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...APPEARS LIKELY then, that a coup was planned well in advance of the March elections and the United States at least knew of its existence. Just after the election. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig. Jr. was asked by the press for his reaction to the choice of Guevara Said Haig. "It is certainly somewhat urgent that we take care of this problem and we are taking care...
Perhaps the lasting lesson of the Falklands, however, may be that in charting a foreign policy through turbulent seas, certain basic lodestars must not be forsaken. Reagan and Haig have correctly noted that one issue of principle supersedes more pragmatic considerations: political disputes and territorial claims should be solved by law rather than military aggression. As a senior State Department official said last week: "The simple bottom line is that aggression cannot be, and cannot be seen to be, rewarded." The short-term consequences of the U.S. decision to oppose, firmly if perhaps belatedly, Argentina's invasion...
Because Reagan did not want to overdramatize the situation, the White House security apparatus was purposely kept in normal gear. The daily routine was merely bent to handle extra calls and conferences with National Security Adviser William Clark and Secretary of State Alexander Haig...
Early in the crisis, Reagan was confronted with requests to intensify contingency military planning. Instead, he declared it was a time for "heavy diplomacy," not making moves for war. The eager Haig was sent on his peace shuttle...
...modeled on the late Carlo Gambino and his Mob-have never even "been beyond Brooklyn or Vegas"; they do not read newspapers or go to college. Yet, as Charley proudly observes, the Prizzi family "runs this country just the same as the Senate does or General Motors or Alexander Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When the Prizzis give a testimonial banquet for one of their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French...