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EVER SINCE former soldier Alexander M. Haig Jr. said he wanted to be a "vicar" as a diplomat, Washington has not treated him kindly. As most people saw it, he was a brusque, imperious swell-headed general who would never make a good team member, unless of course, he was the star--and coach. After a few comments about "hit lists" and "authoritarian" versus "totalitarian" regimes, he met with a shower of ridicule and abuse. And in the wake of the Reagan shooting, when he seemed to be wearing his presidential aspirations right there on his sleeve--in place...
...Fahd plan. But he also was said to have agreed that nothing more can be expected from the Camp David process after Israel's scheduled withdrawal from the last portion of the Sinai Peninsula next April, and that the Palestinians must be brought into negotiations with Israel. Haig at week's end protested those remarks to the British government. The Secretary of State said he had urged Lord Carrington to "cool...
...Secretary of State Alexander Haig help matters when he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that NATO contingency plans included exploding a nuclear device as a "demonstration" to persuade the Soviets to fall back, should they seek to overrun Western Europe. Grumbled a Western diplomat in Bonn: "Which sounds best to the West Germans in the present circumstances, Brezhnev waffling about his desire for peace, or Haig waffling about firing a warning nuclear shot above the Russians' heads?" Lamented a member of Schmidt's divided Social Democratic Party: "Those who say 'Better red than dead...
...intended to offset precisely that advantage. The "roughly equal" figures cited by the Soviets are juggled and distorted. Moscow counts all nuclear-armed U.S. and allied aircraft capable of reaching the Soviet Union, but conveniently omits the hundreds of their own planes with the same range. Secretary of State Haig pointed out last week that the Soviets have enough missiles and aircraft to give them about a 3-to-l advantage over the U.S. in European-based nuclear forces...
Another theme of Moscow's peace campaign is its call for a U.S.-Soviet pledge disavowing the first use of nuclear weapons. Although Haig last week said that such professions of "moderation and sensitivity on the question [were] not unwelcome," Washington had sound reason to be dubious. For one thing, the Soviets have shown little willingness to respect grand-sounding declarations they have signed in the past, such as the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords...