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...Defense Secretary Caspar Weinber left Washington for a trip to the Middle East last week, Secretary of State Alexander Haig asked him to perform some diplomatic chores in Saudi Arabia Weinberger readily agreed. It was a small gesture, but a meaningful first. Far too often in the past, the two most powerful figures in the Reagan Cabinet had acted more as disputatious rivals on foreign policy issues than as key members of the same Administration...
...where he served as Heiig's ranking deputy, to the basement of the White House West Wing brought the former California jurist from relative obscurity to one of the most important jobs in the Administration and immediately raised questions about his future. Would Clark become a rival to Haig? Would he attain as much rank and prestige as the White House troika, altering the tenuous balance among Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver...
While Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig and Jean Kirkpatrick deal with the problems of the world is New York or Washington more than 1000 college students form throughout the United States will imitate them and their colleagues from other nations this afternoon at the Science Center as part of the four-day Harvard National Model United Nations...
...would pose as the vastly experienced, endlessly patient statesman, determined to keep talking peace in the face of this latest temper tantrum by his American opposite number. Haig gave him just that opportunity...
...seeking to explain why he felt compelled to try, yet again, to attempt linkage, that Haig said, "The situation in Poland casts a long and dark shadow" across the whole range of relations. True enough. But so does the situation in Afghanistan. And in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Cuba and the U.S.S.R. itself, all of which are under less blatant but hardly less brutal forms of martial law. The very nature of the Soviet system and the exercise of Soviet power cast a long, dark shadow across U.S. policy. So far linkage has been just another word in the vocabulary...