European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 Iriri the stars and stripes May achieving peace Between the White House and the state department by Gregory Nokes associated press Robert Mcfarlane didst even rate a footnote in Henry Kissinger two volumes of but now that he holds his old Bossy Hes managed to do something even Kissinger Hes achieved peace not Between the soviets and the but Between the office of White House National Security adviser and the state it took him a year to restore during Richard Nixon Kissinger was finally put in charge of both of those discordant bureaucracies in an Effort to impose peace and they still continued their intramural the same old disarray characterized Ronald reagans foreign policy until Emmarine Mcfarlane landed in october 1983 As reagans third National Security now foggy Bottom and the White House Are moving in the same one big Mcfarlane accomplishment forming a partnership with Secretary of state George he ended the discord that paralysed the administrations arms control until that was the administration was in no position to do business with the the  warfare Between Shultz and defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger came to an end just in time for the administration to forge a United stand to take to for the first time in a Long weve got a team working says one top White House who asked not to be identified by i think a lot of the hiccups that every administration has will be reduced in reagans second Mcfarlane has made himself a Man to be reckoned not because of any special closeness to but because of what he knows the the bureaucracy and the where he served As a staff Aid during the Jimmy Carter interlude Between Republican Hes still not Well known outside the inner he wears a solemn face in Public but friends Tell of a mischievous sense of to his Hes known As Bud Hes he works from 7 late into the night sometimes 17 hours his memos Are military like in their Early on in the Reagan then at the state depart was sent to troubleshoot the my missile Contro Versy in 1 didst know who Bud Mcfarlane recalls los now chairman of the House armed services he was very not a very authoritarian and i this Doest look like the kind of Guy who can do the but Mcfarlane impressed who quickly concluded that he was by far the Best person to Deal the Deal they worked out kept the my Mcfarlane has kept on although he joked in a recent interview that my wife says in the Only person to go Back to the office he was in 12 years ago and Call it a when he moved into Kissin Gers old he was assigned to the office hed occupied As Kissinger Shultz didst get along with reagans Wil Liam who was Mcfarlane be cause of Shultz at one Point threatened to but Shultz has benefited from the relationship Hes a photo National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane developed with irritation Between those two jobs is almost but in this particular it Hast says Lawrence a former undersecretary of state for political affairs who has worked closely with both neither one of them is Fla Pable nether one is particularly he says Richard chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee both Shultz and Mcfarlane Are Cowkey personalities who Are just right for the a naval Academy graduate who put in two Tours during the Vietnam is one of three sex leathernecks in senior giving Rise to jests that the marines Are trying to Rescue reagans foreign the others Are Shultz and White House chief of staff Donald when Mcfarlane took conflict raged Between the state department and Pentagon on arms policy in Lebanon and ways of combating terror leaks were a Means of everybody recognized that fighting Battles in the press was not serving the country or the president said one senior Mcfarlane aide who spoke on condition he not be clearly All departments and agencies had institutional what has evolved is a better Way to focus our Talent and like Mcfarlane is regarded As a prag Matist and has sided with him against hardliners Wein director William Casey of the Central intelligence Agency and former ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick wanted a senior White House Post but didst get partly due to Shultz and Mcfarlane joint one Mcfarlane innovation is that he and Shultz meet alone with Reagan twice a week a Golden Opportunity to influence the president on key sometimes Weinberger is but Hes not a Mcfarlane and Shultz play Golf to Mcfarlane Job is to coordinate staff work for the National Security which considers foreign and military policies As they relate to National and to carry out Csc he Heads a staff of about 40 Hes become More than just a coordinator of other Peoples he put his Mark on the administration As the father of Star As one aide put refer ring to the administrations strategic defense periodically in the past is Ive tried to keep current with the state of the Art in defensive but Ive never Felt until four years ago that the prerequisites were Mcfarlane i believe they May be there at least the risk that they can be achieved is Low enough to warrant a solid investment in finding comfortable with the he moves easily into a discussion of recent advances in the computational capacity of computers and guidance which can be paired with kinetic Energy Mcfarlane Confidence comes from his in addition to assisting he served As a top aide to two other National Security Brent scowcroft and he worked under Alexander Haig As the state department Counselor from 1981 to he was Rea Gans special Middle East envoy in he also served on the staff of the Senate armed services committee from 1979 to 1981 under former John now one of the negotiators to the Geneva arms control himself a is the son of a former new Deal democratic congressman from William Doddridge his teaches school in the Washington and often accompanies him on foreign they have three nearly grown including a who attends the naval and two Lauren and Melis he never sought the limelight nor wanted a highly Public according to an he has a Good sense of humor with his staff in but he is by nature a private if he was in any other hed be known As a shy Mcfarlane apparent reluctance to As Sert himself is seen As a fault by he tends to be reticent in stating his own positions within senior Levels of the administration and in the process of says a former who asked not to be Mcfarlane failure to forcefully Back who argued for keeping american marines in Dis appointed according to the former the withdrawal in Early 1984 was a bitter defeat for the Secretary of it want the Only time they Haven seen Shultz appears to have deferred to Mcfarlane enthusiasm for the Star wars which some state department officials worry will complicate the Geneva arms even though Mcfarlane prefers to work behind the he has stepped up his Public appearances in recent says a senior it is recognized that the White House needs to assert itself publicly on foreign policy the president Doest have time to do so buds the