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Your rating of the President's men [Dec. 14] is a dynamic piece of political journalism. However, Secretary of State Alexander Haig should be given an A. He is one of the most able statesmen of our time...
Foreign Minister Marwan Al Qasem of Jordan fired off a message to Secretary of State Alexander Haig expressing his country's "sorrow and pain." Chedli Klibi, secretary general of the Arab League, denounced the move as an "American crime." Palestinians demonstrated against the action in several West Bank towns and in East Jerusalem. Warned Abdeen Jabara of Detroit, one of Abu Eain's attorneys: "This decision will come back to haunt...
...maddening lack of reliable information as to exactly what was happening inside Poland, and worried lest too strident a reaction might yet give the Soviets an excuse for an outright takeover, Washington decided from the start that its responses would indeed be primarily words. Through the early days, Haig and other officials confined themselves to restrained expressions of "concern" and cautiously voiced hopes that the martial law crackdown would only be "a temporary retrogression, not a change in the overall historic trend toward reform" in Poland. As one top diplomat explained: "We want to tread the fine line between taking...
...question had "a lot" of confidence, but now only 25% express full support. The two principal Cabinet members involved in foreign and defense policies are seen in different lights by the public. There are more voters (26%) who have no real confidence in Secretary of State Alexander Haig than those who have "a lot" of confidence (22%) in him. By contrast, 21% have a lot of confidence in Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and only 13% express no real confidence...
...action, in much the same way that in 1956 the Hungarian crisis offered Israel a convenient distraction when it joined Britain and France in an attempt to seize the Suez Canal. Indeed, Begin's legislative blitzkrieg came less than a day after Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been forced to cancel a seven-nation tour that included a brief visit to Tel Aviv, in order to attend to the Polish crisis...