European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Facing up. To the weak link of to diplomacy by Martin Schram Scripps How Ardour new diplomatic Pouch of the �?T90s a satellite to a worked faster than a speeding Bullet in our most recent crisis of the Day. In we dodged a military invasion and settled for a quasi Ben Ign military occupation. Gut presidents prime ministers diplomats and despots must beware our new diplomatic Pouch while prompt May not always be prudent. Indeed diplomacy that will be waged in a world of satellite up links and global relays May encounter a peril. It May be depriving world statesmen of certain Basic human rights. Among them the very human right to get angry the right to lose one s temper the right to explode in private. And the corollary to All of the above the right to save face in Public. Recall first How our new diplomatic Pouch was used in Haiti. Then we i consider How it might have worked to give us a less peaceful outcome in another crisis in another Era. Scene the White House sept. 15 after his address on Why we must invade Haiti president Clinton move fast enough to get to his to set before we saw on our screens Gen. Raoul Cidras seemingly affixed like a cuff link to the right sleeve of lbs news Anchor Dan rather. Just hours earlier before Clinton s speech Cedras had told rather optimistically a i Hope we can pc vent the bloodshed by opening a but that opening seemed to slam shut As rather elicited a Public response that was not surprisingly As Hartline As the speech we d just heard. Rather a general what is your immediate reaction to this a c6dras in a rather prepared to fight with my rather a and prepared to die Quot Eldras a every Soldier while he enters the armed forces and signs his papers signs that there is a possibility for him to lose his right before our eyes diplomatic positions hardened into Battle positions. Only sex president Jimmy Carters prodding convinced Clinton to Send the peace Mission of Carter Gen. Colin Powell and sen. Sam Nunn that prevented a bloody invasion of Haiti. Now consider How the cuban missile crisis might have turned out if it had occurred in a world linked by the instant communication of satellite to. Scene the Kremlin oct. 22,1962 rather is sitting alongside soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin watching president Kennedy s speech and then getting the hot tempered Khrushchev s instant a emr. Secretary what is your immediate reaction to this a Khrushchev a we will not be bullied we will not Back Down we Are prepared to fight a rather a and prepared to die a Khrushchev Khrushchev removes his right shoe and pounds it on the table a we will Bury you Quot fortunately there were no live via satellite to news Breaks in those Days. And the soviet Leader had the luxury of sending two private inconsistent messages reflecting perhaps his shifts of temperament and policy. A we behaved with dignity and forced the . To demobilize and recognize Cuba. In a proud of what we did Quot the soviet Premier could claim in his memoirs Khrushchev remembers. V a video age wizardry with its High tech wonders of satellite communication can work Many miracles. It can save hours even Days. But sometimes it cannot help a Leader save face. Clarence Page la on duplication in americans Hometown names Andy Rooney Hen i was in the capital City of new York state it never occurred to me that there was any other place named Albany Over the years i began to hear about Albany ga., and then Albany Calif. Here i am 50 years later just finding out that there Are 18 places called Albany in the United states. If you think the name of your Village town or City is unique you re probably wrong too. There Are 19,289 incorporated places in the United states and enough duplicate names to be a pain to the . Postal service. Of those 9,716 Are cities 4,600 Are towns 3,736 Are villages 1,227 Are boroughs and the Small remainder Are miscellaneous. There a a wide variation from state to state in what can be called a City. In new York state the big Gest City is new York. It has 7,300,000 people. The smallest City in new York is called Sherrill with a. Population of just 2,864. There Are 62 cities in new York state and Montana has almost As Many 51. That a because a wide place in the Road with 1,000 people can be a City in Montana Montana does no to have any villages which seems too bad. In Virginia a place has to have a population of 5,000 to be called a City but some communities five times that big Arentt cities because they done to want to be. A i can understand that. Most people would rather live in a place called a town or a Village than in one called a City. ,. Villages Are usually part of something called a town or township but cities Are not. The most popular name for a Community in America is a Surprise to me. I have guessed. Quot there Are 33 places named How do you like that and he Wasny to even president. Sixteen presidents have at least five places named after them. George Washington leads the list. There Are 31 places named Washington. Now Here a a big Surprise. You May not think our current president is popular right now but let me Point out that there Are 30 communities in America named Clinton that a second Only to Washington and ahead of Lincoln with 28, Madison with 27,. Monroe with 27 and Jackson with 23. Some of you will probably quibble and say that those places Are named after some other Clinton de Witt perhaps. A there Are hundreds of places named after one of our presidents. The latest president to have at least five places named after him was Wilson. Except a for Clinton. There Are a few Woodrows too. There Are nine Roosevelt but in a assuming they were named after Teddy Roosevelt not Franklin. Besides 18 Albanys there Are 21 Cleveland 18 buffaloes 18 Hartford 15 Rochester 15 Nashville is 13 Atlanta 12 Denver 12houstons, 11 Dallasen 10 Hollywood and nine places called Miami. 1 want to live in a place called Miami Ohio. It would be a constant problem a like living in Washington every time you mention your state you have to say a the state of you can to say simply a i live in the name Salem is popular. There Are 30 salems and 28 Springfields. There Are 20 places named Columbus another 20 named Columbia. Cities and towns named a fair Quot something Are everywhere. There Are 26 Fairfield and dozens of places named Fairmont Fairmount Fairview Fairdale Fairbanks Fairplay and fair Haven. Names of foreign cities get used a lot in the United states. There Are 25 troys 15 cities named Paris 13 Bethlehem 10 Warsaw some Viennas Cairns panamas and London. There Are 10 Perus. Five towns Are named California although none of them is in California and five Are named Virginia and Aren t there either. 1 there Are six three Rivers. So if you write done to forget the zip code. Tribune Media services Andy Rooney la a Torow stars and stripes reporter. October 9, 1994 a sunday Page 7
