European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 the stars and stripes Howell Raines february 1981 Washington eyes Are on reagans big three while nation watches its new the Washington political Community has its eyes on the men staff members at the White House Are calling the big that title refers to the triumvirate of advisers to whom president Reagan has granted Broad authority Over his administrations his staff and his personal Edwin Baker 3d and Michael Denver arc the Only persons in the government who can walk into reagans office without an they decide whom the president will Sec and what offi Cial papers he will in a City where Access is such arrangements always Breed since Reagan has created such an unusual staff with three principalities and three princes of overlapping there is special curiosity about the big what is the pecking order in the Triumvir will the group be splintered by the infighting that disrupted the Reagan Campaign about this time last year has it delayed sub Cabinet appointments so As to concentrate control of the government with in the White House staff i think were getting much More credit than we the Counselor to the said in regard to the last were not really As devious As peo ple the Public line of the administration is that Bakers arrival freed Meese to concen trate on policy matters and on shaping the Cabinet into the working body that Reagan believes it can whether there was Strain when Baker took the title of chief of his coming occasioned a Sharp change in Mecsics operating As Counselor to the Meese quickly abandoned the passion for anonymity on which he once prided himself and asserted that he would be the administrations main Public spokes Man on Mecsics labor to create a whole Cabinet system reflects his belief in teamwork As a Cardinal principle of part of this in messes is to spread both the work and the credit in the fun for he wants Treasury Secre tary Donald Regan to assume some of the prominence in economic policy that David the budget has enjoyed in the budget cutting Baker has broadened his Field by tending to More practical he is pressing Pendleton the White House person Nel who is close to to find jobs for for people with various eth Nic backgrounds and for the conservative Field men who helped win the he has also helped shut the Oval office door to people who have been with Reagan longer than on a Reagan team that Seldom admits Baker Rose with extraordinary especially for one who started 1980 As manager of George Bush presidential but according to White House pushed hard for a key Job v Haw that Hoik Gregory Nokes foreign Aid tar Down on priority list selfish or extra a vacant the foreign Aid policy is viewed both but in recent the number of critics has been while defenders Are in probably no one has gone after foreign Aid like the Reagan administrations new budget David who tried to whack billion out of the billion former president Carter wanted Congress to approve for fiscal while the final Cut Likely will be stockmans proposal shows How far foreign Aid has fallen on the nations list of Priori Robert the outgoing pres ident of the world claimed last year that the Aid Effort has been disgrace and that was when democrats con trolled Congress and the White foreign Aid totals about on fifth of 1 percent of the nations Gross National less than almost any other major no communist Industrial Congress has not approved a foreign Aid Bill for two maintaining funding close to Levels of three years former Secretary of state Edmund mus before leaving said Congress has been shortsighted and he said the nation now provides less Aid than 10 years after discounting for foreign Aid programs have some Power Ful support in the Reagan administration from Secretary of state Alexander who so far has held off stockmans budget Haig said at a news conference he Hopes others will recognize that foreign Aid is sometimes a very cos effective vehicle for insuring that the ideals and interests of this country Are carried out effectively it is often difficult to sort out where the Money goes and for what americans Are traditionally sympathetic to the worlds but of the billion that Carver requested for foreign Aid in less than billion would provide humanitarian Aid to the poorest most of the rest is Given for political Rea although some of that ends up helping the for not usually thought of As a poor received about billion in the fiscal 1981 while Egypt received they Are Likely to receive at least that much again in Aid that supports political objectives is not targeted for big cuts by stockmans of fice of management and budget the reductions in Aid would mainly affect the poorer countries of Africa and the asian an bomb report Carters proposed 1982 package includes both Aid Given through International lending such As the world Bank and International monetary and Aid Given directly to other Israel and Egypt receive most of the direct which also is channelled into the peace the Agency for International development and military Mili tary Aid would amount to billion in most of the humanitarian Aid is fun cled through the world Bank and its the International development association Ida which provides development Loans to nations so poor that private Banks wont risk lending them Carter last year committed the to Ida contributions of just Over billion a year for three or begin Ning in fiscal contributions by other wealthy nations raised the total to Bil but Congress didst approve the contribution last year and if the new con Gress also the Ida May c associated press for a former aide to Gerald the Deputy chief of is the Only staff member the reagans routinely include in their social and his approval of in was taken As a signal that the 50yearold Texas lawyer with Ivy league credentials had the kind of style that Reagan wanted in her husbands White some Junior staff members see Bakers imprint More clearly than messes in the administrations first three but Baker follows messes Lead in disputing the talk of inevitable conflict Between the most people would Tell you that going to Baker said in an i dont think its going ill Tell you de Meese and i Are a lot i went to Princeton and in a he went to Yale and is a weve even gone to the Point of telling our staffs not to be pull ing at each were going to make it is a logical division of Baker has carefully avoided challenging on personnel for if Meese has a Baker sits there said party sources close to the Hir ing when the Opportunity Baker has moved swiftly to carve out chunks of territory and build important his office controls the paper flow into the Oval several sources say it was at Bakers insistence that Lyn reagans Campaign Secretary and longtime was hired As assistant to the president for political affairs when Nofziger old time associates were willing to see him left be Hind in at is not Only the most mod Estly titled of the big three but also most amorphous being in charge of such matters As scheduling and the East Wing but accounts from various White House figures depict him As an important behind Hestenes for one Deaver is said to be adept at curbing reagans which has a reputation for converting her whims no cameras no visitors there into immutable the senior staff defers to on questions of reagans mood and for when Bakers staff loaded Reagan with briefing books on a night when he was working on a speech Deaver jumped on them the next if you Guys give him that much stuff to hell sit up and read the protective Deaver was quoted by an associate As you cant do its not fair to As for conflict among the we Start off the Day together and end the Day Meese theres a Good Deal of Access of us to the theres not an awful lot of jockeying and posturing within the these easygoing responses Are typical of they demonstrate his habit of tamping speculation about the kind of strife that Reagan finds the remarks also bespeak the 49yearold lawyers Confidence that he will remain the dominant Fig ure on the Reagan just As he was when Reagan was governor of but Washington is More Complex than and whose admiring aides Call him the velvet and Deaver Are formidable forces within Nei ther in Sacramento nor in the last Days of the Campaign was messes territory As first Deputy carved into so Many it will be very interesting to see How this relationship will play out in the next six said a White House right now they Are being very solicitous of one another the consensus around the White House is if Strain it will be along the Meese Baker because of their overlap Ping responsibilities and because Baker is regarded As Strong in the executive skills that despite his appearance of care Ful is said by his critics to c new York times