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...Reagan said, "Can you turn your head a little? The light is hitting your nose badly." Haig obliged; the president doodled...
...short of such blackmail, to make known its views to Israel. No Israeli government ever has been, or conceivably ever could be, blind to the views of an American President, whose friendship and support is vital. The Reagan Administration believes, from all the President and Secretary of State Alexander Haig have said to date, that Israel is a key, if not the central, player in our strategic planning for the Middle East, and, accordingly, full military and economic assistance is a high priority. This does not preclude the Administration from pressing for rapid establishment of a self-governing authority...
After eight months of lobbing intercontinental accusations and insults at each other, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have the first opportunity this week to engage each other at close quarters. In New York City to attend the 36th session of the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will twice meet in private. Those sessions will be the first eyeball-to-eyeball contacts at the policymaking level since President Reagan's Inauguration...
...tone of the two meetings, which will take place at the U.S. and Soviet missions to the U.N., is sure to be less hostile than the long-distance non-dialogue would suggest, since Haig is primarily interested in determining whether cooperation with Moscow is still possible. In preparation for the sessions, he held a rehearsal over the weekend, with a veteran State Department official who has watched Gromyko in action playing the Soviet and asking questions he is likely to raise. The Secretary has decided to be sober and businesslike in presenting U.S. complaints, on the logical ground that there...
...tour d'horizon, Haig is expected to recite the Administration's now familiar bill of particulars about Soviet misbehavior. High on the list are the continuing arms buildup that threatens to upset the global military balance; Soviet support for terrorism through Libya, Cuba and the Palestine Liberation Organization; the continued occupation of Afghanistan; and Soviet intervention in such Third World nations as Angola, Ethiopia, South Yemen and Cambodia...