European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. June 7, 1991 _ the stars and stripes Page 13tom Raum s 100 Back when the persian Gulf War was newly won. President Bush challenged a joint session of Congress to bring Quot that same sense of urgency Quot to the Home front by enacting his top Domestic Bills in 100 Days. But Congress ignored the timetable which runs out at the end of next week and Bush has t done much to enforce it. A a Quot a a a instead the president has stayed the most engaged a one of his favorite words a with issues of foreign policy during the intervening three months. He a spent Little time on Domestic issues other than lobbying hard against a democratic sponsored civil rights Bill and giving a speech Here and there on his education proposals. But he a been keeping a fair number of major foreign policy balls in the air Trade benefits for China economic Aid for the soviet Union arms control and an upcoming superpower Summit. Last week he proposed an ambitious package to limit weapons of mass destruction throughout the Middle and Over the weekend he wrote to the leaders of Israel and its major antagonist states seeking to breathe new life into faltering efforts for an Arab israeli peace conference. At the same time he a still devoting considerable at tent Ion to the Relief Effort for displaced kurd in Northern Iraq. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater ear Ijar this week said there a still no Quot specific timetable of withdrawing the remaining . Forces from Iraq. Quot that process is going to take some time a Fitzwater said. A a a. By. Admittedly these  concerns Are complicated issues and they necessarily consume consider Able presidential attention. But Bush has always preferred de Aling with foreign policy and there is no sense that he wishes it could be otherwise. When he asked Congress last week to extend most favored nation Trade benefits to China for another year despite continued Lack of human rights Progress Bush conceded the measure would be controversial. /. V a the easy cop out the easy election year politics would be to go the other Way a he told his Yale University audience. A v a a a but old China hand Bush added Quot that a not Good foreign , however it might be Good election year politics for Bush to keep his focus on foreign policy rather than to slug it out with democrats on the Domestic Agenda. For instance Bush spent most of his lobbying Energy this Spring pushing not for the Domestic proposals he outlined in Nis budget but for Quot fast track Quot authority to negotiate Trade agreements. The president Cui med the streamlined process was needed for him to negotiate a free Trade pact with commentary Ouw a a Ive a the bit foreign Fouch a  Domestic p0l1c/ Mexico and to shake Loose stalled talks in Geneva on International Trade liberalization. After a hard fought Battle. Bush won that fight late last  v a a. \ -. Few of his purely Domestic proposals have received much attention by a Congress ruled by democrats in both Chambers Over the past weeks the civil rights Issue has been the Domestic item to receive most of Bush a attention. Democratic critics have suggested this May be because Bush and his political advisers plan to seize on the Quot quota Quot Issue As a 1992 presidential Campaign theme. The president who has vowed to veto a democratic sponsored Bill he claims would require companies to establish hiring Levels for minorities accused critics earlier this week of trying Quot to grind me into the political  that said Bush event on to something he no doubt Felt More at Home with extending for another year a temporary exemption for Moscow from so called Jack son Vanik Trade restrictions. It was last March 6 that an exultant Bush told a joint session of Congress that if the ground War in the persian Gulf could be won in 100 hours a challenges Here at Home could be dealt with in 100 Days. He called on lawmakers to enact his proposals Deal ing with anti crime measures Energy transportation and. Education. But he put his Fop priority on the transportation and anti crime proposals in terms of what lie expected in 100 Days. That period runs out june 14, when Bush will be do livering a commencement address Quot at the California Institute of technology. Fitzwater said that the speech will focus mostly on the Economy but that Bush also was Likely to mention  100-Day  a certainly crime and education were the two issues we had talked about As the 100 Days a he said. Quot crime and transportation a a reporter suggested Quot crime and transportation a Fitzwater corrected himself. A a. A. A"�?T1. A a c the c  d pro is. A a. R Tom Wicker suspicious of plan for new order the plan for a Quot new world order Quot projected by president Bush to grow out of the persian Gulf War is looked upon by third world spokesmen with scepticism that it will really bring anything new to their relations with the developed world. J a. That a a conclusion that seemed warranted alter an International conference sponsored in Rome by the International press service Council on information and communication. Most participants either represented or seemed to be influenced by the views of i Hird world nations. And that s where More than so percent of the worlds population lives. As pointed out by Kofi n. Awoonor. Ghana s . Representative. What ideally would a new world order be like thai question w As posed by Benjamin Skapa Tanzania s minister of in format Iii. In a panel discussion. In his View it would Quot Herald More equal political. Economic and cultural relations Between states. It would promote a greater Access to and sharing of productive Toch a ology Fandl provide Lor More evenhanded Competition. A Quot neither he nor other speakers expressed much Hope for such a revolution in International relations. Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan added the further requirement that Quot a new Agenda for the next Century Quot should go beyond traditional concerns to Quot the survival issues global warming the loss of species reversing deforestation the question of  supplies fora planet of Quot if  in a speech read by Hasan Ahu Nimonh Jordan s envoy to Italy the Crown Prince said Quot using Oil As an environmental weapon is something that desperate warmongers Are quite willing. To do Quot As shown by the Gulf War. Quot if the Oil wars have begun Quot he added a the water wars May not he far behind. In the Crown Princess View however Quot the United states seems to have virtually Given up All claims to International leadership on these  it Vas generally accepted by the conferees that the United states is now the worlds Only superpower a hence the necessary Leader in a changing world. One Western voice that of Georue Gerbner of the Annenberg school a of communications at. The University. Of Pennsylvania cited television  obstacle to a truly new order. Its enormous Power and reach he said Are controlled Quot by Quot a handful of global conglomerate s with something to  ,. Television according to c Icahn or. Leaches that violence like i lie Gull War is an effective solution to problems. He said if also encourages support for anything that enhances people s sense of Security in what they see As a Quot mean  hence the worldwide Quot tidal wave of television Quot produces support for political decisions leading to wars from populations conditioned to believe that violence can improve their Security Tanzania s Skapa also thought it Quot not implausible that it a new world order emerges Quot trom the Gull War and the collapse of communism Quot it will he based on respect Tor the Votee of Ini Uhl rather than the Force no  Tor one thing he said the United  a Tio ifs has been  Kuhlt firm Quot in pursuing a military course against Iraq Petai ulv signalling nude sue i collective Aelion in the future. L or another. Third world nations can no longer play off one super Power against another in Skapa s View Nuu cover Quot even the most vainglorious and Irr dentist of third world leaders cannot hut have been shocked and unnerved by the awesome  poured Over Iraq by the War machines of the coalition forces Quot mostly those of the Industrial world. These developments a he said. Might mean less instability and. Adventurism in  world but they would tend also Quot to work for increased dominance Quot by the developed nations rather than Tor  respectful More naturally beneficial . A a ii this Yogt Quot Tufi Quot. I he opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors Anil Aie in no was to he considered As tapis chime the views of i lie  and St sips or the touted slates government. Quot a a a Quot