European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 23, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Ill prepared to fight guerrillas Dod official says threat not Well understood Washington a american troops face a greater threat of becoming involved in War because of guerrilla insurgencies in such places As Central America Peru or the Philippines than from tensions with the soviet Union a Pentagon specialist says. Thai s the real threat. It s the real War William Olson Deputy assistant Secretary for defense for Low intensity conflict said in a recent interview. But it s very difficult to go to the american Public and convince them that a country that has a population less than Cooke county 111., is a threat to National Olson and others say Pentagon strategy for the past 40 years has focused on possible confrontation with the soviet Union leading in turn to an emphasis on massive troop deployments and expensive High tech weapons. They say the defense department s failure to concen trate More on guerrilla wars left the United states ill prepared to Deal with such Low intensity conflicts which Olson says can pose a threat to our eco nomic interests a threat to political values a threat to the survival of our friends and Congress noting the importance of the Issue in 1986 mandated a special office to coordinate Low intensity conflict and special operations. It called for a new command an added assistant Secretary of defense and a special Board within the National Security Council. Since then legislators have Given High Marks to the military for moving ahead with the special operations command which unites the elite units of the army air Force and Navy at Macdill fab Fla. But they Point to foot dragging sur rounding Low intensity conflict policy. Three problems arc most glaring the Lack of interest in Low intensity conflict which is most pronounced in non de sense activities major conceptual Short comings and the Lack of inter Agency co ordination four of the Senate proponents of the legislation said in a Jan. 25 letter to Brent scowcroft presi Dent Bush s National Security director. Unfortunately opposition within the executive Branch has blocked meaning Ful implementation of these important reforms said the letter signed by Sens. Sam Nunn a a. John Warnerr a. Edward Kennedy a mass. And William Cohen a Mainc. Rep. John Kasich. A Ohio of the House committee on armed services said institutional opposition at the Pentagon delayed the appointment of an assistant Secretary of defense. Former ambassador Charles s. White House assumed the office in june 1988 but already is stepping Down due to the change in administrations. Mili tary and legislative sources said the leading candidate is James r. Locher an aide to Nunn. And that defense Secretary Dick Cheney has sent Locher s name to Bush for approval. Army col. De Smith in a position paper about Low intensity conflict last year said it is total War and described it As an armed conflict in a third world country that affects National Security interests conflict which has the potential to involve . Armed combat Smith preferred the term High probability conflict and defined it As our marxist Leninist foes exploiting a . Vulnerability the scams Between the department of state department of de sense and Congress a scaled by regulatory missions and guerrilla wars such As those being fought today in Al Salvador and Peru generally involve Low Levels of combat with weaponry no More sophisticated than rifles or mortars. By definition so called conventional wars use advanced fighter jets tanks and missiles. Part of the . Armed forces program for Low intensity conflict has been to train equip and support foreign military forces. In the Case of Al Salvador 55 american advisers train the salvadoran military to combat a leftist guerrilla insurgency. The whole thrust of our Low intensity conflict policy is to avoid the commitment of . Forces Olson said. There is no consensus in . Involvement in these Small former aide says Jackson was abusive sexist Washington a a former press Secretary to Jesse Jackson says in a new Book that the 1988 candidate for the democratic presidential nomination was an abusive and sexist Boss who was incessantly critical and totally Elizabeth o. Cotton who was Jackson s press Secre tary for about two months in Early 1988, describes being shoved from behind by Jackson and says he literally stepped on her toes to show his displeasure on several occasions. He abused me and most other staff members in countless ways she says in the Book. Colton s account of Jackson s unsuccessful Campaign for tic democratic nomination entitled the Jackson phenomenon the Man the Power the Mes Sage will be published june 26 by Doubleday. Jackson declined to comment on her descriptions of him or incidents she recounts saying he has not read the manuscript. But in an interview he disputed the notion Colton was a Campaign insider. He said she worked As his travelling press Secretary for Only five weeks and left about the Lime of the super tuesday round of Southern primaries. Liz was with us for about five weeks Jackson said. Some of that time she spent moving to washing ton and then she got sick. And she left around or before super tuesday when our Campaign was just really getting started. Asked if he wanted to read the Book Jackson re services held in Miami for cult s godfather Miami a Only family members and a few close friends attended funeral services for Adolfo do Jesus Constanzo 26. Who authorities say was the god father of a cult linked to at least 15 slayings on the .-Mcxican Border. The body of Constanzo arrived in Miami late saturday night and was Cre mated and services were held sunday. It was always his wish to be Cre mated his brother Fausto Constanzo said. He said Only relatives and close friends were invited to the services be cause we did t want anyone there that did t belong there to curse the Constanzo has been described As the Leader of a sect that authorities blame for at least 15 killings outside the Border City members have said some of the slayings were ritual killings while other were drug related. Plied it s not a i Don t know Why i should either read or react to it he added. Collon in an interview said Jackson was totally wrong about her length of service and said her illness was Only a Brief flu. She says in the Book that she worked As press Secretary from Jan. 24 until March 28, when she was informed Jackson no longer wanted her on the Road with the Campaign. She said she became consultant to the Campaign on april 4 and remained until mid june. She said she was relieved by the move and much of her Book is de voted to descriptions of Jackson delivering con Stant unwarranted abuse to her and other staffers sometimes in Public. The reality for me was that it was very a plea san to be around some / one who was incessantly Jackson critical and totally ego Centric to the extent that no one else mattered at All she writes. It was also frightening. I knew it would become very difficult for me to defend my position As this Man s press Secretary. At first i believed in him. I still believed in most of his issues but i could no longer throw my heart behind the Man As i had at the she said she believed her personality irritated Jack son but that Jackson s treatment of women did not match his Public support for women s rights. Female staff members she wrote were fully aware that they were treated As second class citizens by she describes entering a news conference following a debate with other democratic candidates in Atlanta and says Jackson first asked her to Check on the scene then pushed her when he saw television cameras on other candidates. As i began walking in to Check the scene to report Back to him i suddenly Felt my breath being knocked out of me from behind. It was Jesse s fist smashing into Rny Back. He was pushing me aside and snarling in my car get out of my Way " she wrote. She said Jackson deliberately stepped on her feet As she talked to reporters aboard the Campaign Jet. He stepped squarely on my feet and it Hurt she wrote. I was so shocked that i figured it must have been an Accident but several More times convinced me sadly that he d done it on purpose to signal me to quit Yolanda Carraway who directed Jackson s Washington office said in an interview that Colton frequently dropped off of Jackson s travelling party for personal reasons and was Given a Washington based Job that allowed her to begin writing her Book while still on the Campaign payroll. She said Colton never came into the Washington Campaign office. Wright takes break from problems to engage in wartime reminiscence fort Worth Texas not Jim Wright speaker of the House set aside his ethical troubles and the political woes of modern Days to recall a time when All things were possible and even our newspapers were on our Wright was one of about 3,500 people who gathered sunday night to celebrate an air plane the b-24 Liberator and re member the Days when they were Young and served aboard it. For a Little while in a quiet poignant speech Wright a Texas stepped out Side the role of beleaguered politician and became another nostalgic Veteran Amon Many. America was invincible and America was right said Wright who joined the army air corps at 19 and served As a Bombadier. That must have been the last War that divided right and wrong so he remembered the swashbuckling attitude of the army air corps and he re called an air plane that May not have been As Slinky and special looking As the b-17" but served us faithfully and Wright got some quiet encouragement As he worked the tables before his speech two Days before a hearing upon which his speak ship May rest. On tuesday his lawyers were to argue for dismissal of the major ethics charges pending against him. Should their argument be rejected by the ethics committee Many democrats say the pressure on Wright to step aside will intensify. Hang in there Jim one of the men said quietly As the speaker passed. Hell come out of it said another Albert Lucien a onetime Tail gunner. But Many of the men at the event told reporters they had no desire to talk of politics. Several of them said there were quite a few conservatives in the crowd. Wright seemed perfectly willing to spend a night free of partisan politics. He posed for pictures slapped backs reminisced about his old Airstrip in Australia. Warren g. Woodward former aide to Lyndon Johnson in the House and sen ate said Wright s wartime experiences May fortify him now. Politics is rough but there s nothing like a world War Woodward said. When he finally Rose to speak Wright seemed Calm gentle almost elegiac. He looked Back wistfully and ended his speech with a Toast and a prayer for the b-24 on its 50th anniversary and by Extension for the youth of the men who gathered. May god bless All who made her and All who flew her and All who kept her flying Wright said. And May their children s children s children be free and live in a Little while later the band swayed into some Glenn Miller standards and Wright prepared to return to Washington for a week of testing
