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...tirade was the latest shock in what some White House aides bluntly refer to in private as "the Kirkpatrick problem." Worse, the speech came only days after she and Secretary of State Alexander Haig deeply embarrassed the Administration by missing signals on how the U.S. should vote on a Security Council resolution concerning a Falklands ceasefire. The two events served to highlight the apparent inability of Reagan's foreign policy team to speak with a single, coherent voice. But they also renewed speculation that Kirkpatrick, who has had a long-running feud with Haig, might be removed from...
...speech. But aides traveling with the President confessed to astonishment at her behavior. Said one incredulous adviser: "Can you believe she made that speech while we're over here? What's the matter with her?" Asked by reporters whether he agreed that U.S. foreign policy was inept, Haig shrugged good-naturedly: "No more so than 200 some years of American history. At times it is. At times it's not." For her part, Kirkpatrick claimed correctly but somewhat irrelevantly that she had "said nothing I have not said at least ten times in the last three months...
...position has had a complicated dual status. As a Cabinet member, Kirkpatrick is entitled to press her views on the President. At the same time, however, she must report to and take orders from the Secretary of State. Apparently unwilling to be a mere "company commander," as Haig unflatteringly but more or less correctly described her role, Kirkpatrick sometimes takes an independent line on important foreign policy issues, to the dismay of the Secretary and others at the State Department. On the Falklands dispute, she has been conspicuously out of step, favoring neutrality in order to preserve U.S.-Latin America...
...declaration that British soldiers in the Falklands were "fighting for a cause, for the belief that armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed and that people must participate in the decisions of government under the rule of law." Privately, both the President and Secretary of State Alexander Haig continued to worry over Thatcher's rejection of a negotiated solution that would, by ultimately involving Argentina in the future of the Falklands, help repair the damage in U.S.-Latin American relations...
...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...