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...protect their 2,000-mile common border from pollution. Reagan announced that the U.S. would extend commodity credits so that Mexico could buy more American agricultural produce during the current drought. But foreign policy seemed to overshadow everything else. Playing down the differences, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz said that both countries were in agreement "at the level of general principle," but held divergent views about "particular tactical moves." The debate, essentially, is about whether to speak softly or carry a big stick...
...conflict, including the new ambassador from the U.S.-opposed Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. But, amid all the activity, Kissinger still found time to settle the critical issue of where his car would be parked in the State Department garage. The agreement: right next to Secretary of State George Shultz...
Moreover, Shultz insisted, the Administration's muscle flexing was beginning to pay off. Until recently, said the Secretary, there had been "no incentive" for the Sandinistas, the Salvadoran guerrillas, the Cubans or the Soviets to believe that "anything credible" stood in the way of the "imposition of Communist rule by armed force in El Salvador and the rest of Central America." Now, said Shultz, these countries could clearly see that "a victory by the far left through force is not in the cards...
...Gaddafi's advance halted. Last month Mobutu sent 2,000 paratroopers to Chad to help guard strategic points in the capital, freeing Habré's troops for the battle against the rebels in the north. In Washington for talks with President Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz last week, Mobutu promised to send more troops to Chad. U.S. officials praised him for his "courageous action...
Each side accuses the other of having first rejected the proposal. The fact is, the U.S. and the Soviet Union turned down the package almost simultaneously. During a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York last September, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz indicated obliquely that the Reagan Administration found the plan inadequate. Gromyko made no response. The next day, Kvitsinsky signaled to Nitze in Geneva that the Kremlin had rejected the proposals...