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...agenda at all. Reagan had been preparing for his most important foray into the diplomatic arena since taking office: a two-day meeting with Mexico's President José López Portillo in a vital effort to improve relations between the two neighbors. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was due to depart for China on his most significant venture abroad so far. And the Middle East shuttle diplomacy...
...because of the herd instinct in Washington, sticks. The record never caught up. I was done in by my two chief virtues-candor and courage." He denied that either the White House or the State Department nudged him out, and said that both Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig telephoned to suggest other Government posts "in which I could render great service...
...underscore the dangers facing Central America and the Caribbean, State Department officials claimed last week that several Soviet T-55 tanks may have been shipped from Cuba to the leftist government in Nicaragua. Though officials admitted that the reports have not been confirmed, Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged last week that Nicaragua has been steadily stockpiling other arms from the Soviet Union, Cuba and Libya. Haig added: "We see no threat [to Nicaragua] that justifies increases of this size." Managua, however, feels that a buildup is necessary to counter the threat of an invasion by right-wing Nicaraguan guerrillas...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig remains as eager as ever to see the Namibian problem settled. But U.S. views on how to do so are now markedly different. One big reason: the assumption, in the words of a high State Department official, that U.N. Resolution 435 "is a leaky ship that's not going anywhere...
Washington's new plan for Namibian independence calls for assembling an "expert panel" to write a national constitution that would guarantee rights to the white minority. Only then would national elections be called. The framework of the scheme was outlined by Haig to South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha during Botha's May visit to Washington...