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...With great regret, I have accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Al Haig...
...Haig, reading his letter of resignation at the State Department...
...strange event, at once inevitable and shockingly abrupt. Alexander Meigs Haig, 57, had been out of tune with much of the rest of the Reagan Administration from the day he took office 17 months ago as the self-proclaimed "vicar" of American foreign policy. He had been worn down by incessant friction with colleagues-much of it self-created-in the unending battle for the President's ear, and he had said he would quit so many times that the threat of resignation had become a Washington joke. This time, however, Reagan was also worn down by the friction...
...amazement was tinged with apprehension too. Not, to be sure, because of any misgivings about the ability of the man that Reagan chose as Haig's replacement. As Secretary of the Treasury and economic-policy coordinator in the Nixon Administration, George Pratt Shultz, 61, earned a reputation as a team player who could win cooperation from officials with strongly divergent views; he might be able to avoid the bureaucratic battles that gave Haig so much trouble in bringing "consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose" to American foreign policy. Though Shultz has no formal diplomatic background, his negotiations with foreign...
...unease about Haig's de parture centered on the fact that the most knowledgeable and experienced foreign policy hand in an Administration not noted for diplomatic expertise had quit at a moment when the U.S. was trying to cope with a host of challenging global troubles. In the Middle East, the U.S. is desperately attempting to patch together some kind of settlement in Lebanon, for fear that the Israeli invasion of the country might set the whole region aflame-or, at minimum, irretrievably damage American interests in the Arab world. In Europe, the anger of American allies...