European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 26, 1991 the stars and stripes Susan Page Page 13commentary place Sununu on shaky grounds a Man profit Eov in a amp shall Tup whole Wolc and lose his own soul Mart in 26. Missteps when president Bush was crossing the Alley that separates the old executive office building from the White House the other Day he spied two reporters chatting in the driveway and immediately dropped into a Boxer s Crouch putting up his Dukes and pretending to be ready to fight. He might Well feel embattled. For the first time in his three year presidency Bush a capacity to Lead and his solid Odds for re election Are being questioned after a series of missteps blunders and self inflicted wounds on economic policy civil rights and other Domestic  advisers and key supporters Are stepping up pressure on him to fire or at least curtail the authority of his acerbic chief of staff John Sununu whom they blame for the current disarray. Warning that Sununu is ill suited to run next years re election Campaign they also Are urging Bush to name a High powered Campaign team Independent of Sununu a and to do it soon. One Well placed gop source said the president had been using his oldest son George w. Bush to take political soundings in recent Days. Another source at the White House said there had been suggestions the president might signal his personal control by installing his son and namesake in a top Job at Campaign Headquarters. The younger Bush managing general partner of the Texas rangers did not respond to Telephone Calls seeking comment. A a something a going to be done a a senior administration official predicted speaking on condition of anonymity. A most of the heavy political hitters Bush now appears to need to run a Good Campaign next year Are in various stages of rebellion Over having to work under Sununu. That will be a forcing  a it reminds me of the Carter years frankly a rep. Thomas j. Downey d-n.y., said in an interview. A the questions Are a who a in charge a and a what a next a and they done to have answers for either of those  he said the administration appeared to be in a free  but even those close to Bush said the president had not indicated whether he intends to make fundamental changes in the White House staff a though he reportedly expressed anger Over the bashing he took on civil rights this week a or whom he will name to run his late starting Campaign and when. And Sununu insisted in a television program taped Friday that he was not to blame for at least one of the recent mishaps Bush a remarks on credit card interest rates. A the president and ribbed a Sununu said on John Mclaughlin a one on one on no cd a Cnoc Cable network adding that Bush has not expressed dissatisfaction with the Job his staff is doing. First lady Barbara Bush also denied a newspaper report that she had soured on Sununu. A big baloney a she snapped As she left a White House luncheon.  nonetheless the president who seems so sure footed on foreign issues a responding to the collapse of the soviet Empire and exploiting the prospects for peace in the Middle East a has come under increasing fire 011 questions closer to Home. Faced with Domestic problems critics say this ship of state seems to Lack both Anchor and Compass. A like the emperor who had no clothes the president has no Agenda Quot rep. John Lewis a a. Chief Deputy House whip charged at a Capitol Hill news conference Friday. Majority Leader Richard a. Gephardt d-mo., declared a if you re looking for George Bush a Domestic program and Many people Are this is it the veto  he and other House democratic leaders held aloft a 6-foot-Long pen. Even House republicans have grown so impatient with Bush s wait and see approach is the Economy that they moved Friday Ifo put Forward their own growth package for immediate consideration. And they were hailed by the housing Secretary Jack Kemp who has unsuccessfully urged the president to take Quick action. A but As Bush and his top aides met Friday with a half dozen private economists both Sununu and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady said the White House would delay any new administration proposals on the Economy until the state of the Union address in january. What the president is determined to avoid aides said Are More forced turnabout like the one on credit card rates. Bush had suggested lower credit card interest rates which encouraged the Senate to mandate limits. That in turn unnerved the markets which prompted the White House to threaten a veto. Or the one on civil rights. In preparation for signing the civil rights act of 1991, the while House circulated a presidential directive that would have ended Federal affirmative action programs. The political firestorm that followed forced the draft to be withdrawn and rewritten. Civil rights advocates including moderate republicans accused Bush of trying to undermine the hard won civil rights Compromise. And conservatives a including two potential Bush challengers in next years gop primaries columnist Patrick j. Buchanan and former klan Leader David Duke a thought he should have gone through with the original directive. And a Rose Garden ceremony that was supposed to be celebratory left nearly everybody angry. C now Day Carl Rowan How does our terrorism differ from theirs when a groups in Lebanon Quot release their hostages my reaction is the same As it has been for every other release of these most innocent and brutalized of political prisoners. I asked myself How one four 10 human beings could in political passion keep another human being chained and terrorized for 1,700 Days or More. What kind of heart or conscience lurks within the bodies and minds of those who have kept Terry Anderson in a personal hell since March 16, 1985, Joseph Cicippio since sept. 12, 1986, and Alann Steen since Jan. 24, 1987? easing to the mute edges of my outrage i realized that there is something called i did no to see it terrorism at Loose on this planet and that no peace conference in Spain or anywhere else can be Worth a Damn if it cannot proscribe both up close and out of sight terrorism and mayhem. The hostage holders have been and Are just the pawns of cruel mind warped politicians who never Sec the arms and legs chained to radiators smell the stench of a captive who cannot get to a bathroom or sense the psychological damage being done to a captive who never sees the Light of Day or has a Chance to Converse with another human being. It is considered a a patriotic for us americans to vent our hatreds at these see no evil hostage takers in Lebanon Iran or wherever. We declare it traitorous to even entertain the thought that they have engaged in bestial behaviour because they have seen their a a Western enemies engage Over and Over again in out of sight mailings and killings. We americans Are brain programmed to believe that to drop bombs on civilians in Panama Libya or Iraq is a Mere Accident of War undeserving of scorn or certainly not opprobrium of the magnitude that we pile upon those who hold hostages or put bombs on buses. World peace is impossible if we refuse to entertain any charge of substantial Western guilt. When will we Stop thinking of Quot terrorism and inhuman behave or Only in terms of what our perceived enemies Are doing. There arc old forms of a terrorism Quot and new laser guided smart Homb terrorism. We must face the truth that we All of every race religion or place of National loyally love our children and do not want them to die in any conflict based on a on sided claim As to what is unjustified and what is justifiable mass killing. Let us Pray that at every peace Conte Telce a Wise Charity of human spirit prevails Over sophistry about who is a terrorist and who bombs and kills with moral impunity. To into in and str syn Ltd a i