European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 3, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 13 commentary William f. Buckley Darman should do us All a favor and quit a Good question Why does no to president Bush replace Richard Darman director of the office of management and budget probable answers a mixture of the following a Bush is a Loyal human being. A Darman is an engaging human being. A Bush is persuaded that by firing Darman he would be tacitly acknowledging a quite miserable record As keeper of the Domestic House inasmuch As Dar Many a policies became policies Only because Bush backed them. But we Are All very serious losers on account of Darmand a continuation in office. Economist and columnist Warren Brookes has put together the figures in a devastating essay for National review. Just about everything that Darman has predicted has failed to happen. Every important policy decision sponsored by him has backfired. The whole Forward impetus of the Reagan revolution which added one third to the Gross National product is just about gone. And the mystery of it is that while Reagan was in office and for a Little while later Liberal critics were hysterical Over the deficit and the National debt. Now that the deficit is much larger and the debt much larger we hear very Little from them. There is an explanation for it which is that they have got what they really want a not fiscal probity but higher taxes at the higher Levels More regulation and More government spending. Darman has Given them that. Figures Are they cannot begin to account the Laffer curve seriously and studied have been vindicated. But meanwhile the raw figures Are really All that Oneff a difference. And yes there was the the enormous achievements of the Rea Darmand a policies jeopardize the rep needs to indict his performance a in the race War Blit contributions from other Gan years. Tation of Bush As a competent Domestic last 18 months the official office of Man countries whittle that Down to relative in but As suggested forget that for a eader and Cost America something we gement and budget five year deficit significance. And yes there has been a moment and ask simply the question  Only a finite Supply of and that is forecast has soared from $62.3 billion to recession but the question arises Why Why does no to Darman resign there Are financial capital. $1,087 trillion a 1,644 percent increase in has it been so prolonged and Why has economists who have been mistaken be we were a superpower for As Long As red Ink. And that a with a $497 billion our alleged emergence from it been so fore a in fact most economists when the soviet Union was engaging in Parami a deficit reduction agreement in october sluggish they get around to predicting specialize Litany bombastic imperialism. The rest of 1990, including $164 billion in higher no. What has happened is that higher in being wrong. But one would think that the world no longer greatly needs our taxes and other revenues. This Means government spending higher taxation the turn of events would cause Darman military Protection so that our status As a that the real forecasting and control an j increased regulation have replaced As a matter of dignity to step Down. Superpower rests heavily on our econom error is 2,443  the triad on which the Reagan revolt if a general miscalculated the Cost of a a vitality and this is undergoing a most pass Over for a moment what caused Tion was erected and we Are suffering sex War by 2,500 percent its time to retire fearful lesion. And the reason for it is do All of this. Yes there is the savings and aptly the consequences we have been write philosophical memoirs about Why Mystic policies loan crisis but substantial though those taught to anticipate from those who took if other things had been equal you would c in Ivorski Pross Syndicate Anthony Lewis Battle to Stop prison writer makes no sense one of the mysteries of government is Why those who have official Power try so often to extend it in unnecessary directions. In doing so they May be Dis to acted from their real problems they May run into controversy but still they press  example is at hand in san Francisco a a Petty one and the More telling for its pettiness. It involves officials of the Federal Bureau of prisons one of their inmates and the san Francisco chronicle. The inmate is Dannie Martin a Bank robber. In 1986, he sent the chronicle an a Ticle about life in the Federal Penitentiary in Lompoc Calif. The paper edited it put his byline on and used the piece m its sunday punch feature Section. Over the next two years the chronicle printed 19 of Martins pieces. It got More responses from readers than anything else in the punch Section and the pieces won some journalism prizes. When Martin had a parole hearing the . Parole commission said his writing was a favourable Factor and told him to a keep up the Good  he was and is tentatively scheduled for parole in 1992. Then in 1988, Martin wrote critically about a new Warden at Lompoc Richard Rison. He quoted other prisoners As saying the wardens harsh methods were arousing unrest and could Lead to a riot. Rison responded by having inmate Martin put in solitary confinement explaining that this was done to protect him from other prisoners. After Public protests he was removed from solitary confinement Ana was transferred from Lompoc. The Bureau of prisons also charged Martin with violating regulations that say an inmate May not a act As a reporter a a publish under a byline or be paid for a correspondence with the news  it was the first time those regulations had been enforced against him or anyone else. The chronicle and Martin sued challenging the constitutionality of the regulations. Federal District judge Charles a. Legge restrained their enforcement while he considered the Case and in the next two years the chronicle used about 20 More of Martins articles. Legge was favourably impressed by the Martin articles. He said they were Good for rehabilitation and in some instances apparently had a worthwhile  he added that a Light and air. Ate generally healthy to any  but the judge rejected the constitutional attack on the prison regulations. A prisoner has some rights to Freedom of expression under the first amendment he said but they can be overridden when they a conflict with a genuine concern for prison Security As in this  he said his ruling did not hobble the press a the chronicle is free to publish whatever it  the chronicle then decided to use Martins articles without a byline so he would not be violating the regulations. Ail went it Well until last february during the persian Gulf wait when the paper printed one on How prisoners were working overtime for the War. It appeared in the main news Section. The director of the Bureau of prisons j. Michael Quinlan wrote in protest to the editor and publisher of the chronicle Richard t. Thieriot. Using an article in the news Section could make other prisoners perceive Martin As a a big wheel a he said and a potentially disrupt the orderly running of the prison. It would be a a constructive if the chronicle stopped running Martins articles altogether. Martin and the chronicle have appealed legged a decision with the support of numerous news organizations. They should have a Good Chance of winning the Case which is pending before a panel of the 9th . Circuit court of appeals. But in the meantime i wonder Why director Quinlan and Warden Rison bother a Why they arc using a Legal sledgehammer and using it in a Way that silences the press. They May Well have had genuine Security concerns about the one 1988 Martin piece 1 imagine the chronicle would have listened to them about that. But a lot More of the articles have been printed since then and they have caused no Security problem. When Edward Levi was attorney general in the Ford administration he changed prison regulations that needlessly restricted communication Between prisoners and the press. A Wise attorney general now would end the disfiguring crusade against Martin and the chronicle. C the now York times