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...first glance, Shultz would seem ideally suited to smooth over this conflict. Like Haig, he is a devoted believer in cooperation with European allies; the expertise in dealing with international economic problems that Shultz acquired as Richard Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury is widely admired on both sides of the Atlantic. But Shultz is on record as opposed to the use of trade as a political weapon against the Soviets, and as a Bechtel executive he complained about the "light-switch diplomacy"-an on-again, off-again policy-preventing American companies from serving as reliable suppliers under international...
Seemingly nervous and speaking at times more haltingly than usual, Reagan tried to say as little as possible about foreign policy. He flatly refused to discuss the reasons that had led him to accept Haig's resignation before it had been formally offered. Said Reagan: "I don't think there's anything that in any way would benefit the people to know." He turned aside several questions about Israel and Lebanon, pleading, quite correctly, that "I have to walk a very narrow line" in view of "the delicacy of the negotiations...
...Ronald Reagan's top advisers, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, was conspicuously absent from the tight-knit trio of aides that met two weeks ago to determine Alexander Haig's fate. While White House Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief Michael Deaver and National Security Adviser William Clark discussed the Secretary of State's resignation with Reagan, Meese was kept in the dark. Indeed, the man once regarded as the "deputy President" did not learn of Haig's departure until he returned...
Rowny and Karpov can raise these questions, but they do not have the authority to decide on answers. That can take place only at a higher level. Before he resigned two weeks ago, Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been busily setting up a "back channel" with the Soviet Ambassador in Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin, and a working relationship with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Haig had established himself as the Kremlin's principal point of contact on START. Now the Soviets are worried not only about Haig's departure, but about the possibility that Weinberger, who favored an even...
Even if Secretary of State-designate George Shultz prevents that from happening by following Haig's policies and filling his role, the problem of trade-offs and fallbacks in START and INF will almost surely touch off negotiations within the U.S. Government. They will be at least as arduous, acrimonious and suspenseful as those in Geneva...