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...that Haig has needed much help in the bureaucratic wars; he has been doing just fine on his own. An eight-page, double-spaced order signed by Reagan last week gives the State Department authority to set up interagency groups to coordinate foreign policy planning and operations by the many departments with overseas interests; disputes are referred to a senior interdepartmental group headed by Clark. The most important impact of arrangement is that it insulates Haig's department from the tendency of the National Security Council staff to become a kind of rival State Department, as it did under...
...President, and many in Washington think he will eventually make his voice heard. But Allen so far is honoring a pledge to make himself publicly invisible. What is more, he has been so slow to organize his own staff that he could not at this point rival Haig for power if he tried. In any case, Reagan has often vowed to make the Secretary of State pre-eminent in foreign policy, and he obviously retains his confidence in the man he picked...
...good a Secretary of State will Haig turn out to be? Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who worked with Haig as Kissinger's top Soviet specialist: "My guess is that he will do pretty well. He won't see problems in isolation. He may connect them more than a lot of people's taste would warrant." Rejecting the view that Haig is an unimaginative technocrat, Sonnenfeldt says "he has a broad and creative vision and a special talent for recognizing the connection between issues." Other observers, such as former White House staffers and senior State Department officials, note that...
...Haig understandably is in an optimistic mood. For all his somber view of Soviet power, he believes that the historical tide is running against Marxism. He cites the poor performance...
...Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and Central America. Moreover, Soviet adventurism may well become more dangerous when the aging leaders of the Kremlin are succeeded by a new generation that has known only expanding power. At a private dinner celebrating his confirmation by the Senate as Secretary of State, Haig told friends, "Every night I pray that [Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev stays healthy and alive for a good while to come-at least until we have caught up with the Soviet Union. Because if he goes suddenly, I believe that the young ones waiting in the wings will take over...