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...swept into Washington like a head of state, wearing a tailored Nehru suit and traveling around town in a silver stretch limo dubbed "Jonas' whale" by Washington wags. Seeking U.S. support for his 28,000-strong guerrilla army, he was formally received by Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and, finally, President Reagan. With the help of a high-powered public relations firm, he appeared on Public Television's MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour and ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America to plead his cause against Angola's Marxist regime and their Cuban and Soviet sponsors...
Reagan has increasingly adopted Shultz's rhetoric on terrorism, but he has thus far abided by the severe restrictions that Weinberger has imposed governing retaliation: basically, that only those terrorists responsible for a , particular incident be pinpointed, isolated and punished. Though Shultz describes it as routine, last week's order to the Navy to begin flight operations north of Libya, a nation often accused by the White House of inspiring and aiding terrorists, looks like a preparation to take bolder actions...
Despite Weinberger's hard-line opposition, Shultz has been more successful in encouraging Reagan to resume negotiations with the Soviet Union on a variety of issues, most notably arms control. It is this very success, however, that has subjected Shultz to attack from those on the far right. They accuse him of sins ranging from insufficient zeal for U.S. aid to anti-Marxist rebels in Angola to appointing too many nonideological diplomats to policy posts. But their fundamental complaint is that Shultz believes in negotiation, not confrontation, with the Soviets. David Funderburk, a protege of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms...
...more valid charge against Shultz is that he is no grand strategist. He acts like the foreman of a crew of diplomatic construction workers rather than a statesman pursuing an overall design. The Secretary is a devoted incrementalist. He cannot and does not claim any major breakthroughs, but says that during his tenure the U.S. has developed a consistency in its handling of relations with the Soviets, eased tensions with European allies and seen more democratic governments take root in Central America. Progress, he believes, can be made only by a kind of patient chipping away at encrusted differences rather...
...Shultz's success in shaping policy is much greater than his prowess in articulating it publicly. Lately he has permitted himself some public flashes of the temper he shows in private, pounding a table angrily in December when a Yugoslav official offered some excuses for terrorism. But for the most part his public utterances are studiedly bland and numbingly repetitious. In Shultzspeak, the invariable progress report on any problem is that "we're working at it." Even his wife Helena has complained, "George, you sound so dull...