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...afternoon, when he and Weinberger squared off for a 2½-hour showdown session with Reagan in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the budget boss seemed to have the Defense Secretary outflanked. Reagan sat with Vice President George Bush on his right and Secretary of State Alexander Haig on his left; Weinberger sat across the table in a chair with wide spaces on either side. At a picture-taking session before the meeting, a reporter asked the Defense Secretary if he felt lonely. Replied Weinberger: "They never promised me a rose garden...
After reporters were shooed away, Stockman argued for 45 minutes in favor of a $30 billion reduction in 1983-84 defense authorizations. Weinberger, strongly supported by Haig, argued for a following 45 minutes that any rollback beyond about $7 billion or $8 billion would undermine the Administration's foreign policy commitments. Both men made liberal use of charts to back up their points; Stockman's were mostly numbers, but Weinberger's were illustrated with drawings of weapons such as tanks. Under questioning from Reagan, Stockman, whose presentation was the smoother of the two, came down...
...broke away. "Mr. Prime Minister," Reagan called out, "your seat is over here." Begin strode up to a startled Weinberger, thrust out his hand and shook Weinberger's warmly in an implicit apology. Throughout the talks, the Israeli air strikes were never mentioned. Explained Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "We viewed these as circumstances that are behind...
...allies in Europe over his decision to produce the neutron bomb. The U.S. veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution criticizing South Africa's military operations in Angola has further isolated the U.S. from its allies and angered most African nations. Meetings will begin this month between Secretary Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at which negotiations on limiting theater nuclear forces in Europe should be scheduled...
...will only lead to delay, thus strengthening Soviet influence in the region. Last January South Africa withdrew its approval of a U.N.-sponsored plan for a cease-fire and for supervised free elections in Namibia, largely for fear that SWAPO would emerge victorious. Last week Secretary of State Alexander Haig revealed that Pretoria is again ready to go along with the U.N. plan, provided certain unspecified "confidence-building" measures are guaranteed beforehand...