European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reagan Recap continued from Page 13 . Marines Back to lower tensions. This Mission ended in disaster. Terrorists blew up the . Embassy in april 1983 and bombed the marines Headquarters in october killing 241 servicemen. In 1983, Shultz worked out an agreement for Israel to withdraw its troops while Lebanon moved toward recognition of the jewish state. Syria and saudi Arabia persuaded Lebanon to abandon the Accord. In the meantime Reagan s plan for peace talks Between Israel and the arabs did not get off the ground when it was rejected by Menachem begin then Israel s prime minister in 1982. Shutz tried a similar version of land for peace in 1988, but it was not accepted by Israel Jordan and palestinians. A tougher test of the .-Lraeli relationship began with rising violence by palestinian arabs on the West Bank and in Gaza a year ago and the establishment of a . Dialogue with the Plo a matter now put in George Bush s hands. Bryan Brumley suddenly the United nations is Back in fashion it was t Ronald Reagan s doing but the United nations began to play an important role in world affairs. Its peacekeeping forces won the Nobel peace prize and some member states even started paying Back dues. Reagan had been critical of the world organization for seven years but in october addressing the 159 nations of the general Assembly for the last time he conceded yes the United nations is a better place today. But so too is the  the United nations has played or is playing a major role in molding peace agreements peace talks or peace prospects in Afghanistan the Iran Iraq War Southern Africa and Namibia Cambodia and the Western Sahara. The United states the biggest . Donor feels it has prodded the world body into cutting costs. Washington saw an anti american Bias overspending ave staffing bureaucracy and waste and complained that poor developing nations hostile to the West contributed Little but dictated How . Funds would be spent or squandered. Most recently the United states was on a collision course with the world body Over its refusal to Grant a visa to Arafat so that he could speak Here. The enraged general Assembly rebuked Washington and travelled to Geneva in protest to hear him. But even that dispute was set aside when the United states accepted what Arafat said was a renunciation of terror and opened talks with the Plo. Barry Schweid in Central America no one said Uncle Washington Reagan took office determined to reverse pro soviet sentiment in Central America. He leaves with those Hopes unfulfilled. Nicaragua s leftist government appears firmly entrenched As the thousands of Contra rebels on whom Reagan invested much political capital find themselves in dreary Camps along the honduran nicaraguan Border Cut off from . Military support. Reagan once told a press conference that his goal in Nicaragua was to see the sandinista say  in Al Salvador there is More uncertainty than at any time since 1984 when a democratically elected president Jose Napoleon Duarte took office. That event was a Victory for administration perseverance but Duarte s term is ending with a guerrilla War still raging and living standards far below what they were a decade ago despite hundreds of millions of dollars of . Aid. The country s political life is marked by increasing polarization. Military governments in Guatemala and Honduras have Given Way to elected governments but in both countries full blown democracy has yet to take Root. Nicaragua ranks As a major Reagan disappointment in every other regional conflict Afghanistan Angola and Cambodia the administration can claim a measure of Success. Reagan was never Able to sell the notion to the american people that the sandinista government was a menace which left unchecked would result in the spread of marxism throughout Central America and into Mexico. He could never rally a sustainable consensus in support of his View that the Best Way to Deal with the sandinista was through generous support for the Contra rebels who Reagan once called the moral equivalent of the founding  within the Reagan White House the Contra cause became a highly emotional Issue. It induced some of the administration s most strategically placed people National Security adviser John Poindexter and it. Col. Oliver North to Bend or perhaps break the Law because defeat of the contras seemed so unthinkable. Both were charged with breaking the Law. Victoria Graham arms control landmark agreement dashed Hope for even More Washington Reagan leaves office with a mixed record on arms control. The treaty he signed at the Washington Summit with Gorbachev in december 1987 was a landmark. For the first time in history an entire category of . And soviet missiles those in the intermediate Range of 300 to 3,000 Miles was abolished. The treaty also broke new ground in providing for soviet inspectors to observe the destruction of banned missiles in the United states while american monitors checked up on the soviets at their Sites. Left undone however was the larger Reagan goal of completing a treaty to reduce Globe girdling nuclear missiles bombers and submarines by 30 percent to 50 percent. Some of the weapons ticketed for cutbacks such As sea launched cruise missiles Are extremely difficult to detect. Negotiations stalled Over verification procedures while the soviets never abandoned their attempt to impose some sort of restrictions on the . Anti ballistic missile program As part of a strategic arms reduction treaty. The program known formally As the strategic defense initiative is aimed at mounting a defense in space against soviet ballistic missiles. In other arms control areas Reagan did not reach an agreement with the soviets on ways to Monitor underground nuclear tests nor find a Way to deter the proliferation of chemical  accused the soviets in reports to Congress of probably exceeding the permissible 150-Kiloton ceiling on underground blasts. George Gedda Japan the Porcupine cooperates Washington the prime minister of Japan made his get acquainted Call less than four months into president Reagan s first term. Questioned about defense policy by members of the House foreign affairs committee prime minister Zenko Suzuki said Japan Felt it better to be a Porcupine than a roaring  but the official interpreter got it wrong and Porcupine came out in English As Wise  the japanese embassy corrected the animal mix up but the incident still triggered a burst of comment that Japan was shirking responsibility and enjoying a free ride on defense at the Cost of the United states. To some americans those displaced from jobs by imports Japan May look today like a lion sized economic Porcupine. But experts rate Overall relations better today than at the beginning of the Reagan years. Quality and Price conscious . Consumers continue to buy up japanese products. Lack of american competitiveness has become recognized As part of the problem of . Trade deficits that Rose from $16 billion with Japan in 1981 to nearly $70 billion before they started to decline last year. Eight years and two prime ministers after Suzuki visited Washington the japanese continue to shun a roaring lion military role and there is greater acceptance of this at the Pentagon and White House. The Reagan administration hails As a Success the defense relationship in which Japan now helps pay the Upkeep of nearly 55,000 . Personnel on its territory and provides destroyers anti submarine patrols and Jet fighters to defend sealants up to 1,000 nautical Miles off its shores. It also applauds Japan s offsetting of its constitutionally mandated Low military profile by becoming the world s largest foreign Aid donor with a five year $50 billion program of assistance tied less and less to buying japanese products. Experts give Reagan and his administration Good Marks for recognizing Japan s growing status As an economic superpower vital to the United states and encouraging the relationship to mature into a partnership stressing dialogue and shared benefits More than name calling. Barry Schweid Ron Margaret relations staunch ally in Europe London the Reagan years brought a specialness to the British american relationship not Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday