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...think Reagan, Messe [counselor to Reagan] and foreign policy aide Richard V. Allen would rather have Pipes in the White House than in State, but Haig is yet to be heard from and they might fight over him," the source said...
Harvard experts yesterday disagreed over President-elect Ronald Reagan's choice of Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., former NATO commander-in-chief, for secretary of state, but predicted the Senate will confirm the nomination...
Albert Carnesale, professor of Public Policy, termed the Haig appointment "the end of an era," adding that "for a long time the country had hoped for a time in which military force played a less important role in world affairs." Haig is "a military careerist, not a statesman," he said...
...Haig's Senate testimony on strategic arms limitations was "a morass of ambiguity and disingenuousness" and "a disgrace," David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said, adding that he was disturbed by Reagan's "hardline" choice. "It was tragic" that George Schultz, former secretary of the treasury, removed his name from consideration for the post, Riesman said...
Some Harvard professors, however, underscored Haig's foreign policy experience and praised him as a strategic thinker. "Mr. Haig knows where Berlin is," Karl W. Deutsch, professor of Government, said. "He will make no adventurist moves against Cuba without thinking of global consequences...