European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday october 1986 columns James Reston negative advice on Iceland Parley unfounded president Reagan is gelling plenty of advice in preparation for his meeting with Mikhail Gorba Chev in Iceland most of in negative. Former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger has said in Public that such sudden and Brief Summit meetings Are  other wounded veterans of the cold War agreeing with him insist that the control of nuclear weapons is too complicated to be left to the political whims and limited technical knowledge of Heads of government. Accordingly Reagan s voluminous briefing books Are full of warnings and what ifs. What if Gorbachev agrees to huge cuts in nuclear weapons on condition that the president postpone his Star wars program and accept a comprehensive lest ban on All nuclear weapons what i the soviet Leader does t mean what he says and his promises Are repudiated in the future by him or his associates or successors the president is Well aware of these possibilities and has stressed them himself Many times in the past. He is caught in a paper crossfire from his own advisers be devised by the conflict Between his anti soviet convictions and his Hope for peace and still intrigued by his vision of a strategic missile defense in outer space. In the past he has been Able to entice others into scrapes and managed to keep out of them himself. But now he is running out of time and he has some what if s of his own. What if he follows the counsels of despair what if he docs nothing in a world of 50,000 nuclear weapons and the arms crisis the budget crisis and the Trade crisis go on As before what if he does t at least make one More last Effort to persuade Gorbachev to see his vision of a safer world Ronald Reagan May not have a confident grasp on the dangerous intricacies of nuclear arms control but he is Abidin Gly confident in his personal ability to talk his Way out of tangles. He Lold a few reporters in the White House the other Day thai recently there were positive signs and definite movement on the part of the russians. I think they be been amazing and they have been since this Man Gorbachev came into Power there. He is the first to my knowledge and memory the first russian trader that hot Ever proposed actually eliminating weapons. Even expressing a desire to see the Elimina Tion of intercontinental ballistic missiles. So this is change. .1 think that this is an Opportunity that should t be  we Road 70 Iceland this is a change in the president s rhetoric too but not in his Faith that he can change things. I said to him Gorbachev in our meeting in Geneva the president recalled that he and i Are uniquely in a position today where we could bring about world War Iii or we re also in a position that we could bring about a peace in the world. And i made in Plain then that we Don t like their system and we know they Don t like ours but we have to live in the world together and we re both going to be better off if we can live in a world of peace,.," in the two Days he will have with Gorbachev in Iceland the president May do Little More than emphasize his Central fact and fix an Agenda for their aides to work on before the real Summit meeting in Washington tale this year or Early next. But it s hard to agree with those who argue that the Iceland meeting is a bad and dangerous idea. He s not going there to decide How Many missiles each Side should have and How they Are to be deployed or what sub limits should be placed on heavy missiles or what to do about sea launched cruise missiles. He s going to Iceland not to talk hardware but philosophy and not merely arms philosophy but human rights philosophy and what to do about Region Al wars and spies and journalists. His Hope for Progress in this Field May be Overly optimistic As usual but history does not support the notion of inevitable and end i a conflict Between states of competing philosophies. Toward the end of the last Century the enmity of Britain and France seemed the greatest danger to peace. In this Century no nation seemed a greater men Ace than Hitler s Germany but As in the religious wars that went on for centuries problems that seemed incapable of solution were finally resolved Between France and Germany the United states and Japan. Reagan is even daring to ask what if Gorbachev really Means what he says at least let s find out. C new Vort Tinwai a we Sinica George will n. Y. Liberal candidate out of tune with voters when the stars Wink out and another wan Dawn peeps through the panic late matter that makes manhat Tan s air so flavorful the Sun s rays Bounce off the Toothy smile of Mark Green. Why is he smiling Green 41, a former colleague of Ralph Nader is the democrats Senate nominee against incumbent Al d Avalo. Immediately after Green won the late september primary new York City s cantankerous mayor Koch a Semi conservative Democrat lavished Praise on d Amato who was pulled into office in 1980 on Ronald Reagan s coattails. Since 1981, d Amato has campaigned like a slate legislator. As Green says d Amato has attended every bar Mitzvah South of  Green Calls d Amato a "6 o clock news senator meaning that d Amato is nimble at leaping on the Issue of the in Stant and offering 20-second sound bites but Green Hopes to beat d Araa to on the 6 o clock news. Green does not have enough Money to advertise his views. He will not take Money from political action committees not that Many would offer in. Liberal reforms passed in the 1970s prevent Given from giving a Senate candidate More than $1,000. That limit especially cripples candidates who win late primaries. It helps incumbents who can raise Money steadily for sin years. Liber Al reformer Green is another victim of Liberal reforms. D Amato has raised More than s ? million. Green is hoping for s2 million. True in the primary he spent just $800,000 and beat a millionaire who spent $6 Mil lion. He says message beats  however his message won because new York s democratic primary electorate is Liberal. Is new York Green says d Amato is a person of no consequence in the City of results Washington gut Green thinks of con sequence in terms of National reputation on progressive issues As exemplified by such new York senator As Wagner javits Robert Kennedy and Moyniham Green says d Amato is Only interested in co Stilu tent service and showering new York with pork. To Many ears that charge does not sound wounding. Green s optimism is grounded in this fact new York has never elected a conservative senator in a two Way race. James Buckley won in 1970 running on the conservative party ticket against liberals on the democratic and Republican tickets d am Ato won in 1980 by beating the incumbent Republican Jacob javits in the primary. Then beating a Liberal Democrat by 1 per cent getting just 45 percent. He won by80,000 votes while javits took 664,544 on the Liberal party ticket in a two person race d Amato would have lost but Reagan has carried new York  Liberal is it Michael Barone the human encyclopedia who writes the Al manac of american poetics says new York no longer has a left Wing vote larger than that of All other Stales. Re Sayi new York May be 3 to 5 percentage Point More democratic than the National average but notes that in 1980 John Anderson carried Only 8 percent of new York and got even less 6 percent in the City. New York pioneered the welfare Slat and pushed it to beyond actually the fiscal limits. The worst excesses were committed by republicans Nelson Rockefeller and John Lindsay. Today. Barone writes new York s Basic constituencies have a democratic heritage but Are displeased with the cultural liberalism of Manhattan and interested in disciplining and preserving but not expanding the welfare state that was established for their  Green thinks his nomination reveals the resiliency of liberalism. However it May actually in Trato the pathology of a party voted in the democrats Senate primary. This year fewer than 500,000 did As the democratic party s liberalism causes Many centrists to Drill away the residue that dominates primaries becomes More in tensely Liberal. So the Drifting Accel draws. If that is the significance of Green Nomi nation it is a grim portent for democrats who Hope to make the party More competitive in presidential politics by nominating a Central like Virginia s former nov. Chuck rot or Arizona s gov. Bruce Bab Bitt. Until recently new York did not have primaries. Liberal Rockefell Zermyle republicans opposed primaries because they were afraid the unwashed Republican mane would get out of control Aid nominate conservatives like d Avalo. They did now Liberal democrats have nominated in Green a pure specimen of an endangered species the undiluted Liberal. He is witty and articulate but has less than a month and lets Money than he needs to Lubnew yorkers Bow Liberal he is. And. Telling them May be suicide. Green is glad but can not say of that the Yankees and mels Are not in a subway  that would prevent people Tor paying attention to politics for two More weeks. He Mutt be hoping the Anna Teiml distr acting met but to wont say