New York, Jan. 5—Sometimes when one is just about ready to give up on the matter of reform there is a single development—and suddenly there is the possibility of reform. During the past ten days, Anthony Lewis, a high priest from the left of center, and Morton Kondracke, executive editor of The New Republic and an influential figure from what one might designate the center, have approved the creative thrust of two resonant articles by Peter Peterson, published in The New York Review of Books, on the matter of Social Security reforms. All then that is needed is for Congress to enact the Peterson reform bill of 1983.
The imminent bankruptcy of the Social Security program is too easy to demonstrate to make necessary any elaborate restatement. But to refresh the memory, here are a few of the findings, as documented by Mr. Peterson.
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