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While former NATO commander Alexander M. Haig Jr., Reagan's strong-willed secretary of state designate, is unlikely to settle for second place in any high-level policy struggles, some observers have come to view tension between State and NSC as a virtual inevitability, and the lineups taking shape indicate that at least some difference in outlook will persist...
Pipes--who proposed in his transition report a reorganization of the Bureau of European Affairs that would have emphasized U.S.-Soviet relations and, in his words, "shaken up the State Department establishment"--is known to consider the team Haig is assembling at State to be a "mixed bag," and thus believes Allen's NSC will be a "logical" and "more comfortable" abode. Adding to the coziness, sources say, will be a sharp reduction of the size of the NSC from its current staff of 25, and the presence of conservative co-members such as Frank Lilley, an Asian specialist formerly...
Having read about the controversy over the nomination of General Alexander Haig for Secretary of State [Dec. 22] and the qualms about the man's integrity, I am astonished at the double standard involved. Where were those critical voices when he was appointed Supreme Commander of NATO? A man good enough for this post ought to be good enough for Secretary of State...
...execution. Can Allen, an ambitious man in his own right, be as self-effacing as he says when he is surrounded by so many temptations to exercise power? His task may be eased by the fact that he does not seem to have any sharp policy differences with Haig, in contrast to Brzezinski's disagreements with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. But Allen's proximity to the President, and the institutional momentum of his strategically placed post, may inevitably push him into the very prominence he wants to avoid. -By Edwin Warner. Reported by Jonathan Beaty/Washington...
...Expects to Work Smoothly with Secretary of State-Designate Alexander Haig: Because I know my assignment-to coordinate effectively all the components of the national security policymaking machinery-and I know that I can carry...