Word: haig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secretary of State Haig should have gone immediately to the Organization of American States and pleaded that Argentina is wrong. Even if the members disagreed, they would have respected us for coming to them first...
...Habib's request, Secretary of State Alexander Haig telephoned Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Moshe Arens on Wednesday to ask for a strict 48-hour truce. Habib needed the time to persuade the P.L.O. to submit to Lebanese government authority. Arens made no formal reply, but Israeli guns finally fell silent 24 hours later than Haig had requested. However, an aide traveling with Begin in the U.S. last week told TIME that Israel would not commit itself to a formal cease-fire but would consider arrangements to allow the P.L.O. to depart from the capital peacefully. Said the aide...
...control, Washington held to a key premise of U.S. policy in the Middle East: the refusal to talk to the P.L.O. directly until the organization recognizes Israel's right to exist. Instead, the Administration was using an elaborate chain of intermediaries to contact the P.L.O. Begin would talk to Haig, who would talk to Habib, who would talk to the Lebanese, who, finally, would talk to the P.L.O. The responses of the P.L.O. would work their way back to Begin and Haig through the same elaborate route. Said one top U.S. official: "It is just too early to predict...
...private talks with President Reagan and Secretary of State Haig in both London and Paris, Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Francis Pym, rejected such a compromise as "totally unacceptable." Argentina's continued military resistance, they said, ruled out any involvement in the Falklands' administration in the foreseeable future. The British warned that their position would further harden if President Galtieri carried out his threat to continue the battle from the Argentine mainland after a British military victory...
Meanwhile, Thatcher pressed the U.S. to take part in a postwar Falklands peace-keeping force. Haig responded noncommittally that Washington's position "would depend very much on the conditions establishing such a force, its mandate and the political framework under which...