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...Reagan team has been assembled, it is showing more signs of cohesiveness than most Administrations have at this stage. Yet some of its members will undoubtedly turn out to be more equal than others. A leading contender for the role of primus inter pares is Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who wasted no time asserting his authority and adding his resonant voice to foreign policy pronouncements. He drafted a 20-page memo for Reagan, urging changes that would put the State Department, rather than the National Security Council, firmly in control of foreign policy. So far Reagan has not reacted...
...advance of other Cabinet officers, Haig has named all but two of his top 30 appointments. He did not entirely get his way with them. He was forced to defer to the White House on the department's No. 2 job. William Clark, a California Supreme Court justice, who served as a top aide to Reagan in Sacramento, was named Deputy Secretary of State...
...Haig also faces opposition from Senate conservatives to other of his possible appointees, largely because they are closely associated with Kissinger. Among them...
...less sternly, Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged the Soviet Union with "training, funding and equipping international terrorism." Said Haig: "International terrorism will take the place of human rights in our concern because it is the ultimate abuse of human rights." Adding to the week's tough talk, General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that if the U.S.S.R. invades Iran, the U.S. might retaliate not only there but in some other part of the world. "There are areas where we could do quite well in clearing the seas...
...bought the onetime home of Adlai Stevenson on Foxhall Road, with six bedrooms, 4½ baths, a circular drive, and 22-ft. gourmet kitchen. Asking price: $750,000. Secretary of State Alexander Haig for now is renting at the Colonnade, an elegant apartment building ten minutes from the State Department. Mrs. Haig thought she had found the right house, a five-bedroom Tudor-and even dragged the general away from some Inaugural festivities to look at it-but Haig decided that it was "not grand enough...