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...restoration of the Secretary of State as the top foreign policy spokesman and formulator has not worked well either, since the White House does not fully trust Haig. Although he knows the turf, he is not seen as a team player. The sometimes abrasive Haig, who can be charming and nondogmatic in private sessions, has lost battles he should have won by failing to articulate his ideas clearly and by failing to cultivate friendships in either the White House or the Cabinet. Finally, the Administration made a fundamental miscalculation: it assumed that the outside world could, and would, wait while...
China. The Haig team contends that the press overplayed the understanding on weapons, since, in fact, as one aide said, "there is no decision to sell arms." Besides, insisted a Haig adviser, "we are not playing the China card, not looking for short-term gratuitous insults to the Soviets. There is no connection between a sound relationship with China and a sound relationship with the Soviet Union." While Haig had suggested before his trip that arms might be discussed in Peking, he nonetheless should not have been surprised by the attention the announcement attracted. Moreover, it would be naive...
Arms Limitation. Some Pentagon planners and NSC members prefer to give only lip service to new negotiations with Moscow on strategic weapons; they want to stall until the U.S. military buildup is well under way. But Haig, along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, views arms control as inextricably tied to such major U.S. defense decisions as how to deploy the MX missile and whether to build a new B-1 bomber. Haig is well aware that the European allies are worried by the lack of a U.S.-U.S.S.R. arms dialogue. While Haig's team may end up sending...
Reported by Laurence I. Barrett with Reagan and Gregory H. Wierzynski with Haig...
...Burt.* It's a bit like the Administration's trying to give responsibility for human rights to this guy [Ernest] Lefever. The whole thing is tremendously Orwellian. I don't know how close these people are to the President. As for [Secretary of State Alexander] Haig, some Europeans talk about him as the only politically literate, experienced and dependable man in the U.S. Government right now. I just don't know. If they're right, then we're really badly off. Step by step, almost everything Haig has said and done has been...