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...Haig Khatchadourian...
...aura of urgency recalled former Secretary of State Alexander Haig's controversial efforts to cast El Salvador's rebellion as a major East-West conflict. After Haig left office last summer, the Administration lowered the volume on its talk about Soviet subversion and the threat posed to the U.S. Yet officials made it clear last week that the Administration's basic view on Central America remained the same. Reagan depicted the Salvadoran conflict in its starkest ideological colors. "We believe that the government of El Salvador is on the front line in a battle that is really...
...conference will include ten students from each of the eight Ivy schools, a number of prominent library and political figures and possibly a small delegation from the Soviet Union. Former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig will serve as the keynote speaker, and author Xurt Vonnegut will give the closing address...
...stumbling blocks in any negotiations in the Middle East and that the U.S. should stop hectoring Israel and start pressuring the Arabs. Israeli officials also complain that Washington sometimes sends mixed signals; they contend, for example, that last year some Administration officials, notably former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, seemed to indicate that they would not mind if the Israelis crushed the P.L.O. in Lebanon. On a personal level, Israeli officials distrust Weinberger and feel that he consistently tilts toward the Arabs...
...commission's members include former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady; former Texas Governor William Clements, a Deputy Secretary of Defense under Presidents Nixon and Ford; M.I.T. Dean of Science John Deutch; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig; former CIA Director Richard Helms; John Lyons, chairman of the defense subcommittee of the executive council of the AFL-CIO; Vice Admiral Levering Smith, former director of special projects for the Navy; and former Under Secretary of the Navy R. James Woolsey...