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...years ago, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig publicly accused the Soviet Union of conducting chemical warfare by proxy in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia. According to the State Department, the Soviet Union was manufacturing substances with the highly toxic chemical tricothecene mycotoxin and selling it to its allies for use against "resistance fighters" in those areas of the world. In addition, the U.S. government has reports from members of the Hmong tribe in Laos who claim to have seen this chemical dropped in the form of "yellow rain" from airplanes. If these charges are correct, the Soviet Union would...
...obvious choice. But as in other foreign policy personnel disputes during the past three years, Reagan allowed the uncertainty to linger and leak. What should have been a clean change of command became another running story-similar to the one that accompanied the departure of Secretary of State Alexander Haig-of struggles between Administration pragmatists and ideologues. The recriminations from the dispute are still reverberating. "Those who fought McFarlane," says one consummate White House infighter, "did not help themselves...
...White House to be an assistant first to President Nixon, then to Kissinger and later Scowcroft at the NSC. He has experience on Capitol Hill as a staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and in the Reagan Administration worked as a counselor to Secretary of State Alexander Haig before becoming Clark's deputy...
...from the moment Reagan was elected, the Chinese were as suspicious of him as he was of them. In 1981 then U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig journeyed to China to try to warm Peking up, but when he returned he was forced to back down on promises he had made because of entrenched ideological and political opposition in Washington. Relations between the two countries chilled even more...
...fact conducting talks behind closed doors to sound each other out. In February of this year Secretary of State George Shultz, in Peking, found that while the Chinese were posturing publicly about Taiwan, in private they were expending most of their steam over a U.S. promise, first proffered by Haig, to reclassify China's trade status. In May Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige informed the Chinese that Reagan had in fact reclassified China, putting it in the category of a "friendly country with which the U.S. is not allied...