European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes columns Flora Lewis Gorbachev keeps up momentum for change Paris Mikhail Gorbachev s Deci Sion to go to new York this week to talk with the outgoing and incoming . Presidents is a powerful signal of How much he wants to make sure of continuing improvement in soviet american re lations. He will also address the in. And Slop to Sec Fidel Castro in Cuba and Margaret Thatcher in London a group of senior soviet officials at an East West meeting Here this weekend organized by the Pri vate dutch ate Dinck foundation gave a foretaste of the far reaching remarkable things he has to say. Bui clearly establishing a personal relation with George Bush under the smiling sponsorship of Ronald Reagan and keeping up the momentum for change in the International Arena Are the priorities. There s no More fussing about careful preparations for a Summit meeting disdain Aboul cosmetics or other conditions. Things have come a Long Way since Moscow was sending out hints that the Reagan administration was Loo Sticky to Deal with Short of firm written agreements and the . Too  Gorbachev is in a hurry now. In an unusual pro departure press con Ference soviet Deputy foreign minister Vladimir Petrovsky said Gorbachev will take up a Broad series of substantive is sues. He can t suppose the . Govern ment is prepared to give Concrete an Swers at this time but he wants to press his Agenda East West relations have entered anew stage. Courtesy and hospitality Al ways matter but it s vital now that . Leaders speak with full Candor Aboul whal the . Seeks and its own prob lems in moving ahead stability an predictability Ore what Moscow keeps saying in most wants and that in t going to conic from polite circumlocution and visionary generalities. There was evidence at last Spring Moscow Summit thai Gorbachev still did t realize the intensity of the shockwave his Reykjavik encounter with Rea Gan sen through the West i t s the soviet Way to go for grand proclamations of Good intentions and hard for Many in Moscow to understand Why that undermines credibility and stirs Arnold Sawislak Flash Ftp a Gorbachev ihtco$un6t6 3o ourth my can Nurto Lilloo on the former the republicans in recent years have had fewer glaring conflicts Between regions special interest groups and ideologies than the democrats who still have splits on major foreign and Domestic policy issues. Paradoxically this May have helped democrats run Ning for Congress state or local  their party nominates a perceived Liberal for president no one finds it Odd when a conservative Democrat run nine for some other Job simply ignores or even disowns the top of the ticket and runs on his own , on the other hand seem to expect every be running on the gop Label to support the National candidates and  " also paradoxically the republicans who oppose lop Down government As an article of Faith have a very centralized party Structure. Every four years permanently assigned Republican National committee held operators who. Have been helping state goes build their strength Between elections become part of the presidential Campaign with the great advantage of on the ground  is a the democratic National committee has no such sophisticated network in place partly because slate parties Don t want Washington types telling them what to do. Its presidential candidates often have to Send people into states they Don t know much about to Issue orders that More often than not offend the locals who Musl do he work. That can cripple a presidential candidate before the Campaign plane Ever lands in the slate ". Unfed i the opinions expressed in the columns u d Carto omon this Case represent those of the authors Sod in to noway to be considered m representing the Ricki of the Stan and Stripe or the United states government