European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes columns Flora Lewis Bush should elicit further response from Moscow there is a sense of vertigo. The proposals ant the Wenj in arc changing so fast there in t time Foi he music to catch up. All kinds of old assumptions arc being ripped open for new questions while they assumed the worst the dread had taken or. A kind of worn familiarity. The new and unexpected can be frightening even though the signs arc that it s Good news. Soviet Isaik i Mikhail Gorbachev tells the unit o nations hat Omerria Vional relations roust be fed from ideology thai the world Economy is a single organism and thai the idea of the very character and criteria of Progress is changing the Plo s Yasser Arafat says he wants to make secure peace with Israel. Nothing is really solved yet not in Afghanistan Between Iran and Iraq in Angola and Namibia in Cambodia. But the current of righteous belligerence i being reversed. Authorities do seem o be probing warily and still with bouts of intransigence for some Way out of the mess they got their people into and which had come 16 be taken for granted. It seems Loo Good to be True. There have been so Many Hopes and deceptions. Who remembers the cd Phona at the end of world War ii when the Victor were building an orderly new world where peace should be taken for granted. Who remembers the elation of decolonization in the1960s when Independence was going to give All Subj Cal Peoples a Chance to Prosper and develop in Freedom not surprising if Many arc looking for the traps now. But there Are Atso traps in what the american sociologist David Rickman called the gullibility of the cynical a belief that everything is a plot and nothing is sure but evil. In a time of change it is harder and All the More important to keep a balance than when everything is Kak. It s necessary to look Back As Well As Forward to measure what has really happened As Well As what still needs to happen. Dante Caputo of Argentina this year s presi Dent of the . General Assembly spoke of a memorandum sent by the danish physicist Niels Bohr to president Franklin l. Roosevelt in 1944. Bohr argued that atomic weapons would not Only substantially ally Rinc Conception and scope of War Bui also the world s Conception and realization of peace. That was before Hiroshima and the vast arsenals since acquired but blessedly no yet id. For almost Halfa Century Caputo said we have lived in a realm of precarious balancing now he perceives a breakthrough of common George will while there is no guarantee it is evidently common sense to recognize that the big problems arc global now and cannot be solved in hostilities even at . Now that Gorbachev is coming around to this kind of talk and backing it up concretely with new negotiating policies on regional conflicts and plans to Start cutting bloated soviet armies some have found a no Wear o sustain the rivalry. It is that the soviet Leader will win a Charm Offen Sive and leave America with an image of grungy Nar Row mindedness in he world s eyes. These people Call for a grand design from president elect Bush some kind of rhetorical composition that will bring cheers and shining eyes for he . I disagree. That is he Way Moscow habitually goes about things proposing great concepts full of a Jam. Ing Promise when what we All want is delivery. Gorba Chev called for Basic and truly Universal principles to guide he new world. They already exist in abundant forms. The Point is to Start observing them. What is happening now and it is much to Gorba Chev s credit is that policies and principles Long advocated by the West arc gaining acceptance in Moscow More respect for human rights willingness to Cut Force a View of the world As a Complex Unity rather than a inevitable struggle Between class enemies this should be encouraged the More the better with out any distress lest someone think the source of Good ideas has changed sides. There is no reason to feel fragile or vulnerable because Moscow is responding now. On the other hand the West has done a lot of things in response to Nrec ived threats from he soviets. As the threats diminish the retaliation can diminish that is what Bush can offer in Good heart and con science. Come join us he can say we Welcome you into this difficult world where nobody can have All the an Swers but where we have o look together. He does t need a new design or ideology just roof fire mation of what s been said All along. . Sending dangerous message the world is weary. Vernon Wal ters says so Walters is not merely . Ambassador to the United nations. He presumed to speak in Geneva for the entire International Community that Brand assemblage was he we in this wallers sentence we must Tell them Israel and her enemies that we arc tired of this conflict such Fine impartiality Between our ally and those Bent on her destruction . Policy is indeed that Israel should cooperate with the us Plo peace Cha Rade because the world is weary. . Officials scripted the rhetorical Sani Tiza Tion of Yasser Arafat. They did so on the Assumption that a murderer will not lie by Reading the script Arafat presumably the state department s presumption re pealed the Plo charter. It says Palestine is indivisible and vows inc elimination of zionism in Palestine.". ,. The snowball of v appeasement gathers momentum. The United nations with henceforth refer to the Plo As pales Tine and Why not . Policy has been reversed. It now do Faulb accepts the Plo As the sole legitimate representative of palestinians thereby shredding the . Cornomi Lenl to direct negotiations be tween Israel and Jordan. The administration says negotiation with the Plo docs not involve recognition of a palestinian stale. Bui last sunday assistant Secretary of slate Richard Murphy was asked if the Plo really has recognize Israel s right to exist docs he now expect so Cauca moderate Arab Stales to do likewise his answer was that most of them " accepted explicitly Resolution 242 years ago. What happened last week was that the Plo accepted 242 and thereby Israel s right to thereby the . Prici cow has been thai the Plo must meet three distinct tests renunciation of terrorism acceptance of Israel s Ngallo exist and acceptance of 242. Now Murphy says the third requirement incorporates the second. Regarding terror ism Arafat bos renounced it before has consistently lied about it and now has been Given preemptive immunity from blame for future acts of it. That is the Conse Quence of . Officials saving in chorus that Arafat cannot control the extremists and is himself a potential victim because of his moderation. This moderate gave the order by Telephone from Beirut for the murder of the . Ambassador in Kliar Toimi in 1980 Ronald Reagan said with in comes Able accuracy Israel and. Jordan Are the two palestinian Stales envisioned and authorized by. The United reminded of that last sunday Murphy said we do not consider Jordan the sic palestinian we the foreign service has anyone told the president that he has changed his mind the inescapable logic of Murphy s Lan Guage is . Support for a Plo state. So Rita Hauser he jews Jesse Jackson said to have converted Arafat to peace in our time had better catch up with Arafat s Deputy Abu Ayyad. He has not message. Last week he said in an arabic language publication the establishment of a palestinian slate on part of the land of Palestine is a stage toward the final goal the establishment of a state on All of pales a. For months before the in Eflina in Al Giers of the latest Plo peace tactic Plo spokesmen assured arabic speaking audiences that it would be Only a tactic of War Only a Means of implementing the phased policy adopted in 1974. That incremental policy Calls for shrinking Israel to indefensible Borders As a precondition of ridding indivisible Palestine of the zionist Abadallah Al Khou ran a member of the Plo executive com Mittee told an arabic language publisher the proclamation of the palestinian states the Fin step toward obliterating the new zionist fascist a but die Assumption of is that Plo officials Are impeccably sincere when Reading . Scripts and Are nicely insincere when contradict ing them. The appearance of Eitra ism is really the prudence of the moderates. So last sunday s new York times mag Azine contained this Gem nowadays Plo officials will Ell you privately Arafat s uniform and gun Are something of an affectation a bit of symbolism meant 10 reassure he Plo hard liners the Quantity of such private insights from unnamed moderates equals the Quantity of Western gullibility. Luckily far Arafat no hard Linen read such Western articles and discover the ruse. The lame Duck Reagan administration which is not lame enough is limping out of town sending a dangerous signal to our watching enemies the United slates gets tired. You can wait us out. The whole wide world is tired Wal lers the International scold says so so Israel is supposed to jeopardize her survival to satisfy the International comm but As Golda Meir said jews Are used to collective eulogies but Israel will not die so that the speak Well of it
