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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Alexander Haig was even more blunt: "We consider SALT II to be dead and have so informed the Soviets." (The treaty has not actually been formally rejected, however, and is still technically before the Senate.) But one high Administration official indicated that the U.S. may find some method of accepting SALT II without formally ratifying it. Internal discussions are under way, he said, about working out some "mutual restraints," which would be similar to the SALT I and SALT II restrictions now being informally observed, for both sides to honor...
...effort to persuade the Argentines to budge on the thorny issue of Falklands sovereignty, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig sent Retired General Vernon Walters, a trusted troubleshooter, to Buenos Aires. Haig has also been urging other Latin American governments to intercede with Argentina, to little avail...
...llar, facing his first frontline test as the U.N.'s top diplomat, was attempting to ease the tension. Perez de Cuellar had assumed responsibility for mediating the dispute on April 30, after a month-long peace-keeping effort by U.S. Secretary of State Haig ended in failure. Perez's peace proposals do not differ markedly from those originally put forward by Haig. They include: 1) a ceasefire; 2) phased and corresponding withdrawal of Argentine troops and the British fleet; 3) establishment of a temporary administration over the islands, under U.N. auspices; 4) the opening of direct negotiations...
...Unlike Haig, however, Pérez de Cuéllar has concentrated on the procedural details, such as the sequence of troop withdrawals and the membership of the interim administration, rather than the substantive differences between the disputants, The key to Pérez de Cuéllar's mediation has been to avoid all discussion of the most difficult issue: ultimate sovereignty over the islands...
...British have indeed: reporting to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on his talks, U.N. Ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons described the Secretary-General as being "highly skillful, extremely patient, a very professional career diplomat with special ability in the construction of realistic compromises." U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig also gives Pérez de Cuéllar good marks...