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Speaking without a prepared text, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig described Reagan's call for a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza as "a very serious mistake." The final status of those territories is "a thing for the local nations to decide, not for the U.S. to dictate"-clearly implying that Reagan is trying to do just that. His audience rose to its feet and loudly cheered Haig's concluding line: "When we are true to Israel, we are true to ourselves...
Smith argues that over the past 18 months Washington spurned at least three separate diplomatic initiatives by Havana. Last November, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig met secretly with a Cuban official in Mexico City; U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Vernon Walters conferred with Castro in Havana four months later. Both meetings were unproductive. As a good-will gesture, Smith contends, the Cubans also informed the U.S. in December that they had stopped shipping arms to Nicaragua, implying that they had turned off the weapons flow to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Washington responded by further lambasting the Havana regime in public. Smith...
...operating profits have more than doubled, to $205 million last year. If United Technologies acquires Bendix, some company insiders speculate that Gray, who is expected to retire in three years, might ask Agee to stay on as heir apparent. One of his competitors for that spot could be Alexander Haig, who left his post as president of United Technologies to become Secretary of State but returned last week as a consultant...
...Administration initially proposed an allied boycott of the Siberian pipeline as a response to the military crackdown in Poland last December. Reagan has held fast to his opposition-despite marked criticism from former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and others, on the grounds that events in Poland were severe enough to preclude a "business as usual" stance towards the Soviets. He also feared the pipeline would endanger allied security by making western Europe dependent on the Soviet Union for energy...
After firming up his own position, Shultz went to the President and argued against strictly enforcing the sanctions. His case was clear, reasonable and forceful. "But he did not present it as the end of the free world as we know it, as Haig would have," says one of the President's senior advisers. Shultz achieved a partial success by getting the Administration to mute its retaliation against European allies who have defied the sanctions; only two companies have been hit with punitive measures so far, allowing the dispute to remain a manageable family quarrel. Once the decision...