European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Kwh George will i Ali. It a How Boring it will be when All is understood different people have different ideas of heaven. Will it feature As one poet supposed eating Pate de foie gras to the sound of trumpets perhaps. But for Many democrats heaven on Earth is watching George Bush eat his words to the sound of snickering from a cynical Public that never thought he meant them. The cynicism of High level republicans Here is such a a a a a a Voit Tzuni us Iii Puju a Cal damage because most people assumed he was being cynical All along. And How do you suppose senior republicans acquire such cynicism presidential leadership. A read my lips a i lied Quot roared the new York ust aflame with a rage altogether As bogus As Bush s too Tacky by half statement on taxes. Bush can neither speak effectively nor keep silent with dignity so he made his carefully crafted and Crafty tax statement in a terse three paragraphs written message. It was dropped into the press corps like a scrap of wastepaper furtively discarded on a Street by a Litterer with just enough conscience to be uneasy about littering but not enough of conscience not to litter. This method of communicating his message did nothing to make the message seem candid which even cursory Reading reveals it not to be. Disdaining the leadership task of explaining himself he said Only that the statement Quot Speaks for  indeed it does loudly and a  sea to shining sea the press took the bait. The Washington Post headline said Bush Quot Calls for new  the los Angeles times said he Quot backs a tax  never have so Many fat Trout been hooked on such a Small Fly. And democrats allowing their wish to be the father of their thoughts also read Bush s statement As saying what it ostentatiously does not say. It says a it is Clear to me that deficit reduction requires in addition to spending cuts Quot tax Revenue  democrats who were Busy demanding that Bush include the words Quot to me a evidently did not notice the Laboured nature of the locution a tax Revenue  such language signals a refusal to use other language. In this Case the eschewed words Are Quot tax  a tax Revenue increases can refer to increased yields from existing taxes As a result of economic growth or the billions Bush anticipates As Dukakis did from improved enforcement of existing taxes or a Short term spurt of revenues from a Cut in the capital gains tax. Republicans arc panicked by the tax Issue As a democratic operative understands a a lot of re Public . Rosenthal a pvt bout my. Decided i amp Kos Sites just like i said he d have to i Mcelou it few  off s it to you cans Are going to have to Wake up tomorrow and find another reason for running for office Many republicans Are reassuring themselves that Bush has not said anything new or that he is with admirable deviousness misleading everyone. Republicans Are so dependent on tax phobia for their political identity they Are telling one another that Bush is a cynic. John Sununu Bush s Doberman who flaunts his cynicism so that his employer s will be less noticeable told some republicans that Bush has not committed himself to anything new. Rep. Newt Gingrich the Republican whip says a a Bush very explicitly did t say raise  he said a seek new Revenue so Bush s statement a did no to represent significant changes in Republican  George Mitchell democratic Leader in the Senate insists that Sununu did not mean what he said and the Bush said what he clearly did not say. Mitchell says Bush endorsed a tax increases in a Quot Clear unambiguous  Mitcheli has just written a Book let us Hope for the Sake of Belles Lettres that Mitchell is a better writer than Reader. Given the signals of cynicism sent by Bush Sununu and Gingrich and so avidly seized upon by grateful republicans sensible democrats assume Bush a statement is designed to Lull democrats into proposing tax increases. At that Point Bush will deny accurately a if not honorable a that he never said such a thing. Democratic realists think the press by misreading Bush a statement May Force him to mean what he pinched from saying. If not democrats will sit mute until Bush proposes a tax increase. If he does his Only idea a taxes Are icky a will be nullified. If he does not the deficit reduction process will pit democrats emphasizing defense cuts against republicans emphasizing entitlement cuts tanks against wheelchairs closing military bases or closing Rural hospitals. And Bush probably cannot have the grand passion of his life a capital gains Cut without proposing an increase in the income tax rate for the Rich. In heaven tis said All will be made Plain. How tiresome. If everything is made Plain what will there be to _ talk about such a heaven sounds hellish. For now in Washington nothing is Clear except that cynicism is realism. Washington Post writers group. Dalai Lama deserves More respect from . I at   a it a. I in late september of this year Congress will have a splendid Opportunity to Honor itself and the name of the United states a and Correct a great wrong done to a Monk who leads a nation from exile. On oct 5, 1989, the Nobel peace prize was awarded to this Monk bom Tenzin a Yalu in a Himalayan Village and now the Dalai Lama National Leader of Tibet and the embodiment of its buddhism he won the prize for leading his nation s struggle for Freedom from four decades of chinese communist Captivity a without Ever using the weapon of hatred. He happened to be in the United states that Day. He comes from time to time to preach to american buddhists. The Bush administration like american administrations before it understood that showing respect to the Dalai Lama would infuriate the chinese communists who have held his nation in brutal Captivity since 1950. So the Bush administration ignored the Dalai Lama and the award Given to him. This Boycott was one of the More vulgar episodes of diplomatic Toa dying in modern american history. Millions of tibetans have died in Slaughter imprisonment and torture tibetans still die for Freedom in their Mountain towns and villages. They fight a particularly vicious occupation designed to wipe out not Only their sovereignty but their religion and National memory As Well. But we done to want to irritate the chinese communists do we so the executive Branch of the government keeps pretending the Dalai Lama docs not exist. He has never seen an american president. One Day i heard one of the Dalai lamas few representatives in the United states say he was not permitted into the state department he did have the privilege of calling in once in a while to see if somebody would lunch with him outside. The envoys of All sorts of International goons and killers Are bowed into the state department but the representatives of this Good Man Are not even allowed close enough to press their noses against the windows. But the United states Congress does not feel that Way. Congress has passed Many resolutions expressing support and sympathy for the tibetans. The resolutions carry no enforcement Power but they outrage the captors in Beijing and they give strength to tibetans at Home and in Chart safa an Indian town where the Dalai Lama and his fellow refugees Are permitted to live. In dharm Sala tibetans Post the resolutions on the Walls so Happy Are they at and a Len it it re remembers them is hews republicans and democrats in both houses have been quietly talking about the possibility of having the Dajai Lama address a joint session of Congress. H?,nr9theh foreigners who 1 a government have re or Honor Marquis de la a Mil Nhu Hill when he was Mandela Walesa and Nelson All the senators and representatives i 1� thought the Dalai Lama had earned the Honor and that americans would want the stain of the Boycott wiped out. But most of them brought up the big obstacle. Traditionally the administration is asked its opinion of such a move. Given their record of kowtowing to the chinese communists the Bush people will no screaming into the night at the very idea. H houses of Congress new Bills Are being written to deny communist China the Low. Tariffs granted to most other nations. That proposal already has been vetoed by the president and will be again. Again Congress May not put together the two thirds vote to override the veto. But tibetans should be treated separately and distinctly As victims of an International crime still going on whatever happens to Tariff legislation the Dalai Lama and his people deserve at least a hearing dignity recognition the three things that mean so much to All political prisoners. The Issue will land on the desks of rep. Thomas Foley of Washington and sen. George Mitchell of Maine. As speaker of the House and Senate majority Leader they will have to decide whether the opposition of the administration should be automatically accepted As an i removable veto of the desire of he majority of Congress to hear and Honor the Dalai Lama the head of the Senate a foreign relations committee sen. Claiborne fell , says there is a 50-50 Chance of an invitation to the Dalai Lama. They have faced worse Odds Lor decades Tenzin a Yalu and All his people suffering in the Himalayas. Naw York times