Monday, April 14, 1986
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Biography tells of dream job
Biography tells of dream job Stockman books to hit shelves
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A biography of David Stockman, to be published on the heels of Stockman's hard-hitting memoirs, says the former budget director has told friends his dream job if he ever returns to Washington would be secretary of defense.
But Stockman's prospects for the Pentagon seem dim, according to the biography written by Owen Ullmann. Stockman managed to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war years. And after his former colleagues read the blunt criticism of them in his memoirs, many may agree with one of his rivals who was quoted anonymously by Ullmann as saving: "I say he's finished here."
Ullmann's book, "Stockman: The Man, The Myth, The Future," recounts that Stockman signed a Students for a Democratic Society ad at Michigan State University in 1967 vowing to resist the draft and signed up for Harvard Divinity School, a move that allowed him to avoid induction.
The book, headed for stores along with Stockman's own $2.4 million account, says, "Several top White House officials . . . recalled hearing Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger
refer to (Stockman) when he was not present as 'the little draft dodger' or 'the blow-dried draft dodger.'"
Weinberger denied it.
The Ullmann book quotes former Office of Management and Budget economist and Stockman confidante Lawrence A. Kudlow as saying that Stockman was befuddled at the extent of Ronald Reagan's political success, given in Stockman's view, the president's limited intellectual capacity.
The book, citing other unidentified friends, said Stockman developed a deep-seated contempt for the president and many of his trusted advisers because he thought they were intellectually dull, lazy and incompetent.
Stockman, in excerpts from his own book, "The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed," skewers several top Reagan aides who he says never read anything. "They lived off the tube." he said.
Ullmann, White House correspondent for Knight-Ridder newspapers and a former economics writer for The Associated Press, interviewed nearly 200 people, including Cabinet officers, members of Congress and Stockman's family, to piece together his 373-page book.
In many respects, it is a flattering account of a
man whose intelligence and hard work catapulted him into Congress at age 29 and the Cabinet at 34 — the youngest Cabinet officer in 166 years.
But the book also depicts Stockman as "an uncommon blend of righteousness and deviousness," who left behind a string of disappointed mentors, from church leaders who befriended him in his anti-war days at Michigan State University; to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynhan who took him in as a babysitter at Harvard; to former Rep. John Anderson who brought him to Washington; to Rep. Jack Kemp who introduced him to supply-side economics.
Ullmann writes that Weinberger laughed when asked to comment and that Kemp said, "Tell him Kemp said he wouldn't be HIS defense secretary."
Stockman in his memoirs, and Ullmann in the biography, write at length about Stockman's unsuccessful attempts to trim what Stockman saw as a bloated Pentagon budget. Ullmann writes of Stockman, "Should he ever return to government service, he has told friends, he has his dream job all picked out — defense secretary."
Former Reagan domestic adviser Martin Anderson said Stockman had a basic character flaw. He liked to make himself look more important than he was.
Bush says U.S. must protect own
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Vice President George Bush said yesterday that Libyans had their fingerprints all over state-sponsored terrorism and that the United States had a duty to punish those who threatened Americans abroad.
John C. Whitehead, deputy secretary of state, said U.S. officials had information that implicated Libyan leader Moammar Khadify in the bombing of a West Berlin nightclub that killed an American and that indicated Khadify was plotting more such attacks.
President Reagan was weighing the use military force against Libya in retaliation for the attack, Whitehead said, but the prospect of military action is something that only the president will decide on. Reagan has not yet made that decision, he said.
Reagan last week indicated his willingness to take military action if
the perpetrators could be identified and an appropriate target found.
Two U.S. aircraft carriers, the America and the Coral Sea, which last month engaged Libyan forces in the disputed Gulf of Sidra, remained in the Mediterranean, said Pentagon spokesman Maj. Larry Icenogle. Pentagon sources said Saturday that the carriers were awaiting orders from off the coast of Sicily.
The Reagan administration was consulting with key members of Congress and U.S. allies in Western Europe over the next step against Khadafy.
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said Saturday that he was invited to the White House today to discuss possible action against Libya.
"A decision will be made on that occasion or shortly thereafter as to what our response should be," said Luger. "I am the senate chair of related relations committed."
U. N. Ambassador Vassar Walters met with Margaret Thatcher, British
prime minister in London on Saturday and with Helmut Kohl, West German chancellor and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German foreign minister, in Bonn yesterday. Walters also flew to Paris yesterday for meetings with the French government. Premier Jacques Chirac, and was scheduled to fly to Rome later.
Reagan and Kohl have said Libya was suspect in the West Berlin explosion. On Wednesday the West German government expelled two Libyan diplomats, but said the expulsion were not related to the bombing.
Bush spoke on the NBC program "Meet the Press" as he returned from a 10-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and North Yemen.
Asked whether any Arab country endorsed armed U.S. action against fellow Arabs, Bush replied "Not so much." But the general part, I know this for a fact certain."
Whitehead, who appeared on the CBS program "Face the Nation."
The United States has information about dozens of planned terrorist actions around the world, he said, and must be ready to react to them.
"The plans are all specific. They are specifically aimed at particular targets, with people enlisted to carry out the plans," he said, declining to give details.
"We hope we will have enough information to forestall these actions, or many of them before they take place, as we have forestalled a number of his terrorist activities in other places."
FBI may connect suspects to neo-Nazi terrorist group
"Of course, we're checking every possible motive," said FBI spokesman Paul Miller. "Whether or not they are involved with this group is something I can't comment on beyond that."
United Press International
But Miller said reports that the two men, William Matix, 34, and Michael Lee Platt, 32, might have been involved with the Aryan Brotherhood, a neo-Nazi group linked to robberies and shootings in western states, were misleading because investigators were checking several angles.
MIAMI — The FBI said yesterday that its investigation of two armed robbery suspects, who were killed in a gunbattle with agents Friday, could include the possibility that the suspects had links to a neo-Nazi terrorist group.
Two FBI agents, Jerry Dove, 30,
and Benjamin Grogan, 53; and the
two suspects were killed in the gun
battle on a busy Mizumi street as
motorists, unaware of what was
happening, drove through the fusillade.
Miller said a forensic science team was gathering evidence from a stolen Monte Carlo the suspects were driving, and a another team was reconstructing details of the gunbattle.
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However, gun control advocates won a partial victory when the House approved a measure to continue the ban on state sales of handguns and banned the sale of machine guns.
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Gun control advocates had the help of a persuasive voice, that of Sarah Brady, whose husband, White House press secretary James Brady, was gunned down five years ago in the assassination attempt on President Reagan.
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Last week, that reputation was powerful persuasion. The NRA gathered enough votes in the House to pass a bill that would weaken the nation's gun laws for the first time in 18 years.
The bill would weaken the 1968 Gun Control Act which was passed by a shocked Congress after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
While lawmakers said they were well aware of the clout of the gun lobby, no one was quite prepared to say that a police investigation in Congress over the gun issue
"From our point of view, we were just explaining the truth," said NRA spokesman Michael Book. "It wasn't pressure tires."
Rep. Peter Rodino, D-N.J., who opposed the bill, said in a recent speech, "The gun lobby is a very powerful special interest. So powerful that it can flaunt the will of the American public and influence events far beyond the popularity of its cause."
Rep. William Hughes, D-N.J., led the opposition to weakening the law, said the NRA was pushing for stronger lobbying groups in Washington.
"They have tremendous resources," he said. "It's a very sophisticated, well-oiled machine."
The NRA has 3 million members nationwide and one of the largest political action committees in the country. It spent $1.5 million on its campaign to change the gun laws
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