European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 the stars and stripes Flora Lewis february 1981 reagans foreign policy team lacks a theme the main Surprise about foreign policy in the Reagan administration so far is that it cant be despite some bom Bastic rhetoric and a Road Snow document ing soviet support for salvadoran Gerril Basic attitudes on a series of urgent issues have yet to be Allied and other Friendly ambassadors in Washington Are being pressed by their governments for answers to questions which have not yet been seriously considered by the new one reason is that so Many working level jobs remain the diplomats com Plain they have scarcely anyone in authority to talk to and Are obliged to put minor As Well As major matters to the harassed peo ple at the but the slow Pace of re staffing washing ton is Only a part of the More important is the fact for All the Tough of Kab a66nt5 Grabbs me in id k room Foch of nak6p Doug Willis a replay of reagans premiere president reagans first month in the White House bears a striking resemblance to his first month As governor of from an inaugural Celebration glittering with Hollywood stars to the list of proposed budget reagans performance As pres ident follows a script familiar to californians who watched his Early Days As Gover nor in he entered each Job pledged to Cut the and Cost of in each one of reagans first official acts was to order a hiring in he quickly took his Case directly to voters via using skills developed in a 30year acting the big differences so far Stem from How Reagan is approaching the task of cutting government in Reagan All but ignored the state legislature in the Early years of his administration his major proposals were often ignored by the it want until his second gubernatorial when Reagan finally started courting that he achieved his greatest accomplishments major revisions in state welfare and health care programs that curbed runaway As Reagan has been openly wooing Congress from the consulting congressmen frequently and according them the deference and recognition that May later help him steer his proposals through another major difference is the Reagan tried to do everything at once in in the first 30 he had unveiled of controversial Al ready had backed Down from a and was embroiled in political Battles with pub Lic employee students and welfare rights in what could signal a rerun of that Sce about 75 members of the United mine workers Union showed up outside the White House last thursday to protest Rea Gan administration plans to Cut benefits for victims of Black lung and Albert president of the american federation of issued a statement from the of Lucios executive Council meeting in bal Call ing reagans proposals Robin Hood in re although Reagan appears to be moving More cautiously As president than he did As governor picking his Battles More care fully and setting a slower Pace both the thrust and Many of the details Are the As Reagan has ordered a 15 percent Cut in the travel budgets of Federal halted purchases of new Furni Ture and banned redecoration of the offices of top in his first few Days As Reagan banned out state travel expenses and temporarily halted state purchases of office equipment and new the spending cuts Reagan has proposed As president Are More selective than his first spending proposals in Sacramento in when he ordered a 10 percent across the Board Cut in every state Agency that proposal proved and by his 30th Day As Reagan had an alternative plan to meet a growing state budget he proposed a million increase in state reagans wife Nancy managed to inadvertently raise a Public juror Over her offi Cial residence in the Early Days of each and in it resulted from reports that she was hinting that she wanted the Carters to move out of the White House Early to allow in it resulted from her complaints that the governors mansion was a noisy the reagans later abandoned the governors Home for a private each administration began with the most elaborate inauguration including an impressive list of Hollywood another parallel shows in the complaints against by the time he completed 30 Days As a few conservatives were already complaining that he appeared too willing to Compromise with moderates when he faced opposition on issues such As budget taxes and Campaign promises to Cut the state some conservatives Are now criticizing his citing some of his appoint ments and saying he has been too willing to How did Reagan fare in California at keeping his promises to Cut spending and reduce the size of the bureaucracy his state hiring freeze was and the bureaucracy he vowed to Cut grew Over his two terms at three times the rate of population Reagan did bring a deficit state budget into but not by cutting he raised every major state leaving office with spending at More than double the level of his c associated press Campaign talk and conservative position papers before the the Reagan group is still far from being a team with a a fairly Broad spectrum of often is represented at upper Levels of government and nobody knows yet which ones Are going to the annual Weh Kunde study conference on military affairs at Munich reflects the John the 38year old Secretary of the was supposed to go and present in is the first considered statement on Alliance policy by the Lehman is a super Tungho on pressing the arms race As far and As fast As his argument is that lots More nuclear weapons will Force the soviets to spend far though he int bothered by the fact that this Means Moscow would certainly acquire lots More offensive As Well As defensive fearful of the Impact on the allies at this the state department and higher ups in the Pentagon told Lehman hed better stay Home and mind the Deputy Secretary of defense Frank Carlucci was the Choice for to deliver a speech written in collaboration with the state which simply temp Orizes on questions being reopened in the crucial Issue is whether and when the United states plans to go on with negotiations to limit medium Range missiles in eur the 1979 nato decision to deploy missiles by 1983 also committed the United states to try for an agreement with Moscow to Cut Down on both the arrangement to Send Carlucci to Munich with a marking time speech came none too word reaching Washington was that state department envoy Lawrence Eagleburger heard some Strong talk in where he was briefing the allies on Al the Netherlands and among made Clear that they mean to hold the United states to the negotiating pledge if Washington wants deployment to go some of the new Washington crowd want to ask the europeans bluntly whether or not they feel a soviet if what Point they see in others Are aware of the risk of confrontation within the As there is no sign of a Clear the question of the Middle East and per Sian Gulf is Here Friendly countries say they Haven been Able to find out which direction Reagan is with elections in Israel set for june there is a new Chance for the United states to have a Strong and constructive influence on future israeli policy provided washing ton knows what it wants before the next government is formed in but there Are differences within the and and potentially grave differences with the european on whether Middle East troubles can be handled separately with the Ara israeli Issue in one bundle and the persian Gulf in or whether they must be it is and at times for foreign leaders beginning to trek to Washington to realize they cant get a fix on american positions because the answers Arent All the diplomats have discovered so far is a tendency to View practically every conflict in the world through the prism of East West but without guidelines on what should be done about that May be just As the newcomers Haven arrived with nearly so Many recipes for settling the worlds problems As their statements marking time int exactly what was advertised for if it Means the administration is going to listen and consider before it plunges into action some bad mistakes that might have been made can be the question is whether confusion is a style or a pause for c new York times the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states