Word: haig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...welfare of old people in America. The media has given less coverage to such issues as the Social Security crisis and the sky-rocketing costs of health care, since the election, and, as people turn their attention away from Reagan's wounds and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig's megalomania, they probably won't think about reductions in support for old people...
...shortly after. On March 6, the Reagan Administration formally announced that it intended to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, including "surveillance aircraft." Within a few days the Israeli as well as the U.S. press reported that these planes likely would be AWACS. Even so, when Secretary of State Alexander Haig visited Israel in early April, his hosts expressed objections but down-played them. Reagan aides now profess surprise at the fury of the Israeli response to the formal announcement. Says one: "Whatever is driving the spirited Israeli opposition is not clear...
...years he was regarded as a solitary pip-squeak voice on the far right, a lonely ideologue from a Southern backwater. Today he can intimidate the Secretary of State, thwarting Alexander Haig's key sub-Cabinet appointments. When he notifies the White House that he wants to tell Ronald Reagan in person about certain gripes, the President cheerfully agrees to hear him out-even if the message includes a few instructions on how the President should behave as a true Reaganite...
Weinberger may yet turn out to be a politically adept complement to Haig as a spokesman for the Administration's tough foreign and military posture. He has the bureaucratic and managerial talents to carry out Reagan's mandate to improve the country's defenses. But Weinberger has some distance to go. On several occasions he has compared his present job with his last Cabinet post, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Richard Nixon. As Cap puts it: "The difference is that at HEW you could afford a mistake...
...Administration settles in and its top people become more familiar, labels are also being stuck to them. Cartoonist Herblock has at last found in Secretary of State Haig a fiendish target for caricaturing that he hasn't enjoyed since the days of Nixon's sinister 5 o'clock shadow. Herblock's Haig is an overepauleted, Napoleonic Dr. Strangelove. Not all the press's labels have been so unfriendly, at least at the outset. Reagan's budget-cutting David Stockman is often referred to as "the brilliant 34-year-old conservative," but as Russell Baker...