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...Haig talks to Gromyko, Begin and Mubarak, who talk back
...sooner had he set forth on his quick trip to Europe and the Middle East last week than U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig tipped his hand. During his first stopover, in Geneva, he told the world that he would tell Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the "outrage" felt by the U.S. over the Soviet-backed crackdown in Poland. The poker-faced Gromyko, who in his time has dealt with eight American Secretaries of State, responded that he had "absolutely no intention" of discussing Poland. The meeting promised, as Haig then observed, to be a "very short...
...Haig-Gromyko confrontation lasted for eight hours, twice the amount of time originally scheduled. The two men, accompanied only by their interpreters, did in fact speak extensively of Poland, but as Haig said later, "Poland cast a long, dark shadow over all the discussions involving East-West relations." The U.S. believes that there must inevitably be a link between the state of affairs in Poland and Soviet behavior in other parts of the world (see following story). Thus, in the U.S. view, the Polish situation makes it impossible to announce the beginning of Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with...
...Central American country, $25 million ostensibly to replace helicopters destroyed in a raid last week by leftist guerrillas on a military airbase, the rest to fund renewed opposition to that guerrilla insurrection against the nation's coalition of civilian and military rulers. According to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., the United States is now committed to insuring that El Salvador will not become communist...
Last week Abe jetted to Washington, where he heard the same story from President Reagan, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, U.S. Trade Representative William Brock and other top Administration officials. According to American estimates, the value of Japanese exports to the U.S. grew last year by 23%, to $37.7 billion, in part because of the strength of the U.S. dollar, which encouraged imports and discouraged exports. Indeed, American exports to Japan increased by only about 4%, to $21.5 billion...