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...Princeton's Falk and others doubt that the Reagan Administration, or any other, for that matter, would be willing to take the domestic political consequences of opposing Israel in a showdown. Predicted Ball: "I think what Haig and Reagan will do is have a conversation with Begin and then send him some more airplanes...
...Administration has opted for a balancing act that combines strong public declarations of support for Thatcher with delicate hints that the U.S. would prefer negotiations. "The President fully supports Mrs. Thatcher, not as a matter of national bias but as a matter of principle," Secretary of State Haig said in New York City Friday. He added: "It remains to be seen if a framework can be put together to remove the pervasive animosities that will continue if this is improperly managed...
...last week. In his speech to the U.N., Gromyko accused the U.S. of showing a "militaristic frenzy" in its arms buildup and beaming this message to the world: "If you want peace, then it's full steam ahead for war." But when Gromyko met Secretary of State Alexander Haig for a five-hour discussion on Friday, the Soviet Foreign Minister brought up again the subject of a possible Reagan-Brezhnev summit this fall. Haig's reply, in essence: maybe...
...Anatoli Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., is believed to be telling his Politburo colleagues that moderates and pragmatists, mostly in the State Department, are vying with implacable hard liners, boycott in the Pentagon, for Reagan's ear as to what course to take toward the U.S.S.R. Haig is apparently hinting to Dobrynin that Soviet displays of restraint improve the pragmatists' chances...
When it comes to Sunday hand-to-hand combat, Secretary of State Al Haig does better. He was Brinkley's guest the following week. Haig has learned to evade by being, if Noah Webster will allow the word, circumloquacious. "I'm sometimes very good," he acknowledged, at ducking questions. Four times in 15 minutes he answered, "It's too early to say"-a damp response in show-biz terms, but then it often is too early to say. "Aren't you really pleased," asked George F. Will, the gung-ho conservative, at the defeat...