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Meeting at the Secretary State Department last week. Secretary Alexander Haig and defense secretary Caspar weinberger agreed to get together regulary to discuss foreign affairs. Conspicuously not invited to the planned sessions: Richard Allen, the President's National Security Adviser. Indeed, Allen has been maintaining such a low profile - as he promised before taking the job - and has been so slow in filling top-level posts in his of fice that other agencies concerned with overseas affairs are apprehensive. Says an adviser: "They are afraid that Allen will let Al Haig run away with the whole show...
...otherwise would be, not lower than it is now; total spending will continue to grow because of inflation, however much the White House and Congress may hack and trim. Moreover, there is one gigantic exception to the Administration's cut-and-slash plans: military spending. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger is likely to propose, and Reagan may well recommend, a fiscal 1982 defense budget of $220 billion, almost $24 billion above the figure Jimmy Carter had suggested and $55 billion more than the Pentagon's current budget. That would gobble up more than half the cuts that Reagan...
...sign that this transition might not be a smooth one came when Caspar W. Weinberger '38, soon after getting the job, fired the defense transition team and had a run-in with its head, William R. Van cleave, Reagan's hawkish chief defense adviser, who during the campaign had hoped for a high Pentagon post. By January 20 disgruntled aides were calling the defense transition a joke, a mess and "at the very least, quite a bit behind." For a period of time, aides said, literally no one was running the place: Weinberger was working with Reagan on the budget...
...seen in a column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak that deserves to be studied in journalism schools. Never ruminative like Will, they are columnists who air their opinions in the guise of reporting. The story they were reporting was simple enough: Reagan's new Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, wanted as his deputy Frank Carlucci, who had worked in Government with him before. Right-wingers fought the appointment, but lost. Now hear Evans and Novak tell...
...Unease within the defense community over Caspar Weinberger has blossomed into panic," their column began. Weinberger "has booted out 'Reaganaut' military advisers, trashed their recommendations and at least opened the door for soft-liners." Carlucci's appointment is "the visible tip of concealed events . . . The most charitable explanation is that this is no conspiracy but the product of Weinberger's nearly total ignorance on defense questions . . . But assuming Weinberger finally learns the names and issues involved, he has lost valuable time in revising defense spending . . . That may well prevent any Reagan hurry-up plans for accelerated...