European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns James Reston lets talk about the president what is it Buchanan its about the Summit meeting with Well i was just thinking that it wont be easy to have a private talk with Gorbachev in Geneva with thousands of reporters at the nothing is easy around do you have a better idea i have several one at a youll remember that Roosevelt and Churchill met on a ship during the last War somewhere off newfound they favored a Summit on the Flat yes they Felt that everything in those Days had to stiffen up a so they kept the reporters on another Bobbing around in the Atlantic 50 nautical Miles away in the out of out of out of everything but while for and Churchill wrote the Atlantic charter on their War and peace Hmann very hmm go maybe youre on to i ran across a funny fact the other night with the possible exception of no Cabinet member on either Side who met in Geneva in november to discuss nuclear explosions has Ever seen so what so i wondered this is a nutty idea would happen if we got All these folks together from both including All the Loudmouth from Congress and the and had a demonstration of what this was All youre losing i know its but i like the idea of a sea maybe where Alaska and the soviet Union meet in the Bering and then maybe moving Down along the Aleutian islands and setting off one last nuclear bang to Wake everybody youre Are you feeling All feeling May i ask a question shoot what do you want to come out of this sum Mit meeting something you want to come out of it or just anything that May come out of it practical arms control or just publicity control Ive said Over and Over again that i want to do two things to control the budget and the arms All i need is the cooperation of the democrats and the rus but they wont then i have a to control the one you have to control the  it be helpful if Between now and november we tried to create a better atmosphere for your talk with Gorbachev in Geneva diplomatic etiquette proper Fott proper for example if you could get the state department and the de sense department to agree Over the summer about our arms control then dont be now youre going too or if that expecting too we could get everybody to shut up Over the summer or at least Cool the let everybody take a vacation and Cut the clamor and the Glamour for a Pat i brought you in Here to make prop not to Stop but please be i cant bal Ance the budget and balance the world at the same of fair in not suggesting we forget the sins of the soviets or of let him rest in peace since he hated it so let me Tell you Nancy and i Haven had any fun since the last the Brush is growing up at the ranch and burning up along the coast of tip Oneill is up on the pocketing a million Bucks for a Book somebody else will and Here i am stuck making speeches to lawyers on the importance of the Rule of Law and the dangers of terror that just my its not hard to be right about the soviets All you have to do is expect the As you and i have but Why on your Way to Geneva to meet this new Guy denounce North Cuba and Nicaragua As a new International version of Allied to the communist conspiracy out of Moscow what do you want me to Pat Cut the Brush and Cut the everybody needs a get soviet ambassador Dobrynin who going Home to see his to Stop by pravda and Izvestia and Tell those dummies to Knock it off for a couple of months and consider the possibility that were on to their bad history and bad i think you need a you York times Joseph Sobran should a lobbyist for loopholes be demos Leader Pat the White House communications is waging a one Man Campaign against new Yorks Mario after the two men swapped insults some nervous republicans warned Buchanan that he was going to make Cuomo our next presi Dent if he didst Knock it fat Chance can you imagine Mario Cuomo carrying Georgia How about Nebraska Minnesota Texas for that Pat Buchanan May be trying to help make the governor the next democratic presidential in the same Way the Nixon White House pulled for George Mcgovern to get the demo cratic nomination in the sound the Ory was that the further left the demo the better for the Mario Cuomo is further left than Waller Mondale on abortion and Gay rights he is a Las ditch defender of redistribution and special interest politics just As these Are going out of even within the democratic party he is taking the Lead in opposing tax Reform just when democrats arc getting the hang of he in just sort of spokes Man the republicans should want the democrats to Pat Buchanan sees that perception is behind his description of Cuomo As the fast talk ing lobbyist for a reactionary liberalism that would kill tax Reform in its the Buchanan View is directly opposed to the View of Many republicans that Mario Cuomo would be a formidable candidate in 1988 and to the View of Many democrats that he is the Savior they have been waiting it is is an attractive in an engaging new York Tough Guy sort of he is a former ballplayer who exudes a manliness unusual in and he is an inventive fighter a self described kidney punch or who campaigns aggressively and can Force an opponent onto the the High Point of his career was his rousing keynote speech to last years democratic but it was a one shot like Richard Nixon checkers that depended on the occasion and the partisan crowd for its and it didst read so Well in cold print its attempt to link Ronald Reagan to the murders of nuns left a bad like so Many of Csomos kidney Cuomo is u skillful politician invincible Hes though Strong in Manhattan not exactly a National base he barely won the governorship in 1982 against an Lewis who never be fore had held or sought Public but it is his not his weak that could Hurt the democrats a lot of his attraction is local color he is a walking Symbol of new York a Nice place to even new yorkers Are ambivalent about their when Cuomo ran against mayor de Koch in the 1982 gubernatorial he capitalized on this by arguing cleverly that new York ers could keep Koch by voting the City liked de Koch in the but it stunned him by voting for Mario Cuomo for it was no Koch was unpopular even among democrats and with his City base he was but the City is also Csomos base even within new York that will hardly be enough to make up for his Lack of Appeal elsewhere in the and the Subtle dynamic that served him against de Koch will work against him if he runs nationally new yorkers who like him As a governor not an overwhelming by the Way May feel differently about having him As consider the sentiment of Charles Lucky a onetime Power in new York a Friend and supporter of Al he Felt strangely drawn to the patrician Franklin Roosevelt when Smith and Roosevelt were fighting for the nomination in 1932 i like Smith and he was the Guy i but he didst talk no better than me and i sorta hated that anybody should be in the White House Talkin like a Guy from the lower East the parallel int but the lesson is relevant local Power Doest always translate into a base for National Pat Buchanan sees advantages for the republicans in having the democratic party identified with traditional new York new yorkers Are perceived As they talk about compassion when they want your they Call you family when they want to put the touch on should a big City lobbyist for tax loopholes be the democrats National Leader Pat Buchan an thinks so do Many press Syndicate