European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 23,1988 William f. Buckley the a for Dukakis is wonderfully flexible a correspondent Calls to our mention yet another oddity about gov. Michael Dukakis but this one with extraordinary implications. Beginning on Jan. 1, 1989, no one applying 10 serve in the state of Massachusetts As a Public safely employee will be permitted to smoke. On duty you wean no. Not on duty or off duty. The rules cover the inhaling exhaling or burning of any lighted cigarette Cigar pipe or other product containing Tobac my correspondent Wayne rash of byte Magazine comments considering the other provisions recently passed in that slate i suppose it is Safe to say that you can do nearly anything you wish with a Camel in Massachusetts except smoke the rationale behind the Dukakis anti smoking Law is Given by David Haley the stale personnel administrator. The statute Haley explains Calls for termination of an employee who is found after a hearing to have violated the prohibition. Since smoking has been established As a contributing risk Factor for hypertension and heart disease disability retirement due to hypertension and heart disease should eventually be re and Haley closed proudly itis believed that this disqualification of smokers for Public employment May be the first such ban on a statewide a very interesting approach to the smoking problem. You have to give gov. Dukakis an a for inventiveness. The possibilities that lie ahead arc enormous. Inasmuch As he seeks to apply his no smoking ban to Public safely offi one Musl assume that one of the first things he would do on becoming president would be to apply the Rule to the armed services. There s a couple of million people right there no smoking on duty or off duty. He could set up a Federal department the department of no smoking on duly or off duly Nso Dod. As a Mailer of fact hyper tension being a great National problem president Dukakis might elevate inc head of Nso Dod to cab incl rank. There will be those who object and Dukakis might even have i problem or two from inc Acle never mind that he is in his own words a card carrying member. The Acle might take the Posi Tion that since smoking is legally per milled for instance in your own Jim Fain Home inc slate docs not have the right to discriminate against smokers for pub Lic employment. The Acle might Lake la position that to do so is a venture in Shower adjusting to quote the metaphor of an old libertarian who sees Shower adjusting As inc principal preoccupation of the modern state reaching into your Shower and telling you no no nol you have the wrong Imp erasure and a great hairy hand reaches in and makes your water a Little warmer. Or a Little colder. Never mind which but different from what you yourself had it set at. The Law. In the hands of Dukakis is a wonderfully flexible instrument. We All remember that Cov. Dukakis refused to promulgate the Law passed by his legislature ordaining thai Public school Stu dents be led in the pledge of allegiance before undertaking the Day s work. Dukakis said that a ruling by the supreme court in 1943 made it unlawful for him to obey the instructions of the legis lature never mind that another state Illinois saw a sufficient difference in what the supreme court in a 6-3 decision frowned upon and what the legislature of Massachusetts passed. Dukakis on this Point decided to be a stickler. On the other hand not Long ago Duka Kis decided thai he would declare dial Sacco and Vanzetti the famous murder ers were innocent. Never mind thai they were found guilty by a court of Law and that one of Dukakis predecessors gov. Alvan Fuller deeply explored the ques Tion of their trial ruled it fair inc Evi Dence overwhelming and confirmed inc sentence that sent them to the chair modern scholarship confirms that find ing. But the Duke in a great gesture of retroactive chivalry now declares them innocent. Who else might he decide was in Nocent if he gets to the while House Benedict Arnold after All we live in a pluralist society. Who is to say that Ben edict Arnold owed allegiance to the United Stales As a matter of fact Given gov. Duka Kis Altitude toward criminals in general to whom he has regularly Given furloughs perhaps he will with a sweep of his Wand forgive them All. Presidential pardons for everyone Given that most people in prison did not Nave the kind of opportunities in life that Dukakis in those who think the Duke is soft on crime should think again. He will not Grant pardons to anyone caught smoking. Gorbachev can be fessed without making risks pity Pooh Gorbachev. He s been trying to surrender for three years and can t find anyone to take his sword. Nol surrender exactly. He wants a truce so he can pump resources into his dying Economy. But he s smart enough to know he has to pay. And he seems willing to no Goliath a reasonable Price. Among our John Birch style fire breathers Ronald Reagan comes closest to grasping what s happening. After decades of evil Empire bashing he s open enough to the evidence of his senses to admit the possibility we be won a major round. Not so his comrades. They re like their absolutist cousins on the icel who found it impossible to oppose the Vietnam War without hailing the communists As Brothers and deciding we did t really need an army. On both sides it s Madonna or whore and no Mes sing with miss in Between. Aside from inf treaty and Summit chit Chat Rea Gan has avoided dealing with Gorby however. He exerts Little influence on the staff regents who run his government along orthodox Lake no prisoners lines. With heavily endowed think Lanks manufacturing ammunition the Jesse Helms William of Buckley or. Anvil chorus professes terror of so much As a nod to inc Kremlin. When this jihad theology flirts with rationality it argues voters can t be trusted with any cold War thaw. Paint Gorby less than Devil incarnate says the right and Well never gel another dime for the Pentagon. Even the economist of London parrots the defeatism. Don t help Russia it Thun Ders while admitting some deals would help us. People Are smarter than cold War the blogs think. It s the politicians who either go crazy or fishing. Even at the Vietnam disillusionment most Ameri cans wanted adequate defense. Nixon Brezhnev de Tente seduced politicians not Normal Folk. Graham Tallison jr., Dean of the Kennedy school at Harvard both names in his title drive right Wing ers bonkers argues in the fall foreign affairs thai we owe it to ourselves to lest How far Gorbachev is willing logo. This can be done he says without risking any vital inter est. In particular Challenge Gorby with Concrete proposals on his Oder to publicly inventory his troops in Europe and draw them Down asymmetrically. Another area for testing scaling off Central America from outside arms. With a presidential Campaign entered on inc pledge and who looks sillier driving tanks and or in we cyfers we re unlikely to respond soon but we should. Michael Dukakis talks about beefing up conventional forces without the foggiest notion of the Cost. We be relied on nukes not because we like them but because they re cheaper. George Bush is in love with every weapons system on Cap Weinberger s Christmas list far More than we need. Neither candidate seems to accept the fact in will Cost upwards of $40 billion to modernize the land based missile Force with the Only logical system mid Getman or a variation. Whatever happens in Start such upgrading is Gorbachev should begin at once. 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