European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes wednesday june 17,1987 James Reston interconnecting with non candidate Cuomo gov. Mario m. Cuomo is not running for the presidency. He s sort of walking around it like a Guy looking at a pretty unattainable girl. I spent an hour with him the other Day in new York and got the impression that he s not quite comfortable sitting on that picket Fence. You could t say his mind is entirely on Albany. He talks about the stagnant National and world Economy the Federal deficit. Third world debt fluctuating currency values Trade imbalances and the urgent need to do some thing about these things ail together. He s an easy inter View you just say Howdy and get out of the Way. He holds court in his skyscraper office on the 57th floor of the world Trade Center looking Over the statue of Liberty and new York Harbor. The candidates come to see him even some on the Republican Side. Gary Han s unemployed staff Calls him up looking for work. He seems pleased with All this but vaguely uneasy. And no wonder. For he thinks things Are in a bit of a mess and hands out advice to All seekers about what they should do about it but insists he s just an observer. Would he accept a draft from his party if ingot in a Smoky room in Atlanta there in t going to be a draft or a Smoky room he says though i could t Tel How he knew. Of would he make a Sherman statement that he would t accept his name is Cuomo and not Sher Man he says. He s not going to run and he s not going to hide but he s going to talk and without a doubt he the Best talker in politics. A philosophic question if a citizen thinks his country s in a Pickle and he s in a position to try to Lead it does he have a moral right to stand aside Cuomo did t like that question. He thinks it s fair but he ducks it gov. Dukakis of Massachusetts is a Good Man he says. He has been talking to a Gore of Tennessee. Lots of Good men around he says. I was talking about Cuomo i say. I was talking to Bob Dole the other Day he answers i relevantly. What he wants to talk about is the need for a nation Al bipartisan economic commission and he s big on  he ticks them off on the fingers of his hand talking13 to the dozen. He presses a Button and produces a paper on these problems. They Are Complex and in separable he says. Continuing Federal deficits keep real interest rates Loo High he insists hurting economic growth and creating imbalances in global capital flows. Reducing the deficit is essential however reducing the deficit through precipitous tax increases or excessive spending cuts is a  he looks at me hopefully. Us huh i say. Mary Mcgrory he goes on efforts to address our Trade imbalance by reducing the value of the Dollar can cause interest rates to climb at Home impede economic growth and increase the Cost of financing our Federal debt would t they of sure i say and put his paper in my pocket but he had a Point about the economic commission i say. It is too late for the president to do anything about this i say and the candidates had no time to consider the idea. He seems pleased about that observation. A National commission he insists should be created with representatives of Congress business and labor and the executive Branch to help guide the country in the years ahead. It could conduct its deliberations Over the next year he adds with a final report to be issued prior to the1988 presidential election so that the findings could be part of a vital National debate Over America s eco nomic and political future. And meanwhile i inquire what about the inter connection Between the governor of new York and the White House Well he replies he will be very Busy in Albany until july of next year getting his program through and he a going to the soviet Union and around the country making speeches but after next july he would be comparatively free. I think that after july Point is sort of interesting but he brushes it off. No Way would he talk about running or conniving at the nomination. The press was always imagining things that did t exist he says. Why did he have so much trouble with the report ers i ask. I Tell them what i think and what t think of them he says but i never lie to  that must be hard i say. Think about that National economic commission he says. Roosevelt did it in 1938." i will i Promise and i be been thinking about interconnections Ever since. New York times news service big Confra a vers very Rich and very right Wing Ellen Garwood the Toast of Contra brigades is not your right Wing bedlam stereotype. No Blue hair blood red talons or Parrot s screech. She is a Small woman whose Gray hair is caught in an insecure knot. She strode into the caucus room in rubber Soled Black shoes wearing a simple dark Blue suit. She spoke in a Low voiced drawl about her endless largess to the Freedom seeking people of  daughter of a Texas Cotton magnate widow of a Truman Era state depart ment official she was so easy a Mark that she was not worthy of the elaborate exertions of the master Contra fund Raiser. Carl r. Spitz Channe head of the tax exempt National endowment for the preservation of Liberty he and it. Col. Oliver North Over dinner at the Hay Adams hotel Drew up a list of needed weapons some $1.5 Mil lion Worth. Without batting an Eye. Gar Wood took the list Back to Austin presented it to her financial manager and her lawyer who collected the Cash and the stocks managed Between them to lose the list and sent off the Check. She displayed not the slightest rancor on Dis covering that her donation was not after All tax deductible. She does t give for the deductibility she told the House Senate select committee a Little impatiently. She gives because she thinks the communists Are coming. Garwood by her own account thoroughly enjoyed being at the Center of the conservative intrigue to circumvent the silly congressional ban on providing military Aid to the contras. She evinced a girlish glee As she recounted secret air port meetings with North and Adolfo Calero with the president at the White House. Only once was there a hitch in the relationship with Channe who is of course now in the toils of Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh on conspiracy charges. That was in december when North had been defrocked and Channel called her for a $10,0000 gift for the col Onel s Legal defense fund solicitor an Drew Messing who meanly told her that Channel takes 35 percent off the top of the take no matter what the cause. She told Channell to return her Check and Why and he grumbled that conservatives should stick together. Invited by rep. Peter Rodino d-nj., to consider that Channell might be As much profiteer As Patriot she declined. I suppose you could put it that Way she said but i think patriotism came first if Garwood was the Ideal no questions asked Angel a second contributor William o Boyle a wealthy wide eyed new yorker who is in Oil and Gas was not. He was a hard sell for Channell. Channell and North gave him the whole nine Yards pick up at the Airport in a stretch Limo the North briefing the Hay Adams dinner the overnight stay wit no records. Try As they would they could not get him up to the magic $300,000 Mark the Point at which he would have be come eligible for a i s-to-20-minutemeeting with the president. O Boyle bought two Maule air planes at $65,000 each and contributed another $30,000for another crisis but he fell Short. They May have scared him to death. Head several seances with North that put him in the picture in spine tingling detail. North told him about a nicaraguan Airport that was intended to recover the russian backfire bombers after they made a nuclear attack on the  North told him about nicaraguan dope smuggling about a secret plan for the Conquest of Nicaragua. But o Boyle began to worry that because hews on the fast track of Contra giving the Kab might be after him. I think Weare looking at the beginning of world War Iii Here he said. The third big giver Beer Baron Joseph corps was a Volunteer who did not re quire the one two pitch of North with the dangers and Channell with the Fig ures. He just strolled into his old Friend Cia director Bill Casey s office one Day and asked what he could do to Stop the spread of communism. Casey told him. Ollie North s the Guy to see. Again a Maule plane was suggested. Coors thought nothing of it when North told him to Send his. Donation to the Swiss Bank account of Lake resources inc., the company formed by Richard Secord and Albert Hakim to handle the Boodle from the iranian arms Sale. Universal press Syndicate