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...Reagan system is relaxed, though, it is also in its way rigidly enforced. Alexander Haig, for one, never caught on to the President's style. Accustomed to the Army chain of command, Haig constantly pressed Reagan for decisions on matters where his views clashed with those of the White House staff. Says one observer: "That was outside the rules." It was no small part of the reason why Reagan accepted Haig's resignation as Secretary of State before it had been formally offered...
...blunt with Reagan even in private. He did not tell the President he had been wrong to impose the sanctions or, as the high-strung Alexander Haig might have done, threaten to quit if the policy was not reversed. Instead, he acted more like a reassuring but lucid tutor with Reagan. He knew that the President would not abandon his wish to punish the Soviets. Shultz's basic stance was that restrictions on the export of advanced Western technology to Moscow, if the ban had the support of all NATO allies, would far more effectively prick the Soviet economy...
There are factual problems too. Deep Throat supposedly met Woodward on Oct. 9, 1972, a date when Haig was out of the country. In late February 1973, Deep Throat gave Woodward the names of two reporters whose telephones were tapped on White House orders, and added that the eavesdropping was done by an "out-of-channels vigilante squad." In fact, the tapping was done by the FBI, as Haig most certainly knew, since he had relayed the names to the FBI. Dean believes that either Woodward got the date of the October meeting wrong or it never occurred, and that...
Dean makes repeated references to reporting done by TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, who assisted him in some interviews and checking. Indeed, several other TIME correspondents extensively pursued the Haig theory before Dean began chasing it in earnest last summer. Their verdict, with which Gorey concurs: the theory is intriguing, but it remains no more than a theory. Dean has no proof...
...against anti-Communist insurgents in Laos and Cambodia, there has been little international outcry. A chief culprit, U.S. State Department officials complain, is the U.N., which had been conspicuously reluctant to investigate the U.S. charges vigorously. In a speech in West Berlin last year, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged the Soviets and their allies with violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol on chemical warfare and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. One month after Haig's charge in West Berlin, the first U.N. team went to Thailand, but it visited only a handful of refugee camps during...