European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 30, 1992 commentary the stars and stripes Page 13 As a smear artist Perot is Rembrandt reborn talk about smear artists let us give first prize Inthis Sleazy Competition to Ross Perot the hit and run Driver from the Lone Star state. Step Forward partner and accept this paper wrapped Pound of Maggot meat. It s As Rotten As you  one dirty weekend Perot has managed to smear the president the president s associates and the entire Republican leadership in Texas. He has offered not one paragraph not one sentence not one line of hard evidence to support his charges. There is every reason to believe the Story is fabricated Claptrap and no Rea son to believe the wild tale is  to sunday evening s edition of 60 minutes Perot delivered a statement in Pittsburgh. His purpose was to explain Why he dropped out of the presidential Campaign in july. He said head received a report of a re publican meeting at which someone had asked in t this Guy sensitive to anything pause. Who brought the report when was this meet ing where who was there what positions if any in the Republican party did these conspirators hold Perot does not say. The report May have come from one Scott Barnes identified by the new York times As a former California police offi cer who for years has been accused of fabricating Sto Ries about undercover plots and dirty  carry on. Perot continued and one person in the meeting i m thinking they said he adores his fam  let us pause for dissection. No one at this Republican meeting has a name or a face. Perot cannot quote what anyone actually said Only what he thinks one per son May have said. Continue a couple of weeks later i got a report that there was a plan to smear my daughter Carolyn who was about to get married on aug. 23, and believe it or not disrupt the Church service at her  notice the disarming believe it or  what master s touch is Here because we do not know when the first report was made of the Republican meet ing we cannot fix a time Frame on this second re port of the plot to defame daughter Carolyn. Who brought this second report to Perot he says it came from a source away from  May we please have a name the first report if it Ever existed must have come i mid june. The second came about a week or 10 Days  then came a third report from a person very close to the Republican  this person made the identical charge that is that a plan was afoot to smear Carolyn and disrupt her wedding. On july 16, James j. Kilpatrick be to Hebe Perot quit the race. The wedding went off without a hitch. The plan i there Ever were a plan was aborted by Perot s withdrawal. The arc conspirators if there Ever were conspirators have vanished into the mists. Barnes Tele phones have been disconnected. We have not seen such melodrama since Rudolph Rass Endale tied the Beautiful Belinda to the railway tracks. Let us continue. In his Pittsburgh statement Perot said he does indeed adore his children. He could not allow the happiest Day of his daughter s life to be ruined. Violins tremolo professor therefore he dropped out and he wanted to add this i Don t want to sink to the level the rest of these people May or May not have sunk. I cannot prove any of that happened. I just got these  Perot concluded by predicting that the Republican would deny his Story. Leave it right there in your minds he said. Forget it. It has nothing to do with rebuilding our country. Don t spend five minutes fretting about it. That s history. It s  then he sped away. On 60 minutes sunday night Perot sharpened his slander. He Laid the extortionate plot at the feet of per sons representing the president of the United  these Republican opponents planned to fabricate a scandalous composite photograph by putting Carolyn s head on another body. The photo then would be peddled to supermarket tabloids. Perot waited until nine Days before the elect onto Tell his incredible tale. Too Little time remains for the press to Check it out. Perot washes his hands. For get it he says. No Way. Great works of Art must be rewarded. As smear artist Perot is Rembrandt born again. Give the Guy the Maggot meat it s a prize he richly deserves. C Universal press Syndicate Thatcher retains her moral sense of reason Florence Italy lady Thatcher As we now refer to her is England s Henry Kissinger in the sense that like him she never quite recedes from  Are extraordinarily energetic human beings and they have a great Deal to say that people find interesting. At a single dinner in London one guest busily explained or tried to How lady Bucher could even while seated in the House of lords serve As prime minister. Doing so from that chamber she would not need to answer question raised in the House of commons. On the other hand she would have to answer questions raised in the House of lords where they would probably be More intelligent As it happens. Another guest asked whether there should t be an award for British conservatives who show special courage. Sheave her husband As an example because it was he who in a room with at least 30people in it had said a few weeks ago to Thatcher that after All there Are other Points of View than your own on that  not since Oliver twist shoved his empty plate before the Beadle and asked Tor More have such effrontery and courage been  question of another Point of View had to do with the recommendations Thatcher has for action against Serbia. She is on the matter utterly unambiguous. What she wishes and wishes done immediately preferably begin Ning about five months ago is the bombing by those units in Europe that have the capability notably Britain the United states and France of the military encampments currently engaged in Ethni Cally cleansing Bosnia and  does t arrive at this position As though she were busting to deploy a attic full of toy soldiers. She is a woman deeply haunted by the atrocities of the nazis and the communists. About the latter she reasons there was simply Noth ing that could be done. About the former she said there was an endemic ignorance until it was Toolate. But she re minds us that immediately after the War against William f. Buckley or. Hitler was won the allies embarked on period of Denali fiction in which efforts were made on the whole successful to educate the country at Large in the horrors they had permitted in their midst and to Corral those especially guilty and Send them either to the Gallows or to jail. No such Effort at Deco Muniza Tion followed the liberation of Eastern Europe and now we see happening i Yugoslavia a nation governed by communists even if they were schismatics the same kind of thing done under Hitler Stalin. And if we let this happen without protests in the form of High tech deter rence in steel and explosives we redoing worse than nothing we Are re institutionalizing genocide As a european pastime. The tactical strategic and political arguments against following Thatcher s advice Are there Are plausible and Are dare one say it even persuasive. But her moral Point is Inspirit ing and leave the dissenter feeling just a Little bit ashamed. Thatcher s interests Are in matters of quite urgent concern to her countrymen and to Europe. She holds the implications of maastricht treaty in great Hor ror. One reason for this horror is that she is of the school that recognizes that the overweening state continues to do the greatest amount of harm to private Initia Tive and to individual Freedom and to hand Over to Brussels the kind of authority needed to contain overweening government is to make a serious mistake. She challenges moreover Allbut a single institutional goal of the european Community. In respect of free Trade she is on the Side of the  she Points out that As you get closer and closer to free Trade you need Les Sand less government. Nothing is Freer than the right of anew yorker to order something from the . Bean Catalon in Maine and it would be desirable that someone in birding Ham could buy shoes directly from a pro Ducer in Milan. But maastricht promises a huge bureaucracy that will engage Pri Marily in redistribution i.e., from the wealthier european countries to the less wealthy. It would be far better to make Progress in the Uruguay round of Gatt than to concentrate on free Trade within the dec. The Only objection Thatcher has to the North american free Trade agreement says she is that the word american should read  the prospects for a common currency in Europe grow dimmer As the Public contemplates the intangibles. On the one hand it would be wonderfully useful to have a common currency Trade imbalances would simply go away. A but if Central Banks continued to exercise the authority they now do then the whole  of such common currency becomes illusory. If a Central Bank can create Money As our Federal Reserve can create Money what is to prevent a member nation from bailing itself out with a competing cur Rency established As Good for Trade within a Given country nobody has come up with an adequate substitute for a Gold Standard and England has certainly not come up with an adequate substitute for Margaret Thatcher. C Universal press Syndicate