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Despite the flap, both sides seem eager to reach an INF accord before Reagan leaves office. Optimists were encouraged by two developments last week. One was the announcement that the much delayed meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, widely seen as a prelude to a summit in the U.S. later this year, will begin on Sept. 15. The other was the upbeat tone struck by Kenneth Adelman when he announced his resignation as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Said Adelman, a skeptical critic of many arms-control proposals...
Later witnesses were more believable, and in some ways more damaging. Both Secretary of State George Shultz and former Chief of Staff Don Regan inadvertently portrayed Reagan as easily manipulated and uninterested in the details of how two of his most cherished goals were being pursued: the release of American hostages in Lebanon and the survival of the contras when Congress was refusing to arm them. The resulting portrait of the President was far from flattering. His occasional eagerness to actively shape policy and his memory of what he had decided appeared erratic and selective...
...rejected the strenuous objections of Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and sold U.S. weapons to Iran even though his Administration was loudly urging other nations not to do so. He did this on the advice of two far less assertive aides, first Robert McFarlane and then John Poindexter and, more significantly, William Casey, the late CIA director whose ghostly presence haunted the hearings as the one who may have masterminded the events...
After his forceful testimony, the embattled George Shultz seems in no mood to resign. At the department he heads, morale soared. Said a Foggy Bottom official: "George went out and was George. He was honest and plainspoken. He showed the department to be the only honorable entity in all of the mess." From the White House came high praise from Reagan, though some presidential aides thought Shultz had been self-serving. A spokesman said the President hoped Shultz would continue at his post...
Well he might. Shultz, with his determination to help mend the democratic process so badly bruised by the clandestine schemes he had opposed, imparts an aura of trust and candor to an Administration that has too often shown itself deficient in both...