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...What lay ahead did not fit into the President's carefully crafted week's agenda at all. Reagan had been preparing for his most important foray into the diplomatic arena since taking office: a two-day meeting with Mexico's President José López Portillo in a vital effort to improve relations between the two neighbors. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was due to depart for China on his most significant venture abroad so far. And the Middle East shuttle diplomacy...
...government proudly announced the bombing as a preemptive, defensive attack on a nuclear plant that, it insisted, would have had the capacity soon to produce weapons to be used against Israel. Haig and Reagan, who had both returned to Camp David for the talks with López Portillo, discussed toughening the U.S. position as Arab protests mounted. Reagan agreed that this should be done. Crafted at the State Department, a new statement was shown to the President by Haig. Reagan approved it without changing a word. Read at a press briefing by Dean Fischer, the State Department spokesman...
...various U.S. trade policies that Mexico considers restrictive and, most dramatic of all, the Administration's emerging foreign policy toward Central America and the Caribbean. The first major manifestation of that policy - and the subject that most angers the Mexicans - concerns El Salvador. López Portillo resents the U.S. insistence on making the guerrilla war in that country a test case for its eagerness to help a friendly government survive "indirect armed aggression" by Cuba and other Communist nations that are funneling weapons to the leftist guerrillas. Though the Mexican President has refused to give them...
After Reagan and López Portillo talk over their differences, the Administration will likely unveil another element of its new policy toward the region: a long-term program of both economic and military aid. The Administration plans to use trade concessions and private investment incentives to fight the region's poverty, which it believes only helps breed Communist subversion. The Reaganauts also make no secret of their intention to send arms into the area. As Thomas O. Enders, the Assistant Secretary of State-designate for Inter-American Affairs, said last week, "We will help threatened countries to defend...
...Portillo will surely caution Washington not to shape its entire Latin American policy as a test of wills between the U.S. and Cuba. But the Administration's policy there, as elsewhere, already seems to be firmly set. Enders summed up the Administration's view: "Cuba has declared covert war on its neighbors-our neighbors...