European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes . Rose thai. With . Help truth could crumble East bloc the existence of the Union of so Viet socialist republics is based on historic falsehoods. So is he Warsaw pact. The .s.r. Is neither a Union nor Are its components republics. And the Alliance Between Moscow and Eastern Europe is not a pact in any sense of a voluntary agreement among nations like nato. It is an imposed soviet mechanism designed to keep Eastern Europe in Mili tary and economic subjugation. These realities Are so understood by most of the population of the soviet Empire As to hardly need discussion. To them they arc the essence of their history their Mem ories their lives and their suffering. But in the West Peoples and govern ments succeed in smothering realities in their own minds because they think it in their Best interest to do so. They smothered the truth that Lenin took Over and expanded the czarist colonial Empire created to a great extent Only in the 19th Century. And they smothered the truth that Stalin with Hitler s help moved the Empire to the Borders of Western Europe. Two events of the past few Days will make the truth much harder to avoid. In Warsaw Solidarity became the first legitimately chosen polish govern ment since the soviet occupation began during world War ii. The president and other communist bureaucrats still Al Lowed to hold office Are nothing but Dis tasteful relics. If Mikhail Gorbachev keeps his word to slay out of polish affairs the next president of free Poland will be Lech Walesa. This is the time for the United states to Stop saying who me and help Poland escape from the economic Dungeon into which it was thrown by communism. In Poland there is no nonsense about rebuilding the fraud and disaster of communism through perestroika or any other frantic Hodgepodge. The United states has the Opportunity now to put its Money where its Mouth has been for so Long and help poles move toward a free Market  come on or. Bush Call it capitalism and let s do it with Good heart. Dance a Little. Mikhail Gorbachev s acceptance of a free polish election was a combination of political courage and necessity. Solidarity represents the Only Chance of saving Poland from total chaos which would mean hideous problems for the Kremlin. Leon Daniel 1 where we went but one Day Solidarity and the United states will have to face the fact that the Warsaw pact and its military and economic obligations impose Drain ing burdens on Poland and that . Aid will be underwriting them. Then Poland will have every right today the idea that it joined the pact voluntarily is untrue and that it intends to withdraw. To Calm any Kremlin fears of Poland being used by the West Warsaw should choose military neutrality under International inspection. And now the Kremlin itself is helping destroy the great lie embodied in the very name fits government. In the Sec Ond historic event of the weekend it has finally conceded that Hitler and Stalin secretly and illegally divided Eastern Europe before world War ii with Estonia Lithuania and Latvia going to Stalin. The Kremlin still says the incorporation of these countries is Legal because it was made by their Legislatures under so Viet occupation. More nonsense. Because of the soviet economic collapse the Baltic stand on the threshold of self Rule. But throughout the soviet system other groups swallowed in the canst so vict Empire struggle to put up their Heads among them georgians armenians ukrainians uzbeks tatars. Members of these National and ethnic groups met this Spring in Paris and formed a movement called democracy and  they issued an important manifesto calling for democracy self Rule free Enterprise non violence. They get Little attention. They Are met with the same cynicism about their future As were the Early dissidents now so admired in Moscow and abroad. In fact some of them Are the same  goes to Power. Western Power is behind Gorbachev and fearing anarchy tries to push Back the Walls crumbling around him. But All Over the soviet land National and ethnic groups engulfed by the czars by Lenin by Stalin Are demanding the right to put up their Heads and , men who once sat shivering in soviet isolation cells now stand to speak in Baltic state parliaments. Who would have dreamed it Why should we foreclose the dreams of All those others by pretending we cannot Sec them or hear them for Gorbachev and the West to recognize their importance could prevent an Archy unless it comes too late. Forbes Bash May signal end of greed decade dont bet the farm on it but american publisher Malcolm Forbes $2 million birthday Bash in Tangier could be the last gasp of the greed decade. Big spenders Rode High in the 1980s, a decade that gave us the yuppies shorthand for Young Urban professionals who assured each other that greed was Good. But now faint yet hopeful signs Are emerging that greed May be getting Back its bad name. For example a jury was selected monday for the fraud and conspiracy trial of televangelist Jim Bakker defrocked by a sex scandal. Bakker is charged with diverging More than $4 Mil lion from his evangelical Empire to support his and wife Tammy s lavish life style which included an air conditioned Doghouse for their Mutt. And there was the recent extradition to new York in Handcuffs of Adnan Khash Oggi once consid ered the world s richest Man. Khash Oggi a saudi arms dealer is charged with committing fraud on behalf of Ferdinand Marcos the Philippines dictator ousted for milking his impoverished country. Let s Hope these Fellows get Justice which is to say everything they be got coming to them. As for Loo Many of America s working poor the 1980s promised Prosperity under Ronald Reagan s two presidential terms but delivered continued poverty. Now president Bush and Congress Are moving to Ward passage of the largest expansion of benefits for the working poor in a decade. For Low income working families this would mean substantial expansion of the earned income tax credit an increase in the minimum wage and a Day care initiative. Both democrats and republicans Are moving to Ward a consensus on these issues including a mini mum wage boost from $3.35 to s4.25, the maximum Bush has said he would accept. The goal of these worthy efforts is to Lessen the growing disparity Between the Rich and poor. Conservatives will insist on using the tax system to Benefit Only workers not welfare recipients. Fair enough. So i m sure that Forbes the multimillionaire owner of the Magazine that bears his name was t figuring on using the tax system to help pay for his 70th birthday spree in Morocco. But i admit 1 got a Little suspicious when 1 read that his oldest son whose name also is Malcolm said accountants would work out any deductions. When you invite 300 ceo s chief executive offi cers that you do business  he said you want to make a Good  Lee Iacocca chairman of  corp., and Roger Smith chairman of general motors were among the 600 Rich or famous guests at the Patty at Forbes pal Ace. Surely Iacocca and Smith would t Jerk their car ads from next month s edition of Forbes if they did t have a Good time. I can t believe such a Nice party was just some kind of Slick marketing move. This had to be a class act because Henry Kissinger was there. Forbes hostess for the party was Elizabeth Taylor who has Given up films and gone into the perfume  a birthday present Forbes said she gave me Elizabeth Taylor s passion for men which i m pretty sure is a kind of  i just refuse to believe this Beautiful lady would have anything to do with a business boosting birthday party or anything else that s Tacky. Mud Pru in Rasooli