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...imperatives of a few ideologues have been well served. Though direct American investment in El Salvador is now only about $100 million, it and other Central American nations provide a substantial market for subsidiaries of U.S. companies. And the "hit list" theory propounded by Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig holds that the advance must be checked at every turn or there will be dire consequences for the free world and the natural gas fields of nearby Mexico. If one holds that the El Salvadoran government--and most of the other governments of the region--are intolerably repressive...
...views." Meese runs meetings with wry humor. At one session the troika had with several Cabinet members, all participants agreed, following a wearying debate, on a paper that summarized positions Reagan would take with Third World leaders at the North-South conference in Cancun. But Secretary of State Alexander Haig then asserted: "I've got one last change to make." Meese replied, deadpan: "No, Al, we're not going to take out the words 'the President.' " Even Haig joined in the laughter...
...hastily called meeting went on for 7½ hours behind the closed doors of Alexander Haig's seventh floor office. The U.S. Secretary of State and Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir focused on one key question: whether Israel would accept contingents from four European countries on the peace-keeping force that will patrol the Sinai after Israel's final withdrawal next April. Until Shamir's flight to Washington late last week, the Israelis seemed ready to veto the European participation because the four countries (Britain, France, Italy and The Netherlands) have implied support of the Palestine Liberation...
...issue would not be settled until Shamir presented the U.S. proposals to the Israeli Cabinet, and there was a chance that the final decision might even be postponed until Haig could go to Jerusalem. But the fact that the question remained open at all seemed to justify Haig's description of last week's meeting as "very constructive and valuable...
...lose, it was the climax of a long struggle for Haig. Since last summer the Secretary has been promoting a European presence on the 2,500-man Multinational Force and Observers (M.F.O.) provided for in the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. The U.S. had agreed to provide about half of the troops, but Haig wanted to broaden the international support for the Camp David peace process. Others who have agreed to take part: Fiji, Colombia and Uruguay...