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...Haig also found himself having trouble with the question of Soviet and Cuban participation in Central American negotiations. He feels the El Salvador struggle is part of the global problem of Soviet adventurism, and should be treated as such through talks with all parties involved. When he said this at a rambling background briefing, his view of the "global" nature of the problem, attributed to a "senior State Department official," was prominently reported. Asked if he agreed with the unnamed official, President Reagan replied: "I always have trouble about wondering who these senior officials are. I haven...
When the mystery of the anonymous official was resolved, a spokesman said that Reagan's remarks were "in jest" and that he agreed with Haig's view. But Haig, by then, was restating his position in response to right-whig dismay over the possibility of involving the Soviets in a Central American settlement. His clarification: "Salvador is at once a global, a regional and a local problem. That does not mean, nor did it ever mean, that the Soviets, or the Cubans for that matter, must be invited to the negotiating table." Said an aide: "The boss...
...Haig's difficulties come at a time when the Administration has been suffering a string of setbacks in trying to justify its El Salvador policy. The most dramatic was caused by a young Nicaraguan captured in El Salvador, who had been flown to Washington on the understanding that he would tell of his role as a Sandinista leader of the Salvadoran revolt. State Department officials walked him through his expected testimony, which had been shown on television in San Salvador earlier. But at a press conference three hours later, he recanted his story. Officials feel that attempting to prove...
...sure to complicate the negotiations further, though Pretoria denied the raid was deliberately timed for that purpose. In Washington, the State Department stressed that the raid "underlines again the urgency of moving toward a settlement on the Namibia issue." But even Administration officials conceded that Secretary of State Alexander Haig's hope for a settlement by the end of this year was unduly optimistic...
...sudden specter of violent death-the first of a foreign journalist in El Salvador since early last year when Photographer Olivier Rebbot was shot-heightened the pressures of covering a war that is in some measure a staged media event. Both Secretary of State Alexander Haig and El Salvador's Marxist-dominated rebels say that the government of President José Napoleón Duarte cannot last without U.S. military aid. Thus both sides are fighting partly to influence American opinion. When New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal returned this month from a tour to "get the feeling...