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...Reagan Administration last week could not be fairly accused of ignoring foreign affairs. Vice President George Bush was in Paris, where he held what he called "warm and friendly" talks with France's new Socialist President Francois Mitterrand (see WORLD). Secretary of State Alexander Haig returned to Washington after a two-week trip that included stops in Peking, Manila and Wellington, New Zealand, where he sought to solidify America's ties with its allies in the Pacific. Special Envoy Philip Habib was still shuttling in the Middle East. At home, however, a honeymoon tolerance of the Administration...
...many, the answer was clearly no. The ever cautious and gentlemanly Cyrus Vance, Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to brand the timing of Haig's announcement in Peking that the U.S. had agreed "in principle" to sell lethal weapons to China as "needlessly provocative" to the Soviet Union. "It smacks of bearbaiting rather than dealing seriously with the problems," Vance said. Later in the week, he charged that the arms proposals for China "virtually removed any influence we have left over the Soviet Union. We played the China card...
Those concerns were increasingly echoed in the press. In the generally friendly Wall Street Journal, Columnist Norman C. Miller declared that Reagan "hasn't got a comprehensive strategy, and he often seems naive or bellicose when addressing foreign policy issues." An open admirer of Haig, Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft wondered in print: "It may be he is not a deep person, that his ideas are all on the tip of his tongue, that what sounded like strategic thoughts were merely a parroting of notions picked up from Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and others he served along...
...foremost political and economic partner that "close and friendly Franco-German relations would continue" despite the departure of Schmidt's personal friend, cher Valéry, from the Elysée. Cheysson next boarded an Air France Concorde for Washington, where he charmed President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig with his breezy, gracious manner and his impeccable Oxford English...
Still, the President's mandate was substantial enough to leave him indisputably the Philippines' dominant political figure. U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, in Manila to attend a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers, handed Marcos a letter from President Ronald Reagan, who warmly congratulated the Philippine leader and promised that no less a dignitary than Vice President George Bush would represent the U.S. at the inaugural next week, reflecting "the high value my Administration places on its relations with the Philippines...