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...Haig-Weinberger disputes overshadow their views in common...
...Reagan Administration once again found itself in the embarrassing position last week of having two top officials in public disagreement over sanctions. Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, both on overseas trips, managed to renew their differences only weeks after National Security Adviser William Clark was installed to help avoid such conflict. Weinberger has consistently argued for revoking the licenses and invoking even stronger restrictions on East-West trade to ensure that Western technology is "not exploited to make good the chronic deficiencies of the Communist system." Weinberger, who is especially critical of the European allies' involvement...
...contend with massive political and popular resistance in this country, based as much as anything on distaste for the type of regime the U.S. would be trying to rescue. Besides, the rationale for the Administration's ends and means in El Salvador rests on the reassurances, repeated by Haig's deputy Thomas Enders only last week, that the U.S. seeks a political, not a military, solution. Sending in troops would undercut the already precarious credibility of that policy...
...relevant considerations would be, and should be, enough to give the Administration plenty of reason to look for alternatives to military intervention. But the hard fact is the U.S. cannot pre-emptively and categorically rule out more direct use of force in El Salvador, which is what some of Haig's cross-examiners in the Senate seemed to want him to do. Any nation, but especially a superpower, must reserve the option of armed action in defense of its vital interests. To foreclose that option in a nasty little crisis close to home would raise new questions about American...
...triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the patient's leg would be used to make detours around the clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that he was negotiating for "a quadruple bypass-one more than Haig." (Secretary of State Alexander Haig had triple coronary bypass surgery in 1980.) After 4½ hours of surgery last week, he came through in "excellent condition," according to the doctors. Austen predicted that following a two-week recuperation at the hospital, his model patient would be stronger than ever, which, Kissinger had said...