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Addressing the annual meeting of legislators from the NATO nations in San Francisco last week, Secretary of State George Shultz emphasized that the U.S. plans no change in its Star Wars testing program. So what else is new? Just this: before Shultz could make that statement, Ronald Reagan had to settle a bitter dispute among his senior advisers.The dustup briefly threatened to scuttle the Antiballistic Missile Treaty...
...accepted the Pentagon interpretation even before McFarlane spoke, U.S. diplomats and NATO allies were appalled. They protested that the Administration position, coming only weeks before next month's Geneva summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, would doom any chance for negotiating an arms-control agreement. Shultz suggested to the White House that if McFarlane was making policy for so sensitive a matter on television, then Reagan would seem to have no need for a Secretary of State...
Reagan convened a White House meeting of Shultz, McFarlane, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Kenneth Adelman that was described by Administration sources as "acrimonious." The President signed a National Security Decision Directive embodying a compromise of sorts: the Administration would not repudiate the new interpretation of the treaty but would not act on it either. In his San Francisco speech and in subsequent remarks to NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels, Shultz proclaimed the issue to be "moot." A broad interpretation "is fully justified," said the Secretary in San Francisco. But SDI testing would...
...Mubarak questioned whether Klinghoffer had been killed at all. Said he: "Maybe the man is in hiding or did not board the ship at all." By then, U.S. patience was beginning to wear thin. At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Shultz called on Cairo to "hold these people and prosecute them." Privately, U.S. officials could hardly restrain themselves. Said an intelligence analyst: "They just lied to us, from top to bottom. They did everything they could in order to mislead us about the location and fate of the terrorists." But thanks to effective intelligence...
...move by Volcker would, of course, leave open the powerful position of Federal Reserve chairman. The rumor mill is already putting forth candidates for the position. One is Secretary of State George Shultz, who has a strong economics background and served as Treasury Secretary under Nixon. Another prospect is Donald Regan, White House chief of staff and former Treasury Secretary. Washington speculation has it that First Mate Nancy Reagan wants the politically maladroit Regan out of the White House. The gossips have taken things from there and now have Regan headed for the Fed. Stay tuned...