Word: haig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more severe measures: freezing all U.S. exports, including grain, to the Soviet Union, and pressuring Western Europe and Japan to join in a boycott. Meese, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey all shared Reagan's feeling that some action against Moscow was needed now; Haig preferred a more cautious approach until the allies could be persuaded to join in the measures, but he readily agreed to the sanctions...
...allies remained unwilling to join the U.S. in any sanctions against the Soviets (see WORLD). The French and the Italians have taken the hardest line, with the West Germans dismayingly cautious and the British somewhere in between. Haig is convinced that Carter was wrong when he tried to bully the allies into supporting his sanctions in 1980, and he has gently tried to coax them into conformity with the U.S. position-with no success so far. Said Haig: "I am optimistic that if the U.S. is patient and shows good sense, the Europeans will come to share our concern...
...decision, announced by presidential counselor Edwin Meese III, apparently comes in response to the military crackdown in Poland and reportedly received the backing of Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig...
Foreign Minister Marwan Al Qasem of Jordan fired off a message to Secretary of State Alexander Haig expressing his country's "sorrow and pain." Chedli Klibi, secretary general of the Arab League, denounced the move as an "American crime." Palestinians demonstrated against the action in several West Bank towns and in East Jerusalem. Warned Abdeen Jabara of Detroit, one of Abu Eain's attorneys: "This decision will come back to haunt...
...diverse and far-flung as the Seychelles, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua led Richard Nixon to proclaim that World War III has already begun and that the other side may be winning. Without resorting to quite the rhetorical excesses of his former boss, Secretary of State Alexander Haig uses almost every occasion he can to raise the alarm: "Moscow is the greatest source of international insecurity