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New helmsmen should heed HelmsHelms' dilemma WASHINGTON the Potomac an iron bond has been Richard Ullman Alton Frye and Roger foundationsfoundations' or universitiesut forged through the corridorsof power Hansen resist the molding At the Such academic shelter keepskeeps' the At a recent dinner party in the suburb Brookings of Chevy Chase part of the old foreign Who arere-thethe new they In the halls Institution international mind focused on foreign policy issues the Bergstein pauses per- policy came together inin- of Congress Richard Moose operates economist Fred perhapsps too parochially Much perper- establishment government Also oror- a moving and courageous display of from the Senate Foreign Relations between stints or spective can be gained by hustlingbustling for aa- biting are formerfonner Ck support one embattled Committee while his old sidekick outside government buckb with dignity and panache and no for of its Council members former CIA Director James Lowenstein now testifies for the power studies are as revealing as the State Department and the levers of staffers Mort Halperin at a Stewart practice of high-stakes finance pursued Richard HelmsHeIms Anthony Lake stakes present were Averell Sens Humphrey Kennedy Javits and Mott-financed project by a or the corporate Among those running private Corps and Harriman emissary to old Joe Motta Peace representationof a Clark CliffordCl ford Roger Morris The old network was fused by World Stalin Robert McNamara of the net- new defense secretary and Henry In the academic branch net War II The new network was fused byby- work Harvard is still predominant the Vietnam War and often service in a Kissinger husband of Nelson and RockefellersRockefeller's foreign policy with professors wiretapped which helps explain former closely cued in YYalee is which adviser Tom Braden columnist and its members'members cynicism The difference WilliamWiiliam represented by Richard Cooper an in characterch between age and youth fonnerformer CIA official was the host economist and Robert Keohane of Everyone there must have known shaPshapesS network attitudes as wellwen Stanford slaysstays in touch There is plenty of roommom just past the that Helms soon wouldwOl d face public Safire like the oldolet boys the new boys ad- disgrace as Richard Kleindienst ad top and hardly room enough for a did mire girls but not as professional foothold halfway up for lying to the Senate in the line of associates One woman who has broken duty Yet the old-boy network rallied The nenew boys have not yet suffered through is Doris ReamsKearns professor of the pangs of compromise and yet are round as if to oldremind itself and the government at Harvard while Jessica world that the old values were not disillusioned the old boys frequently Einhorn at the TreasuryT east y Department have felt the pain of selling out yet holdhold- forgotten and that the new morality Mondale are worked by Don Speigel and Sally Shelton aide to Sen Bentsen would not be applied retroactively by Bob Hunter Peter Lakeland and David fast to their illusions are good bets in the future In way men who had known the burdens of Aaron its each network helps its A great difference between the old members A generation from we state The Capitol Hill segment of the newnew- greatdifference way now and new networks is in the the can expect the new boys to assassemble Old-boy nnetworks by their nature boy network is envious of the sudden members move in and outof governgovern- Old The power vacuum filledfrilled eminence of member William perhaps in the home of Foreign Policy fade away p is Miller ment The Lovetts Magazine by new-boy networks from a different now executive director of the Senate editor Dick Holbrooke to new and would take their sabsab- toast a who zig stratum of societysoci ty and possessed of a CIA investigation and worries most canyons of finance oro member continued to baticals in the when the of too world W different view of the world whose about thetoo possible ememergencee of nonnon- out fortunes inin- rest the We corporate law staking can hope that the comradeship of members start putouto t in creative comcom- member Richard Pearl amavericka. the world Despite some ex-ex petition and as an old-boy network who works on matters forfar real budget shared experienceence willinwill in the end take end strategic ceptions Ed Hamilton thetheth jagged edge of cynicism off what in mutual old Scoop Jackson of andd BaBarryy CarterCart r- director California r now CO Today's new-boy network has begun At the Council on Foreign Relations is the comingDg foreign policy selfnew and Walter Washington establishmentta to gagain its identity From the Kennedy where the old boys try desperately to attorneys the newDew boys only leave C office on the HillHOI to on shape the nenew boys in the old imageage government for government like eo NN. YoTimes Service