration has done itself in with abysmal Ham is in dress in massaging the Issue. It says one thing does two others and manages to renege on most of its commitments. Then there s the self inflation syn drome the need of every congressional player to Huff himself into apoplectic Absurdity whenever there s a to camera within Range. You and i neighbor with the Best of intentions made possible such gaseous carnivals. Starting about 1970, we decided Congress needed More staff soil could hold its own with an overstaffed executive Branch. In less than two dec Ades we trebled the number of congressional world War ii a representative had a Secretary and a Elerk senators averaged four aides apiece mow House members have As Many As 22 staffer and senators can go As High As 80. Back when congressmen had to figure out for themselves what they thought icy new off in fewer directions. Now they have human pumps in their outer offices to inflate them far such Macy parades As the inf ibis political charade plays out inf almost certainly will be ratified Ai it should be. But not before prodigal waste of Lime wind and to tape. We need to find ways of cutting staff size executive and congressional and throwing politicians Back on their own resources for making fools of them Waves. They be proved they can do inc Job
