European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 4, 1993 William f. Buckley to miniseries i after the second and final episode of the British miniseries on Princess Diana and the breakup of her marriage the movie s entrepreneurs convened a panel in several echelons a the first of them a half dozen experts who included Andrew Morton the author of the Book Diana her True Story two or three editors and two or three ladies and men about town whose conspicuous qualifies Lions Are that they Are a friends of the Royal Quot in four hour series began with a rollicking Prince Charles who is More or less being egged on to get himself a wife and heir. He gravitates toward a Beautiful girl with a satisfactory budget of Blue blood and after a standoffish courtship he proposes. They get married go on their honeymoon and have their first quarrel. This is precipitated by the continuing affection of the freshly married Prince for somebody called Camilla who never quite Digap Kears from the scene a indeed she an t to this Day. The Princess bears him Between quarrels not one but two heirs to the throne. Charles who Speaks As if some stitches were yet to be removed from an Accident that permanently wired shut his jaw is inattentive to his wife pretty explicit about his Long standing Devotion to Camilla and vaguely concerned with the Prip cities of the monarchy As an institution. The Queen and Prince Philip get into the act but soon the viewer suspects the greek fatalism of it All and the series ends with Elizabeth and Philip facing Charles and Diana from whom they hear the dreaded words that they will separate irrespective of the consequences of that separation on the monarchy. Of. The first panellist who we Are led to believe is something of an expert on the Domestic relations of Diana and Charles says that sure there is a dramatic probity in the miniseries a after All the entire world knows that they were married and Are now separated and that the Prince has been electronically overheard saying gooey things7to put a generous construction on it to Camilla. But there is no Way in the world to know whether the words they spoke to each another were the same words the viewers of the miniseries heard. Commentary the stabs and stripes a Page 15 Well that much is pretty obvious since we must suppose that there Are some conversations uttered by the Royal couple that were not picked up by electronic eavesdroppers. A a. The next panellist is the editor of the sunday Telegraph a prestigious conservative newspaper. Charles Moor took great Delight in advising the Host that he Nad not viewed the Mims cries because he disapproved of the entire undertaking. It is not the responsibility of Royalty he said to Bare their private lives for the to filiation of  Public. Since the Hext person interrogated said that yes he had watched it but having done so he could t think of any activity in which he might not better have invested four hours the Moderator turned to the audience at Large a couple Hundred people and asked those of them who were sorry that they had taken the time to View the program to raise their hands. Only one did. It is difficult to know Why that should have surprised anyone Given that British tabloids exist by giving Over the front Page  of Chicken pox in the Royal family which is a lot less interesting than the breakup of a marriage that poses quite difficult problems. Although the Church of England was founded by the runner up to bluebeard in the matrimonial Ledger the incumbent Monarch is not supposed to be divorced and the accession of Charles to head of the Church of England while de Facto if not de Jure divorced from the Queen would raise problems of a kind not seen since Caroline denied Access to Westminster Abbey when George in was crowned. A some years ago Patrick Wayne the son of John asked my help in trying to pursue Jean Mccarthy widow of senator Joe to cooperate in a movie based on the senator s life. Her answer was pretty unambiguous. Unless senator Joe were portrayed As the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi the answer was no. Under . Privacy statutes that no from mrs. Mccarthy whose representation in the film would have been indispensable to the plot quite simply killed the project. One must assume that the royals in great Britain to say nothing of incidental Folk like Camilla and Royal chamberlains and aides simply Don t have Access to privacy codes. One panellist pointed out that the minis pics could not ave been shown in great Britain even a few years ago for the simple reason that the bbl would have declined to air it As also the Independent channels because a somebody would have threatened a lost Knighthood or  but in an age of satellite to anybody with a dish could see it or rent it to View on a Var and the time is Well spent if Only because the viewer is forced to contemplate that even a generation ago personal compatibility might have been sacrificed to greater interests. A a it a bigger than both of us"5uscd to mean something and still ought to. C unto or Al Prats syndicates our planet better or less and less secure just prior to hearing of the explosion at new Yorkus world Trade Center i had been browsing through a travel Magazine a caught up in a longtime dream of some Day grip pm a camera safari in Africa. What i was Reading was not pleasurable. Zimbabwe which the article said was excellent for game viewing with first class guides and unforgettable scenery also came with forewarning. A stay away from Mozambique Border do not use Public transportation guard against purse snatching in downtown Harare put away your camera except in game Parks Quot readers were warned. Tourists in Zambia Are advised a Street crime is prevalent and dangerous in  there was nothing in that article about monster bombs in parking garages but everything is relative. The expression a International terrorism a has been widely used since the calamity at the world Trade Center. It has come to new York we Are being advised by to and print pundits thus it finally has come to the United  matters not to me whether the terminology is a International terrorism Quot or a Domestic terrorism Quot a terrorism is the determining criterion. To the victims at the world Trade Center the Issue is not which International group gets credit or blame for the transgression but whether we arc Safe to walk our streets sit in our Homes work in our offices. For a Long time in new York As in other big cities of the world those freedoms have been denied us a either by thugs working for a political or religious cause or thugs again working for themselves. Civilization is backsliding. The highwayman has returned and up has the anarchist. Nowhere on this Globe Are you Safe from terrorists per be with the possible exception of the Polar regions. Tourists everywhere Are prey for thieves and murderers and innocents fall victim to mad ideologists. Media experts say americans now have to be More Alert in their own country. I have news for them. We Nave been Alert a maybe not specifically for a particular Brand of terrorists but for terrorists in general. Aren t we already wary of packages and baggage left unattended in Public places Haven t we set up electronic screening devices at All airports in most Public buildings in Washington d.c., and at courthouses everywhere there is a reason Why so Many of us feel a need to have burglar alarms in our Homes and pistols in our be stands. Soon we May Call for the same kind of impenetrable automobile Glass that the president has on Nis limousine a to protect us from Street thugs who shatter our car windows and Rob or Kidnap us As we Howard Kleinberg wait at red lights. If it was announce Ltd Ltd it i very Day that the perpetrators of the world Trade Center terrorism were serbian or bosnian sympathizers members of Hezbollah or friends of the Irish Republican army it would not change the Way we have to live our lives. And what would be the difference the pain and suffering inflicted by terrorists on behalf of another part of the world or by criminal practitioners with Domestic credentials Are painful in and of themselves. We Are living on a planet that the democracies believe is safer but also one in which the worlds citizens Are less and less secure. When you can t get milk for a baby in Sarajevo without ducking mortar shells when it is not Safe to ride the elevator to the lop of the world Trade Center when you can t drive a truck safely through parts of los Angeles when you Are cautioned to avoid Public transportation in Zimbabwe or new York when you can to walk the streets of Jerusalem without fearing being knifed when you can to celebrate Mardi gras in Rio or easter in Rome without losing your Wallet or being slashed you know our Globe is spinning in the wrong direction. C Coji Newt Servic