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Show gait akf Sribunr Thursday Morning, April v-riio- n 6, 1978 Page Mi Enforcement Must Concentrate On Drug Substitution Threat There is a subtle side effect to law enforcements laudable effort to rid the illegal drug market of extremely dangerous additives to marijuana and other less powerful hal- cause the cost of extracting THC from the plant is prohibitive. But the unsophisticated drug user doesnt know this and accepts the potent animal anesthetic in his or her lucinogens. ignorance. Drug enforcement officers are thus put in the position of attacking the greater threat, the phony THC, and in so doing they are forced to picture the comparatively benign drugs in a favorable way relative to the more dangerous one. That does not amount to actively promoting the lesser danger but it cannot help but place the milder drugs in a better light even though arrests for marijuana offenses are still numerous. Since popular acceptance of the milder hallucinogens is fast becoming an accomplished fact despite legal dictates to the contrary, narcotics enforcement should by all means turn its attention to the drug fakers who deal in mind scrambling merchandise. The lesser cheats .who abound in the illegal drug world can be written off as part of the overall risk of traveling there. By concentrating its attention on this crime within a crime, law enforcement finds itself inadvertently instructing people, mostly inexperienced youngsters, how to recognize the good stuff. reminds us of some parents who, during the worst of the drug use explosion, considered it a decided plus factor if their children stuck strictly to alcohol. This is not to condemn the effort to It warn young people about the excessive danger of counterfeit substances. In Sundays Tribune reporter George Raine disclosed that a highly dangerous animal anesthetic called phencyclidine (PCP) is being widely sold in the Salt Lake area as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is the active component of marijuana. Actually, concentrate the marijuana be- - is not obtainable Dont Run to Courts "Ho did it!" Grorgie Amir Gvvtr Cuba Sings New Latin America Tune The I os Angeles Times , , Peru's reformist military took over in was the next experiment after Cuba and there was hope all over the hemisphere for When Peru In the growing tension of the Nicaraguan situation, the question is, "What LIMA. 19(i8, it are the Cubans doing The answer, there? which I have from unimpeachable sources and friends in the Far Left in Latin America, is even more perplexing than the question. The Cubans are doing nothing. The fundamental policy quesWell, not exactly number of occasions, school Conin resolved the tions They are appropriately desegregation for example, advising." And what M. Geyer courts have been accused of going too gress and in the state'legislatures are they are advising the in the Sandinist Liberation Front, the far in telling other branches of not subject to federal courts under guise of judicial , government how to do things. guerrilla group fighting dictator Anastasio Somoza, is by all means to be wrote of review action, agency Critics of judicial intervention moderate. William II. Rehn-quisAssociate Justice to should stick courts that complain They advised the "parents" to expand last t' interpreting the law, not mandating and they want a fall to bring in in an The decision is another moderate successor to Somoza. The word is solutions to problems that come of "Dont bring in 'Yanqui' intervention." before them. That, the critics say, is emerging pattern or should, After six weeks of reviewing Latin America that will, certainly rulings i; the province of the legislative branch the national inclination to from the perspective of 14 years of involvement ' discourage in that hemisphere, I have never been more and of regulatory bodies it creates, seek court solutions to every kind of convinced that the Cubans are being utterly Two rulings of the Supreme Court o careful precisely because the Cuban expericontroversy. of the United States this week can lx It would, of course, be wrong lor ment has become such a relatively important taken as a reminder to federal judges the Supreme Court to shade its model. that the high court also takes a dim opinions with an eye to reducing its Indeed, my Communist friends admit ruefully, it was precisely because Cuba was' such a 'i, view of attempts to revise major own work load and that of other failure in influencing Latin America that she policy decisions of Congress by judi-And there is no indication that turn'd to Africa. judges. cial fiat. this was a consideration in the two Cuba, after all, originally became CommuIn a sharp criticism of the U.S. nuclear power plant rulings. All the nist when the Cubans emotionally followed the caudillo Fidel Castro to his form of Court of Appeals for the District of same, the message has gone out once charismatic Cuban Marxism. It was never a prototypal , Columbia, the Supreme Court unani-- . more that citizens who seek judicial national experience for Latin America mously removed procedural obsta- - relief in matters that are the province Require Russ Help des imposed by the appeals court on of the political process are wasting Moreover, while 20 years of Castroite construction of two nuclear power their time as well as that of the revolution has done excellent work in health and education, it would not exist without the courts. plants in Vermont and Michigan. Soviet aid that has from $1 million a On a Marxist-founde- d t. anti-litigati- I)a id S. Broiler Carter Faces Serious Difficulties Due to Wide Variety of Issues b . Women at Anns catapulted day 10 years ago to $3 million a day now. Again, hardly an example of good planning, capital formation or economic independence. Indeed, recently both Guyana and Jamaica have been turned down by the Soviet Union for Cuban-styl- e aid and thus are turning West again. Latin Americans today seldom talk about Cuba. Statism and caudillo are considered out of fashion. But. as one American ambassador pointed out to me so rightly, referring to many in the American administration's fascination with Cuba, They are fighting the last war. They are. What is happening, then, if Cuba no longer is the revolutionary' model? Latin America is quietly going ahead, on its Equal Rights Amendment oppo- oses going to 7 percent. Obviously, nents have recurrently argued that theres interest by women willing to passing the measure might lead to enlist and recruiters suggest the women being drafted for combat opportunity for advanced pilot and duty. That development may not need shipboard responsibilities would a constitutional change. probably attract considerably more. to recent reports, the If a woman is suited to a military According U.S. Defense Department would like career, why limit her to nursing, s authorization to plan for more female clerking and other mostly is often combat training. It seems long range own, to work out new balances. duty? That question "Representative government with accountabil15 a foresee projections percent answered with the plaintive rebuttal, ity is probably the best way to characterize decline in Would you like to have your daughmales available the immediate future. for military service during the 1980s. ter being shot at? Well, how is that The Cubans' failure was not the only leftist So, giving American women more so much worse than having a son shot down here. The failure of Allende's Chile front-lin- e the end, for the moment, of the far assignments is considered a at? War is a honor because anyone marked alternative. Another debacle was Ix'ftist it. conno or alternative. Theres plausible crippled fighting gets killed Peru's leftist military's denouement. stitutional impediment to it. Currently, only federal law preMieluiel kilian vents U.S. females from joining military combat units. And bills are supposed to Ik ready for Congress which would immediately repeal strictures on women serving aboard behind-the-line- The Washington Post 111. In recent days, this reporter has had an opportunity to discuss the political scene with four very disparate observers. One of them was an organizer of the 19U8 McCarthy campaign, now in government. Another was an adviser to George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1976. A third was a principal strategist for Richard Nixon in 1968, and last time, for Ronald Reagan. The last was a Republican who worked for Nixon in 1972 and helped plan BLOOMINGTON, Gerald Fords cam- paign in 1976. Spanning the political spectrum as they do. there were obviously many points of disagreement in their analyses. But on one point they were in agreement the last (wo months of this year and the first months of 1979 are likely to be an extraordinarily important period in the political life of President Carter. To a man. they agree that the odds now favor a continued erosion in Carter's political position in the seven months between now and mid-terelection day. They base that expectation on the following factors, not all of which were mentioned by : 'Korea gate7 Probe Barely Chugs Ahead ships and planes. Technology makes this as reasonable as it is feasible. The advanced nature of modern weapons makes them virtually unisex. It requires specialized learning. but little biological distinction to operate the computers that aim and .launch missiles, that govern super-- i sonic aircraft, that guide attack vessels. At present, 108. (too women serve m ' the U.S. military, roughly 5 percent of the total force. The Pentagon prop- war-read- y Orbiting Paragraph- There's a campaign for accuracy in the media. The FCC wants TV newscaster to reler to "Jimmy Carter's alleged energy plan " Nixon expects his t tx)k to do well He says it's 197 that you can the first thing hes done since enjoy without a tape player Some critics accuse Jimmy Car ter of apathetic. But he says he simply couldn't care less. It Tongsun is a beautiful Korean name means heavy tipper. Chicago Tribune relentless, penetrating. lne to bleak open the Koreagate scandal, the Justice I 'enactment has indicted Otto Passman, a hospitalized retired Congressman. on charges of accepting $2tH!.iXHi in an allotted shady Korean rice deal This breathtaking Justice Department triumph is the second Korvnjtate indictment to lie returned in recent weeks It is the second Koreagate indictment returned since the investiitation heitan more than two eais ago In fact, it's just the second koreagate indictment in the history of mankind Kiehard Manila, another former congressman. pleaded guilty last month to a single count of conspiring to swing American foreign policy in favor of South Korea for $2iMI,lHXl Mure I.urk Out There? But the Justice Department is not through There are more former congressmen lurking out there. Before the statute of limitations runs out or they expire from advanced old age one or two more may he brought to justice About the best that can be said about the Justice Department's glacial progress is that il seems swift as a thunderbolt when compared with Congress' own Koreagute investigation. Now that it has the testimony of rice dealer Tongsun Park that it txdlowed for all those many months, the Mouse Koreagate Commit tee is still not content Intrigued hv the testimony of Korean agent Maneho Kim, it is now seeking testimonv from former South Korean Ambassador Kim Dong Jo. As he is in In it Kun a, the committee has been pressuring Kim Ynng Khik. the current ambassador. But now Kim Yong Shik is also in Korea, conferring with Foreign Minister Park Tong Jin. Prime Minister Choi Kvu Hah, and President Park Chung Mee. Statute of Limitations The statute of limitations will run out before the committee even gets the Kims and Parks straightened out. Hah indeed There is one development This month, the Mouse is to take up the $1.1 billion military aid package that President Carter promised the South Korean government if it would go along with the American troop withdrawal that and that the President Carter promised North Koreans have been demanding for the last 33 years warned that The South Koreans have this military' aid could be cut or killed, no matter how damaging to international security, if they dont "cooperate" with the Mouse Koreagate probe. i The South Koreans are doubtless wondering if the Russians have crackl'd our diplomatic code and sending spurious wacko mesages over U S communications channels. Or. the Koreans may he wondering just what might le meant by the term "cixqxTnlc." Is the Mouse trying to get the Koreans to reveal the entire plot, complete with a list of hundreds of Capitol Mill names? Or is it seeking the kind ol eiMiM'i at ion that might go like this another, third new way" between capitalism and communism. The military nationalized the haciendas and many big industries, formed cooperatives of peasants and workers. It was breathtaking. But, at the same time, they killed investment so that when the oil they expected didnt flow and the prices of their commodities dropped into the cellar, the country came to where it is today, on the very brink of bankruptcy. Mix Proved Fatal It was a fatal mix of enlivening the population and a criminal disregard for capital formation. Cuba was the first, the Marxist state; it survived because of enormous subsidies that will not likely be given again. Peru was the revolutionary state; i failed because nobody read economics. Nicaragua is not likely to go either of those ways. I may be wrong, but I think that what we arc seeing is the end of the period of leftist experimentation and the beginnings of patient development through some kind of representative government with accountability. (Copyright Yes, we did it. We Koreans gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to this secret band of elderly former congressmen, knowing that they and they alone could swing American foreign policy our way That is all there is to Koreagate. Thank you. Goodbye. In pondering the eventual outcome of Koreagate, I note that, through our lone national history, the Congress has been a real whiz at investigating presidential scandals Credit Mohilier, Teapot Dome, Watergate. But it never seems to get anywhere with its own. recall one in 1835, when President Jackson was trying to remove federal deposits from the Second United States Bank of Philadelphia anil the hank's president, Nicholas Biddle, was bribing congressmen in an effort to stop Jackson 1 - Borrows- $ toil, Him Bulille, who later "Ixurowed" $4oo,oou from the deposits himself, made the bribes in the loans." Congressform of never man Davy Crockett was one of the hrihees. Daniel Webster, the most respected member the U S Senate, wrote Biddle an angry letter he It apjx-aralxmt these shameless goings-on- . had been left out. "1 Miove my retainer has not Urn renewed or refreshed as usual," he wrote. "If it be wished that my relation to the hank should lx continued, it may lx- well to send me my usual retainers " of s - A ( statue honoring Webster stands "apitnl toil. in Copy right in the each of the unpaid consultants on this column: The probable deterioration in the interna- tional situation, with higher tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union; a risk n of breakdown in the tenuous negotiations; and the danger of conflict in Rhixlesia or other parts of Africa. The likelihood of frequent r- - buffs for Carters legislative program b a Congress whose Democratic members are increasingly nervous about the impact of his policies on their election chances in November. Most serious of all. the probability of adverse economic news, including sharply higher food prices, worsening international trade problems, the threat to the dollar and the risk of troubles with the OPEC countries over higher oil prices. Viewpoints on Elections At this point, the four men are, with varying degrees of certainty, swinging to the view that Carter's problems are likely to contribute to a worse beating for his party in November than has been expected. The two Democrats are less willing than the Republicans to concede such a result, but they have come to the same conclusion on a related point. All four assume that almost every' defeated Demix-ratiincumbe he farm-stat- e bent governor. Western senator or suburban congressman will be inclined to blame his loss not on his own shortcomings, but on the errors of the Carter administration. They expect that the Democratic scheduled for December in Memphis, will be one large gripe session, no matter how much the White House tries to prevent it Among Republicans, the belief is that t lust rung perception of Carter's 1!W) vulnerability they expect at that point will accelerate the pace of candidate announcements among their already large field of hopefuls. But the pressures will be even greater on Carter to change people or policies to shore up his position after the mid term election. He faces what all four men regard as crucial choices, beginning with the necessity they all sec to shift or drop some long-timassociates who are not pulling their weight in their present White Mouse or cabinet assignments Options for President Assuming the next Congress will be mine conservative, more Republican and m..rc ornery tiian this one. Carter can move rightward himself, trying to get in front of the conservative trend in the country, even if it risks aggravating liberal elements in his own party. Or he can challenge Congress and that natii nal mixxl. by calling for tax reforms, welfare reforms and national health insurance, in hope of making it harder for Jerry Brown or some other candidate to challenge him for renomination from the left. Some of these four men think Carter will face an even more difficult choice. Will he turn by which they mean, get serious political and Ix'gin consciously to calculate the overall gains and losses to his leadership position from his individual policy and XTsonne! decisions" U- - win he continue to jump from issue to issue and crisis to crisis as he has done' The four men agree one one final point Carter will have to signal his decisions dearly by the moves he makes between election (lay in Novemix'r and budget day next January. After that, events are likely to control him more than he controls them Israeli-Egyptia- e |
