| Show V“VJ Oil)C r ' Frida) August 26 1988 Page 20 Section Slate Department Overdoes It In Issuing Warning to Israel The United States gov ernment is jus-"fiein protesting Israel s summary expulsion of Palestinians from occupied u rritones But the State Department's d 'final notification went too far Responding to the information that was deporting 25 more Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaa where uprisings have been occur- the U S State Department said ednesday such action is incorrect But it aNo suggested relations between the United States and Israel are verging on ' harmed ” which in diplomatic being language gives reason for some alarm Israel and the United States have disagreed over the expulsion issue before not however in ways threatening the long close links between the two countries Israel's foes would lo e to see this difference any difference undermine US support for the Jewish nation Since Palestinians started rioting and defying Israeli forces in occupied Gaza and the West Bank deportation for suspected ringleaders has been used as a countering tactic Objections including those from the United States ring U government claim that expelling people from occupied territories violates Geneva Convention safeguards for people governed by military occupation Israel of course denies that distinction claiming it has the right to protect its soldiers and residents in occupied Gaza and West Bank communities with measures which may require expelling known troublemakers There's reason to believe this treatment is creating more martyrs than it is reducing the ranks of the rebellious but the formal protest is that international legalities are being ignored Since the outbreaks in the occupied territories Israel has evicted 60 Palestinians The State Department openly agonized Wednesday that rather than an exception for extreme cases deportation is staiting to look like a routine Israeli enforcement method The acceptable response it was pointed out would be to arrest and try’ suspected revolt leaders punishing them if and when they are found guilty Clearly Israel hasn't the patience for that process although expulsion appeals have been allowed with none being upheld Further Israel s highest court has ruled deportation under current circumstances is legal according to Israeli and international law A difference on this matter could continue without permitting it to seriously damage longstanding Israeli-UniteStates closeness Why the Reagan administration considers it necessary to threaten Israel w ith “harmed'’ relations is not all that obvious Such talk encourages factions in the belief that the Palestinian uprisings are driving a wedge between the United States and Israel further fueling those disturbances as impediments to negotiated Middle East peace Since the United States has consistently promoted the notion of mutually devised solutions as the best alternative for ultimate peace in the region it's difficult to understand why this would be the time to either signal a shift in emphasis or permit a misreading of signals The United States has been a helpful participant in the search for lasting Mideast accommodations It could be again By expanding and extending reasons for trust and confidence not certainly by reducing or withdrawing any d anti-Israe- li Debate Point Diluted It is not the sort of economic news that opposition presidential candidates have traditionally chosen to exploit- It s been too good The Commerce Department's latest calculation of the nation's gross national product expanding at a brisk annual rate of 33 percent from April through June only works in the present case to w eaken any potential Democratic attack on Republican economic efforts The GNP the broadest measure of economic health expanded at essentially the same rate as in the year's first quarter when it rose at an annual rate of 3 4 percent This bright spot reflecting a peacetime record expansion of 69 months is analso reinforced with the nouncement that the worrisome trade dav-befor- e low of deficit had shrunk to a three-yea$29 9 billion Adding to the’ economic good news is the fact that unemployment is at a low The only darkening apparent in this bright economic picture is xavs the Commerce Department the second quarter inflation analysis which is accelerating at its fastest pace in nearly ox years at an annual rate of 5 1 percent This is a blunt reminder of the risks of 69 months of unrestrained growth in the GNP the supply of labor goods and "apital are likely to be outstripped with i resulting upward pressure on prices It is a risk that has not gone unnoticed by the Federal Reserve Board a Inch has been judiciously pushing interest rate’s higher in an effort to damp r 14-ye- O en demand For the moment this appears to have been a sufficient effort Still that second quarter 3 3 percent climb in the GNP might stand a little bit of moderation: just to keep the fires of inflation banked however even those Politically fires burning at a 51 annual rate haven't provided any abundance of economic hot water for the Democrats For that matter the Democratic presidential candidate Michael S Dukakis seemed to be calling indirectly at least for turning up those inflationary fires in his appearance before the general board This seems a reasonable interpretation of his statement that “Yes today we have more people working than at any time m our history But the average family income in real terms is" right ’sn t where it was 20 years ago boosting “real term family income'1 risking inflation7 the continual More significantly of economic good news has progression effectively denied the Democrats in this particular contest access trt a traditional presidential campaign talking point the sad state of the nation's economy Right now and quite probablv until the November elections the Republicans can economically point with pride while their Democratic opponents must make do with the sort of esoteric assertions Gov Dukakis offered to the AFL-CIgeneral board That s rather thin soup AFL-CIO'- s hear ffI 1 1 oil wood’s planning a sequel where Kainbo saves Jesus from the cros and thev name the newT religion after him” Nelson Lars-Eri- k Quayle Makes Bush a Very Easy Target Chicago Tribune Service — When J Danforth Quayle graduated fromDePauw Umvcrsitv in May of 1969 the Vietnam War seemed endless and unwinnable but still in the eyes of his family newspaper essential to the preservation of world liberty Thus Quayle fresh from college and facing military conscription was greeted by an editorial in his grandfathers Indianapolis WASHINGTON A Vies on May 30 1969 "We are in danger of forgetting that freedom exists only because ue are willing to sac rifice for its preservaUon We must decide w hat is more important To stand on the ramparts ever vigilant to the threats posed by an alien enemy sworn to our destruction or to ” enjoy a life of ease and luxury Confronted with these stark alternatives Quayle made his choice He would stand vigilantly on the ramparts during weekends with the Indiana National Guard and enjoy a life of ease and luxury during the week Grandpas editorial was apparently intended for other eyes not young Danny s In times past young men of Quayle s mon- - A Tale oJ'Tivo Quayles Leaves GOP in a Dickens of a Mess King Features Syndicate WASHINGTON — J Danforth Quayle is a character from a Charles Dickens novel Like Ebenezer Scrooge and Miss Havisham and Sy dnev Carton his name guides us to his soul Quayle Old Scrooge was a skinflint of course tighter than a nail in a plank of wood Miss Havisham was the spinster in ‘Great Expectations" who refused decades after being jilted to even clear the wedding cake from the table Her whole life was a sham Sydney Carton my favorite was the hero of “A Tale of Two Cities " He was like his name an empty man who sacrificed his emptiness for a love that lie could never share Yes it was a far far better thing than he had ever done Now there's this fellow named Quayle When I was in college I managed to imJesuit by the sheer act press a of checking the names of certain Dickens characters in the giant hbrarv dictionary-standinnervously at the blackboard I one marvelous Dickens name afoff whipped ter another in each case suggesting how its literal meaning offered a guide to the actual character Now a quarter of a century later I have coine upon my favorite Dickens name “’ Quayle or is it “quail to dictionarv' the Quick First the noun "Any of various chicken-lik- e Old World birds Second the verb To lose courage rowd ‘ " er to the blackboard' How do these verbal clues from the Amen can Heritage Dictionary help us explore the real-lifcharacter J Danforth Quayle privileged heir to a publishing empire pleasantly Now handsome baby boomei from Huntington Ind Lets see In the late 1960s those who supported the Vietnam War were labeled hawks Those who opposed the war were dov es What was Quayle'’ Actually he wa-- - som-'thin- c bit of both it seems of a Vu’tnam-era brid h Quay !e sounded like a haw k f cry one re members that He was a conservative very proietnam War his local National (iiiird commanding officer foudiv recalls nd what of his appearance’ Was Quavle ey breeding and education were considered to be the "officer class’’ the men who would lead America's troops into battle and its industries to new heights of invention agd pro- ductivity No more The officer class is vanishing With the nomination of Quayle — through no fault of Quayle s — standards have degraded to the point that Vice President Bush (himself a member of the old officer class) feels compelled to go before the Veterans of Foreign Wars and defend his new running mate with ridiculous words "He did not go to Canada he did not burn his draft card and he damned sure didn't burn the American Hag" Bush thundered to the VFW convention in Chicago Hurray Chalk up one more of Quay It’s qualifications for the vice presidency He could have run away but didn't Push supporters are now arguing that our current fascination with Quayle s military record is a media vendetta a irrelevarcy that journey into a simply distracts attention from the real issues that confront the country But Quayle personifies two vital issues for the public- leadership and fairness Bush has based his campaign for the presidency on his superior experience and judgment or as he says his "tough tested experienced leadership ” Perhaps the single most important thing a president does is nominate the people who will be around him giving him advice and expertise for the next four years Was Quayle really the best he could do? Or was he simply the most comfortable"’ Or worst of all was he selected simply as top Bush campaign aides say for his youthful appearance’ Second the major vulnerability of the Reagan economic record has been fairness These hav e been good years for upper-incomAmericans and generally stagnant for everyone else These are the years of plant shut downs dying industries and dying farms — offset by the fortunes that have been made in Wall Street speculation and corporate takeovers It has been a time of layoffs and wage freezes for skilled workers and stock options and golden parachutes" for business executives America s industries surrender one by one to Japan as American businessmen (the economy's officer class) find there is far more money to be made for themselves f not for the nation by buying and selling each other's stocks than there is from investment invention and production In this conflict Quay le has generally taken the side of the abdicating officer class He led Republican opposition to a bill that will give factory workers and their communities 60 days' notice of plant closings He is says Reed Larson of the National Right to Work Com mittee ‘ a staunch defender of the right to work free of union coercion His biggest drawback for Bush is that he an easy target Here it is little more than a week since Bush was nominated to the highest office m the land and he must still spend most of his time talking about his running mate Bush the old Navy pilot has too strong a sense of loyalty to contemplate dumping Quayle over the side But he must have real lzed by now that he made a mistake - so infamous in that one of those era” Was he some hippie who wore the rebellious uniform of the left wing’ No In terms of plumage Quayle also resembled a hawk His was a military uniform No Bob Dylan costume for him His hair too was GI length Everything in his dress his grooming his manner even his sports — he loved golf — displayed a strong and abiding respect for the values of his hawkish elders Not once it is said did J Danforth Quayle ruffle any of his parents’ feathers But as we now know J Danforth Quayle was not really a hawk Hawks fight Neither was he a dove In the 1960s there were young Americans who opposed the war on moral grounds Some of them the most courageous were medics on the battlefield Other opponents equally radical m their feelings went to Canada or even to jail The more conventional joined the Peace Corps or accepted other forms of government-approvedeferment In each case they were willing to act and dress like they spoke For them ideology was not something to be discussed and left behind in the university cafeteria Quayle took a different route Squeaking and squawking his support of the war he strutted about in a soldier s uniform Everything about him was hawklike — except the choices he made J Danforth Quayle calculated how to avoid the consequences of military-lifwhile enjoying its protective trappings He snuggled his wav into the National Guard because that was the safest haven known to man and bird alike He got to enjoy all the advantages of a military career without ever leaving his Indiana nest He got to wear the plumage of the hawk while he enjoyed the pleasant lifestyle of the weekend warrior Charles Dickens could not have done bet ter Quavle ' What better name for a character who talks and dresses like a hawk but fights like a dove long-hair- s d e ’ A Bush Made Errors in Selection of Quayle son and two other lawmakers On Aug 18 the last day of the GOP con Tribune Washington Bureau ASHINGTON — Regardless of whether the flap over Sen Dan Qua' le s military is a tempest m a teapot i' manv Re- ser-vie- e publican partisans nmtend or uhi ther it is a legitimate issue that has exposed the Indiana senator as a hawkish hvpoerite one thing is clear (merge Bosh s method for i housing his running mate u as extremi pet h ip- - fatalh flawed Rush want' d his hiuet ferve ptisident to be a Big surprise IB- wanted to keep the puttin' and thi media m suspt nse so thev would pn more nttntion to 'Diit hi feared would ht an other wisi hoi mg w publican National ('omentum in New ('D'otis If word li aked out d'out whom Bush had i poked the (onvi'ition he'an on ig 13 that would less n interest m the all too predictable ouu omt of a orivi ntiori that would nominate hrn for pri sident £ I $ l i rh jg&i jr U h le w ant m to kt op the put lie and metn siispi nst was an undi rs'amiable goal lt s wis proiess low dal' ' "t am lis( to ki't p the sen i ning span tin losing candii mharrassim nt ' Bush let those t'l'l'-- tiv s gt t in Uie wav of a far more impor I "it goal Vino ehoosini' the rutit man tor i omul is Ins n pi idei t id tuning mate lien Mi ri Old- two eople involved III ho u 0 i n u to ami m ’ ei iiim: process of the m t in id m i ps Kota It Kimimtt a 33 vear iii-di- t kt to t i t i I id i t 1 1 B 't' ' jp ' " old and ill mi si If a ho lil tin nli iew s w as un ft on) B s in shoe most of o't u I'll Inn ho I'm s km ad I i 1 t ' visers were kept in the dark about what Kim-nuhad learned from his background checks about what questions he had asked of the potential vice presidential candidates and about w hat answ ers the would he running mates had tt given In using this closed screening process Bush war successful in keeping his choice of Quayle a secret But keeping that secret came with a steep price unexpected controversy disSpecifically the day closure that Quavle a hawk on militarv issues had turned to his politically-influentia- l familv to help him get into the Indiana National Guard in 1969 — rather than wait to be drafted to serve in the Vietnam War w hi h he supported Bush Campaign Chairman James A Baker and other top Bush aides instead of cnjovmg their boss’ nomination in New Orleans during the Aug 17 rollcall of the states were scram tiling to get the facts on Quavle Not only on his admission into the National Guard (nil on his academic record and his role in the 1"H0 sex sraml involving lobhwst Paula Birlin vention Baker and his lieutenants were endamage-contro- l gaged in a full-til- t operation Had Bush participated in the interviews with his potential running mates or had Baker oi other Bush advisers with savvy been involved — then Quayle s liabilities might have been recognized and checked out If so either Bush would not have chosen Quayle or Bush and Quayle would have been better prepared to answ er questions about the senators National Guard service and other issues Either way Bush would have done him self an enormous amount of political good As it is the Republican presidential nominee instead of hitting the ground running after leav ing New Orleans has been tripped up by the Quayle controv ersy He has lost v aluable time and momentum in his battle against Democratic nominee Michael S Dukakis Bush s first presidential-stlead — the selection of a v ice president — has been marred by a controversy that he could have avoided altogether or could have better explained and contained Whether voters view his choice of Sen Quavle as a good or bad decision will tic evident hv November assuming that the hull ana senator stavs on the GOP ticket But Bush rlearlv failed in the secretive counsel way he chost keeping Quavle He should have heeded the Bihlual wisdom that in an abundance of counsel ors there i safetv ' iPruv 11 14t and m ibumlnm-- i of counselors there is mv-iiw- n vo-po- |
