Word: haig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
Hersh's indictment reignites the controversy over the culpability of two of the foremost survivors of the Watergate era, the past and present Secretaries of State. For Haig, the story comes at a particularly awkward time, as he struggles with foreign policy crises in the South Atlantic and Middle East while fending off what he perceives as challenges to his authority within the Reagan Administration. For Kissinger, it comes on the heels of the publication of his own memoirs about that troubled period, Years of Upheaval, in which he describes his admitted involvement in the wiretap operation...
...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...
...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...