THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 40 Friday, April 18, 1986 THE ARTISTS INSIGHT dali vickers icart hibel agam ledebang alvar bretas henry nixon miro rubin thielin boulanger maxwell dyce erte deberdt yawarski • U.S. Can't Do Much Now For Mideast Peace THE WORKS paintings, lithographs, sculpture, pottery, glass, native primitive BY JOSEPH AARON Special to The Jewish News THE ORIGIN america, africa, canada, brazil, peru, indonesia, france, switzerlind THE PLACE closed sunday daily 10:00-5:00 rRed Grossman GIllerlf 29528 Northwestern Highway in Sunset Strip Southfield, MI 48034 (313) 350-1686 From the time you enter Linden Medical Supply, until the time you leave, you're treated as a special friend. Our trained staff will listen to your concerns and advise you in equipment selection. Our profes- sional staff will deliver, set-up and instruct you in equipment operation, and they keep coming back until you're at ease with the process. Linden offers services you won't find just anywhere, like professional MEDICARE 21120 Greenfield Oak Park (313) 968-5000 M-F 8:30 - 5:30 Sat 9:00 - 3:00 consultations and private rooms for - personal fittings. Linden Medical Supply is dedicated to making home health care easier. * TENDER LINDEN CARE 15133 Telegraph Road Redford Township (313) 531-7380 M-F 8:30 - 5:30 3839 28th Street S.E. 962 Newburgh Road M-F 8:30 - 5:30 (313) 326-2900 M-F 9:00 - 5:30 Grand Rapids (616) 949-1199 Westland President Reagan's former Na- tional Security Advisor says now is not the time for the U.S. to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. Though AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, has announced it won't oppose the administration's move to sell $300 million in ad- vanced weaponry to the Saudis, Robert McFarlane says he's against it. `I've always felt that what justifies arms sales is if they are tied to a major effort toward peace, if they are clearly related to reciprocal steps to foster the peace process. "We should only sell arms to those who are willing to take concrete steps to advance peace McFarlane: Action'is the only as part of a coherent strategy. way to halt terrorism. While I think that day will come, I don't think the time is right a time when we act against ter- now." rorists. It's not necessary to wait In fact, said McFarlane, he until people are killed to act doesn't think now is the right against the source of violence. time to try to do very much Action is the only way to reduce about peace in the Middle East. threat:' The time to do that was a few the And a serious threat it is, said years ago and, he says, the ad- McFarlane, because terrorism ministration blew it. "is not a remote problem that "There was a moment of real doesn't 'affect America. It's an opportunity for the U.S. to apply on Western civilization, - leadership after Israel went into attack- it's barbarism in its worst form. Lebanon. The PLO had been badly defeated. Syria was It's a deliberate assault on our weakened. And when the Arabs country and on civilization as we are down, that's the time to do know it:' That's important to remember, business. We should have forced the pace of negotiations, but we McFarlane said, because it missed it. "lbday, things are much more complex. Syria has rearmed McFarlane believes itself. And while King Hussein the U.S. blew its is well-meaning about wanting chance for Middle peace, it's more a matter of self- interest than altruism. He needs East peace. He now peace beause the demographics of his country are not promising favors more action for him at all. Yet he has to be against terrorism willing to take real risks and I don't see that happening. I also and opposes arms don't think the conditions are for the Saudis. right in Israel for major peace negotiations. The economic problems there are absorbing reminds us that our policy in the the energies of the leadership. But while it may not be the Middle East must "support time for peace initiatives, it's countries with the same prin- always time, said McFarlane, for ciples as ours. We shouldn't start the U.S. to show its leadership. doing business with terrorists, Which is why our action against the PLO. We can't compromise Libya in the Gulf of Sidra was our principles for expediency or the right thing at the right time for some forlorn hope of peace from people whose track record in the right place. "It showed that the U.S. cares has never included a peaceful about its security and the sec- proposition?' It's important to remember, urity of its friends add is willing to use force if it has to It showed too, for the same lessons apply that while we can't deter indivi- to U.S. foreign policy in general. dual acts of violence against Policy that's doing pretty well at America and its allies, we can go the moment, McFarlane said, be- after the states that support cause "we're in very good shape as a country. Our affiances are as • terrorism?' strong as they've ever been, re- And that, he said, is the only way to stop terrorism. "There spect for us is high, countries are must be a demonstrated cost. looking to us for leadership, the Our country traditionally has world has confidence in the U.S." That's not something to take put off action, going first through every non-violent in- for granted, said McFarlane, and strument at our disposal. It's. it's a far cry from where we were been very hard to get Americans only five or six years ago. "At the end of the 1970s, there very interested in something that is not a very clear and pres- was clear evidence that the ent danger. But there must come decline of our society was very