European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes Walter Mears Quayle s Campaign Marks can help or Hurt him a year into his vice presidency Dan Quayle is making the most of any favourable publicity thai comes his Way. His wry smile is an acknowledgement that it has been scarce. But there is no comparable shortage of advice he gets that All the time. He s been told to raise his profile and to lower it to be More relaxed and to be More guarded against gaffes. He has been advised to specialize on a few chose trademark issues and to be a generalist so As to display a grasp of the whole Catalon of issues. Through it All Quayle has one set answer he works for president Bush and he will keep doing what the Boss wants done. His assignment in 1990 will include a heavy Politi Cal Campaign schedule a traditional vice presidential role in off year elections. For Quayle that Job could be a Way to overcome old image problems and prove that he s not put of his depth perceptions that haunt him in the Public opinion surveys. Vice presidents tend to be underemployed. As Nel son Rockefeller said in shunning the Post he later filled they arc standby equipment. They usually get specialized assignments Quayle s include space is sues and efforts to enhance . Competitiveness in world markets. Other officials have primary Day to Day responsibility. It s always difficult for the no. 2 Man to put disown imprint on government actions or decisions. As Ronald Reagan s vice president. Bush headed a task Force on regulatory Reform a popular topic in the deregulation decade. It looked like a promising role but not much happened. Thai s not uncommon for understudied. A vice president is a dependent. His official stand ing depends entirely on the Boss. Bush has helped on that score. Quayle sees Bush every morning when both Are in town and says he has full Access to the president. This has been a very comfortable important relation ship that we have worked out in these Early morning sessions Quayle said in a recent television interview. That Well advertised Access provides a sort of Power. When i m on Capitol Hill. Senators Congress men say would you please give this to the president or Tell the president this or i Don t like this partic ular policy i want you to do something about it " Quayle said in the to interview. Bush has publicly promised Quayle renomination for a second term As vice president and top republicans consider the commitment to be absolute. But neither Job Security nor presidential Praise has done much for the performance ratings despite what Quayle considers a Good first year in office. So he Joshua Muravchik  by King fut relished a dec. 15 Wall Street journal column praising his performance. After 12 months in this Job i will take any favor Able publicity i can possibly obtain and i will pocket it he said. And i think i la take that editorial and make sure that it s reprinted and perhaps sent out to some of my  Republican party leaders say that Quayle can raise both his profile and his standing in 1990 in Theoff year Campaign role that has become traditional for vice presidents. He already gets Good ratings for his work for parly candidates and causes. The party count about $7 million in proceeds from gop fund raising events featuring Quayle. Bush will be out campaigning for chosen Republican candidates next year As he has at fund raising events for two gop Senate challengers. But the heavy sched ule of sustained campaigning is assigned to the vice president. It was Bush s role in the two off year elections of his vice presidency and it will be Quayle s in 1990.he la have help. In january e. Spencer Abraham the Michigan Republican chairman will become his Deputy chief of staff concentrating on political Liaison and supervising speech writing travel planning and the  vice president says he d like to spend More time outside the Washington Beltway in the real Ameri  hell have ample Opportunity in the coming Campaign in a role that can help him shape a new image or Cement the old one. Quayle said his sometimes shaky performance in the 1988 Campaign was due in part to travelling Consul Tants who Over coached him to the Point of stilling him. In 1990 he can do it his Way.  h. Of. I column lil lot a Assoc fwd if lit. Lui rep tend on Washington and Nick dial Poma lot Mot min 25 a. History will judge Bush by China not Panama by sending troops to Panama and computers to China president Bush risks giving America the appearance of a cowardly bully Tough on the weak and weak kneed toward the Strong. It is the same unbecoming appearance that his Mentor Ronald Reagan gave when he liberated Grenada the same week that he decided to sit on his hands in the face of the terrorist attack that killed 241 Amer ican marines in Lebanon. For Reagan the Grenada invasion stood As a positive if minor accomplishment. But his failure to match action to his Tough words on terrorism came Back to haunt him. He ended up a pathetic supplicant trying to buy the Freedom of american hostages with bribes of weapons for the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Likewise the move against Manuel Antonio Noriega May prove an enduring Success for Bush but his insistent pan Dering to the butchers of Tiana men Square constitutes a failure to meet the most important Challenge he faces. For Panama the overthrow of Noriega in favor of the duly elected president Guillermo Endara is surely a Blessing. For America the results will be mixed. Our action is bound to reinforce the per can ice latin american resentment of the big neighbor from the North who has so Many times thrown his weight around sometimes for Good causes sometimes for selfish reasons. Yet Many latins will be glad to Sec Noriega out and a certain respect albeit grudging will accrue from America s willingness to use Force when pressed. The stakes in Panama however Are nothing compared with those in China. No amount of Success in the one will comic Sale for failure in the other. In deed whal is at slake in China is even bigger than China itself. It is the Opportunity to rid our planet of communism one of the great scourges of our Century and the threat against which . Foreign policy has been aimed for More than 40 years. Communism is in a state of disintegration. H has collapsed in most of Eastern Europe. Its grip is weakening in the soviet Union As democratic forces gain strength and As Mikhail Gorbachev himself gropes for some kind of Radical Reform. The outcome is hard to foresee but there is a reasonable Chance Hal it will be a system deeply different from the one we have known. That would leave China As the sole bulwark of communism the fact that unreconstructed rings especially hollow both because the stalinist persevere in Cuba and North soviets arc re Havig in a  Korea is of no account except to their " Long suffering subjects. Those dictators will eventually be toppled or posthumously repudiated the events in China this Spring revealed thai popular sen Limel there for fundamental change is Vasi. The democracy movement loss the first Bailie but showed enormous strength including support within the government and the military. Its Triumph would be a great Good in itself and would give further in plus toward transformation in the soviet Union. H would be a blow from which communism probably would not recover. Juvicl3 Luik Ucol Luville til a   ing Way and because the correlation of forces has become More favourable to us. We Are warned that if we land firm Loward China s current rulers then they will cease sending their students to us and spam our investors. This is surely a threat to Cut off Beijing s own nose. With the soviet Union and Eastern Europe drawing closer daily to the Wesl it ischia that will be left behind if it Iso lates itself. Deng Xiaoping and his communist party comrades will find their country weakened and Domestic Discon Lenl heightened. Instead of lending firm support to the democracy movement. Bush has been Suc coring ils oppressors by vetoing a Bill to automatically extend the visas of chinese students Here and by sending High ranking emissaries to Beijing. The original rationale for America s rapprochement with Beijing was to coun Ter soviet Power. At its Best that strategy reflected a failure of american nerve. Given our preponderance of wealth we always had the capacity to Malch the so Viets ourselves. Today that rationale George Bush has had the great Good Fortune of becoming president just when America s International position a More favourable More pregnant with Opportunity than perhaps at any other tune in its history. The forces for Progress Are running so Strong that he has been called upon Only to give them a judicious band. But in his recent dealings with China he has done the opposite. If he Muffi this epochal Opportunity to help communism into the grave few will remember him As the president who liberated Panama. Jouhei Mun Chu to to Kunt of told m ample Well Orlu Ini Muu h Wuhan ton