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...Haig explains it to Congress...
Washington remained wary, meanwhile, of Brezhnev's proposal for a summit meeting.* Though both Canada and West Germany are receptive to the idea, Haig and Reagan persuaded both countries to assent to the American view: such a meeting can occur only after a basic groundwork has been laid at lower levels, and will be contingent on Soviet actions in Afghanistan and during the Polish crisis. The Moscow "peace offensive" is seen by Washington as primarily a propaganda ploy. But Haig agreed at week's end to hold low-level talks promptly with the Soviets...
...change last week to help it cope with sudden international problems. It has traditionally been the duty of the National Security Adviser to supervise "crisis management" in the situation room during major international incidents. But in the Reagan White House, the NSC adviser has been downgraded, and others -including Haig, Chief of Staff James Baker and Counsellor Edwin Meese -were considered for the situation room post. Haig was eliminated because it was thought best to handle such crises in the White House. Baker and Meese were rejected for fear of sparking a staff rivalry. Last week, Reagan chose George Bush...
...possible cover might be provided by the Warsaw Pact maneuvers scheduled to take place in and around Poland later this month. Though most Western analysts doubted that any imminent invasion plan was connected with the Warsaw Pact maneuvers, which are routinely held in the spring, Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated a sharp U.S. warning. A Soviet intervention, he said, would have "grave and long-term consequences on all hopes of improving relations between East and West...
...ends; the most recent example of this was the partial embargo on grain shipments to the Soviet Union after its invasion of Afghanistan. But there has never been a blanket declaration in advance of such a policy on so broad a scale. President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig support the concept of linkage. But trade veterans decry it as naive. Says one former Carter trade official: "Brock wouldn't advocate such a policy if he had more time on the job." The "anti-linkage" argument is that trade cannot be turned on and off because...