European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page. 10 the stars and stripes tuesday november 11,1988 Anthony Lewis Cuomo musings answer columnist s charges .4 n a . 4v. In in an Muj la a t  until him cd re Dav. 1 look Mario Cuomo won 6s percent of the votes m new York but his Campaign Drew much  and selfish. 1 called it in a column after the election. Thai comment brought a Telephone Call from governor Cuomo. I am a trial  he said. Maybe trial s Why i m so combative sounding and am called a bully. I m used to the courtroom. Matilda says that at dinner on a Good Day i sound like an affidavit. In the courtroom you can t use hearsay. But in the press if someone started saying it 16 columns ago it goes  it was an unusual Telephone Call not the Standard politician s lament but a Stream of facts and introspective musings delivered with gusto and much laughter. And from the Campaign past it went on to the future to 1988. He began with complaints that he was too rough in challenging the candidacy of an outsider Abe Hirsch add for lieutenant governor and then in demanding that the Republican candidate for governor Andrew o Rourke disclose his tax returns and his Law clients before debating him. Mean 1 Don t think so. Hirschfeld we put to the same test As Lyndon Larouche. When they challenged Hirschfeld s petitions i asked if they had evidence of fraud. They said they had 400 affidavits 400 three times editorials in the new York times said the allegations of fraud were technicalities three times the courts disagreed. Of Rourke i handled badly. I was for disclosure but i should t have made it a condition. We did have one debate " but he did not accept the charge Hal though Way ahead he did Lille to help other democrats in particular to help Mark Green who lost badly in the Senate race to the conservative Republican incumbent Alfonse d Amato. Mark Green s a Friend of mine the governor said. "1 gave him  of my own Money. The list three republicans after 3fl6. Days i campaigned with every Day. Look on d Amato. There l no Way i could have done More for  he said much More about the Senate race going Back to the primary and before Hal. When the Gover nor paused i asked whether his sensitivity to criticism of this Campaign indicated that he was thinking of National office people expect byzantine machiavellian logic from politicians he said. But the Rulh is simple. Trial lawyers learn a Good Rule Don t decide what you Don l have to decide thai s not evasion in i Wisdom. "1 Don t have the right to say i won t consider National office that would be arrogance. But if you wanted to Lay the groundwork for a National Campaign there would have been a dozen things to do that i did t do. New Hampshire i was there for the cover nors conference what would have been the harm of a i Tor Bob gone All Over the place. Now you win you set All kinds of records. Mary Mcgrory says you have no Choice. That s right i have no Choice bul to think about it. But the criterion will not be do i have fire in my belly?1 the Fust Guy who has fire in the belly i m voting against who needs the presidency the worst sin would be going because i need it look mama the test should be is there anyone who can do it better or at least As Well who has the some Chance or a better Chance to win if that s the test i would t be the least bit sur prised if 1 concluded thai there Are better people out there. Or that i be left it Loo late. Frankly i Don t expect people to believe me. There Are patterns in this world people want things. Look at the governors of new York Grover Cleveland Frank Lin Roosevelt Dewey Harriman. There Are More interesting things to Lalk about in this country. Think of the economic problems Agri culture a disaster manufacturing Down our Trade imbalance the budget deficit the monetary problems of Mexico Brazil and the rest. The whole country is losing its productive capacity it s frightening. We want to spend $1.5 trillion on defense arid someday the japanese arc going to be making the weapons for us. Those Are the real prob lems not whether i  the notes i was Able to make and the space Avail Able to reproduce them do not really capture the exuberance of his conversation. Mario Cuomo May not be perfectly consistent. Bul he is  tort runts is 3wiice William Safire . Information chief tricked into soviet Deal i have heard you Are a very Sharp Man said the ingratiating Alei Sandr Vako Vlco Secretary of the communist party s Central committee Locharles Wick director of the . Information Agency As they entered into negotiations on oct. 11 at the Saga hotel in Reykjavik. Flattered and unprepared Tor a new proposal on telecommunications Access the american was drawn into a verbal agreement on behalf of our government hat if not repudiated would Compro Mise . Diplomacy on a fundamental principle and allow the russians to drive wedge Between the voice of America and radio free Europe radio  months before Wick had proposed to the russians that he would help them gel transmission time on a . Radio station if the russians would provide Voa with a Cess to a local soviet radio facility. That gave russian propagandists the Chance to Spring a shrewd counterproposal on the unsuspecting american. Here is paragraph 12 of the official notes taken by the american Side of the Yakovlev Wick meeting provided on t v a using again to Voa. Yakovlev stated that if the . Government in fact did not object to the soviets using a trans Milter on or near . Territory the Sovie Union would respond by ending jamming. It would be a fair Deal Yakovlev said where each Side would present its Point of View without insulting the other. You be got a Deal Wick replied and Yakovlev responded in English "ok.1 after a whispered conversation with an aide Yakovlev added in English i am Only talking about Voa in his Post Iceland speech Mikhail Gorbachev proudly referred to this proposal to Stop jamming the voice of America and you shall give us the Opportunity on your territory or somewhere nearby of set Ling up radio broadcasts to the unite states soon after that Wick told the new \ times that Yakovlev told me they w.1 Stop jamming if they could have Access from within the . Or jus outside the . To medium wave frequent  adding i told him that ibis was very  what the american told the russian according to paragraph 12, was you be got a Deal when the damning paragraph was read by professionals at state and by the National Security Council staff jaw dropped. At a meeting last week in the White House of the International Broad casting committee chaired by the a pcs Walt Raymond and with Usia represented by Charles Warner no copies of the embarrassing Yakovlev Wick Memnon were distributed but two Points were raised that show How Wick had been tricked 1, jamming is illegal under the International telecommunications Union to which the soviet Union is signatory. To use this lawbreaking As the basis for a conces Sion is like swapping a real spy for an inno cent hostage. Only the most uninformed or inept negotiator would permit the russians to use illegal jamming As a bargaining Chip. 2. Over 70 percent of russian jamming is directed at radio free Europe radio Liberty which includes messages from dissidents along with hard Hilling newscasts less than 1 0 percent at the softer Voa rus Sian language programming. Yakovlev made dear Hii offer was limited to Voa which the euphoric Wick did not , not Only did he Trade our local Access for a Stop to some illegal jamming but for Only such jamming of broadcasts that Don t bother the russians How to extricate ourselves from the Wick walk in the Woods without requiring the resignation of the husband of Nancy Reagan s closest Friend the meeting s answer pretend that nose rious negotiation look place and Tell Wick to deny being a policymaker or having reached any agreement. The Usia Man went Back to turn his Boss around programming the director to insist he was agreeing Only to medium wave swaps not an offer on Jam Ming radio free Europe radio Liberty agreed not to complain publicly about being sold Down the River. Stale s iwo ambassadors went Back to foggy Bottom to commence diplomatic obfuscation. Accordingly Wick asserts to me "1 do not create the policy of the United states government and what of his four fateful words in paragraph 12? just a rhetorical  the Only problem is that the russians have note takers too. Gorbachev May not understand that when a representative of the government of the United slates Lay you be got a Deal the other superpower does not live a Deal at All but Only a rhetorical flourish