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...troubleshooter. In 1967, when Reagan was Governor of California, he appointed Clark his chief of staff during an early crisis; thereafter Clark kept the Governor's office meticulously organized. In 1981, as Deputy Secretary of State, Clark worked to smooth Secretary of State Alexander Haig's high-strung relations with the White House. Finally, when Clark replaced Richard Allen as Reagan's National Security Adviser in January of last year, the common reaction in Washington was relief: a bland but efficient mediator had been brought in to straighten out a floundering operation. The staff was demoralized...
...difficult position of deciding where its loyalties lay in the conflict--realizing that in supporting Britain it would seriously jeopardize its relationship with most of Latin America and set back its improving relations with Argentina. The struggle that developed within the Reagan Administration between British backer Alexander Haig and Kirkpatrick embarrassed the United States in the United Nations and contributed indirectly to Haig's eventual resignation...
Much of the responsibility for the current confusion rests with the Administration. Shultz and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders have insisted that U.S. policy has not changed since 1981, when former Secretary of State Alexander Haig first cast the Salvadoran struggle as an East-West conflict. The chief elements of U.S. strategy have been to buttress the Salvadoran government with guns, money and American military advisers (who currently number around 37), while encouraging political and economic reforms as well as an improvement in El Salvador's doleful human rights record...
...held views about the state of the world and America's role in it. But of late something seems awry in the connection between these two propositions. It was only last summer that moderation, pragmatism, flexibility were the words that nearly everyone used in anticipating the Administration's post-Haig approach to foreign policy. Those were the qualities George Shultz was expected to contribute as Reagan's second Secretary of State. But they are scarcely the words that leap to mind today. On issue after issue, Shultz has let others take the lead in defining policy, sometimes joining them...
...outward calm and deliberate style made George Shultz a reassuring replacement for the mercurial Alexander Haig as Secretary of State. But lately, signs of testiness have pierced Shultz's placidity. After one outburst, Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes observed, "That was not the George Shultz we have come to know and love. It was the living ghost of Al Haig...