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4A THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Wednesday, July 22, 1981
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UNDER THESE conditions, the dip-
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Wm H Sullivan
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HAVING WHIPPED the Democrats
without breaking a sweat, President
Reagan must now look forward to
coping with his hottest friends. This
could be a heavy struggle. Coping with
friends often is.
Lyndon Johnson had this problem
back in the era when he ran the Senate
for the Democrats. He could usually
glue together enough Republican swing
votes and enough Democratic regulars
to have his way, but his bleakest mo-
liberals of his own party, "The red-
hots," Johnson called them.
They were "red-hot" for ideas that
made Republicans and damp-cool
Democrats climb the wall, bellow and
snort. Liberal ideas. Ideas that they
refused to compromise. They filled
Johnson with sorrow and despair. His
friends whose roots, like his, went back
to the early New Deal — how could they
make life so miserable for him? Didn’t
they understand9
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"THOUGH IT may adopt some short- indeed. This is the group that has
term tactics in its diplomatic activities, carried the Stockman budget for the
its tenacious adherence to the Commu- president. Politically, they are as cool
nist system will surely hinder it from as clabber in the icehouse.
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Sadr a month ago. By their curbs on trade and interest
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The Reagan administration Even his patron, CIA Direc-
did itself a two-fold favor by tor William Casey, seemed pri-
dumping Max Hugel. the CIA’s vately relieved to see him go.
chief of clandestine operations. Mr. Casey expressed little
The White House acted the mo- more than pro forma regret
ment word of his past business over Mr. Hugel’s forced resig-
indiscretions surfaced in the nation, and then promply
press. appointed a career intelligence
First, decisive action surely officer, John H. Stein, as his
saved the administration from successor.
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THE EARLY attacks against
Thatcher, is in political extremis. The
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tions • ■ surge of desire for lower taxes, cheaper
Yin. like many observers of the Asian g0vernment and devil-take-the-
f u scene, expresses considerable doubt hindmost - a des ire so power ul thatit
pies of the state on Marxist-Leninist that relations between Moscow and pulled .several million critical middle-
thought. Public policy must yet be Peking will always remain strained of the-highway voters over into Reagan
justified in terms of its attachment to Already, for instance, there are 1981 conservatism. Barring an economic di-
Marxist-Leninist purity, indications that Chinese loyalty to anv saster, the president can probably
This is not to say that the United anti-Soviet pacts with Japan and the prosper by holding this part of his
Statesand Japan do not have an inter- United States is shaky. The Peking coalition.
est in building up their relations with People’s Daily and Red Flag have been .
China. This should be done, but 11 advocating in a thinly disguised man- THE DANGER is that the red-hots
should be carried out with the under- ner a process that would make at least Wildrjve it out of camp by demanding
standing of the limitations inherent in temporary compromises with Moscow that Reagan carry through with a
these relations. ... The United States to assist in China's drive toward indus- remaking of American society which
and Japan enjoy a special relationship trialization brings the government thundering into
which would not be enhanced by the private lives. The symbol of the "red-
intrusion of the PRC into it." ’ THE FACT that the United States hots" has become the Rev. Jerry
, , and China are presently cooperating in Falwell’s Moral Majority, but they go
ANOTHER CHINA scholar has operation of a radar listening post in beyond that.
joine -igur in his warning. He is northwest China to monitor Soviet mili- They are the people who want gov-
cmng-yao Yin of the National Chengchi tary activities is no guarantee of firm ernment to end the hedonism built into
niversity: I aiwan. While he might be ties between the two nations. The Chi- American life over the past generation,
expected to denounce Peking s motives nese could take over sole control of this Their prime aim is to shut down the
in .work ing toward a military alliance station on any whim, real or imagined, sexual carnival and make government
WII -apan and the United States, he Sigur, Yin and lots of others with use its muscle to establish the old-time
still makes some interesting points, ample knowledge of Chinese traditions, religion.
n casting doubt on how long Peking tactics and strategies are urging a go- There is a certain appeal in this aim
wi remain estranged from Moscow, slow or cautious U.S. approach to even to the hardened sinner, but after
e notes, A review of past history Peking, especially any overtures hav- the romance has been acknowledged,
ihowsthat communist China s policy ing to do with a military alliance and the nostalgic yen for returning to
owar foreign countries has not been targeted against the Soviet Union, the supposedly good old days has been
constant. Modifications have taken Their advice should get the full atten- enjoyed, there remains the reality of
p ace a most every five years. It has tion of President Reagan and. more millions of voters who are likely to
permanent enemies free nations particularly, Secretary of State Haig. howl if government starts reorganizing
their private lives.
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THEY DIDN’T understand. They
enjoyed making life miserable for him.
They pleasured themselves by
reveal what the mullahs most
wish to conceal: the magnitude
of their opposition.
Most of the acknowledged
victims have been identified as
members of the People’s
Mujahedeen, a leftist Islamic
guerrilla movement. Strong in
the provinces as well as in
Tehran, the Mujahedeen allies
itself with Bani-Sadr’s follow-
ers and cries, as it once did at
the shah, that “Victory is from
God, and triumph is near!”
The executioners have also
struck at secular Marxists and
democratic nationalists, and
tellingly, last week, they
reached out into the merchant
advised Reagan to sweet-talk his way z
to leadership at Ottawa. Thus, early m
position papers for the summit urged •
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the Siberian pipeline. —
But the defense department
intervened to insist that wasggot Ronald
abortions for low-income women and
free exercise of homosexual rights
For the moment Iran’s cyor; have given only a hint of the political
Cal zealots mav remain nrp OTTAWA — In his first meeting at Reagan’s policy. When Reagan arrived bureaucrats, described Mitterrand as mischief to be stirred up. Low-income
eminent Thevrohnun Ad pre the Western economic summit, Presi- here, he immediately warned Schmidt “a man of vision whose views demand people and homosexuals are politically
eminent iney repounded trom dent Reagan displayed drastic change of dependence on Soviet energy. The respect. The Reaganauts removed the dispensable minorities. Reagan can
the tearful terrorist bombing in Washington by warning West Ger- chancellor responded that the pipeline offending language and the paper’s flourish without them so long as he can
that killed 72 of their number, man Chancellor Helmut Schmidt it would supply only 5 to 10 percent of final version advised a courteous but hold the big middle-class, middle-of-
including Ayatollah Beheshti, would be risky for Bonn to buy natural German energy needs. Reagan arm’s length approach to Mitterrand the-road vote with tax cuts, shrunken
their party leader and Iran’s gas shipped through the Soviet Union's persisted, suggesting U.S. help in pro- government and a stable dollar. Start
chief justice. They have new Siberian pipeline. viding alternative energy sources — AT ISSUE was not the French presi- poking the government paw into their
mobilized Islamic militiasand Neither Gerald Ford nor Jimmy coal and nuclear — in place of Soviet dent’s personal merit but the danger of private lives, however, and you have
a secret police deadlier than Carter would have so directly gas. Reagan being trapped by Mitterrand trou 5:
the shah’s Savak And next confronted the imperious dean of West- This U.S. hard line in Ottawa came and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Middle-class and middle-income, if
We, Iranian vnt Arc will 1, 4 ern summiteers. Nor was that the origi- only after internal battling in Washing- Trudeau in government projects to the 1980 census is anywhere near accu-
11 ’ 44dn,- “ r ' na intention of foreign policy bureau- ____________________________ , transfer resources from the developed rate, no longer mean a husband and
u*iy rainy meir enoice tor crats preparing Reagan’s strategy----------- North to the underdeveloped South. In wife living with two-and-a-half children
president. here. But on the Siberian pipeline as on By ROWLAND EVANS his stiffly-formal first meeting with in a split level with the parlor over a
But the weakness of this cru- Other key issues, politically-appointed and ROBERT NOVAK Mitterrand, Reagan made clear his two-car garage. It is just as apt to
el regime is scarcely a secret. Reagan administration officials beat Field Newspoper Syndicate preference for the private sector in mean two or three single people banded
It is advertised daily in the the bureaucrats. - -----------Southern development. together to pay otherwise insupport-
death lists from Tehran. The result was Reaganism at the Thus, Reagan did more at Ottawa able housing costs. Or a man and worn-
—« i98i n y .TimesNews Service summit. The only thing we wanted to ton. and the same was true of Reagan’s than answer complaints about U.S. in- an, both previously divorced, now mar-
accomplish here.” one senior presiden- position on so-called North-South is- terest rates and react to the Mideast, ried to each other, both of them possi-
tial aide told us, "was showing that sues. State Department positions on aid Reagan’s positions actually set the bly working. There are his children,
Ronald Reagan stood for something.” to the underdeveloped Southern Hemi- boundaries of this summit, dooming her children and their children, and
They succeeded. If Reagan at home is sphere read suspiciously like Carter inclusion in the final communique of sometimes the children live with him
accused of formulating no foreign poli- administration doctrine — possibly be- Trudeau’s grandiose scheme for "glob- and her, and sometimes some of them
cy. Reagan at Ottawa left no doubt cause they were drafted mainly by al negotiations” to redistribute world live with his former wife and some with
where he stands. Assistant Secretary of State Robert wealth. her former husband.
Hormats, who was a senior official in
OFFICIALS of the other the Carter administration. OTHER NATIONAL leaders here did THESE PEOPLE are probably just
industrialized democracies, who often not like Reagan’s intransigence any as avid about tax cuts and chivying the
complained Carter did not stand for NON-REAGANAUT Hormats more than Carter’s indecisiveness, pauper classes as the old-fashioned
anything, grumbled here that Reagan encountered implacable opposition “Reagan should remember what Harry two-and-a-half-child family with mom
stands for too much. At Ottawa, they from Reaganauts in the Treasury and Truman said: You can tell a man to go and dad married 20 years, and there is
learned as have congressional Demo- Office of Management and Budget, to hell, but you can’t make him go,” no reason why Reagan cannot hold
crats, that behind his warm personality They switched the administration's po- one European diplomat told us. "We them in his coalition if the Laffer Curve
and pleasant chatter, Reagan is rigidly sition to opposition against a World have other options than blindly follow- proves out.
ideological as no other American presi- Bank scheme for substantial U.S. ing the Americans." In fact, Reagan in On the other hand if he is forced to
dent hasbee n. financing of Third World energy devel- Ottawa told nobody to "go to hell." But bring in the government and cut off
e ottawa. summit came at an opment, representing the industrial democracy abortions for them, and sanitize their
unpropitious time for Reagan, quite Another backstage battle was fought best combining political stability, mili- television, and improve their moral
apart from interfering with his tax bill over the approach to the new French tary power and economic health, he tone, rage could be quick to howl. and
ight and coinciding with the newest president. A first-draft briefing paper, showed no hesitation in carrying his coalition could come undone quick.
Mideast crisis. His lone natural ally prepared for Reagan by foreign policy Reaganism to the summit. ly.
here, British Prime Minister Maragret
tormenting him as a betrayer of New
Deal dogma, as a friend who had sold
out. It is hard and sad to wield power in
Washington when your friends want
GASTON J. SIGUR knows more than is extremely compatible. Both are free which it wants to eliminate through a you to stand by ancient friendships.
a little about China and Asia. He is enterprise and democratic societies, world revolution—but it has no perma- President Reagan also has some
director of the Institute for Sino-Soviet nent friends. The Soviet Union, its for- "red-hots” in the wings. In the political
Studies at George Washington Univer- "TO BRING the People's Republic of mer good elder brother, and the Viet- gibberish of the day, they are often
sity; China, as some have suggested into this nam communists, to whom it gave $20 called "the extreme right,” though the
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tainted employee is kept on Congress and the White House careful about getting involved in any United States. China is a communist
long enough for the controver- will want to know why CIA and "strategic triangle" with Red China to country basing the fundamental princi-
sy surrounding him to tarnish FBI invesigators failed to thwart the Soviet Union, somebody in
the administration as well. recognize the seriousness of al- the Reagan administration should lis-
Second, Mr. Hugel seems to legations that Mr. Hugel may ten.
have been something of a disas- have been guilty of stock ma- With the traditional distrust of the
ter at the CIA. Whatever his nipulations during the mid- Japanese for Peking, it is unlikely that
organizational skills, Max 1970s. they.will ever consider China as a
Hugel’slack of experience in Meanwhile, William Casey’s ±^£±3
nteuigence oi international af- sponsorship of Mr. Hugel over reconciliation with Moscow). Tokyo
fairs left him woefully ill-suited the audible grumble of the has been burned badly through China's
to preside over the CIA's covert White House staff last May has cancellation of billions of dollars in
operations. now come back to haunt the industrial deals presumably signed.
The appointment of the New CIA director, and may chill his sealed and delivered in the last two
Hampshire businessman last relations with those close to the years.
May reportedly stunned the in- President. wy, g . g
good enceacomm unity,and.for And, inasmuch as Mr. Casey Alexander RaigSanscothers ’ „
amounts to Leim L eIA now faces some questions Reagan administration seem obsessed
spymasterreaeing a hee fvi about his own past business with their anti-Soviet policy and in
spymaster requires a sensitive dealings an eroded relation casting the Russians as the worst of the
y and reservoir of experience Shin Witk tf ™ Reds they are warming up to, with
that Max Hugel simply didn I Ha” LX need, great speed, the other”’Reds in
Possess. "e ms -hing he neepdtdstorioiservic. Peking, even offering io sell offensive
arms to the Chinese.
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urges greater caution and particularly
T i-i i . warns against using the U.S.-Japan-
Iran s clerical rulers class. That is an important sig- China “strategic triangle” in a mili-
recently expelled Western re- nal, for no Iranian regime has tary alliance sense.
porters, charging that the been secure without the sup- "The United States and Japan,” he
press sought to discredit their port of Tehran’s huge bazaar said, "are allies and as such closely
regime. But what could be focus for politics as well as coordinate defense and security
more defamatory than the offi- commerce through the Policies. The United States is commit-
cial news reports that Iran dis- centuries. Devout Moslems, the tedto thed efenseofJapan. • Econom-
seminatesevervday?. h bazaar merchants welcomed United States have" a worldav"ewnwhich
More than 200 Iranians have Ayatollah Khomeini and
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