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...POLITICAL dust stirred up by David Stockman's kiss-and-tell blockbuster, The Triumph of Politics, has just about settled. A 1000 cc. does of wisdom, too little, too late, Triumph is the first weighty tome in what is sure to be a continuing series of mea culpas and finger pointing organized around the theme, "Where the Reagan Revolution went astray." Despite some of the most successful politicking ever to emerge from the Oval Office, Reagan's ambitious plans to reform America in Ayn Rand's image have stalled in a pool of red ink, victim of the pragmatic wheel...
...critics are raising their voices. Among them is the mayor's least likely detractor: himself. After a flood of revelations about corruption in New York City government, the feisty Koch came forth last week with an uncharacteristic mea culpa. Said he: "I am embarrassed. I am chagrined. I am absolutely mortified that this kind of corruption could have existed and that I did not know...
Carl Gershman, 41, president of the NED and a former counselor to Jeane Kirkpatrick when she was U.N. Ambassador, seemed to have no mea culpas in mind. Citing the agreement that allowed the NED to "consult" with the IFP, Gershman expressed concern about a number of the selections -- Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power, Jonathan Kwitny's Endless Enemies and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth -- saying that they reflected the views "of only one segment of the American political spectrum." He asked not that they be withdrawn but that others from a conservative perspective be included...
...shots fired from Libya's London embassy, sparked a public outcry. "It is dreadful that this union would approach a terrorist country for help," said Ted MacKay, head of the mineworkers' North Wales branch. Declared Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, who has supported the strike: "By any mea sure of political, civil, trade union or human rights, the Gaddafi regime is vile...
...angry response from former Finance Minister Flavio Machicado, who two weeks ago quit the Cabinet of President Hernan Siles Zuazo. Machicado charged that the President had caved in to pressure from the powerful Bolivian Cen tral Labor Union, which led an April gen eral strike to protest belt-tightening mea sures demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Said Machicado: "This renegotiation idea is absurd...