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Reagan plans to submit to Congress a package of legislative proposals. One would create a "blab" fund offering rewards of as much as $500,000 to informers who finger conspiring terrorists. Shultz is especially incensed at what he calls "state-sponsored terrorism," and has accused four nations of practicing it: Libya, Iran, Syria and North Korea. He thinks the U.S. and its allies should regard such conduct as "a form of warfare" and respond accordingly. The State Department recently warned six East bloc nations that they cannot hope for improved relations with the U.S. if they continue to provide support...
...collecting ideas, the Secretary sought advice inside and outside the Government, sometimes at meetings that resembled bull sessions. At one Saturday steak-and-eggs breakfast at the State Department last month, Shultz, professonally dressed in a tweed jacket and Argyle sweater, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other top officials heard from Brian Jenkins of the California-based Rand Corp., who is an authority on worldwide terrorism. Jenkins stressed that officials must face the essential question: Are you prepared to use force...
...Shultz and Reagan, the answer is yes, but with great caution. For example, the U.S. declined to join France, which also suffered casualties in the Beirut massacre, in a retaliatory raid against the truck bombers' suspected headquarters because Washington did not feel sufficiently confident in its intelligence. Furthermore, the celebrated failure of an antiterrorist mission could cost the U.S. dearly in prestige. Yet, with random violence increasing, the U.S., as a senior State Department official put it is determined to send an unmistakable message: "We don't allow terrorism to go unpunished...
Secretary of State George Shultz fretted about that in his office the other day. He is partisan, of course, but his concern over America's tendency to be gun-shy about world involvement reflects a broader perspective. "I think you have to be willing to be engaged where you think you might make a difference," he said. While he talked, the arguments about our involvement in Nicaragua raged on Capitol Hill, and the memories of our withdrawal from Lebanon were all too fresh...
...Shultz accepts that such failures are an inevitable part of his job. But any U.S. leader, he believes, must take these types of risks or the world will overwhelm us. "I think the Lebanon situation was one that we almost necessarily had to get into," says Shultz. "So we didn't succeed in attaining the objectives that we sought, but we haven't failed completely either." In short, the willingness to try was an important part of the policy...