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Dressed in crisp glen plaids, a white handkerchief neatly puffed from breast pocket, Haig is a dandy. He seems the very model of the modern military diplomat. He has a square face, a terrier's chin and eyes that obscure a great deal. He loves his work. He just may win his campaign to be the predominant formulator of foreign policy...
...Secretary is striving to hold back the right-wingers from forcing a sale of jet fighters to Taiwan, an action that could unhinge our tender relations with mainland China. Candidate Reagan was a Taiwan booster. President Reagan may see it differently if Haig's entreaties are skillful. On the Middle East, Haig is trying to keep his Government, and others, from plunging recklessly after the Saudi peace plan; even a mild endorsement of that flawed proposal, he feels, would wreck the Camp David process and might damage all prospects for Middle East peace...
...Haig is no dove. He has the soldier's instinct to deal from strength. But he wants to talk with the Soviets about arms limitations, to heed the protests in Europe and across the U.S. against nuclear weapons, to keep our foreign-aid programs strong, to use words instead of bullets. Haig's mission to Mexico City last week, yet another maneuver in the cause of restraint, was designed to ease fears of American military intervention in the Caribbean, and to try to get Mexico to help ease the crises in Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Secretary...
...mystery of the personal outbursts that have so clouded his better nature is unsolved. A television reporter tried to find out if Haig took drugs after his heart surgery, believing that they might have triggered his ill-temper. Haig's friends have practiced amateur psychology but come up empty. The answer may lie in the Secretary's fierce belief that he is engaged in a battle, of sorts, and that only audacity will preserve his authority, both around the White House and abroad. His is a high-risk venture. He could be fired tomorrow. But if he wins...
...Geneva, U.S. officials greeted Brezhnev's proposal in Bonn politely. "They've got an interest and a stake in legitimate negotiations, and we're going to pursue that as far as we can," Reagan said in an interview with ABC-TV. Said Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "Our message is going through." But, speaking privately, U.S. diplomats saw no great change in the Soviet approach...