European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday. September 23. 1987 columns William Safire Cuomo takes his non Campaign on the Road of voc to cad cars As if Well known nov Mario Cuomo of new York keeps a diary Tiltti he publishes from time to time to mate a few legitimate Bucks on Etc Side. Less Well known is the existence of a Semi More intimate Cuomo diary sensational excerpts from which will appear on occasion in this space. Here is one exit rpt my passionate Devotion to the first amendment is matched Only by my profound suspicion of the Media. Look at the Way those Morali ices derogated Gary Hart s Mea culpa on the Ted Koppel show. Here inc Man comes out and for the first time in our political history confesses to adultery on National television Al though to be fair not in prime Lime and arc those bloodhounds satisfied not on your life. Newsweek said he conceded Little that was thought Gary was terrific hat night. He admitted five limes he made a serious mistake and sinned and misjudged and he was sorry which with a couple of Hail marys should be enough contrition to Square him in heaven if not in the news magazines. And he put what he did in some kind of perspective he did t Send american troops into a quagmire he did t lie to the world for a year about not trading arms for hos tages he did t commit an impeachable offence or kill anybody he and i had a Good talk too but not about that. He had an emended talk with Gorbachev last year and wanted to Brief me on How to handle him when i am in Moscow this week. Gary gave me the speech he made to inc world affairs Council in Philadelphia last week heavy going not an applause line in it but he came right out Tor betting on Gorbachev s reforms. Substantive speech kind of daring in its dovish ass and if Gary becomes Secretary of slate or defense in the next democratic Cabinet the pundits who ignored it today will be scrambling for copies later that could happen Loo. Whatever demo crat wins will need a heavyweight on foreign policy in his Cabinet and a Hart appointment would sure Stop inc snickering in a hurry. Those Media Apple polishers would want to butter him up As a source watch those mixed metaphors i won t have a Chance to clean up this copy before it leaks frankly. I wish my own speech to the russians who came to the Chautauqua conference had not received so much attention. The right Wing pundits jumped All Over me for being or Nice Guy. What did they expect it was a Damn welcoming speech i was the Hast should i have denounced my guests for 70 years of human suffering then Bill Bradley who is doing Al most As Well As i am by not running upstaged me with Tom Wicker Pffifer Ctm . A half hard line speech. I know. I know my son Andy keeps telling me a Democrat today has to sound Lough. Only Gary Han who s out of it can afford to blast our theological cold even i a Man without an ounce of hypocrisy in my body had to Call my dish of warm Mush the new of so what s the plan i go to Moscow and see Gorby. 1 play it Cool and do not gel drawn into any arms control concessions that could be interpreted As undermining the president s dealings. I would t be so Quick to give up ski testing either no matter what Gary says. Then i come Back and give the speech i be already drafted to the Council on foreign relations. Very statesmanlike that will Send the Media into tits of speculation about my entering the race. Which of course i won t. Let s say Dick Gephardt takes Iowa and Mike Dukakis lakes new Hampshire. Then comes super tuesday in the South in March which now that Nunn is out Jesse Jackson should Discombe Bulac enough to Lum the race into a general mishmash. Then 1 announce yes no. Give those bloodhounds three months to drag my name through the mud not a Chance. I sit tight. Lei a few of the Guys pull out. Then because the race is so undecided and it is vital that my stale not have its influence splintered i say i will go to the convention As new York s favorite son Sec what happens. Look it s possible nothing will happen. Bui if no body Breaks out of inc pack then i announce my candidacy in time to run in the june California primary. If i win a chunk of inc delegates there and Lane Kirk land ought to be helpful with a fast labor organizing Effort then it does t matter who has most of the other delegates. Between All of new York s and Over half of California a i la be in a Good position at a brokered convention. Long shot yes. Pipe dream no. First i have to find out the russian word for new Vert Tutti Berlin hosts forum on a new information society West Berlin Only a few years ago this outpost of the West deep with in communist East Germany seemed a dying City its boundaries fixed and its Economy disintegrating. From 1970 to 1983, West Berlin lost 108,000 jobs from its manufacturing sector and Many of its skilled workers were moving out. But recently to an International symposium on the so called global information society West Berlin s senator for economics and labor Elmar Pieroth called it a City of vitality and creative not least because of the rapid development Here of telecommunications technology he said 35,000 new jobs had been created in the service Sec Tor in the last four years a majority of them in the Fields of information and communication. Partially drawn by these opportunities about 67,000 new Resi Denis have arrived in recent years. Mayor Eberhard Diepgen told in same forum convened Here by the Ger Irun Institute for economic research As pan of Berlin s Observance of its 750th anniversary that in 1986 information products Worth 8.3 billion Marks accounted for More than 22 percent of West Berlin s production. That engaged 20 percent of its 1.9 million inhabitants. Another 1.2 million live beyond the Wall in East Berlin Date pen pictured West Berlin As a Good example of a City in transition from the old Industrial society to what the symposium had gathered to discuss a new information with its renowned cultural facilities the israeli philharmonic played Mahler last week at West Berlin s philharmonic Hall in University centers and its need for an open minded new approach to economic life inc City does seem a Good candidate to become what or. Ake Andersson of Umea University in Sweden called a thai s the Label he gave to cities of the future that could provide competence communications and such Cit ies he said would be in effect knowl Edge factories where the principal occupation would be knowledge handling by new technological methods rather than goods handling in the old Indus trial Mode or. Daniel Bell of Harvard univer sity brilliantly key noting the so Mphosi urn said the world today was undergoing its third major transformation of the last 200 years. First came the Industrial Rev. Lulion the application of Energy to the production of goods. Next was the development of chemicals and electricity making possible for example synthetics and the modern City As a Bazaar of now developing from the need for regulating and control devices for automobiles the age of computers and Tele communications with its emphasis on Micro processes rather than the motors of the Industrial Era has burst upon a typically unprepared society. The Industrial revolution Bell pointed out had tied people to factories which in turn were tied to resources like Coal and Iron Ore thus creating great manufacturing centers like the Ruhr in Germany and the old midwestern Indus trial heartland of the . In the information age production will no Lunger be dependent on resources and transportation. Nor will markets be places such As Crossroads and harbours they will consist instead of communication networks. All of this amount to a change of scale enlarging the Arena of action multiplying the number of actors involved and increasing the volatility of transactions. And it s already to be seen. Bell noted in the emerging of the ., based on the High technology industries of Stales like Cali fornia and Massachusetts this transition to an information society could hardly take place without significant social and political problems a major concern of the symposium. Bell observed for example thai capita would be Able to move More easily and swiftly than people and wondered whether political action therefore would tend to protect people or capital. The information revolution he also pointed out would produce a sort of International Economy that at present would have to be regulated if at All by National states. He feared these slates might be Loo weak for die Job although some already Are too Large and Loo centralized to respond to local needs. Thai raises the question whether the demands of the information age about what politics Seldom has the elimination of Luln Mal barriers to
