Word: haig
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Hersh raises more questions Wiretapping National Security Council aides was a dirty business, and everybody in the White House and FBI knew it. Kissinger's method of handling it was simple: he put Haig in charge." Thus does Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh, in an article in the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, assess once again the evidence that former National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and his aide Alexander Haig were deeply involved in some of the murky plots of Richard Nixon's White House...
...satellite--must have shocked a few viewers. Here was a red-blooded Russian, a communist, and yet he sounded and talked just like you and me, he exressed the same apprehension, the same terror. True, he spewed forth some of the usual rhetoric--much like Secretary of State Haig. But there seemed to be a sincerity, a desire for improvement behind Gerassimov's words. And, no doubt, the mass of Soviets finds the prospect of a nuclear holocaust just as abhorent as most Americans...
When Secretary of State Alexander Haig learned about the article two weeks ago, he decided to launch, as one aide put it, "his own pre-emptive strike." The day before the McNamara press conference, Haig in a Washington speech derided the no-first-use policy as "tantamount to making Europe safe for conventional aggression." If NATO did renounce that option, the Secretary said, the alliance would have to match the conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact countries. To do that, the U.S. would have to "reintroduce the draft, triple the size of its armed forces and put its economy...
...Administration last week continued its campaign to defuse the nuclear-freeze movement and tone down Reagan's bellicose image. In his speech, Haig attacked the proposed freeze for perpetuating "an unstable and unequal military balance" and removing "all Soviet incentive to engage in meaningful arms control." Reagan announced that he would address the U.N. conference on arms control in New York City this June and pointedly proposed that Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev join him there for a meeting...
...have impact. There is widespread agreement in Washington that the White House has tempered its El Salvador position, and perhaps its nuclear stance, at least partly because of the Catholic opposition. But the prelates also find themselves fighting some of their best-known laity, especially Secretary of State Alexander Haig and, on abortion, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino and Senator Edward Kennedy...