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...violation. One must remember that Allen is not the only aide guilty of this flaw. Budget Director David Stockman showed far worse judgment than Allen when he made a mockery of Reagan's economic program with his damaging comments to the Atlantic Monthly. Likewise, Secretary of State Alexander Haig has often embarrassed the president with his antics, the most recent being his statements to the press that certain people in the White House were out to get him. For a president who has tolerated this much from his staff, to be keeping Allen at such a distance seems...
...effectiveness, but instead of facing special tests, he was merely "taken to the woodshed"; the week after we were treated to newspaper pictures showing the budget director working alongside Republican congressmen. Firing Allen will be, instead, the result of White House infighting. It is no secret that Allen and Haig share a mutual dislike. The two have been bickering and fighting ever since Reagan took office, and Haig is much more crucial to Reagan's foreign policy than Allen. Moreover, White House aides leaked stories throughout the summer that Allen was doing a shabby job running...
Against this seething background, the ill-timed and almost casual comments of President Ronald Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State Alexander Haig about how NATO would use nuclear weapons in Europe, about how a "limited" nuclear war could be fought, were incendiary. Even though the remarks were only restatements of long-held
...could reach 2 million by the end of the year. The frustration of young West Germans with their country's problems somehow finds expression in mass resentment against the Reagan Administration. In September thousands of West Germans marched through West Berlin to protest a visit by Secretary of State Haig, who personified for them U.S. nuclear policy...
...nuclear war in general. U.S. leaders should simply shut up on the subject-or at least make much clearer that they are determined to avoid nuclear war rather than create the impression that they are pondering how to fight it. It was a good sign when Secretary of State Haig acknowledged two weeks ago that "there's too much talk" about limited nuclear war and that "this talk should be terminated." Reagan's latest speech has also helped. Maybe when the rhetorical belligerence dies down on this side of the Atlantic, the caterwauling on the other side...