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...hour made about the quietest entrance imaginable. Secretary of State-designate George Shultz last Monday slipped into temporary quarters at the State Department, down a seventh-floor corridor from the palatial office still occupied by the recently resigned Alexander Haig. Shultz was barely seen or heard from the rest of the week. At briefings on the crisis in Lebanon and other pressing troubles by his subordinates-to-be, Shultz confined himself to asking questions and ventured no opinions. His only words to reporters were: "These will be my days of silence...
...years at a six-figure salary. The Senator is particularly interested in charges that Bechtel, which has multimillion-dollar contracts with Saudi Arabia, forced its subcontractors to observe the Arab boycott of Israel. But even Cranston predicted that the hearings will be shorter than the five days devoted to Haig's confirmation 18 months...
...tense problems that Shultz will confront are multiplying. The most potentially explosive is in Lebanon, where the U.S. was trying to prevent a final Shootout between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas holed up in the wreckage of encircled West Beirut. At the direction of Haig, who stayed in office temporarily to manage the crisis, the Administration was pursuing a strategy that was at once complicated and somewhat contradictory. It was simultaneously urging Israel to avoid a final assault and pressing P.L.O. leaders to negotiate an agreement by which they and all their armed followers would leave...
...mediate a P.L.O. withdrawal and persuade the Israelis to lift their siege of West Beirut, Haig will be able to quit in fact as well as in name. (He left Washington last Thursday for a Fourth of July weekend in West Virginia, uncertain when, or if, he would be back.) But such a settlement will only bring a new set of problems to the fore. The U.S. will then have to work out some formula for an Israeli withdrawal from a neutralized Lebanon. The goal, after that, will be to revive the long-stalled negotiations on autonomy for the Palestinians...
There was an uncomfortable reminder last week of the divisions that Shultz will face within the Administration over Israel. When Haig, at President Reagan's direct orders, met with Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arens, one White House source reported that the outgoing Secretary of State threatened a suspension of U.S. military and economic aid if Israel launched a final assault on West Beirut. Later, both the State Department and the White House denied that report, insisting that Haig had only warned against an assault in general terms. The conflicting reports appeared to mirror a split not only among Reagan...