Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski came to the Law School last night and charged President Reagan with playing too small a role in foreign affairs

In town for a speech before the World Affairs Council yesterday afternoon Brzezinski delivered essentially the same address to a crowd of about 300 filling a Langdell auditorium despite a packed Kennedy School panel discussion featuring Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese III that look place at the same time

Assessing Reagan's presidency at mid term. Brzezinski recalled his own situation after two years in office

I looked at my journal to see what was preoccupying me on that day four years ago, he said

At the point he said. We were facing a genuinely severe crisis of truly historic magnitude [in Iran] but had scored successes in normalization of relations with China the Camp David peace accord and the Panama Canal Treaties

In contrast, he added, "blessed with no crises, this Administration cannot claim to have made any very major accomplishments in its first two years"

Fears About Mexico

Brzezinski, who received a PhD in political science at Harvard in 1953, went or to say that Central American affairs are in need of urgent" attention

"Mexico may be our next Iran," he predicted "And it Iran was a major crisis, think what Mexico will be"

Although he called Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, "difficult to deal with." Brzezinski said he foresees "a reasonable chance for success" in the Middle East

It's easier to make peace with Begin than to make peace with someone else while Begin leads the Labor parts in the Knesset"

But no peace will be made, he emphasized, unless the President follows up his peace initiatives of last fall with serious and sustained involvement" and the gives both the Israelis and Arabs pressure to cooperate