European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday january 13, 1995 commentary the stars and stripes Page 13 William Raspberry Kent Amos having finished his remarks had a question for the school principals in his audience. Quot How Many of you have children in your schools who really go Home stand up every principal in the room stood up. Amos already knew what the principals were acknowledging a that most schools have at least a few students whose Homes Are not fit for children. But he wanted to drive the Point Home. Quot if you have As Many As 10 percent of your kids who should t go Home keep standing a he said. Nobody sat Down. As he raised the Ante to 20 percent and then 30 and 40 percent More and More of the principals took their seats. But he told me later at least a few were still on their feet in a knowledge mint that As Many As 80 percent of their students live in severely dysfunctional Homes. Then a a a a a a / / dog h y Quot How Many of you know about Newt Gingrich a everybody did. Quot How Many of you agree with his proposal for orphanages a nobody did. Quot Well what do you propose to do with these kids who you say go Home these Are our kids in our classrooms. Done to we need to go beyond criticizing Newt Gingrich and come up with a rational answer for these kids you know very Well that if we done to a lot of them will die a and you can to blame their deaths on a. / a a a a a ?. A quoth Quot Quot a. Amos a former Xerox corp. Executive has made a virtual avocation of saving children from the perils of mean streets and dysfunctional families. His Home has for years been their Home their Haven for studying inculcating values thinking about their future. He now runs the Urban family Institute based in Washington . A a a his purpose the other Day was to tempt his audience to consider a vision he a had in his head for some time of a Community committed to its children with institutions designed to further that commitment. A ? Quot when you and i were growing up Quot Amos explained later a the child who got into difficult circumstances did no to have to leave the Community. He was just taken neighbors until the situation cleared up. Now suppose these principals had someplace within walking distance of the school where they knew they could Send their troubled kids to stay for a while where they would be taken care of by neighbors a where even the adults might get some help in sorting out their problems. There could be supervised study recreation everything a right in the but first he said we need to get Over our aversion to residential facilities for children an aversion based on bitter memories of correctional institutions or such custodial facilities As the mercifully closed Junior Village in Washington such environments represent one possibility. Boarding schools represent quite another the second requirement though is to come up with the Money to fund the sort of arrangement Amos has in Minda a a a it. / Quot we have to think of problem solving from a Zero base a he says Quot assume there wont be any new Money and you get quickly to two ideas we re not used to dealing with How to better spend the Money you do have Ana How to develop a fund out strategy plan for working people out of the system.�?�. The neighbourhood emergency residence is just a Start. What he really envisions is a technically sophisticated Campus like setting with the express goal of moving Young people from troubled childhood to responsible Independent adulthood v i Quot we never think of helping troubled Young people to change their lives by giving them the guidance and cd cation and training they need. Instead we think Punitia very three strikes and you re out two years and you re of welfare a even if you have no place else logo. Quot but if we think in terms of a residential Urban uni varsity that beaches everything fr6m atm err a and Job skills to How to be a Good neighbor you could trans g i c Sueh a not a Mino Date children of milies and single adults wife children a a. Spending a to be -�?~timcfwjtiy-.their"fam.ili.c,- erne time in their own . 1 a a. -. A �?~1 you convert a Public to. Complex into an air bail family University where residents a who would a div to apply for the Opportunity could create their Sai and functional comm Nides. There could even be a which they move to owning the ii umls.�?�. ,. X \. A. Amos w11spin his dream As Long As you care to listen but his Point is critical most Public housing re is dents and welfare recipients Don t like Liv. Ing the Vly the y live icy just done to know How to make it better. A i a. I a a. A a a. Instead n put my into political warfare Over Newt a Gingrich in orphanages some of us might usefully spend to Ltd c fix out How to use available resources a not to Similis dysfunction but to help people trans a a form their a. A a a. A a a c Washington Post. it was the Early �?T60s, and the cold War was at a Peak. Strategic anxiety and political tension had inclined both Washington and Moscow to play out their rivalry through an intense Competition of spies. A fair amount is known about the american end of this Competition. Now Vladislav m. Zubok a russian historian currently working in Washington has filled in much about the soviet end. His is an absorbing tale of the past a and a useful caution for the future As americans wrestle to reinvent intelligence. Quot. Zubok did not have Access in Moscow to the still secret. Kab files. But in the partly open communist party Central committee files he came upon a top secret highly sensitive Kab documents of 1960-62.v he publishes the results in the cold War International history project bulletin Issue 4 of Washington a Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars. Zubok found nothing to substantiate the famous soviet defector Anatoly Gol Tsyn s claim of an alleged Quot monster plan Quot or a master plan Quot to weave a strategic web of deception behind american lines in preparation for a decisive showdown perhaps Over Berlin. To but he did locate Quot several schemes designed to conceal soviet intentions and weak spots and to disrupt Western consensus on live political director Allen Dulles 1953-61 had become a soviet Nemesis for his technological breakthrough in u-2 planes and reconnaissance satellites. Hence his counterpart Alexander she la Pink a proposal of june 1960 to Quot Compromise Quot Dulles by sending Anonymous letters to his critics feeding the Senate a Fulbright committee Quot fabricating stories of Cia embarrassment and in general depicting Dulles As a dangerous meddler. Though in fact it was the Ciao a own Bay of pigs fiasco that finally let the Kenned administration Case Dulles out. The Kab also undertook to Foster internal Cia fears of Tion. A destructive Stephen s. Rosenfeld. Kab Percira mole Hunt did sub sequently occur but again Zubok judges As a result of authentic soviet defections rather than by she Lepiny a hand. As Kremlin Leader Nikita Khrushchev heated up the Berlin crisis Shulepin proposed to create a a situation in various areas of the world which would favor disy persion of attention and forces by the Usa and their satellites and would tie them Down during the settlement of the question of a German peace treaty and West Berlin a. No doubt there was an of self aggrandizement in his plans. But in Central America and elsewhere the Kab contributed to armed uprisings in Europe to demonstrations against american bases. In november 1960, the Kab undertook deceptive Steps Quot directed at producing in the adversary a mind a profound conviction that the. Soviet Union firmly intends to use Force in response provocations of Western Powers and has at its disposal All necessary combat for example the Kab spun the a legend Quot of a nuclear powered a Cruft of a unlimited Range a win some lose some in the end w t a the spy War not a Wash and anyway i r not the West w in the cold War a a Many More soviet documents Visi come out and More american documents too to provide an. Authoritative history. A. I am especially interested in any connection Between soviet manipulation and Western dissent meanwhile hark to Zubok. A possessing the intoxicating capacity to hide or invent information. Kremlin leaders went too far to the very Brink where the Fine line Between deterring an attack and preparing for one blurred a. \. A. Zubok challenges a the myth that officials and some american counterparts As Well like to promulgate that the services of both sides by increasing a a transparency about the adversary s intentions and capabilities thereby contributed to stability and pc dicta i Lity in a a dangerous polarized world. A a a a a. Quot but the games of deception Disi for a Nihon and distraction designed by the Kab masterminds had a deleterious effect on global stability. Hey certainly contributed to the per Cepi Ion in expansive so i Al ambitions. A. Lii some cases they even a exacerbated the. Danger of armed conflict. And the elaborate lots to sow the seeds of mis a Trust Between the . Leadership and in a agencies was i cured by anything but a Clear of How to Angrous this kind of co Ispir icy had be conic in the nuclear a advice for those redesigning american intelligence now
