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Ramirez filed suit on July 13 in federal district court in Washington against Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of State George Shultz and the chief of engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers, charging all three with illegally seizing much of his sprawling ranch. Ramirez wants all military activity restricted to the agreed-upon 2,000 acres. Says the beleaguered landowner: "The takeover of my land has already put my future business projects in jeopardy. I cannot go forward without some binding assurance that my entire property will not be taken over by the United States military...
...spends eight hours a day in there being frustrated," says an aide, pointing to Secretary of State George Shultz's wood-paneled inner office. Frustration, of course, has long been an occupational hazard at the State Department, but Shultz has recently had more than his share. Not only on Central American questions but also on arms control and Middle East policy, Shultz has been losing influence to National Security Adviser William Clark and other hard-line presidential advisers...
...officials in Washington could legitimately disagree. Last May Secretary of State George Shultz negotiated a Lebanese-Israeli accord providing for the withdrawal of Israel's 36,000 troops from Lebanon on the condition that Syria also pulled out its 60,000 men. But Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has received some $3.5 billion worth of arms from the Soviet Union over the past year, has refused to go along with the arrangement...
Stymied at Geneva, the U.S. has been seeking other talks with the Soviets. Secretary of State George Shultz, in a recent memo to the President, argued that expanded contacts could now be pursued, since Reagan's military buildup had put him in a position to negotiate from strength, and that failure to seek better relations with Moscow would only enhance Reagan's reputation as a dangerous hardliner. Visiting with the President in Washington last week, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher reiterated the enthusiasm of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who met with Soviet President Yuri Andropov in Moscow...
...idea of a future meeting on Mediterranean security. Even when that hurdle is cleared, the Madrid agreements must be endorsed by the foreign ministers of all the participants. That ritual, which may not take place until September, may provide the opportunity for a meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...