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mean this is not a matter of some devious master the lessons the soviet Mili establishment Drew from Ord War still the source of to Basic never again to be taken by never Agan on our As West european analysts acceptance would mean of War were to we would be the ones to be and on our territory such a Defi the goals of strategic stability Are incompatible for both the task then has to be an attempt to out what stability Means in a Way both can so the focus has been on missile and the results have been to say the an agreement in principle that arsenals Are already much too High for anyone safety could be a Start toward a new search for it is evident that balance must include de sense As Well As that principle should be Reaf it Doest mean abandoning reagans wish to rely More on defense than on which May or May not prove but it does mean full acceptance of the removal of the soviet unions Veteran foreign min Andrei from direct negotiating responsibility May signal greater willingness to explore new approaches on Moscow in any the chances for making Geneva turn out to be a watershed depend on trying to look Well beyond the with Hope Bui without c new York times news service How of understand democratic contender Cuomo Mario err r new York arid eating candidate dem Brauc Rorn nation for president in has a great Deal to learn about run danc matters As Domestic and foreign policies appropriate to a free but for get that for a bit think of Cuomo at another a personal it being the plight of Public figures who seek a Thorit Over us to subject themselves to extra Putica Point one he is a Man Ven sensitive to during his Campaign for governor he reached Rne by phone to argue win an opinion Given in this space that Candi Date Cuomo was soft on crime As witness his dogmatic insistence that the death penalty should not be reimposed in new his Point was that Only in this respect was he identifiable on what might be called the Side of the that in ail other matters he was Tough As nails on and any if the republicans wanted they could of crime a gubernatorial veto of a death penalty so that were the fair i ventilated his Clar but last week his sensitivity to criticism was once again repealed to be very much More polished than his respect for other Peoples immunities to unfair columnist Joseph during the bit Burg wrote several spirited columns arguing the correctness of the course taken by Ronald a cartoonist for an newspaper retaliated by producing a cartoon in which Sobran appears in a the proposition that anyone who supported reagans visit to Tilburg is a nazi is the equivalent of the proposition that who opposes executing criminals is a Cuomo takes pen in hand and writes a letter to the Albany protesting so Gross a violation of defensible polemical standards7 congratulating the car Mario Cuomo is a Man of great person Al political courage a fortnight the new Day Magazine published a lengthy Story on convicted murderers Gary Mcgivern and Charles who have spent 17 years in they didst shoot the who was seated in the front escorting them to a hearing in a third was in urn shot and Klud the but the slate charged convinced two juries the first Jun was but piled up so much confusion that in due course an Adamant group of people became convinced a that magi and Culhane were in fact and b that in any event they had served More time than most convicted murderers about whom there was never any doubt As to their bleeding hearts0 not All of be cause one such partisan no Tough snails As lieutenant of new York under Hugh Carey he wrote a Strong letter to the governors executive clemency Bureau recommending clemency for the one can imag Ine the enthusiasm with which their friends worked for Csomos expecting that the clemency Cuomo so ardently recommended in 1982 would be granted by Cuomo in except that what then happened was Cuomo will answer your letter if you write him about chinese the Only Way to guarantee not to hear from Cuomo is to write and ask him Why he Hast acted on his own recommendation respecting Mcgivern and the re Porter for new Day in his word essay on the those who support Mcgivern wonder whether Mario who wants so much to be known As a politician who takes on the Tough really has the political will to do something he has so publicly described As the right thing to the current Issue of National review reminds us that it was Cuomo who urged Geraldine Ferraro in san Francisco to raise publicly the question whether president Reagan was a Good Christian How can any Republican be a Good Christian being the implied line of mayor de Koch insists it was in their primary who instigated the and subvert vote for not the inviting unwarranted inferences from Kochs what it All adds up to is that we Are All in the months to not Only to listen to Mario but also to observe Mario c 1985 Universal press Syndicate