Word: haig
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Before going there, Reagan met privately at the U.S. embassy with Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki for an hour and ten minutes, and for 90 minutes with Thatcher, who walked over from the British embassy a few hundred feet away. "Hello, Al," Thatcher called to Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who was waiting to greet her on the steps. Finally, on Friday afternoon before the Versailles summit, Reagan dropped in at the Hotel de Ville (Paris' city hall) to see Mayor Jacques Chirac, who is also leader of the neo-Gaullists, the strongest opposition party to Mitterrand...
Watergate produced strange, wonderful double-entendre evasion. White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt Jr. referred to the famous 18½-min. gap on one tape as an "obliteration of the intelligence." Alexander Haig told Judge John Sirica that the gap might have been caused by "some sinister force...
Outlining the dangers that a continuing conflict posed for U.S. policy, Secretary of State Alexander Haig said that "in many respects, American interests were more heavily engaged in the Falklands than even the interests of the two parties." Haig was referring to the fact that by backing Britain, the U.S. had endangered its overall relations with Argentina as well as with Latin America as a whole. But the Administration had accepted Haig's view that the U.S. had no choice but to side with an ally-and against a country trying to gain disputed territory by force...
Secretary of State Haig had urged the British to be "magnanimous" in victory, but British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seemed unmoved. Magnanimity "was not a word I use in connection with the Falklands," she told a television interviewer at midweek. To give in "to an invader and an aggressor and a military dictator," she said, "would be treachery or betrayal of our own people." Only one thing could halt the British drive: an immediate Argentine decision to "withdraw within the next ten to 14 days...
Kirkpatrick told reporters that she had voted on the basis of previous instructions, but had then been asked to change the vote by a telephone call from what she called the "principal officers," an allusion to Reagan and Haig. Asked if she had been embarrassed by the about-face, Kirkpatrick replied: "Of course...