Focus on Washington

Focus on volve Adminis- WASHINGTON) *.*:::” restore funds from its eviscerated Foreign Aid Bill. How- ever, says Sen. Mike Mansfield, whatever case the Ad- ministration can make for fund restoration will be en- hanced if foreign aid lobbyists from the State and De- fense Departments, as well as those from the specially- interested Agency for International Development (AID), keep their distance from congressional corridors. The Senate Majority Leader has given the White House no- tice of senatorial complaints that Executive Department lobbyists swarmed over Capitol Hill during summer months “like worms crawling out of woodwork”: but Mansfield was careful to distinguish between State/ Defense/AID lobbyists and the President’s own lapel- pinching team, led by Mike Manatos, chief of congres- sional liaison at the White House since Larry O’Brien moved his political operation down the avenue to the Post Office Department. Nevertheless, the team of Mans- field & Manatos may need all the worms they can lay their hands on in