European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes tuesday March 3.1967 Ellen Goodman for some people there will never be enough when it became known that Martin siege had pleaded guilty to Selling insider information one of his bewildered friends said to a reporter he did need the it was by All Normal accounting systems a classic understatement. In i9g5, sic Sci legitimately in Rcd $ million inthe past few months he was Able to scrounge up $9 million As part of his Deal with government prosecutors. Al 38 years of age he had a Connecticut estate a million Dollar condominium in Manhattan a family and a reputation As the Best and the brightest of the Newbreed " vet on a number of occasions this articulate educated Secretary of defense in the takeover world stood in a Public place in new York City waiting for courier like an Ordinary drug dealer. He gave the pass word and got the Cash eventually before his anxiety or Hii conscience got a grip on him siege had taken More than $700.000 in Cash from the godfather of Hii Story Ivan did he do it this is what intrigues people about the latest Star of inc Wall Street scandal. We docs anyone who is already Rich risk it All for a bit More even those who can t spell arbitrageurs those who can t explain the inner Workings of a takeover reach for an explanation of the inner Workings of the psyche the question will be asked again before history is Over. The Public curiosity about the lives of the Rich pales beside our curiosity about inc crimes of the Rich. The profiles of Boesky pointed to an insatiable egomaniac. But the stories about siege Are much More ambiguous. Words like handsome self confident Crea Tive Are attached to his name. So Are words like compulsive and insecure. In the retrospective psychoanalysis we favor it i said that the midlife bankruptcy of the father left his son with a permanent unquenchable fear about his own financial future. He dipped into of Cash Tor spending Money to avoid clipping into his capital. He apparently rationalized it by calling in payoff his consulting if you prefer group analysis then we arc told that Icci lived in the rarefied and immunized world of Wall Street Deal makers. Vast amounts of Money Rodeon the sort of knowledge Siegel specialized in. Slock Rose and fell on news of a takeover. Information waste admission card to play the game with the big boys. K was Loo seductive finally for him and for the others to hold the admission card and not play. But the analysis of parents or Peers does t respond fully to his bewildered Friend s comment he did t need the the suggestion in this querulous remark is that Money enough Money protects people from temptation. In the bewilderment m the crimes of the Rich there lurks the belief that Money should pro vide a Buffer against the desire for Money it Doest always work thai Way. For som people the sense of need always slays ahead of their balance Sheet. There is no enough especially in business where Money is the product. There Are people we All know who Start out wanting enough to pay their Bills and having gained that enough to pay for College and then a second House a vacation. Having acquired All that hey want enough Money to live the same Way without working and then enough Tor their children to live that Way. People who begin comparing themselves to the Joneses May end up comparing themselves to the Trumps. They go on wanting Money to is said that Siegel whose own Home a described As a gatsby estate was awed in turn by the Boesky estate what Isa few million dollars compared to 133 million the new Breed of Deal makers a Friend tells with the morals of the Limo crowd. Siegel went one better. He commuted by helicopter above the crowd. He must have also assumed he could hover above the is not mind you some greek tragedy. Al though we arc intrigued by the distance of the fall Wall Street is hardly the turf of the gods. If the Rich Are different from the rest of us it s became they commit crimes with More digits Why did he do it Why docs someone who is Rich risk everything for a Little More they do it for the Money. In following these Wall Street stories i a reminded of what Emerson wrote there Are three wants which can never be satisfied that of the Rich wanting More that of the sick wanting something different and that of the traveler who says anywhere but Here.1" Wuhan ton foil Wrt Lwi group Flora Lewis Castro Odd Man ouf among common ref regimes Havana Cuba s problems an Sharp new austerity program Are driving it toward More Complete integration Intoc Mecon the soviet economic bloc. Al ready a staggering 85 percent of in total Trade and 89 percent of it exports is with communist countries one or the highest proportions of any bloc member. This provokes several dilemmas Havana s policy is to push for better relations with latin America and Western Europe but room for Trade with them is shrinking. President Fidel Castro has or dered a Cut this year in what was consid ered last s minimum essential figure of $1.2 billion in hard currency imports Down to $600 million this year. That Means Ever More Reliance on products from the communist world especially the Ovici Union. Some officials blame the trend an on allies o hold Back dealing with Cuba which already has a Western debt of s3 billion. But others say they Welcome Ever More integration for socialism As Well As far development says Carlos Rafael Rodriguez vice president and the leading old time cuban communist. 11 comes at a Lime when practically Ever other communist country including the soviet Union is trying desperate by to increase its share of the free world Market As the Best Way to acquire technology Spur modernization and competitiveness. It also comes at a time when most of he others arc trying reforms to ease arthritic structures White Cuba is reverting to More ideological rigor and More Reli Ance on what arc called moral officials still find vivid ways tout it. Revolutionary heart is More than Money said Gilberto Valdes director of analysis at the Central planning com Mission. People had come to think to much with the stomach instead of the heart and soul,1 he said. This reflects Castro s discovery that after 27 years his revolution is losing its euphoric Fervour grading As he is. It has driven him loan Odd comparison to North Korea no attraction Tor any other country no matter How orthodox and fro zen its regime. North Korea and Cuba Are the iwo that directly face the aggressor by which Castro Means the United states he Hassid and therefore they need a stronger purer he is the Only co Irma Nisi Leader who shows support for North Korea s threat to Boycott the Seoul olympics. Castro is becoming Odd Man Oul inthe Way communist regimes Are moving and at the same time More dependent than Ever on the russians. Moscow s economic subsidy is estimated to be Worth some $4 billion a year All arms Are delivered free although cuban officials refuse to give a figure and Lake questions about it As hostile. There is evidence however thai in soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev has told Castro that Moscow s own need make it impossible 10 increase the amount no matter How badly strapped Cuba is. The two Are said to get on Well personally but the cuban press is highly selective and spare in telling its Public about soviet reforms Only the pan about efficiency and tightening up Are being copied in Cuba. Still top people Here claim total Confidence that they can rely indefinitely on getting what they absolutely need fro the russians As a Mailer of Honor mor als and socialist it in t uneasy line to take for proud nationalists who have to try to explain at the sometime Why Castro is taking an opposite tack from Gorbachev on How to improve production in fact some officials admit that development will necessarily slow Down from planned goals. Investments will have to be Cut. They resort to homilies about Lenin s Faith in developing the so Viet Union though they neglect to men lion the russian vast resources which have nonetheless failed to propel it to Are Many strange contradictions Here and the Only Way to explain the seems to be in Castro s own convictions Hopes and disappointments. He is totally in command. He owns the country and he owns the revolution said me sym pathetic observer and he s trying to make it live up to his it does t. He is still energetic 111, Quixote. Nobody challenges him on any thing. He is still a hero at Home and a Symbol a Man who made inc world and particularly the United Stales sit up and take notice of Cuba. What will remain when he goes is hard to foresee it depends on the rest of the world As deltas on Havana left to itself Cuba in t faring Well. The United states has Noth ing to gain by demonizing Castro and his regime. Nov a tin i Newi Marym
