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...internecine warfare has not caused undue alarm abroad. While the West Germans are somewhat concerned that their good friend Haig may be undercut, the French feel that the Reagan Administration at least has a coherent policy, in contrast to Carter's. Says a high-ranking French diplomat: "Bush is Haig's political rival, not his ideological one. Right now it is a question of power, not substance. We don't give a damn which people do what as long as there seems to be some agreement on essential questions." But the fact that the foreign policy...
Even Secretary of State Alexander Haig, a veteran of 36 years in public service of one kind or another, was surprised at how difficult it was to establish himself as this nation's chief foreign policy spokesman. So Haig did what a lot of others before him have done. He began to mutter, and then to say outright, that he did not really relish the headaches and the humiliations and maybe he ought to walk out the door...
Whether he wanted to or not, Al Haig has got himself into the same game. But he has added some new dimensions. He confronted a President in public, a heretofore forbidden gambit in power survival. Then he brushed aside another old maxim: if you have to claim pre-eminence publicly, you have already lost it. In the past, such pronouncements have often been the point of no return down the slippery slope toward the premature opportunity to go back to high pay, lush fringe benefits and absolute authority in the old firm. The odd thing is that when it happens...
...Haig drama may be just starting. There is a feeling around Washington that the city is witnessing a new and intricate chapter in the resignation ploy. The outcome is uncertain, and the resolution lies in the guarded recesses of the minds of two strong...
...Community nations had warned against outside interference, the White House declared that "any external intervention in Poland, or any measures aimed at suppressing the Polish people. . . could have a grave effect on the whole course of East-West relations." To underline Washington's concern, Secretary of State Alexander Haig later described events in Poland as "very bad, very dangerous...