European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns w. Dale Nelson the stars and stripes president Reagan to stay Busy in final months it will be hard to top the color and drama of his fourth Summit but president Reagan s aides and backers say he will have plenty to keep him Busy until he leaves office 7vi month fro now. There s just a Chance that his schedule might include a fifth meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev to sign a treaty reducing Long Range nuclear mis Siles. "1 think what we Are seeing is that Ronald Reagan has not yet reached the Peak or his Powers or his  says Martin Anderson the president s former top Domestic policy adviser and author of a Book about his administration. Reagan s Agenda will include an eco nomic Summit meeting with Leaden of the industrialized Western democracies and Japan Campaign trips on behalf of George Bush and other Republican candidates and a Brief appearance at the cop convention in new Orleans. He is also expected to squeeze in four More vacation trips to California before he turns Over the reins to his successor at noon on Jan. 20. As they have for Many months the president and his aides also nay that efforts continue to secure the Freedom of nine american hostages held in Leb anon. Administration efforts to Force Gen. Manuel Amonis Noriega from Power in Panama which collapsed As Reagan was on his Way to the Summit May also be resumed. On the president s immediate sched ule arc a couple of speeches in washing ton in which he will report on his mos cow visit. Details of the speeches had not Bee announced As the president prepared to leave Moscow. Still up in the air was the future of a proposed treaty reducing intercontinental ballistic missile arsenals by 30 to 50 percent which both sides had originally George will memorial to the american hostage in Lebanon said they hoped might be signed during the meetings in the Kremlin we Are both hopeful that it can be finished before i leave office Reagan told students at Moscow slate univer sity. But i assure you that if it in to. I will have impressed on my successor Llinat we must carry on until it is  Anderson interviewed by Telephone at the Hoover institution Al Stanford University where he is a senior Futlow said i would predict that he and general Secretary Gorbachev Are going to reworking even harder to put together a reduction in the big  they May not get to the full 50 per cent but 1 would t be surprised if the did get some agreement said Anderson who in his recent Book  depicted nuclear arms reduction As Rea Gan s overriding concern during his presidency. Gorbachev and Reagan who first Metin Geneva in 1985 and subsequently got together in Reykjavik Iceland and in Washington before their session in mos cow have indicated they would be will ing to meet again to sign such a treaty. With difficult negotiations still ahead no Concrete plans rave been made but some sources have suggested Budapest Hungary As a possible sue. More immediately Reagan will meet in Toronto june 19-21 with Heads of government from , West Germany Britain Italy and France for the 14th annual economic Summit. With he exception of Britain prime minister Margaret Thatcher he will have been in office longer than any of them. There Are no burning issues said one administration official. It s a where we have been and where we aregoing1 kind of  Reagan s speech at the Republican National convention in new Orleans aug. 15-18 it expected to be a Brief drop in in route to his annual August vacation at his ranch North of Santa Barbara Calif. He is also expected to visit the Ranchin july and As usual spend thanksgiving there and round out the year at the Home of old Friend Walter Annenberg in Rancho Mirage  president is expected to make Campaign appearances on Bush s behalf after the vice president s expected Nomi nation at the  has been scheduled but tie will be doing campaigning for the vice president and a lot of campaigning for Senate and House candidates Deputy White House press scr tarty . Coop or  docs not sound As dramatic Ai meet ing with Rufu Schiks in Moscow dueling with Gorbachev inside the Kremlin Walls or answering barbed questions from so Viet students. But As Reagan said in a May 2 speech to the . Chamber of Commerce re viewing his administration s accomplishments we Aren t Al the end  Ca Forn a s proposition 13 a decade later most political news 1 travels cast to West sometimes disappearing into desert Sands before reaching califor Nia. But political tides often Roll the other Way washing Over Washington As one did 10 years ago. On june 6, 1978, californians passed proposition 13, slashing and limiting property taxes. The conservative decade that now is Al dusk had dawned. In the decade prior to 1978, three things the perceived failure of great society programs Vietnam and water Gale sapped Confidence in the compe tence and Good motives of government. Proposition 13 was bom from a fourth failure that radicalized of the Middle class inflation. Proposition 13 was less evidence of a generalized tax revolt than a blow against a particular grievance property taxes in an Era of High inflation. A House is the average american s most valuable asset. In 1976, houses were appreciating in value faster than Many californians especially the elderly on fixed incomes could afford. Perversely they were being impoverished by the Cost in taxes of their growing wealth. Proposition 13 began a year later a spending limit linking All government budgets growth to increases in Popula Tion and in the Cost of living. Thirty one months after proposition 13 passed a new president a Calif Oman proclaimed in his inaugural address that govern ment is the  today Public payrolls Are smaller the los Angeles City payroll is 4,000 jobs smaller than in 1978 and proposition 13 saves properly owners about $15 billion a year. Bui today Many californians think insufficient government is now a problem. For the average american and especially the average californian government s three crucial concerns Are cars cops and kids that is transportation Public safety and education. Today in Southern California s Orange county the incubator of a paganism conserva Tives Are joining the Call for Strong government measures to limit growth and provide highways and other infrastructure for the growth that has occurred or is inevitable California even More than the rest of the nation and with More reason is clamouring for a stronger fight against drugs and against the gangs that drugs finance. And Public education the catalyst of California s postwar Rise As a Home for High Lech Industry is in de Cline. The decline began before 1978. In 1962, California ranked sixth among the states in per Pupil spending kindergarten through i2lh Grade. By 1974. It was 17th, by 1978, it was 22nd. By 1982, it was 41 is. California has recently risen some what but not enough for an pm in which its schools Are required to do what East Ern Urban schools did in the late 19th and Early 20th centuries turn Immi Grants into americans. In 1983, Halfway through the conservative decade 64 percent of californians favored smaller government with fewer services and 28 percent favored the opposite. Today the smaller government Lead is just 48-43, and 71 percent favor raising local taxes for roads Public safely and schools. Proposition 13, by slashing an important Revenue source of local governments caused them to Lurn to Sacra mento. So proposition 13, which was in part an expression of angry alienation from government has reduced the importance of the governments closest to the people and has swollen the Power of the Central government of a Mega state. Proposition 13 led conservatives into political and philosophical mistakes. The political mistake was to read the result of the vote on proposition 13 As a referendum against government spending in general. This led in 1981, to conserva Tive miscalculation of the Public s willingness to Cut Federal spending As Well As taxes. This miscalculation helped pro Duce the deficit. Conservatives who rightly respect the corrective mechanism or economic markets have not sufficiently noticed a Simi Lar mechanism in political markets. In an economic Market Strong demand drive sup Price which stimulates production and then increased Supply drives Down Price. In a political Market anxiety produces action which when it succeeds As stages the anxiety and hence reduces support for he actions taken. Thus the strength of a political movement in sapped by its Success. Resistance to taxes in the late 1970s was fuelled by he belief that government was spending carelessly. The result was enforced frugality enforced by punish ment at the polls and in some states by restrictions on Revenue sources. But this frugality has led to increased Trust in the judgment of governments and hence to decreased resistance to spending and even taxes. The conservatives philosophical mis take was in making Low taxes the Crux of conservatism. Today a new Public mood is met by a stammering one dimensional conservatism. It is unconvincing in in tentative advocacy of energetic govern ment hear George Bush on becoming the education president and unable to defend even its defense program from pressures generated by a conservative administration s deficits. Large political victories tend to turn around and bile the victorious. For conservatives proposition 13 and its aftermath have been no exception. Wuh Englun poll Wihton i Cejp