Word: haig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haig decided to go ahead with the meeting in part because the NATO allies favor a steady East-West dialogue. Western Europe in particular sees the encounter as helpful to the Geneva-based U.S.-Soviet talks on limiting medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. U.S. participation in those talks on Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) has been the allies' quid pro quo for allowing the installation of new U.S. missiles in Europe...
...Haig has stressed that INF talks should not be halted by the crisis over Poland. Said he: "These INF talks must be dealt with outside the context of more normal East-West relationships, because there are fundamental advantages to the U.S. in continuation." One advantage is entirely practical: the Soviets install an additional SS-20 missile every five days, according to the State Department; the sooner a limitation pact is in effect, the smaller will be the ballistic threat looming over Europe...
Even if the Polish crisis had not arisen, Haig might not have been ready to launch the broader START talks with Gromyko. Although technical preparations are fairly far along, top U.S. officials "just haven't taken the fundamental decisions" on policy yet, says one arms control specialist. The bargaining package will be ready "by early spring," projects Eugene Rostow, chief of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. But that deadline could be postponed because of the divergent views of the arms control agency, the State Department and the Pentagon. As one beleaguered combatant puts it, "The Soviets rank about...
Administration officials refused to comment. But former Kissinger associates speculated that if he were still in office, he would have been among the first to warn of the risks and difficulties of reacting so forcefully. Haig's reaction was visceral. Rather than take Kissinger's critique as an intellectual challenge to Administration policy, which it was, the Secretary of State told aides that he saw it as a power grab-a ploy by Kissinger to get his old job back...
...number of Jews allowed to emigrate. By the end of 1981 emigration had dropped to an average of 380 people a month, an 82% decline over the previous two years. One of those allowed to emigrate earlier was Avital Shcharansky, 31, who met Secretary of State Alexander Haig during his trip to Israel two weeks ago. He promised her that he would raise Shcharansky's case with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko when they meet in Geneva this week...