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Attacking the once sacrosanct military budget is a move persistently pushed by Budget Director David Stockman and stoutly opposed by both Weinberger and Secretary of State Alexander Haig. It seems unavoidable. Between $70 billion and $90 billion in new savings must be found by 1984 to salvage any hopes of a balanced budget, so either some popular domestic programs will have to be abolished altogether, rather than just trimmed, or the Pentagon will have to share in the reductions. Failure to touch the military budget, concedes one presidential aide, will let critics claim that "the President wants to dismantle...
...will also urge Reagan to throw the prestige of the U.S. into fulfillment of the Camp David accords by sending a high-level envoy to the talks on autonomy for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which are scheduled to resume later this month. Secretary Haig, who wants to find a way to get the Palestinians involved in the talks, will decide on how the U.S. will be represented after the Begin visit...
...officials are playing down their differences with West Germany. For Secretary of State Alexander Haig, repairing Carter-era damage in relations with Western Europe remains a high priority. But his efforts have been hampered by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who fears that lack of Western European resolve may have an adverse effect on the U.S. public's willingness to accept increases in defense spending. Haig tried to persuade Reagan to delay a decision on the neutron weapon; if Bonn was not informed of the President's plans until 36 hours before the announcement, State Department officials explain...
...question was never answered, as the Administration sought to rid itself of an issue that it increasingly came to see as an obstacle in Middle East policy. An intensive review, explained Secretary of State Alexander Haig, had failed to determine whether Israel's bombing raids had been defensive or offensive. Said the former general: "I think, in a subjective way, one can argue to eternity as to whether or not a military action may be defensive or offensive in character." Begin's attitude was hardly helpful. "The planes were ours," he declared the day before the embargo...
...That is much appreciated in Washington. The Reagan Administration, which has given a more military emphasis to the U.S. foreign aid program, is counting on Venezuela's charitable deeds to help stem the kind of political radicalism that produced Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Secretary of State Alexander Haig met in Nassau last month with the Venezuelan, Mexican and Canadian foreign ministers to map the outlines for a long-term development policy in the Caribbean area, and the officials will meet again later this year to discuss the most obvious economic needs. Says one U.S. State Department official: "Venezuela...