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When Haig in Washington and Ambassador Kirkpatrick at the U.N. got into a furious telephone argument over policy toward the Falklands-Kirkpatrick urging more sympathy for Argentina-Haig wanted her fired. Clark instead got her an appointment at the White House on Memorial Day to state her views directly to Reagan. Though the President did not agree with those opinions, Haig was furious at this deference to a "company commander," as he once called Kirkpatrick, who in his judgment had been insubordinate...
...meeting with Reagan, and in a later private talk with Haig, Begin likewise would not budge on anything. At one point, the White House put out word that the Prime Minister had pledged to refrain from a final assault on Beirut. Haig was furious because he regarded the threat of an Israeli attack as essential to induce the remnants of the P.L.O. holed up in Beirut to negotiate with Israel. The Israeli leader had, in fact, made no pledge. As the fighting continued, Clark, Weinberger and others were arguing with Reagan that Haig's soft-on-Israel approach increasingly...
There were other sources of tension at the summit. The British were furious at the U.S. for trying to switch its vote on a United Nations resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Falkland Islands from veto to abstention. At a Friday morning photo session, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stood stony-faced beside a smiling Reagan, who could not answer reporters' questions as to what had happened. Said one White House aide: "The boss wasn't in on this one. Maybe he should have been. Maybe that was the trouble." Then on Sunday came word...
Whatever they favor, educators are quick to credit Washington's ominous doings with one benefit. They have focused attention on massive aid programs which--though growing at a furious rate for the last 20 years--had never before been subjected to the kind of philosophical scrutiny that its defenders have recently had to summon...
...executives were furious when they heard Butcher argue that Chase had no obligation because the bank had been merely a transfer agent between the brokerage houses and Drysdale. Their arrangement had been with Chase, the brokerage houses argued, not with Drys dale. Chase seemed to be breaking the most fundamental rule of Wall Street: a dealer stands behind his deal. Said one an gry brokerage house executive: "We had taken a negative view of Drysdale's opera tions from the start, and we never had any direct dealings with them at all. We did not know for whom Chase...