European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday october 18, 1977 Dod project president s memorandum to Secretary brow Calls for a searching organizational review by freds. Hoffman Washington a president Carter has ordered a major attack on de sense department command and manage ment problems which he said have resisted change for Many  in a recent memorandum to defense Secretary Harold Brown the president called for a searching organizational review and told Brown that often our own personal involvement will be needed to get results. Carter s order sets in motion still another in a series of efforts dating Back about 30 years to make the giant Complex and often sluggish defense establishment function More effectively and economically in peace and War. The most recent major attempt in that direction was made by the Nixon administration. It created a Blue ribbon defense panel which recommended in 1970 a dras tic overhaul of the defense leadership Structure both military and civilian. But few of its fundamental proposals were adopted apparently because the Nixon administration feared friction with the military and with elements in Congress while the Vietnam War was in Progress. In outlining key issues for study now the White House reorganization project staff warned Carter he would face Resis Tance from the military services and in tense political pressures resulting from base closures and various consolidations. The responsiveness or the Lack of it in crises has been a major concern since the Vietnam War and particularly since the North korean seizure of the . Spy ship Pueblo in 1968 disclosed a virtual paralysis in the responses of military and civilian authorities. Serious questions persist about the effectiveness of the command Structure for the conduct of War for peacetime activities and for crisis management said car Ter s reorganization staff in a paper the president forwarded to Brown. Among other things the staff voiced concern about the capability of the joint chiefs of staff to provide guidance to the president and the Secretary of defens Eto review contingency plans and to resolve differences Between commands regarding  going into detail the paper said several conflicts that were not easily re solved have occurred Between the Readi Ness command and other unified commanders Over matters of contingency mounting interest actress Tat urn o Neal and her father Ryan study the action at the Ledyard horse trials in Hamilton mass. A por Tion of the trials will be included in the movie International velvet an update of the National velvet film which was Elizabeth Taylor s first Star ring vehicle. A photo klansmen Border patrol would help curb aliens san Diego a the National director of the knights of the Kun flux klan says klan members plan a Border patrol to help curb the illegal alien problem. David Duke 27, of Metairie la., was confronted by demonstrators who threw eggs during his tour Here sunday. No one was seriously Hurt in the Confron tation at the san Ysidro port of entry police said. But one demonstrator was arrested after a klan member s car window was smashed by a Rock they  by about a dozen men dressed in White Power to shirts Duke arrived for a Border tour and later said he was very much concerned with the illegal alien  according to Duke klansmen armed with cd radios and legally registered weapons plan to patrol the .-mexican birder from Brownsville tex., to the Pacific Ocean to help curb the flow of illegal  included in the demonstration against Duke s visit were the Vietnam vet Erans against the War the National United workers and the committee against racism. Planning and the conduct of  s staff said a review should pro pose measures aimed at simplifying the decision making process and reducing some military staffs with corresponding cuts in costs. The White House staff also focused at Tention on the perennial problem of trim Ming Down and simplifying the management Structure principally organized around the Secretary of defense and his top civilian assistants. The memorandum said that Basic questions yet to be resolved include overlap Ping and duplication in staffs and i effect the growth in various bureaucratic practices which blur  has made some limited changes at the very top of the civilian organization in the Pentagon but Carter obviously wants him to go  major area of concern to Carter involves management of about $36 billion or about one third of the defense budget in the area of what Are called support  these include Supply maintenance training health care and base  is much evidence that these functions Are More expensive and less effective than they might be Carter s staff told  thrust of the reorganization staff s memo on this Point appears aimed at the separate Supply training medical and recruitment organizations maintained by the individual services. 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