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...longer safe for the Soviets or anyone else to regard America as weak, irresolute or divided." The Secretary's methods of signaling this hard line to the Soviets are not always diplomatically sound and have upset U.S. allies, particularly in Europe, on several occasions. Secretary of State Alexander Haig has often found himself "clarifying" or otherwise cleaning up after Weinberger's seemingly casual references to such explosive issues as reviving plans for the neutron bomb, linking arms control to Soviet policy in Poland or selling arms to China. While Weinberger has not really trespassed on Haig's turf...
...elections. But conspicuously missing from Enders' speech was any mention of "a well-orchestrated international Communist campaign to transform the Salvadoran crisis into an increasingly internationalized confrontation" between the U.S. and clients of the Soviet Union. The words were those of Enders' boss, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, last February...
...Haig was making major foreign policy statements of his own last week. At a United Nations conference on Cambodia he attended with U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, he attacked the Soviet Union and its "puppet regimes" in Southeast Asia. He also gave a speech designed to reassure NATO allies that the U.S. is seriously committed to resuming talks with the Soviets, before the end of the year, on limiting medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe. Said Haig: "The charge that we are not interested in arms control or that we have cut off communications with the Soviets is simply not true...
...Secretary Weinberger, meanwhile, reiterated his customary harsh assessment of Soviet intentions and capabilities in a speech he gave at Fort McNair, in Washington, D.C. Charged Weinberger: "It is neither reasonable nor prudent to view the Soviet military buildup as defensive in nature." Both addresses got Soviet attention. TASS dismissed Haig's pledge of arms talks and assailed Weinberger's saber rattling. The Soviet news agency called the former an attempt to "whitewash the present aggressive course of the Washington Administration" and said the latter "can be qualified only as a call...
This is true of men, women, children, individually and in groups of all sizes. Nations and the realm of politics lean heavily on indirect gesture and charades to convey important messages. Take Secretary of State Alexander Haig's talks in China: Was not his actual purpose to send a signal to the Soviets? Societies signal prevalent values to their members by what is applauded and what condemned; status symbol is synonymous with status signal. "Language," said Samuel Johnson, "is the dress of thought." But all over the world people act as though language were mere costume-and usually...