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...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...
Says one Administration official: "Just consider all the people he has been in fights with recently: [Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Eugene] Rostow, [Secretary of Defense Caspar] Weinberger, [U.N. Ambassador Jeane] Kirkpatrick, [White House Chief of Staff James] Baker, [National Security Adviser William] Clark, [Secretary of the Treasury Donald] Regan. There is no way you can have everybody divorced from foreign policy questions except for the Secretary of State, as Haig tried...
...Will, the gung-ho conservative, at the defeat of two Soviet clients, Syria and the P.L.O.? Haig has learned to listen carefully for imbedded assumptions in questions he is asked. Haig: "No one is pleased when circumstances involve the loss of lives, and innocent lives." The final question concerned Kirkpatrick, who seems to think that her presidential ties grant her freer speech. The question to Haig was blunt: "Why is she still in the Administration?" Haig ho-ho-hoed his way out of that one, with some words about those "personal peccadilloes that tantalize you gentlemen so much...
...return you now to NBC's 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...
...Kirkpatrick the need to be diplomatic wars with her impulse to be candid. Candor won out, with a rebuke to her questioners and the press that was all the more effective for not being heated: "I don't think one could have a good government in which everyone agreed with everybody about everything ... the problem 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...