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Your article "Let a Hundred Flowers Wilt" [Sept. 21] was a welcome report on the terrible conditions of writers and dissidents in Red China. It stands in ironic contrast to the news several weeks ago of Secretary of State Haig's offer to sell U.S. weapons to that country, as well as to ex-President Carter's ingratiating table talk with China's Deputy Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping. Why is it that U.S. leaders are so willing to forgive the crimes of those smooth-talking Chinese Communists while at the same time they are talking tough...
From the beginning, the Administration has mishandled its own AWACS lobbying effort. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who recognized that the sale might be doomed, suggested to the White House that National Security Adviser Richard Allen be put in charge of it. The recommendation, some insiders claim, was a clever way to cripple further one of Haig's rivals by sloughing off on him a thankless task. In fact, Haig had facetiously suggested that Vice President George Bush, another sometime adversary, might be the best man to take charge of selling the sale...
...beginning of the week, however, the talks seemed stalled. The White House version of a compromise did not include any of the important written assurances -including a provision to buy back the planes if U.S.-Saudi relations soured -that Glenn said were necessary to win his support. Haig canceled meetings at the U.N. and flew down to Washington to take control. Yet the Secretary of State was reluctant to force the Saudis into new concessions or to include key Senators in the discussions. And the reports Haig received from the new U.S. ambassador in Riyadh, Richard Murphy, who rushed there...
Despite the apparent smoothness of transition, Secretary of State Alexander Haig Wednesday warned Libya and other Arab countries that the United States "would view with great concern at this juncture any efforts by external powers to manipulate the tragic events of the last 24 hours." He said America would continue to support the peace process and pledged full support for Mubarak...
Yesterday, Haig led an American delegation to Cairo for today's funeral. Included in the entourage were former presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon, as well as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38, former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger, and top congressional officials. Reagan decided not to attend for security reasons...