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Vu.ndav, .w "rpbtr 17, I486 AU hey C1ioh to Go to MideaM I Put Yellow Ribbons for Hostages Away Chicago Tribune Servue There are some ne ghborhoods in cnicago mat are so vicious and dangerous even criminals are afraid to walk the streets Hellers solution is for this count! y to stop assuming iesponsibilitv for private i inruns wtio choose to expose themselves to this danger It might sound cold hearted but its ds sensible a proposal as Ive Sensible people Slav aw av Those who must iive in these neighborhoods learn to look over tneir shoulders run fast and kepn their tmir .stint. ked Bit let s say that I aecide to wander these streets late at night may be to soak up atmosphere for a column or a book And let s say that while 1 m strolling some profit motivated lads spot me and decide tu divest me of my c s 1 heaid The warning should be You want to BO to I channel for i inh or in save souls OK but if you re snatched don t expect us to do anything about it You know the risk and you re on your own The alternative is an endless cycle the terrorists kidnap, we pay they release, they kidnap again, we pay they a,-,- I d expect most people ' to say Next time, don t be stupid What Im working up to is what I call Americas Yellow Ribbon Synour tendency to raise the drome freeing of hostages to a national pri- at Cornell University In an essay in The New York Times, Heller points out that those who have been taken as hostages in -- wouldnt expect society to wring its hands and say "Poor man, something must be done to protect a I C d aHV , I i 2V Iraman-America- on hunches and splenetic reactions to the irritations of the hour No one ought fault the Reagan administration for trying to open doors to renewed American friendship and influence once the Ayatollah Khomeini passes from power in Iran Harry Truman chased the Soviets out of Iran after World War II but there would be no pushout in the future should the Soviet gain control But it will take much more than clandestine actions even ones that are not botched to restore America s welcome and prestige in Iran As for Iran s Arab neighbors, given the t American commitment to Israel, is more to be expected than n population, its economic and political woes its petroleum deposits0 What st ategies are we developing to ensure that years hence we will enjoy access to the chromium, manganese, gold diamonds and other resources the friendship of the peoin South ples being most vital Africa Zimbabwe and the rest of southern Africa0 I raise these questions out of une easy fear that very little thinking and planning are being done these days when America acts mostly all-ou- deadly hostility between the United States and some Arab countries while we pay Israel and Egypt several billion dollars a year each to keep them long-rang- ry i from fighting eai h other0 There must be something better It seems impossible that anyone in this administration is fashioning a coherent policy regarding Mexico when the "policy" permits a Babel of provocative, sometimes destabilizing comments from an assortment of U S agencies, including the Customs Service and the Justice Department Even an ad hoc foreign policy is in peril where " there are as many freelance as the llmted States has regarding Mexico As for southern Africa, almost no blacks of consequence believe that this American government is a friend, the exceptions being a few hustlers like Jonas power-hungrin Angola, who will pretend to believe anything if the price is right So very much is at stake for our grandchildren m these parts of the w orld That is w hy it is so troubling to have to wonder who makes U S foreign policy these days And why it is so dismaying to see the supposed architects of American policy so busy cleaning up from yesterdays circus that they can t possibly be looking out for tomorrow e policy-makers- y AS BRIGHT AS THE ORNAMENTS ON A CHRISTMAS TREE, OUR RUBY, EMERALD AND SAPPHIRE JEWELRY, world0 I doubt it All they did is reinforce the same impression left after the unfortunate events in Iceland The administration comes off looking naive and amateurish This is not the stuff of which great power diplomacy is ordinarily made All the same. I believed McFarlane when he said he was not wearing an airline pilots uniform and there was no cake, no Bible and no pistols Unfortunately, Ted Koppel failed to ask if. by chance, there was a dunce cap In fact, the very association by any Iranian political leader with representatives of the Great Satan" could be the kiss of death Q r TYT i 5 ) c alter Scott day-to-da- y tions Where will Mexico be a quarter-centurfrom now, and what will be our role with regard to its far larger much-neede- how-man- e-- long-rang- cloak-and-dagg- y After hearing Reagan and McFarlane, it is impossible to deduce just what they had in mind The president's assertion that there was no quid pro quo of arms for bodies rings hollow against a barrage of facts from around the world that cannot be waved away That massive amounts of US weapons arrived in Iran shortly before the release of each of the American hostages in Lebanon is hard to deny There were simply too many witnesses to the shipments, including Danish seamen who hauled some of the goods That we could hope to improve relations with a government headed by Ayatollah Khomeini is naive in the extreme Nor does it make much sense that a faction friendly to the United States is likely to emerge in Iran any time soon regardless of weapons we send there 1 w f? --w- Persian Gulf area0 How difficult or easy will it be for the Soviet Union to block the U S off from any meaningful influence in this future Iran0 The recent caper is but a ripple in the long stream of events that relawill alter imagination is probably responsible That is not clear What is becoming quite clear is that the president and his advisers were taken Thinking they were dealing with 'moderates," a word with virtually no meaning in present-daIran, the president and his advisers helped Iran gain arms while being seduced into believing they could improve relations and deal for hostages In fact, it is unlikely we can improve relations with Iran on any terms other than those of the ayatollah As for freeing hostages, that is the crudest joke of all We helped free three, and somebody took three more Did their brief and unrewarding appearances the other night help Reagan and McFarlane still the sense of alarm in America and around the why the United States entered into secret negotiations with Iran that somehow resulted in massive arms shipments to that country and the release of three hostages weae. deeeie! Sir What do we want US relations with Iran to be 20 years from now How can we forge that relationship without damaging vital links with the other oil producing nations of the If you had to guess why mission has been construed as a clown act with biblical props, you might assume it was one way for his Iranian contacts to distance themselves from his mission Someone in Iran with a healthy sense of political survival and a good The president and McFarlane broke the administration stonewall briefly enough to dispute the worst inferences being drawn from the know n facts of this btrarre affair The president delivered a ipeech, but took no questions from the press McFarlane appeared on Night-lin- e and answered sime questions but not others He seemed exhausted, defensive and sometimes quite inarticulate He is ordinarily a sharp, clear speaker The basic unanswered question is what a tangled web we When fiit we praetiee to kitchen McFar-'ane- s vincing 0 So maybe its time to put the yel low ribbons away Or to wave them for the little old lady who just got mugged in her own Reagans Iran Action Is Very Naive y 10 bad citv But when a clergyman oi professional educator cnooses to travel several thousand miles to stick his head into a lion's mouth, the White House goes into the ransom business News America Syndicate WASHINGTON Several questions are critically relevant to the kind of world America w ill face in tne adulthood of our grandchildren, but those questions get lost these days in flaps over the goofs and bunglings of the hour result, Heller says this country is now sacrificing its national interests for a few individuals Universal Press Syndicate Take it from the mouth of Robert McFarlane himself He did not arrive ir Tehran disguised as an airline pilot He carried no cake in the shape of a key. no pistols and definitely no BiI ble signed by President Reagan don t operate that way," the president s secret emissary said on television the other night To hear McFarlane's simple low-kerecital of his clandestine trip to Iran is to hear the description of a normal diplomatic mission Similarly, the president declares that this entire affair has teen hideously misconstued Despite massive evidence ti the contrary, the president asks us to believe this was not an deal The McFarlane mission, the president says, was no more than an attempt to elations with a na, improve bilateral tion with which wc have been at odds for more than seven years reOdd, how their assurances fail tu reassure Their declarations, though they sound plausible enough, are ultimately uncon- many live ill An old per- y- -k As a " people like him the I'nited States T n t n t t r oreign i uncy jueyunu ltcagai They were there because of career opportunities or a personal or religious sense of moral duty But it was their choice They knew the dangers they knew they were potential hostages But they went and con-d.ao- in dangerous surroundings son on a thin budget might prefer living in a quiet suburb but he must settle for a tenement instead Honest people dodge bullets and run for their lives in stairwells of public housing projects They have nowhere else to live And when they le hurt or killed it s three paragraphs in the papers and 10 seconds on the evening news We shrug and say that s life in the big etc etc The message to both the potential victim and the terrorists should be Sorry, but it s a private matter between you and them, the V S government is out of it If the terrorists knew they couldn t 2ctv3tv th? Yellow Ribbon uiuiiic auu diiaivc us uurtu, mev 11115m not bother taking hostages If Americans who choose to be in Lebanon or other hostage happy countries knew they were assuming all risk, they might find another place to work W hile 1 respec t the missionary zeal ol clergymen the world is a big place with millions of souls that need tend asked One of the few who has asked it and provided an answer is Mark A Heller, a visiting professor of gov ernment as part of their jobs Or someone w ho is forced by social and economic to live there I have a choice And the sensible i hoice would be to stay aw ay and find omething else to write about Here people nave no cuuice uui , release ority From the W hite House dow n to the corner saloon, we seldom hear anyone ask an obvious question ' Hey what were those hostages doing in Lebanon in the first place'" We don t hear it because it comes off as kind of callous uui uuw uiai uic ciiiummai nccu tu release hostages has led the President of the United States to pay a ransom to Iran the question should be wallet, watch and ring Let s also say that for the sport of it they give me a few whacks on the head Later, as I m being patched up in an emergency room, the cops and curious rewsmen ask whv 1 was in that scary neighborhood at night When I gave my reason, theyd surely say You ve got to be off your rocker And it 1 were honest. Id have to agree I douft if I d get the slighest flicker of sympathy from anyone in Chicago Nor would I deserve any It isn't as if I m a cop, a fireman, a postman or a meter reader people So ing I m sure they an find a few out side of I ebanon If an American hospital 01 uimcr stty administrator or a joui naltst wot king and living in Lebanon that s his 1 hone Iiut m sure there are jobs elsew het t 50 1 OFF The Public Forum Tribune Readers Opinions ber of ridiculous, offensive meaningless advertisements all at the same time JOHN PROWNE .More Questions "vote-for-m- I certainlv agree that abortion is owavs a tragic alternative, even when it is the be1-- ; of the available but ilternatives disagree with those who persistent1.' clamor for a i gisldtive or judicial reversal of Roe vs Wade lie would 1 to put a few - , i Public I orum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address Names must be printed on political letters but mav be withheld for good reason on others Writers are limited to one letter every 10 davs Irefertme will be given to short, tvpewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer s true name. 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