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Opponents of a freeze, like Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Harvard's own Conservative Club--which picketed a Freeze Campaign benefit concert earlier this month--argue that the idea of a freeze is naive and simplistic. In Haig's words, "This resolution is not only bad defense policy, but it is bad arms control policy as well. "Haig and the conservatives argue that a freeze would lock the United States into its present position of "military disadvantage and dangerous vulnerability," doing away with-both the incentive for the Soviets to negotiate arms reduction and the chance for America...
...bolster this claim, Haig cites only one example of U.S. "disadvantage"--the alleged "6-1" superiority of Soviet land based missile forces in Europe. But taking into account all the missiles in the European theater pointed at the Soviets--including those of France and Britain, as well as American submarine-based weapons--the "6-1"edge vanishes. In fact, the freeze would actually accomplish a key Administration goal in Europe: the prevention of Soviet deployment of any new SS-20 missiles to modernize Russian nuclear forces. And in any case, freeze opponents who point only to the European situation...
Secretaries Haig and Weinberger find themselves frequently at odds [March 1] because President Reagan has not committed himself to a firm and reasonable foreign policy...
Presiding over this curious series of public presentations was the prime proponent of the Administration's us-vs.-them world view, Secretary of State Alexander Haig. "This situation is global in character," he told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week. "The problem is worldwide Soviet interventionism that poses an unprecedented challenge to the free world. Anyone attempting to debate the prospects for a successful outcome in El Salvador who fails to consider the Soviet menace is dealing with only the leg or the trunk of the elephant...
Unswerving devotion to the path of "the true believer" brought on the attack on Haig and similar denunciations of other GOP bigwigs. Favorite punching bags of the weekly include OMB director David Stockman, White House Chief of Staff James Baker, and a slew of Republican Congressional leaders...