European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 8, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 13commentary William f. Buckle Send soviets food a with proper administration  is Bor s amp it it in be your Omier this evening. I a bring you the menu soon As we get it Back from the Printer who on y Start on it until. We can Teu. Him what 10 pot on it. Which will defend on How much food Aid we can get from the West and now Stu. We can distribute it a of which i Hope will happen amp Foke Winter. Concerning the question of agricultural Aid to the soviet Union a few observations 1. Humanitarian Aid yes or no should be answered affirmatively. The most obvious reason for this is that the overwhelming majority of the people of the . Are themselves victims of the communist system. When Ronald Reagan said As much about the germans at Pitburg Germany he was criticized but not with discrimination. When a country is at War the morale of its citizens tends to be that of men on the March and Many people who hated Hitler and Stalin died defending them. The incoming head of the Kab confessed in Moscow on thursday that if he had to dismiss a every fascist in the Kab he would contribute massively to National unemployment. But there is no Way in which sending Over parcels of food we can distinguish Between oppressors and victims and rather than run any risk of indulging the oppressors we should avoid the risk of slighting the victims. 2. In which connection it is dismaying to hear rep. Les Aspin suggest that we deduct $1 billion from our defense budget and Send it Over As food to the soviet people. Dismaying because responsible people should avoid the glib Ness of such pseudo arithmetical logic. If that $1 billion is not needed in the defense budget it ought not to have been appropriated. If it did not need to be appropriated it should be returned to the Little Pool $380 billion of deficits our congressmen created. A second objection is that the Exchange which is supposed to represent american philanthropy represents nothing of the sort under the Aspin Rubric. It is a Way of winking at the american Public and saying Here is a painless Way to accomplish our great act of National Charity and while we re at it we can stick it a Little to the military Industrial Complex. Demagogic stuff. 3. Britain a prime minister John major makes a seductive Point when he asks As he did in Kennebunkport Why should the Western Powers Send Relief to a nation 25 percent of whose budget is devoted to the military the Point is strategically sound but he recognizes of course that although it is outrageous that the soviet Union is thus mis deploying its manpower that part of the population engaged in the military is not fungible with that part of the population engaged in agricultural production. The 5 million or whatever soviet workers engaged in making Mobile missile parts and other military hardware Arentt Able to turn around tomorrow and Start growing tomatoes. For that reason we can reasonably expect a lag Between demobilization and a productive allocation of Sovi James j. Kilpatrick it manpower. During that lag we do not want starvation. 4. We Are wisely reminded that transporting food to the soviet Union is not exactly the equivalent of feeding hungry people. During the last Winter $1.5 billion in food was sent Over by Western countries and an estimated one Quarter of it got eaten by poor people. The rest went to Black marketeers and who knows who else. Now a fundamental reason Why there should be a Black Market in the soviet Union is that there is an attempt to control prices. The Black Market Price in this sense can be said to be the Correct Price. However there is massive hoarding done by russians who fear starvation. They need to be reassured that starvation would not result from their satisfying themselves to maintain a cupboard less than overflowing. Accordingly satisfactory arrangements need to be made of the kind Herbert Hoover pioneered during the first world War brilliantly described in George Nash a Book the life of Herbert Hoover the humanitarian 1914-1917. We most definitely need a non Romanov Czar to preside Over the distribution of the food we have in mind to Send Over. This gentleman should not be viewed by the soviet people As an ideologue dispatched with the mandate to introduce the soviet Union into free agriculture. Dwayne Andreas of the Archer Daniels Midland co. Correctly Points out that not a single Western country practices truly free agriculture though ours subsidized by about $50 billion per year could produce several times As much food As the american people consume his Job should be to exert Only As much political and administrative authority As is necessary to see to it that the food sent Over is used to relieve tangible distress. Not an easy operation because there is no Way to prevent mrs. Kruks Paya from showing up with empty hands even though her cellar is full of potatoes. Except that Leo cd conc of the International Rescue committee has give us the devastating news that he is retiring he would be the Ideal human being to head up this operation. Perhaps he should be asked to nominate a qualified administrator. C univ Cronl press Syndicate Quayle s lawyer objections Worth sustaining getting Back to Dan Quayle a recent speech to the american bar association let us talk about  this is the pretrial process by which opposing lawyers question potential witnesses and discover what the evidence in court is Likely to disclose. Said the vice president a anyone who has Ever sued or been sued knows that discovery too often becomes an instrument of delay and even harassment. Unnecessary document requests and depositions can disrupt or put on hold a company a entire research and development program. Worse yet discovery can be a virtually Cost free weapon for the requesting  nothing about the practice of Law is Cost free. Consider a real life Case Here in Washington. A Young woman was living in a ground floor apartment protected by a Security alarm system. On an april night in 1989, the system malfunctioned. An intruder forced upon the window to her bedroom entered at gunpoint and raped her. Some months later she brought suit against the manufacturer of the alarm system. Subsequently she was ordered to submit to discovery. At 9 30 one morning she and her attorney went into session with the alarm company a attorney. An attorney for the apartment House also was on hand. She was put under oath. These were among the probing pertinent indispensable questions put to her q from what University did you receive your degree a Florida Atlantic University. Q and that is in Boca Raton Fla ? a yes. A q what was your major a English. Counsel for the alarm company Wanico to know about the Young woman a childhood. Was it Happy or unhappy in what ways counsel inquired into her mothers divorces. Did her Mother have a drinking problem it transpired under persistent questioning that the plaintiff had suffered brain damage As a child when she was struck by a speeding car. She suffered a broken Pelvis Back injuries partial paralysis and lost a year of schooling. Asked counsel a was that something that made you unhappy a forty pages of the transcript were devoted to questions involving the Young woman a work record. Other questions probed her sex life. Was she a Virgin no. Prior to the rape with whom had she had sexual Intercourse counsel demanded names and dates. More pages were consumed As the plaintiff was taken in painful Aud intimate detail through the april attack. This went on from 9 45 to 5 30 one Day it resumed for three hours the following morning. And All the time the attorneys docks were going Ching Ching Ching. Quayle a purpose in speaking to the lawyers was to urge their adoption of recommendations from the presidents Council on competitiveness. In the matter of discovery the Council proposed the Exchange Between parties of certain Core information on both sides. Then they would agree with the courts approval on a quantitative limit a so Many hours so Many Days so Many witnesses to be deposed. The assembled lawyers for the most part sat on their hands. Their spokesman asked Quayle who would take care of the poor folks if lawyers were abolished. It was a lawyers idea of a really relevant  Pross look uke1m a Koukou 86mt. 60nnaiime"fafo uhf rfcs f