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Since then Clark has earned respect throughout the Administration as a quick study and an able manager. He also won the friendship of Alexander Haig, whose job he may well have saved during the Secretary of State's testy bouts with Allen and the White House staff. Even more valuable for his new role as mediator, Clark took no public positions on issues that tend to divide the Reagan team into factions of pragmatists and ideologues. Says one official who knows Clark well: "Like the President, he believes we live in a world with one adversary, the Soviets...
...then were Edwin Meese III and Michael Deaver. Clark remains very friendly with both, but reminds listeners that they once worked for him. Another friend from that era is Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. That bond will be especially useful, in light of the frequent policy clashes between Weinberger and Haig...
...whiches' and anything else superfluous." Clark, a family man with five children, loves the rural life. Preferring the bench to politics, he declined to join Reagan's presidential campaign team and turned down key jobs at Agriculture and the CIA before agreeing to serve as Haig's deputy...
With so much at stake, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig this week flies to the Middle East on a trip that was delayed last month by the imposition of martial law in Poland. His visit to Israel is also a fence-mending mission, an effort to repair some of the damage caused by Israel's de facto annexation last month of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. When the Reagan Administration criticized the Israeli action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin lashed out at Washington, accusing the U.S. of treating Israel like...
Since then, tempers have cooled somewhat. In Jerusalem this week, Haig will be seeking some specific assurance that Israel will continue to exercise restraint in Lebanon, will still cooperate on the formation of the Sinai peace-keeping force, will withdraw from the Sinai on schedule, and will keep talking with Egypt about granting autonomy to the Palestinians on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Israel has already reaffirmed its commitment to withdrawal by April 26, and Washington in turn has told Israel that the U.S. will veto any U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for sanctions against...