OPINION The Michigan Daily Page 4 Saturday, November 6, 1982 Will Reagan compromise? Ma By Helen Thomas President Reagan's economic revolution has not been totally stopped in its tracks as a result of the midterm election. But it won't have the clear sailing he enjoyed in his first year in of- fice. The operative word until the returns are fully digested is "compromise," with the Republicans controlling the Senate by a slim margin and the Democrats controlling the House by a large margin. REAGAN, WHO has been rigid in his conservative ideology since the mid- '60s, may have to moderate his views and programs, and that won't be easy. His agenda calls for more cutbacks in social spending and clearly will involve changes in the social system, either by cutting benefits or raising taxes. In the coming days, the president will have to sit down with his key policy makers and decide where he is going for the next two years. Reagan's top aides are all convinced he will run again. The impending selection of Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), his close friend and key 1980 campaign strategist, as campaign chairman of the Republican National Committee, is another sign that Reagan likes being president and wants to remain in the White House for another term. White House chief of staff James Baker, in analyzing the returns, said that the electorate is going with Reagan's appeal that he needs more time for his programs to work. He in- sists that there has been no repudiation of Reagan policies or programs. BAKER'S analysis aside, the vote in the hard-hit Midwest shows that the blue-collar workers he had with him in 1980 have rejected his "stay the course" slogan. Nor did he offer any new hopes for the millions who are in the unemployment lines, except to promise a better future and "a greater America." But the president believes he has a mandate to keep on doing what he is doing, according to Baker. REAGAN'S vigorous campaigning over the past few months has focused on a defense of his economic policies and a strong attack on his predecessors, particularly Jimmy Car- ter. He also laid heavy blame for the deficits on the Great Society programs, contending that he has done much bet- ter for the poor by bringing inflation down. Reagan has never mentioned the cost of the Vietnam War in the '60s and early '70s as a contributing factor to the deficits, or LBJ's failure to raise taxes The president's pull in the House may have been weakened, but his ability to take his case to the country on television should't be underestimated. to pay for the war. IN THE closing days of Congress, Reagan's relations with Speaker Thomas O'Neill-for all the overlay of Irish humor-became downright acer- bic. The lines are definitely drawn for all the explanations that "we're friends after six o'clock at night" facade. There definitely will be a continuing clash of ideologies in the next Congress. Baker told reporters he expects the House coalition of southern Democrats and Republicans to hold on issues Reagan may pursue de Democratic gain in congr seats. But other observers beli Reagan will have to be mor Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Wasserman Vol. XCIII, No. 51 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board For some, F EVERYTHING ELSE FAILS, you can always peddle the movie rights. Take John DeLorean, for example. His wife announced yesterday that he's been besieged with offers for the film rights to his life story. Fresh out of jail on bail, DeLorean and his cocaine scam already are on the multi-million dollar Hollywood auction block. By early next year, we may be treated to "The John DeL'orean Story: The Los Angeles Connection." Ads for the movie come to mind: "Com- miserate with John as his car company goes down the drain. Thrill at hiss financial wheeling and dealing. Gasp with surprise as agents nab him minutes before he completes his $200 million deal." Such is the sordid stuff movies thrive on. But more than pointing out the lurid viewing habits of the American public, these dramatizations reveal that the rich are different-especially when they break the law. It was tem- 1 crime pays pting at first to feel sorry for DeLorean. Poor John, he saw his life's work crumble before he was driven to desperate measures. But how much will DeLorean really suffer? He may serve an obligatory year or two in prison and then sell his jailhouse story to Newsweek. He may recoup his financial losses completely through book and movie deals and even turn a neat profit on the whole affair. DeLorean provides a lesson for us all. It's better to be famous if you have to go to jail. Just look at Timothy Leary and G. Gordon Liddy. They took Ann Arbor for thousands of dollars Thursday night-with their pre- packaged, completely legal ripoff known as the Liddy-Leary debate. These ex-cons have been able to mass market their woes with unparalleled success. Take heart, John DeLorean, at whatever luxury hotel you are. Crime pays-if you don't really need to break the law in the first place. TIN15 I r- OF DIFFICULT CN&E' IN OUR EC~ONOMAY-* Id kTEREoI E PREPRE-To MAKE ",IOU TV1E Vo1LGawNW& £'oP''IoW - r AND T~K-eGCM RESAT LONSV1tP Atlr h I _4'Rt2 Ll I.--p i ybe not and more amenable to opposition suggestions to get any new programs through. BAKER TOLD reporters on election night the returns showed that Reaga will be able to lead the country effec- tively in the next two years. The president, he says, scored in several places where he campaigned for individuals, particularly in what is called "Reagan Country," such as California and Nevada. He also lost out in some areas where he had put in ap- pearances for GOP candidates. But still, the Reagan hopes that the ideological conservative sweep in the country that manifested itself in 198, would continue on course wer dissipated by the election results. IT NOW seems unless he wants to govern by veto, which was done by President Ford following the 1974 mid- term elections, the president is going to have to play ball with the Democrats. On the other hand, the power of the White House cannot be underestimated, nor can Reagan's ability to take his case to the country on nations AP Photo television. The betting here is that he will not selected bend too easily. He was not nicknamed spite the "Dutch" for nothing. essional eve that Thomas covers the White House e flexible for United Press International. FANES CALL FOR. A NEW BETWEN P MANAGEMENT ley M YOUR Jo_ VU ch depicting the biblical words, "They shall beat their swords in- to plowshares." Reacting to the church's op- position to state policy, Klau Gysi, state secretary for church affairs, informed Lutheran Chur- ch officials that the patch no longer was acceptable.'The chur- ch then read the following from the pulpit: "We have been told by the state that wearing this patch ' in schools and in public will not be tolerated. It has been misused for the manifestation of an attitude hostile to the state . . . Thos refusing to remove the patch are threatened with grave con- sequences." As if the quiet, albeit forceful, intervention of Gysi was not suf- ficient, Defense Minister Heinz Hoffman, on submitting a new ip was denied Military Service Bill to legal rights. Parliament expanding military wo-hour rally requirements, rebuked the chur- vas rejected, ch when he said: "Peace and resignation" socialism are inseparabl bly forever, linked ... Socialism and - peace onveniently still need our plowshares and our Soviet swords." ng more has As one East German observer group. later remarked, "The new but perhaps military law is designed to occurred in threaten and intimidate the past spring, broadening pacifist strata of the is had been people as well as the churches ch and state. which are trying to support he Lutheran , them." ed the con- c nm -rhf thechurch's ffor \ y b ' s M A r A YOUR MON I - --- --- - - -- A*az I F iy ( ) i / , 'i a pd - er 2 , BONN, WEST GERMANY - In contrast to the intense debate in this country over the con- sequences of nuclear war, and an even more vigorous dispute in West Germany over the deployment of U.S. nuclear- tipped missiles on European soil, a sad silence has fallen over the incipient peace movement on the other side of the military equator, according to reports from Eastern Bloc countries. During the past six months both the Soviet and East German governments have attempted to extinguish those voices and sym- bols calling for peace and disar- mament. They have sought to replace them with intellec- tually suspicious propositions that peace is only obtainable through the military defense of socialism, i.e., the Soviet Union and East Germany. SEVERAL OF the more recent and striking illustrations of this crackdown are the demise in the Soviet Union of a small "peace group" seeking a dialogue bet- ween the United States and the Soviet Union, and in East Ger- many the silencing of the Lutheran Church and its open support for disarmament. On June 4, 1982, an independent movement "for establishing trust between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R." was launched by 11 nmript intMlie.ainak At an infnr. A sad silen on peace from the Eastern, BI By Paul Magnelia . ,,f.: * Jrl /, Soviet/American television debates screened in both countries. Stressing that they were not dissidents and that their ac- tivities were not directed against Soviet authorities, they cited as justification for their action Leonid Brezhnev's message to the U.N. special session on disarmament in which he called for trust-building measures bet- ween America and the Soviet Union. THE OFFICIAL response to this effort was swift. The two mm.f sntrfim in the nunm In the end, the grou both a platform and A request to hold a tv in Moscow June 27 , and the "petition for disappeared, proba into the c labyrinthian bureaucracy. Nothir been heard from this A comparable, I sadder, situation East Germany this For months tension rising between chur Indeed, since 1978 t Church has nrntest