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...State Alexander Haig. Reflecting on the recent European visit of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, the West German newspaper Die Welt complained that he came across like "a Roman proconsul," and a top British defense official said, "He has a way of dropping grenades around the china shop." Another British diplomat softened that blow a bit by saying, "I'd call his performance one of stubbornness with charm...
Moscow's apparent strategy, says Georgetown's Hyland, appeared to be aimed at maintaining pressure on the Polish party until the hard-liners could gain control. But obviously the Soviets were as worried and mystified as everybody else. As one jittery Soviet official told a West German diplomat in Moscow, "We must be careful. Nobody knows where this crazy Polish drama is taking us all-not just the Soviet Union, but all of us, East and West alike." -By Thomas A. Sancton...
...internecine warfare has not caused undue alarm abroad. While the West Germans are somewhat concerned that their good friend Haig may be undercut, the French feel that the Reagan Administration at least has a coherent policy, in contrast to Carter's. Says a high-ranking French diplomat: "Bush is Haig's political rival, not his ideological one. Right now it is a question of power, not substance. We don't give a damn which people do what as long as there seems to be some agreement on essential questions." But the fact that the foreign policy...
...again, the Soviet Union broke an ominous silence on the Polish question with some even more ominous warnings. In a sizzling attack on "anti-socialist forces within Solidarity," TASS called the general strike threat "a declaration of war." Similar charges echoed throughout the East bloc. Noted a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "It looks like a collision course, and the Soviets are urging the Polish government not to shrink from...
...expand U.S. commitments in black Africa. The Salisbury aid conference was widely seen as a test of Western willingness to support Mugabe's experiment in nonracial democracy. It was also a chance for the U.S. to steal a march on Moscow in the Third World. Said one Western diplomat: "We felt there was a certain risk involved in Zimbabwe in the sense that if we came in there and didn't give generously, Zimbabwe might look elsewhere for its help...