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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MAR. 26, 1976
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David S. Broder
Foreign policy to play
major role in campaign
WASHINGTON — Even if he did
nothing else in his try for the Repub
lican presidential nomination,
Ronald Reagan washed the word
“detente” out of President Ford’s
mouth and guaranteed that the pol
icy it represents will be part of the
political debate in the coming
months.
One of the surviving Democratic
contenders, Sen. Henry M. Jackson
of Washington, has criticized the
fundamental policy of seeking
cooperative relationships with the
Soviet Union, in terms almost iden
tical to those Reagan used. The other
Democrats have found fault with the
execution of the policy, in the mili
tary, diplomatic and economic areas.
And President Ford, while abandon
ing the word, has shown a com
mendable willingness to defend both
the precepts of the policy and the
way in which it has been carried out
during his tenure in office.
Despite Henry Kissinger’s fre
quent bleats of alarm that such a de
bate can do damage to the national
interest, there is little doubt that it is
not only healthy but vital for the
foreign policy issues to be highly
visible in this election year.
The fact is that the national con
sensus on foreign policy has been
shattered, not by the wicked machi
nations of ambitious politicians, as
the Secretary of State would have us
believe, but by a series of disturbing
events. These events have forced
Americans to examine the conse
quences of their previous beliefs.
The failure of American policy to
achieve its goals in Indochina -—
which was successfully concealed
from the voters by Dr. Kissinger and
his then-President during the 1972
election campaign — requires a re
thinking of the assumptions underly
ing that policy.
So, too, do the altered relations
with the Arab world and Israel, re
sulting from the operations of the oil
cartel and the changing configura
tions of power in the Middle East.
And so do the changes in the polit
ical parties in many of the Western
European countries, the alterations
in economic and political conditions
in Japan, and the prospect of early
changes in leadership in both Russia
and China.
With all the upheavals that have
occurred since the last election and
all those changes in store, the 1976
campaign constitutes an opportunity
that must not be lost. That opportu
nity is to define the alternatives fac
ing American foreign policy and to
evoke from the American voters a
response that will guide policy
makers in Washington for the next
four years.
This mandating function is par
ticularly important as we come to
realize that, for better or worse, we
may have to blunder through the
next administration without Dr. Kis
singer’s shining star to guide us.
The serious question is not
whether we need to have a foreign
policy debate in this election but
how well that debate can be con
ducted. The question is whether we
can get beyond the cliches that insist
we see detente either as “a one-way
street” or as a policy that guarantees
“peace through strength.”
A preface to a more intelligent dis
cussion — and useful reading for
both candidates and voters — is the
short article titled “Is Detente
Worth Saving?” George F. Kennan
wrote it for the March 6 issue of
Saturday Review.
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Kennan — former ambassador to
Moscow, author of the containment
doctrine and scholar of diplomatic
history — is a notably non-
sentimental student of foreign pol
icy.
He begins by making a most sen
sible comment: that the current
criticism of detente represents “an
almost predictable reaction” against
the way in which the policy was
“rather seriously oversold” at the
time it was propounded by Kissinger
and Richard Nixon four years ago.
That is a bad American habit —
overselling the “new model” in ev
erything from autos to national
policies: But it need not be fatal to
innovative change, so long as the
customers get a chance to look past
the fancy wrappings and examine the
package for what it contains. In that
sense, Mr. Ford may have per
formed a national service — and not
just a neat campaign maneuver — in
dropping the label, “detente.”
Historically, Kennan reminds us,
Russia and the United States have
exhibited both striking parallels and
enormous contrasts in their national
developments. Certain aspects of
Russian national life caused us prob
lems long before it was a Communist
state. As far back as 1911, Congress
was forcing President Taft to abro
gate a trade agreement with Russia
in protest of its treatment of its
Jewish citizens.
But the geographical, ideological
and strategic conflicts with Russia
would probably never have posed a
threat to world peace, except for the
fact that these are now both nuclear
powers.
(c) 1976, The Washington Post Com
pany
Associated Press
President Ford headed his cam
paign for the Republican nomination
into California today, where the
presidential primary is 10 weeks
away, while Democratic contenders
focused on the more immediate fu
ture — voting April 6 in New York
and Wisconsin.
Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Car
ter — winner of five of six Demo
cratic primaries — turned his atten
tion to upstate New York after seek
ing votes in Wisconsin. Washington
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, winner of
the other Democratic election, has
been stumping New York for several
days. And Arizona Rep. Morris K.
Udall, another of the Democratic
candidates, prepared for more work
in Wisconsin.
The President’s two-day schedule
listed a day of fund-raising and solic
iting support in San Francisco and
Los Angeles, and another day of
similar activity in Wisconsin.
Ford’s challenger for the GOP
nomination, former California Gov.
Ronald Reagan, was at home as the
President aimed his campaign for the
West Coast.
Reagan, who beat Ford in North
Carolina’s Republican primary this
week, was busy planning a new tactic
for his campaign — a nationwide
television address.
They don’t know the day as yet,’
an aide said of the television talk.
“They’re still shopping for TV time.
Carter was sprinkled with peanuts
Thursday as he and Udall sought
voter support in Wisconsin. Carter,
a peanut farmer in Georgia, ran into
hecklers as he campaigned in Madi
son. He smiled and waved at the
young demonstrators.
At a luncheon. Carter fielded sev
eral questions, including one on am
nesty for Vietnam war draft dodgers.
“Amnesty means that what you
did was right,” he said. “Pardon
means what you did, right or wrong,
you’re forgiven. I’m just going to say,
Come on home where you belong.
Udall, at the University of Wis
consin at Stevens Point, also was
asked about amnesty. He said he
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favors unconditional amnesty, since,
he said, “Richard Nixon has been
granted complete and unconditional
amnesty following Watergate.”
Jackson, in New York City, pro
posed a six-point plan he said would
“save American cities.” He said the
program, costing between $140 bil
lion and $160 billion, would be paid
for with income taxes from Ameri
cans who are now unemployed.
Unemployment would be cut to 3
per cent under the program, he said:
the federal government would take
over the funding of welfare and a new
national health system, federal aid to
education would be increased, con
struction begun on 2.6 million new
dwelling units, and the government
would begin to insure municipal
bonds.
In Washington, White House
aides said Ford is ready to pull back a
bit on the use of presidential author
ity during the campaign. They said
Ford and his strategists have been
stung by Reagan’s efforts to portray
the President as a Santa Claus offer
ing presents to voters in key states.
Said one official, “We may even
bend over the other way a bit.”
Reagan’s national campaign
chairman, Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev.,
said in Chattanooga, Tenn., that the
challenger has an excellent chance of
winning the Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama and Texas primaries and
carrying most of the West.
Laxalt predicted the only Western
States Reagan may not win are Ore
gon and Hawaii.
Meanwhile, there were these
other political developments yester
day:
—Former Oklahoma Sen. Fred
Harris, a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination, said in Dallas he
has information that the administra
tion has gone beyond contingency
planning in preparing for a blockade
of Cuba.
Such a tactic, Harris said, would
be “an interventionist policy, secre
tive and elitist. ” Harris said Cuba “is
no threat to this country, andij
had enough killing.”
— New York’s highest cn
turned down challenges to thesli
new primary election law, seftj
the April 6 Democratic priman
Jackson-Carter-Udall fight.
—Rhode Island’s secretary^
officially removed Minnesota
Hubert H. Humphrey’s namti
the state’s June 1 presidential
mary ballot, at Humphrey’srein
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date, though he would acceptil
at the convention.
— Reagan’s backers stirprs
election officials in Ohio when
filed delegate slates in
state's 23 congressional
plus a full slate of 28foratli
seats. There had been s]
the GOP challenger wouh
Ohio’s June 8 primary.
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