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...midweek the Israeli position seemed to soften. Emerging from a 90-min. meeting with Secretary of State Haig, Moshe Arens, leader of a parliamentary delegation sent to Washington by Prime Minister Menachem Begin to talk about rising Israeli concerns, had some unexpectedly encouraging words about the Fahd plan. Arens declared that the Saudis had gone "a little way beyond the kind of statements they have made in the past." Coming from an Israeli hardliner, a close Begin associate and Israel's next Ambassador to Washington, that remark stirred speculation that the Israelis might consider at least some...
...veteran diplomat, who holds the second-ranking post in the U.S. embassy, carefully refrained from speculating about who was responsible for the attack, but he did say that his attacker seemed to be a "Middle Eastern type." Later that day Secretary of State Alexander Haig strongly suggested that the man behind the attack was Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan strongman and exporter of terrorism. Said Haig: "We do have repeated reports coming to us from reliable sources that Mr. Gaddafi has been funding, sponsoring, training, harboring terrorist groups who conduct activities against the lives of American diplomats." Haig had "no other...
...Libyan government promptly dismissed Haig's charges as "insolent in the extreme." But French government sources said that Chapman had recently received a number of threats, some of which had been traced to Libya. In Rome, a U.S. embassy official said there was some evidence that Gaddafi was planning to go after American personnel. Indeed, U.S. security agents learned last September of a Gaddafi plot to kill Maxwell Rabb, the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Rabb was given special protection. One reason he was suddenly summoned home to Washington last month was to preserve his safety. In early October...
Reagan Administration officials, however, have on numerous occasions said, as Haig did last week, that "dealing with" Gaddafi is an urgent priority. They have made it clear in the past that they would not be outraged at the prospect of another country's forcibly removing the Libyan dictator...
...Reagan of losing touch with reality. Like many survivors of Nixon's Washington, Safire was concerned about a tendency, new to Reagan but not to Presidents in general, to blame the press when in trouble. Reagan is remarkably free of sustained vendettas, yet his one-liner about the Haig flap was uncomfortably reminiscent of the bad old days: "Whoever wrote that report not only was blowing smoke, they were doing a disservice to this country...