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...Argentina over the Falkland Islands caught the U.S. unawares-"an intelligence failure on our part," as one American official put it-and that uncertainty cast a dark cloud over the President's holiday. Just before leaving Washington on Wednesday, Reagan decided to send Secretary of State Alexander Haig to London and Buenos Aires to see if he could do anything to head off a confrontation...
...week's end Reagan's advisers were professing private optimism that Haig could work out something to avert or at least delay an armed clash. But the President confined his own comments to asserting limply that "we are friends of both sides in this." Reagan was trapped between the U.S. reliance on Britain as its staunchest supporter and his strategy of wooing Latin American states that take a strong anti-Communist line. In addition, his prestige suffered when he could not persuade the Argentines to call off their invasion of the Falklands...
...pleased with Israel's policy in the Sinai but concerned and even irritated over its handling of the situation on the West Bank. The tone of U.S. criticism has been insistent but not harsh; Secretary of State Alexander Haig believes that talking tough to Begin only makes him more stubborn. The fear in Washington is that the West Bank incidents will so anger the Arabs that the cease-fire along the Lebanese border, which has held since last July 24, will end. That in turn could give the Israelis cause to mount an assault against P.L.O. positions in southern...
...Wooten of ABC. On the air shortly before noon on election day, they voiced skepticism that the elections could be "clean and free" or "on the level," let alone meaningful. Surrounded by eager voters, Wooten said that the balloting "probably means more to Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig than it does to them." Seemingly unimpressed by the public's brave defiance of guerrilla threats, he added: "This voting . .. probably isn't going to be a significant chapter in El Salvadoran "history. A paragraph, perhaps, but nothing much more than that, because the real context of the country...
...await the results of Haig's shuttle diplomacy, circa 1982. In a situation where the adversaries are both trying to save face, he can hopefully negotiate an ego-soothing out for each side. This would be a fitting happy-ever-after end to a crisis that at first seemed more comic opera than heavy drama. The Argentines hold the key to reaching this desirable resolution, for they can afford to be more flexible than the British. Certainly, the fleet won't return to Portsmouth without some kind of victory in pocket. The bottom line is that Britain cannot back down...