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Reagan, meanwhile, receives the Italian Foreign Minister, Emilio Colombo. It is a courtesy call; Colombo has already talked business with Richard Allen and Secretary of State Alexander Haig. As Reagan and Colombo make small talk, there is a "photo opportunity": a herd of photographers and TV crews bursts into the room, cameras blazing, and leaves a few moments later...
Meeting at the Secretary State Department last week. Secretary Alexander Haig and defense secretary Caspar weinberger agreed to get together regulary to discuss foreign affairs. Conspicuously not invited to the planned sessions: Richard Allen, the President's National Security Adviser. Indeed, Allen has been maintaining such a low profile - as he promised before taking the job - and has been so slow in filling top-level posts in his of fice that other agencies concerned with overseas affairs are apprehensive. Says an adviser: "They are afraid that Allen will let Al Haig run away with the whole show...
...Haig began threatening to do so on Inauguration Day. He handed Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese a proposal to consolidate the making of foreign policy with in the State Department; the National Security Council staff and other agencies would play distinctly secondary roles. The plan was too ambitious even for Reagan, who had promised to make Haig the chief formulator of foreign policy. Meese set to work on an amended version that gives some protection to other agencies...
...also disclosed that he has no immediate plans to end Carter's embargo on U.S. grain shipments to the Soviet Union, despite his campaign criticism of it. Reagan did not explain his decision, but Haig has argued that grain sales to the Soviets should not be resumed unless Moscow gives the U.S. something in return. Moreover, lifting the embargo would clearly dilute the tough signals that Reagan has been sending the Kremlin...
Clark held that he would only be an administrator, carrying out the policy set by Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. That did not reassure the Senators, who nonetheless recommended his confirmation by 10 to 4. Said Democrat John Glenn of Ohio: "This will be on-the-job training of the highest order...