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Show '"'NS.,, . 6A The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, April 28, - rfir At 1985 McFarlane Restores Peace to Washington- Edltori Note: R. Gregory Nokes, who writes on diplomatic affairs and arms control Issues for The Associated Press, reports that "the same old disarray characterlied Ronald Reaoan's foreign Robert F. McFarlane become policy until the president's third national security adviser. Now, ne says, the State Department and the Whit House are moving In the same direction. shoot the MX missile controversy in Congress. I didn't know who Bud McFarlane was renow chairman of calls Rep. Les Aspln, the House Armed Services Committee. He was very quiet, not a very authoritarian type, and I said, This doesn't look like the kind of guy who can do the Job. But McFarlane impressed Aspin, who quickly concluded that he was by far the best person to deal with. The deal they worked out kept the MX alive. " By R. Gregory Nokes Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Robert F. McFarlane didnt even rate a footnote in Henry A. Kissinger's two volumes of memoirs, but now that he holds his old boss Job, hes managed to do something even McFarlane has kept on impressing, although he joked in a recent interview that, My wife says Im the only person to go back to the same office he was in 12 years ago and call it a promotion." When he moved into Kissinger's old job, he was assigned to the office hed occupied as a Kissinger couldnt. He's achieved peace not between the Soviets and the Americans, but between the office of White House national security adviser and the State Department. It took him a year to restore order. During Richard Nixons era, Kissinger was finally put in charge of both of those discordant bureaucracies in an effort to impose peace and they still continued their intramural combat. The same old disarray characterized Ronald McFarReagans foreign policy until lane landed in October 1983 as Reagans third national security adviser. Now Foggy Bottom and the White House are moving in the same direction. One big McFarlane accomplishment: Forming a partnership with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, he ended the discord that paralyzed the administration's arms control bureaucracy. Until that was done, the administration was in no position to do business with the Soviets. Kissinger assistant. Threatened to Quit Shultz didn't get along with Reagan's friend, William P. Clark, who was McFarlanes predecessor. Because of bickering, Shultz at one point threatened to quit. But Shultz has benefited from the relationship hes developed with McFarlane. Irritation between those two jobs is almost inevitable, but in this particular case, it hasn't happened," says Lawrence Eagleburger, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs who has worked closely with both men. "Neither one of them Is flappable; neither one is particularly he says. chairman of Says Sen. Richard Lugar, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Both Shultz and McFarlane are low-ke- y personalities who are just right for the president. McFarlane, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who put in two tours during the Vietnam War, is one of three in senior positions, giving rise to jests that the Marines are trying to rescue Reagans foreign policy. The others are Shultz and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. When McFarlane took over, conflict raged between the State Department and Pentagon on arms control, U.S. policy in Lebanon and ways of combating terrorism. Leaks were a means of combat. Everybody recognized that fighting battles in the press was not serving the country well, or the president well, said one senior McFarlane aide who spoke on condition he not be identified. Clearly all departments and agencies had institutional differences. What has evolved is a better way to focus our talent and energy. Like Shultz, McFarlane is regarded as a pragmatist and has sided with him against hardliners Weinberger, Clark, Director William Casey of the Central Intelligence Agency and former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick wanted a senior White House post but didn't get one, partly due to Shultz and McFarlane's joint ," Forge United Stand warfare between The Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger came to an end just in time for the administration to forge a unitea stand to take to Geneva, Switzerland. AP "For the first time in a long time, weve got a team working together, says one top White House aide, who asked not to be identified by name. I think a lot of the hiccups that every administration has will be reduced in Reagan's second term. McFarlane has made himself a man to be reckoned with, not because of any special closeness to Reagan, but because of what he knows the issues, the bureaucracy and the Congress, where he served as a staff aide during the Jimmy Carter interlude between Republican presidents. Hes still not well known outside the inner corridors. He wears a solemn face in public but friends tell of a mischievious sense of huipor. To his friends, hes known as Bud McFarlane.-Hes methodical, cautious. He works from 7 a m. late into the night sometimes 17 hours e in their His memos are military-likstraight. precision. Early on in the Reagan days, McFarlane, then at the State Department, was sent to trouble Photos Robert F. McFarlane, above, bas accomplished something that a predecessor, Henry A. Kissinger, .right, couldnt. He has ! achieved peace between the ! office of White House national security adviser and . the Department of State. opposition. One McFarlane innovation is that he and a Shultz meet alone with Reagan twice a week the president on golden opportunity to influence is Invited, but key issues. Sometimes Weinberger a hes not regular. McFarlane and Shultz also play Occasionally, golf together. McFarlanes job is to coordinate staff work for the National Security Council, which considers domestic, foreign and military policies as they relate to national security, and to carry out NSC decisions. He heads a staff of about 40 people. He's become more than just a coordinator of other peoples policies. He put his mark on the administration as the Father of Star Wars," as one aide put it, referring to the administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. Periodically in the past 15 years, I've tried to of the art in defenkeep current with the state sive systems, but I've never felt until four years McFarago that the prerequisites were there, lane says. I believe they may be there now. At least .the risk that they can be achieved is low enough to warrant a solid investment in finding out. Kinetic Energy Concepts Comfortable with the subject, he moves easily into a discussion of recent advances in the "computational capacity of computers and guidance systems which can be paired with kinetic energy concepts. McFarlanes confidence comes from his background. In addition to assisting Kissinger, he served as a top aide to two other national security advisers, Brent Scowcroft and Clark, in three administrations. He worked under Alexander Haig as the State Department counselor from 1981 to 1983. He was Reagans special Middle East envoy in 1983. McFarlane, himself a Republican, is the son of a former New Deal Democratic congressman from Texas. Rep. William Doddridge McFarlane. His wife, Jonda, teaches school in the Washhim on forington area, and often accompanies three have grown nearly eign trips. They children, including a son, Scott, who attends the Naval Academy, and two daughters, Lauren and Melissa. He never sought the limelight nor wanted a highly public job, according to an aide. He has a good sense of humor with his staff in private. But he is by nature a private person. If he Was in any other job, hed be known as a shy person." McFarlanes apparent reluctance to assert himself is seen as a fault by some. He tends to be reticient in stating his own positions within senior levels of the administration and in the process of debate, says a former official, who asked not to be identified. Even though McFarlane prefers to work behind the scenes, he has stepped up his public appearances in recent months. Says a senior aide, It is recognized that the White House needs to assert itself publicly on foreign policy issues. The president doesn't have time to do it So Bud's the one." Dino Lee: Original and Undisputed Monarch of White Trash By Joe Rhodes Dallas Times Herald Writer Dino Lee was AUSTIN, Texas tooling down Highway 290 in his pink 1956 Cadillac Sedan with zebra-prin- t seat covers, a sombrero-toppe- d skull and crossbones on the dashboard and a rubber skeleton hanging from the rear view mirror, explaining why he is who he is the one and only, original, undisputed King of White Trash. I am," he said, because I thought of it first. We had just left Dino's legendary former residence, a mobile home that had been grafted onto the back of a farmhouse, covered with aluminum siding and christened Trashland." In its heyday, when Dino could still pay the rent, it was a monument to bad taste, the interior decorated with cheap wood-grai- n paneling and autumn gold" carpeting. There had been velvet paintings on the walls, mirrors on the ceilings, lava lamps in the bedrooms Out front had been the most tasteless touch of all. a flashing portable sign, the kind preferred by used-ca- r lots and bad roadside restaurants. In big ugly letters it said, The home of Dino Lee." Budweiser and Goat From Trashland, we were heading to nearby Elgin, Dino's favorite town in the world, a place where the people are friendly and the beer l cheap. It was Easter Sunday, and we were celebrating in the traditional Elgin way, showing up at the Dos Amigos bar to drink lots of Budweiser and eat some barbecued goat As we drove, we came to under stand why this man, dressed in Beatle hounds-toot- h boots and a double-breaste- d tuxedo jacket, deserves his crown. See," Dino said, there's all these ideas out there in the air, all floating around for everybody to deal with, where anyone can catch it." Sort of like malaria? Right. Whoever catches it first, he's got it. I caught this first. If you want to be the king of something else, that's fine, but if you want to be the King of White Trash, its too late. I've already got it. Spread It Around That would be enough to satisfy most men, but it is not enough for Dino Lee. Now that hes got it, he's started to spread it around. I'm warning you now: This guys a carrier. You wouldn't want to see the Continental Club in the daytime. Some things are better off left in the dark and this place, a bar on Austin's South Congress Street, is one of them. The interior is painted black, the air eterstink nally laced with the hung-ovof cigarettes and spilled beer. You walk past the pool tables and the signs that advertise Little Kings for a buck a bottle, and you can just tell there hasn't been any sunshine in here since they put the roof on. The perfect place for Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue. er Red Untrasuede Jumpsuit He comes on about half past midnight, all decked out In a red ultrasuede Elvis Jumpsuit with a brocade cumberbund, an Eraserhead pompa dour (seven inches, fully erect) and way too much hair on his chest. The musics blasting and Dino's bopping all over the place, strutting his slea-zoi- d self from one side of the stage to the other, looking like The Lounge Act That Ate Cleveland and doing the into what may hyperspace two-ste- p some day be his greatest hit: Stud Pony. Dino's act is somewhere between James Brown and Ricky Ricardo, a street funk Latin showband, a bunch of white guys in rhumba shirts playn horns and nasty guitars, ing featuring backup vocals from The Jam and Jelly Girls, four women in black lingerie and get-dow- full-figur- slut-pum- shoes. When spike-heele- d these people shake, they shake all over. It is the kind of stuff that will make you dance and sweat and lie to your parents. Some of it sounds like Ike and Tina, some of it sounds like Mitch Ryder, but all of it sounds like somebody else, which of course, is one of the key elements of genuine White Trash. Stolen goods. We have no culture of our own." Dino said, defining his terms, so we have to steal from everyone else. "I borrow from a lot of people. Well, actually, I pick their carcasses. I'll steal from anybody. I don't make any bones about it. Down and Dirty Every show has a different theme, a different set of costumes, a different set of props. The White Trash Reg vue is an show, the only constant is that it is guaranteed to be down and dirty and, occasional- - VI M I ly. just half a step away from a vice squad raid. The way I look at the music, it came out of whorehouses and strip bars, and thats where I want to take it back to," Dino said, after a set in which he had donned a skull mask, orange lame robe and a long platinum-blond wig before squirting the water pisaudience with a body-patol. Its kind of lost that feel, that sleaziness that you need. rt Dino. who is 28 years old, and not nearly as crazy as you think, moved to Texas from Los Angeles in the fall of 1983. Hed been working the Hollywood rock club circuit for several years with a rockabilly outfit called the Whirlybirds, a band that was admired by critics and musicians but that showed no signs of breaking into mainstream popularity or a record contract. "In L.A. everybody plays for their friends, who pat them on the back and tell them how great they are. To me having a cult audience was not enough." So Dino moved to Austin where he thought the music scene was livelier, and less incestuous. The Whirlybirds, however, decided they had rather stay in California. That is why Dino formed the White Trash Revue, something he says he had always wanted to do. It took a while to get musicians, even longer to get gigs But finally the band came together, and the word got out. helped along by Dino's shameless sense of He sponsored Win A Date with Dino" contests, published his own fan magazine and once invited a local critic to a show by mailing him a fake severed hand. And the shows? There was the "Friday the 13th Show, which marked the first coffin appearance. There was the Vegas Show, complete with bandstands and bubble machines There was the Election Show," in which the band wore brown shirts and Nazi helmets that said, "Vote for Dino. And the infamous "Caligula e Show," which included deI to even cant begin props larger-than-lif- scribe. Dino's first album is scheduled to come out in early summer, to be released on New Rose Records in France, but available here as an import. He is not sure if the French will get the joke, but he knows how he would like the album to be marketed in America. I'd like the cover to be a velvet painting suitable for framing." he said. Fluorescent, of course " Mental Attitude "Anybody can be white trash Anybody. Chinese people can. Black people can It's not a racial thing It's a style, a mental attitude. It's like, what if some hog farmer got a lot of money all of a sudden. What he'd do is go out and buy himself a A fur-line- d sink or maybe one of those easy chairs that vibrates. In case you think all of this the aversion to natural fibers, the mobile home with tiger-skiwalls, the massive velvet painting collection, the need to sing a cover version of What's New Pussycat?" is just Dino's idea of a joke, you should know that he has spent a lifetime developing his taste, what there is of it. His parents were white trash, too. Cultural Heritage You should have seen my mothers bedroom. She had a round bed with red velvet spreads and lots of those paintings of kids with the big n eyes. And my dad's got an apartment with big bullhorns coming out the wall and a coat of arms he bought in Mexico and little plastic six guns. He used to build apartment buildings in Downey Calif j, and his idea was to build apartments that looked like things out of a movie. His first one was supposed to be Roman or something and the next one was the Taj Mahal He said, You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find someone to build those domes.' " That is the heritage that Dino Lee has sworn to pieserve, the reason he has chosen to become The King of White Trash There is so much work to do. so little time to do it. Distributed by Los Angeles Post News Service Times-Washingto- n Darleen Schultz says "See You in Class" 9 presrrrsrr Learn How to Make the Most of Your Sewing Machine ANY MODEL! ' GGESXS3GB(3!S!B ' 031Ca5!130!D canznQE60? 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