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...Reagan and Haig handle the larger global challenges...
...forge new ones with anti-Communist regimes, to confront the adventurist meddling of the Soviets and their clients-but that these have been somewhat obscured by indifferent execution. Critics contend that these apparent goals are really just a set of attitudes, that under Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, U.S. foreign policy has essentially become a series of scrambles to ward off disaster...
...does the leaders in the Kremlin, and in which friends (actual and potential) insist on pursuing their own explosive quarrels rather than subordinating them to any common anti-Soviet cause. The President, who came to office lacking experience in foreign affairs, has given such matters only intermittent personal attention. Haig, beset with bureaucratic battles, has tended to focus his formidable energy on one foreign problem at a time. In the words of a U.S. diplomat at an embassy in the Middle East, speaking of his own region but voicing a comment that has broader application: "We do not even have...
...Falklands. By the time Haig returned to Washington, he had set an exhausting new record for shuttle diplomacy: 32,965 miles covered during 71 hr. 40 min. in the air on six flights between Washington, London and Buenos Aires in twelve days. And still negotiations continued, with no resolution. British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym came to the U.S. for two days of talks, even while the British fleet was closing in on South Georgia Island, a probable staging area for an invasion of the Falklands...
Many healthy world travelers fight jet lag with common sense. IBM employees take a day's rest after passing through eight time zones, and Canadian government officials are entitled to a night's stopover after nine hours of flying. Although he cannot hew to home time, Haig does manage to mitigate many of the debilitations of international travel by submitting to some supersonic pampering. He dons pajamas before climbing into a bunk on his specially equipped Boeing 707. He works in the leather easy chair of a private cabin, and afterward relaxes with friends on his staff...