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Haig's quarrels with the White House staff started a few hours after the Inauguration, when he handed Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese a memo, for Reagan's approval, demanding total control over foreign policy (he never quite got it). Haig was often at public odds with Cabinet colleagues and even some of his subordinates...
...some new organizational constraints he may encounter. He told four American journalists, who flew across the Atlantic with him, that he would be available for a few questions when the supersonic jet landed. These arrangements were countermanded at Dulles International Airport by a White House welcoming party of Edwin Meese, James Baker and William Clark. "But Secretary Shultz wanted to make a statement," protested a reporter. "But Judge Clark does not want him to," responded an aide. And so Shultz...
...addition, the President's closest advisers in the White House?Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver?wanted the Administration to criticize the Israelis openly for more personal reasons: they felt Begin had insulted President Reagan, first by not telling the whole truth when he said it was Israel's intention to limit its invasion of Lebanon to an area within 40 kilometers of the border, and then by ignoring Reagan's initial plea for a cease-fire as the tanks rumbled on to Beirut...
Lured out of Libya, Edwin Wilson stumbles in from the cold
...most of his life, Edwin Wilson, 54, stayed in the shadows, operating in the twilight world of spies and international intrigue. From 1951 to 1976, he worked for the CIA and the Office of Naval Intelligence, running networks of foreign agents and helping set up covert operations. When he left Government service, he teamed up with another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge...