European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns . Rosenthal the stars and stripes China makes no secret of suppression tactics Vuk will never be Able to say we did not know. The communist rulers of China with understandable contempt for the United Stales and other governments that like to prattle and prance about human rights when it docs not Cost much arc telling us exactly what they plan to do to prevent any new demands for Freedom from their Young people. They arc going to take the Best of them by the thousands and try to kill their minds. They will be sent deep into Hinato work at hard labor on farms and in fac tories and mines while their political jailers try to beat from their brains any thoughts of Bourgeois liberalism the new curse words for democracy. After a year or two those judged to be sufficiently and permanently submissive May be Given revocable permits to return to the cities from which they were  will stay year after degrading year exactly As they did in the Mao Era. So far. The edict applies to the first natural target of the regime the most ambitious of the Young men and women College students who had planned to go on to graduate school. The net will soon Widen As it did under Mao. Young people still in College and any intellectual or professional who shows the slightest sign of political deviation will be captured in it. I think often these Days of a doctor i met once in Beijing. His parents had emigrated with him to the United Stales. He graduated from Harvard and returned before Mao s rampage of terror because he wanted to help build his nation. He was sent to the pig farms and brutalized there for a decade. I met him Dur ing a time of liberalization but he told me he would never again believe never again put up his head or Ever again speak his mind. The Deng government will never completely recover from the Shock of finding its Young people rising in protest against it. The protest was peaceful. But to a tyranny what counts is the opposition not the method. David Broder a new report by the International league for human rights says that the number of people killed by the chinese army was Well into the thousands and the total of those injured Well Over 10,000." the report says that at least 30,000 people were arrested according to a Hong Kong estimate. But China s rulers have Learned that the International Price for the butchery in Beijing is quite reasonable. A few sorrowful words from capitals Here and there the suspension by the United states of military sales and of High level meetings a slowing Down of Loans loss of tourists for awhile that s about it. Even that does not Long endure. Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii meets with the chinese foreign minister in Paris sen. War Ren Rudman r-n.h., talks with top Beijing officials and says the while House had no objections at All tourist agencies Start plan Ning for next year. And the two most influential Ameri can supporters of the chinese govern ment arc planning logo to Beijing for Mer president Nixon tentatively and Henry Kissinger definitely. The Den government will then be Able to Tell its people that it still has sympathy in High places in the United states which is True. Kissinger wrote recently that the events in Beijing were within China s Domestic jurisdiction. Kissinger writes that no government would have tolerated All those people Mes sing up the Square for so Long right i front of the main government building. That is one Way of looking at it. I pre Fer this from the report of the International league it is Clear that those involved in the pro democracy movement were overwhelmingly peaceful in their objectives and their actions. What they posed was not a threat to the life of the nation Buta threat to a ruling group desperate to retain its own Power and privileges. Under International Law that is not  no not enough but at least we will not be Able to say we did not know will we Yolk tidies forc0mmitti the sans of millions trillions needed for . Transportation systems St. James Mich. The drive from Chicago to Northern Michigan illustrates precisely the condition of America s Road transportation system. With the last legs of the incr state Highway system Complete hours have been Cut off the travel Lime. What was once a tedious trip has become a Quick and pleasurable journey. Except for the Start that is. Where 1-80 and 1-94 Are being repaired and upgraded in the Chicago Gary commuter corridor traffic was snarled and tempers strained. Not just vacationers but scores of trucks and vans were mired in Long lines at who knows what Cost to their companies and the Overall Economy. The transport system or infrastructure As the current fashion Calls it had been a major topical the National governors association meeting in Chicago. In a report released there outgoing Nga chairman Gerald l. Balics wrote How Well this nation moves its Commerce How quickly efficiently and effectively our system transports goods and conveys people will dramatically influence America s future competitiveness As a trading nation unfortunately when it comes to transportation America is stuck in  that judgment by the democratic governor of Virginia was directly challenged by transportation Secretary Samuel k. Skinner. After almost 35 years and about $122 billion. Skinner told the governors work is virtually Complete on the 43,000-mile inter state system president Eisenhower envisaged As the Centrepiece of transportation policy for his Era. Plans for the next generation of investment he said will Belaid out in the comprehensive National transportation policy statement he has promised to deliver by next january. Rhetoric aside there is no substantive difference Between Skinner and the governors on the scale of the problem or the needed investment. Repair of Highway Bridges will Cost two thirds As much As the original construction of the . Skinner said. Billions More will be needed to modernize inc air transport system after a 15-Ycar hiatus bal Wen inc completion of the last new Airport in 1974 and the acc Cal approval of a new terminal outside Denver. Updating sea transport railroads and mass transit will add massively to the Bill. The Price to bring America s transportation  Insp reason Able condition within the next 20 years is estimated by a number of authoritative studies to Range from $1 trillion to s3 trillion requiring annual outlays in the Range of $50 billion to $150 billion said the Gover nors task Force headed by Republican gov. James r. Thompson of Illinois. Even the lowest of those figures requires a substantial increase in present spending. And the lop estimate would More than triple Federal state and local invest ment. If Skinner delivers an honest assessment of the nation s needs As there is every reason to exp Sci inc Bush administration will have to recommend annual spending on transportation As High As the Overall Cost of the savings and loan  the bailout the transportation invest Mcnol can pay real economic dividends not just make up the Cost of operators greed and government laxity. The evidence is Clear that there is a direct link Between Public works investment and the productivity growth upon which America s Prosperity and  depend. The single most striking graph in Thompson 5 task Force report shows parallel shrinkage in Public capital incs Lenl and productivity growth from the High Point of the 1960s to a level in this decade at least 50 percent below the earlier Standard. Real As the rewards will be you can still expect a major political debate starting next year on who will pay inc Cost of improved transport. In his speech Skinner almost nonchalantly Drew attention to the fact that he had lobbied personally in two states this year to help Thompson and California gov. George Dukmejian secure sharply higher Gas taxes to finance ambitious transport programs. In California where traffic congestion has be come a major political Issue and a giant threat to future economic growth Duck Majian is seeking voter approval of a 10-year, $ 18.5 billion program. Translate that to the National level and it would be a commit ment half again As Large As the 30-year Cost of the interstate. The spectacle of a Cabinet official lobbying state Legislatures to raise stale taxes did not go unnoticed. As new York gov. Mario m. Cuomo noted in an inter View actions like Skinner s Send a Clear message that the Bush administration acknowledges thai needed National investments will require higher taxes. But it would prefer others to Levy them. The Stales arc not ducking their responsibilities but a National need will require National  Ngun pal nun 0 our