European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes columns William Safire cond Dafes can become educated in campaigns Chicago a helmeted Michae Dukakis clambered up on a Lank in Michigan pointed the gun at the clicking cameras and said  in the same rat Tat Tat Way the demo cratic candidate has delivered three speeches this week on foreign policy an National Security to show himself As substantive mainstream and Lough Tough Lough. Three times he promised to pay an Price Bear any Burden. 10 assure the survival and Success of Liberty the Joh Kennedy line that presaged the invasion of Cuba and involvement in Vietnam. He identifies himself with president Reagan s present soviet policy and suggests that Bush is not nearly so enlightened is this the real Dukakis do these three centrist speeches arranged at the last minute to counter a perception of weakness represent the considered world View of the Massachusetts Liberal who has Long been espousing nuclear freezes tul cutting at persian Gulf involvement and calling space defense a wasteful fantasy doubtful he reads and runs and i suspect his mindset is far to the left of the speeches he has been handed. But the fact that he has undertaken sound bite too Long for most Media mastication challenges us to treat this year s Dukakis positions seriously. Seizing the initiative his talk to the Tomat nov by i Aulii �. Run a. -_.,Dean of the Kennedy school at Harvard in the current foreign affairs  theme of both speech and under lying article is a willingness to accept ten lat ively the Gorbachev professions of Good Faith we want to Challenge the soviet leaders test their intentions says Dukakis which could be a Lough sounding Way of saying we should Trust them until they double Cross  eagerness to Deal is tempered by the frequent evocation of linkage. If Gor Bachch wants fundamental changes cautions Dukakis there must first be a fun  in the balance of Force sin Cert Lra  "1 will Challenge or. Gorbachev. To heed the Picas of president Arias and cease the shipment of arms to the government  the Allison article specifies How soviet arms shipments to Centra America have increased and propose that soviet cessation of military Aid be accompanied by cessation of . Military Aid to the contras. Nice work if you can get it that notion has flapped so far kissing Kian linkage is nowhere More pronounced than in Trade if Gorba Chev wants to join the International eco nomic Community warns the Duke he must first get out of the business of Export ing these deadly weapons missiles armed with chemical or nuclear weapons to volatile regions of the world. No Good diplomatic behaviour no economic kelp that s unmistakably Tough. If they Roll tanks into a rebelling neighbor would he slap on a Grain embargo As Jimmy Carter did in his toughest decision son liners working feverishly to pm plan a Weltanschauung in their candidate Jay that if we help the soviet Union strengthen itself by becoming More capitalistic democratization is sure to Fol Low. Hard liners say that the Gorbachev re forms Are Pyrc Myshka Only breathing space and we should not help the soviet Economy to finance a renewal of mos cow s imperialism. Would t it be great to find out wha Dukakis and Bush think Abdul this which one agrees with a Dagan breathtaking Assumption that Gorbachev has Iven up the soviet dream of world domination if we ask we May find  that what campaigns Are for not just the edification of the voters but the ral Tel Tat education of the candidates. C  Flora Lewis soviets Antici paying dramatic historic change Moscow conventions in Moscow have taken on a startling new tone. Mikhail Gorbachev s perestroika program has bogged Down. There is less in the shops queues arc longer a sense of urgency is mounting. Some kind of crash program some kind of dramatic measures Are expected within a year or less. Heady debates Are going on among Gorbachev sup porters about what has to be done and their ideas go very far to much deeper changes in the system than anything mentioned publicly. One Man a scholar not normally involved in poli tics said the situation Here is like 70 years ago a reference to the revolution. People talk about changing the political sys tem though without much clarity speaking of some kind of pluralism which a few claim is a read emerging in factions within the communist party the people 1 saw were almost All party members some of them rather senior and they seemed eager to explain their new ideas their concerns their feelings As several said that we Are coming to a very important Crossroads in our  there is consensus that the key to the impasse i food that until there is enough food in the shops energies needed to move the Economy won t be re  not Only have reforms announced so far failed to Spur deliveries there is Little Confidence thai this can be expected any time soon. These people Are Well aware of the sudden Bountiful surge in China s agriculture when the peasants were allowed to use the land for themselves. But the chinese still have their traditional Socle a the �1rployecs. We have unlearned them How to  really count. � i  n pro Gorbachev people Call themselves the Progress some economists Are urging a huge emerged. An j  l of the Ria 5015513, advocating by program using All available resources to import con Way to reverse alienation of the workers and achieve Sumer goods providing a Quick incentive to Woric decent society  succeeded in Czechoslovakia in the Early 1970s, but the time gained was not used for Reform and the Economy soon stalled again. It is considered dangerous in the soviet Union Al though authorities Are already approaching european Banks for big Loans to buy machinery for consumer  talk about fully abolishing the Many stale Industrial ministries thus forcing decentralization a on political Economy As one Man put it. They also claim justification for political liberalism in the old Lenin his last years when he saw his mis takes and was seeking pragmatic solutions As another  Orrin Centra Ezaion which in been blocked by bureaucratic inertia and  would also help with the nationalities prob Lem one Man said because it would provide a Tot of the Economy that s demanded. There Are studies on the desirable proportions for mixed Economy. A recommendation has been made to Tirail direct slate control to 20-25 percent of Gnu. Put another 40 45 percent under indirect control a excised by Tan an credit policy and leave the rest o the free Market the words generally used amt obstacles deliberately placed by officials at Many Levels to undermine Reform Are the opposition and the  but it was pointed out that Gorbachev s opponent Don t have to do anything to organize Campaign or agitate for their  is enough for them to do nothing just plod on As then this approach names the bureaucrats who Don t believe anything Don t have any program who just want to slay where they  bureaucrats Are Laid to have a tacit Alliance Wiki. The progressives for now but the impending contest Isth third group s attempt to win inc mover that it roup. Called the chauvinists is described Ai deeply nationalistic orthodox essentially anti communist they Are against stalinism but they want a Stalin a Strong Leader. Such people always want a Ihrer the speaker said with  sense of an impending historic decision is spreading  Early euphoria thai Reform could be earned out in Quick relatively smooth and modest stages has i  pretends to know the outcome who will win. Many feel the Slakes have never been so High. It is eerie and unprecedented