European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Carter buoyancy hides danger from n. Korea George f. Will when during the Boer War a British general boasted that he had managed a Retreat without losing a Man a Flag or a Cannon a wit added a for a the Clinton administration seems pleased with its policy regarding North koreans nuclear weapons program but that policy looks like a disorderly Retreat. Jimmy Carter says the crisis with North Korea is Over. It May be if the crisis is not about How a to Stop the weapons program but How to extract president Clinton from his declaration that North koreans acquisition of such weapons would be intolerable. Carter is either a modern Merlin or a megalomaniac. Either he has persuaded Kim ii Sung to mind his manners and mend his ways or he has convinced himself that the world has no Hurt that cannot be cured by applying to it the poultice of his personality. North koreans drive for weapons of mass destruction began shortly after the korean armistice in 1953. For four decades Kim has compelled his captive people to eat turnips so that the military could fatten. Now North Korea does not even have enough turnips but probably has its first nuclear weapons and is tantalizingly close to the capacity to make and sell Many More. The Clinton administration has continued . Concern about North koreans handling of plutonium since 1989. Confronted with Clinton a declaration that North koreans nuclear weapons must Stop the 82-year-old Kim a strategy has been to buy time. Enter Carter fresh As paint Lively As a Cricket and As serenely sure of his rightness As is the average Saint. Carter says Kim is eager to give it All up this labor of 40 years if the United states will assuage the insecurities that drove him to do it. There is in this a whiff of the a a blame America first school of foreign policy which held that the cold War was a silly misunderstanding largely occasioned by american obtuseness and paranoia. But Carter is a Veteran do a estimator of communist dictators. As on the occasion of Carters famous kiss in Vienna Austria with Brezhnev there Are today assurances that a new Era is dawning. Sadly the Carter Brezhnev Romance nit the rocks when Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan an event Carter said taught him an awful lot about communism. Kim who must find Carter among the less inscrutable Occidental has one tactical goal while his scientists hurry their work. That Coal is to change the subject. And suddenly the subject is a meeting Between Kim and South koreans president for the purpose of a leasing the subject of plutonium the crucial ingredient in nuclear weapons seems about to be lost in the shuffle. While in North Korea Carter told can that there would be peace in our time if the United states would Stop the foolishness about sanctions and would be More forthcoming. Soon Clinton materialized in the White House press room it had probably been hours since he had been on television unburden ing himself about something there to in effect engage in a dialogue with Kim through Carter. Carter judges Kim to be a vigorous intelligent surprisingly Well informed and a very Frank. As for Kim a terrorism and tyranny and violation of agreements Carter is not judgmental he says a a Titis is something that a not for me to but he does know that a they Are not an outlaw the worlds impression that North Korea is among the poorest and most primitive nations suffering regular food and Power shortages is according to Carter another of those misunderstandings it is his Mission to rectify. He says the capital Pyongyang is full of Pep a its shops remind him of the a Wal Mart in Americus Georgia and at night the Neon lights remind him of times Square. So there. He says economic sanctions could make North Korea Well difficult by cause sanctions would be an a a insult to North koreans and a impossible for them to accept a a conclusion he came to a after observing their psyche and their if North Korea Sis anything we w3rt just Althem a letter we Fittl societal Structure and the reverence with which they look upon their it would be Nice if Carter s Cameo appearance in the geopolitics of the 1990s would remind Clinton who came to Power demonizing the 1980s, How dangerous the 1970s were because of Carter and people like him. However assistant Secretary of state Robert Gallucci the Man handling the North korean problem for the first democratic president since Carter says a i think we Are All on the same Sheet of if they Are in Harmony the future is in jeopardy a c Wum Natori Ron . Thrown for loss by the men in his life id like to believe that the crowds Yelling a go ., go a on the Highway overpass and around the Brentwood mansion were just urging him to live. Not to escape. Id like to believe that the California Man who said that . Is still a hero around Here was echoing the american presumption of innocence. Not the belief that . Could be a hero and a murderer. Id like to believe that All the colleagues and friends who a to a Man a found this double murder charge a a unbelievable meant that As an expression of their Shock. Not a permanent judgment on the facts. Id rather not believe that .�?Ts fans and friends care More about what May happen to him than about what he May have done. But i am finding this hard. Last Friday night the Man from the Hall of Fame the Man from Hertz and Hollywood and nil live became a fugitive on the . Freeways. Millions were horrified by the Chance that we would witness a superstars suicide live at 5 or 8 or Midnight. In the Days that followed we heard bulletins from jail on his state of dress and state of mind. The Man who wore no. 32 in his glory Days had been allotted no. 4013970. They a Given him a Blue jumpsuit and taken away his shoelaces. Oren Hal James Simpson lost everything but our attention. He alone remained the Star of this tragedy. It took the . To say again and again a do not lose sight of the fact that it is Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman who Are the the fans and friends watching the Public unravelling of a life have shown More than a presumption of .�?Ts innocence. They be shown a passion for his innocence a wish bordering on denial that some twist would let their hero off the Hook. They lost sight of Nicole Long ago. Whatever the outcome of the murder Case we know now hat . Simpson beat his wife. We know that the violence was in the words of the police a an ongoing problem through their marriage and their attempts at reconciliation. The . Deputy City attorney reminded us what Nicole looked like in 1989 when her husband was finally arrested for beating and threatening to kill her a she had a Black Eye a swelling Cheek and a Bruise to her forehead scratch Marks on her we know that . Bitterly resented the police a a interference into a a family and we know that he paid virtually no Price a pleading no contest to the charge finessing the court ordered Community service and doing psychiatric consults by phone Between Star turns. Hertz never considered the charge of wife beating enough of a character flaw to Sully his image. Neither did Abc. And this is the heart of it neither did his friends. Of. Simpson made his living at the Center of a nearly All male culture. His world was made of sports and celebrity skill and violence wins and losses Halls of Fame. The men who shared his world knew that this hugely Strong Man had pleaded no contest to beating a Ellen Goodman wife. Yet they remain bewildered at the possibility he was violent. Don Klosterman a Friend Ana former general manager of the los Angeles rams called the murder charge a inconceivable. Inconsistent. In be never seen him lose his Al Michaels an Abc sports announcer said a none of us has seen a Side to . Simpson that would indicate any of this was the list goes on. Some men no knew about the 1989 a a incident talked about .�?Ts Side to the Story. Other s talked about the circumstances a a it happened on new years As the evidence accumulated some of these men now seem appalled by what they did t Sec. But How about what they did no to say did anyone utter a word to ,7 did anyone say that there is no other Side to a Story when one Side has a a Black Eye a swelling Cheeky did anyone Tell the superstar he needed help Star Quality is blinding. Maybe it was easier to share the belief expressed in his note a if we had a problem it was because i loved her so easier to nod in sympathy when he bemoaned a at limes i have Felt like i was a battered husband or Boyfriend Quot four million women arc victims of Domestic violence every year. As Many women Are beaten As give birth. Today the Laws and the police Are less Likely to ignore abuse than they once were. But it will go on until men withdraw their tacit permission and confront each other. It will go on until batterers Are banished by their Brothers stripped of any right to the title of hero. Go ., go did anybody Ever try to Stop him a Jovion global
