European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and strikes . Rosenthal Quayle has valid arguments on Middle East the vice president of inc unit. Ii stain has made out of the More important and sensible speech eve on the. Middle East  Public for a Long Lime. The country reacts pretty much the Way inc Farmer did when sic saw a Camel for inc first time. He Shook his Hod said there was  animal and walled away. Quayle j. Danforth Quayle he was hardly anybody s Choice for vice presi Dent except for his wife his parents and George Bush like just about everybody i know i had ii fit.-. Airtight one Bocech even a dozen speeches docs hot invest in him the experience he should have had to be selected. But that is a pretty silly reason not to pay attention to what the Man nest in line for the presidency has to say. Now that he has i he of. These arc some of inc major Points to made last month in a speech in Florida 1. The Palestine liberation Organiza Tion is an umbrella group that includes organisations publicly committed to terrorism and Israel s destruction. In Yasser Arafat s own organization some of his lieutenants flatly contradict his peaceful protestations and arc not challenged. Arafat himself threatens the lives of -. Palestinian leaders who want to achieve peaceful accommodation with Israel. The , for. Israel a  is not been revoked the  government must be very careful Abonit Raminto a conclusion on Arafat s real intentions. 2. The palestinians should participate in deciding their own future and Jordan must have a role. I it an Independent palestinian slate will not be a source of stability or promote peace. 3. The responsibility for compromises rests with the parties Linvol Rathe United Stales will not pressure Israel into accepting a precooked  4. By the  of some of Israel s neighbors. -100 people killed in Anthony Lewis i am not a Crook j i am not an Intellectualmidg-6ti the palestinian uprising May not be  far More palestinians have Bce killed by arabs than by israelis. 5. Out Israel is judged by and judges itself on Western democratic standards. Therefore the status quo on the West. Dank is clearly unacceptable. 6. The israelis arc preparing  Tia Tives. The United states encourages them will oppose  Tion of Israel ant believes As strongly As Ever in the mutuality of israeli american Security and political values. There was skimpy news coverage Somis lyrics focusing Cin Quayle s com ments about inc unacceptable status quo on the West Bank. Quad la criticizes Israel is there any body in his right mind who thinks the status quo is acceptable in was a common sense speech Israel should Pui something substantial on the Lable. Bui israelis would be suicidal to accept a palestinian stale now under present palestinian leadership it would become a springboard for inc next Siage in the phased elimination of Israel. A Lyle was no t enthusiastic i am told about the decision made in the last Days of inc Reagan administration to recognize the Plo. By in his Florida speech he was Nal trying to imply criticism of a decision accepted by his own administration. He did want to Call attention to the dangers Ofa Drift toward creation Ofa palestinian stale. The speech before the anti defamation league of b Nai b Rith was approved by inc stale department and inc National Security Council Quayle had expert help writing in he would have been a fool not to. But he shaped it it reflected his own beliefs and attitudes and Hopes about the Middle East and american policy toward that is important As is the fact Hal he chosen to say so. Washington and american journalism is full of Israel. Washers eager to use the palestinian uprising As a lever  american opinion and policy Asa Insl Israel which they have longed to do for decades. Suddenly inc Israel lobby we have been told for years is so Strong and sin ister in Washington does not seem All that powerful does in. Ii Ayle will not determine american policy obviously. The hush Baker strategy in inc Middle East is still forming. If inc decision one Day is to go against the interests of the american israeli Alli Ance Quayle will ,be., to hold inc fort but he did make a carefully pre pared speech thai Laid out some truths that arc no longer quite fashionable that is a lot More than some vice presi dents manage is do during a whole administration when you think of it. Nuclear decisions made on flawed information i hunk is no More delicate responsibility for political lenders than nuclear Ivo arms. But from inc be ginning in 1945, leaders made decisions about the weapons on flawed premises and with inadequate. In  of possible consequences we arc Lucky to have avoided the. Worst those conclusions arc comic Jird by two Fri Jiin Lela v Tsion treatments of the nuclear age. One is the 13-part Public broadcasting documentary series  peace in the nuclear age the other shown on the lbs net work recently was the docudrama Dai  a j one ills he Story of she development of Lic bomb during world War ii superbly adapted for Telvi Siun by i3a\id Rintels from a Book by Peter Wyden it Tafich us from the first theoretical glimpse of nuclear Fis Sion in 1939 to the test at Alamogordo n.m., on july 16, 1945 the physicists believe they Are in a race with Hitler s scientists and they do not have time for moral doubts. But the War with Germany has been won b the time it y approach Success. And then the question is whether the bomb should be used against Japan the process to decide that fateful question is deeply flawed president Truman is persuaded Hal the bomb will save up to one million american casualties in an invasion of Japan. He does not hear or docs not listen to intelligence advice Hal Japan is already or i no to sue for peace. Dropping the bomb is completely  Cien. L Wight Eisenhower says. Japan is  Sulci views Are brushed aside at it meeting of Percsi denial advisers. They cars to develop the bomb. Bui the Ameri can nuclear monopoly proves to be Brief and of no political us in stopping Stalin s subjection of Eastern Europe the pcs series years in the making under executive producer Zvi Dor nor provides extraordinary views of nuclear decision making through the Yean. We see both superpowers relying on nuclear weapons be cause they arc cheap building More and More wean on and delivery systems in a delusive search for super  special value of the pcs series is inc insights in gives us into soviet thinking. The film makers taking advantage of glasnost show interviews with among Many Omen. Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gro Movo Stalin s inter Preter in Hrushchov s speechwriter several generals and the son of the great soviet physicist i your Kapitsa. Whai one sees is that soviet figures were genuinely concerned about the Early . Nuclear monopoly. While americans talked of a nonexistent missile Gap soviet generals arid scientists Tell threatened by the . Lead. The terrible soviet miscalculation was of course Khrushchev s placement of missiles in Cuba their purpose we Are old was to prevent a . Invasion of Cuba. Most americans had no notion of any such possibility. But lately we have heard from . Officials of the Lime that in fact there was such an invasion plan. The lesson is hat in he nuclear age we must try to do that most difficult thing put ourselves in the other person s shoes understand How he perceives reality. We did Noi see How our threat to Cuba looked to Khrushchev he did not calculate How we would perceive the missiles. Miscalculation can be too dangerous. Some people never learn Hal. Ray Cline. A Cia official at the Lime of inc missile crisis looks Back in the pcs series and says we could have finished Oft Fidel Castro if we had surgically destroyed inc missiles or invaded the Island but not Only Castro might have been finished  the missile crisis president Kennedy said ins concern was that the soviet Ait . Governments were so far out of Contact with each other s fears and intentions. In that sense the years since give us some reason for Hope. For today both superpowers do appreciate the need to understand each other