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Secretary of State Alexander Haig, says Baldrige, "grasps the jar firmly with both hands, peers with great intensity into its depths and searches until he finds two red jelly beans. These he pops into his mouth - and there is an audible crunch as he masticates them into oblivion." Concludes Baldrige: "The man just doesn't like the color...
...President's intelligence briefing is assembled in a black leather folder, hand-carried upstairs and placed on the desk in the Oval Office to await Reagan's arrival around 9 a.m. When his top aides and Secretary of State Alexander Haig assemble at 9:15, the President will have been through the folder and have his questions and impressions ready...
...President also reiterated a pledge, made by Secretary of State Alexander Haig at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Rome last month, that negotiations would start before the end of the year. Though Schmidt prefers that the talks begin in early autumn, he did not expect Reagan to move up the timetable and thus had to be satisfied with the President's assurances...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig evidently does not share the enthusiasm of Helms for Lefever: Haig told the nominee that he would not put up much of a fight for confirmation. Around Foggy Bottom the Assistant Secretary-designate has been isolated and ignored since the day he moved in. Still, the President has no plans to abandon the appointment. "Just because Lefever's philosophy is not compatible with Chuck Percy's," asserts a Reagan aide, "doesn't mean you yank the nomination." Percy reportedly called the White House after the hearings to recommend just that course. Cranston...
...when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin made the surprising announcement that his Cabinet had unanimously voted "to put no time limit whatsoever" on Habib's efforts to solve the problem through diplomatic channels. At the outset of the crisis, Begin had darkly hinted that Secretary of State Alexander Haig's envoy had only a week to work his magic, or Israel would attack the missiles. Two days after the Cabinet meeting, in what seemed to be a reassuring signal to Syria's President Hafez Assad, Begin spoke before a gathering of war veterans and flatly declared that...