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...five-nation swing, Shultz sees more realism and hears less rhetoric...
...promote democracy" in a region more often noted for its absence. For the Reagan Administration, it was also a chance to test diplomatic waters that have been roiled with resentment of assertive but erratic U.S. policies. Yet as the U.S. Air Force 707 carried Secretary of State George Shultz on a nine-day, five-country tour of Latin America and the Caribbean last week, the important thing was that, for once, something other than a geopolitical crisis was on the horizon. The theme behind most of the stopovers on Shultz's itinerary was democratic transition. Taken together, the visits...
...Shultz put it: "The progress of democracy is a very important development." Long criticized for being too sympathetic to military regimes in the southern part of the hemisphere, the Administration sees the trend as a vindication of its strategy of behind-the-scenes pressure, rather than confrontation, in pursuing democratic aims...
...favorite: Drew Lewis, former Secretary of Transportation and a pragmatic tactician in the Baker mold. Conservative alternative: Secretary of the Interior William Clark, an old Reagan crony who served as chief of staff in California and, not very successfully, as National Security Adviser in Washington. In the Cabinet, George Shultz may bow out as Secretary of State at the end of the first term, presenting Reagan with another fateful prag-matist-conservative choice. Leading candidates: Middle East Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, a non-ideologue, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, yet another pal from California days and a reflexive hardliner...
...Cabinet resignation was threatened. "It was a black day around here," says a White House aide. Administration "pragmatists" intervened to get the foolish scheme canceled. Reagan was surprised by all the brouhaha: when he signed the sweeping order, he said, he had not realized that Secretary of State George Shultz, for instance, might be affected. "That order was not very complicated," says an aide with unusual bluntness. "Anybody could understand what it meant...