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...officials express their own views on foreign policy. This flaw surfaced with the blundering "no" vote by our U.N. Ambassador on the Falklands cease-fire resolution [June 14]. True, communications can be a problem, but let's not disguise the issue. President Reagan should remind Secretary of State Haig and Ambassador Kirkpatrick of their duties: Mr. Haig to remain steadfast to the decision made by his boss; Mrs. Kirkpatrick to use her political savvy to convey our policy...
...Haig was giving a farewell reception for his key aides yesterday night, and Department Spokesman Dean Fischer couldn't say for sure that Haig would remain in office past "most of the week...
WASHINGTON-The White House yesterday rejected the complaint of outgoing Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. that President Reagan has strayed from a mutually agreed "careful course" for foreign policy. Meanwhile, there were signs that Haig might leave before his successor takes over...
...Meet the Press, and to how Kirkpatrick argued her right to be heard. She was asked about the embarrassing U.N. session when she voted against a cease-fire in the Falklands only to have to announce, after changed instructions arrived too late from Haig, that the U.S. wished it had abstained. The questions poured in: "Do you and Al Haig talk to each other?" "Could you be candid about this feud?" "Is there bad chemistry between...
...occurs when disagreements about policy leak into the press as disagreements among people... we have a kind of movie-magazine approach to the discussion of policy differences." She seemed to be saying that the press, in its superficial way, was missing the real story: policy differences between her and Haig are real and deep. "Furthermore, if I may say so, the President expects us to work together." Though goading questions can be unfair, sometimes they really illumine a debate...