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...London, then to Cyprus, and from Cyprus by container ship from Limassol to Junieh, a small port in northern Lebanon. On the Friday before Rosenblatt's arrival, the Israelis dealt West Beirut the heaviest bombing and shelling of the war to that point. That same day Alexander Haig resigned and Philip Habib announced a "permanent cease-fire." On June 27, Israeli jets dropped a shower of pink leaflets, warning all civilians to get out of the city at once. Rosenblatt's journal begins the following morning...
...conditions were far from ideal for making a foreign policy decision so fraught with risk. Alexander Haig, who had tried and failed to take charge of Administration policy, was vacationing at a mountain resort in West Virginia after his removal as Secretary of State. His designated successor, George Shultz, was in San Francisco, packing for his move to Washington and awaiting his Senate confirmation hearings this week. President Reagan was on an extended Fourth of July holiday at his five-room adobe ranch house in California's Santa Ynez Mountains. With most of his top aides scattered, the President...
...former California judge who last January replaced Richard Allen at the NSC after serving for almost a year as Haig's deputy, Clark came into office with a noteworthy lack of knowledge about world affairs. He has yet to display a sharp analytic ability in the field. He apparently sees his role as being "an honest broker of ideas," presenting options to the President for consideration, rather than advocating a policy line of his own. "I would hope my viewpoints are no different from the President's," Clark has said. According to one top adviser, Clark also...
...that Washington's hopes of blocking the pipeline were slim. At most, American sanctions might delay construction, and that hardly seemed worth the cost in European ill-will. The White House clearly underestimated the depth of European resentment, despite warnings from, among others, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig (the pipeline furor played no small part in his abrupt resignation last month). British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, visiting Washington shortly after the sanctions were tightened, vehemently protested the move. A surprised Reagan responded: "But I thought you could live with it." Thatcher made it clear that she could...
...State Department also claimed that Alexander Haig's signature was forged on a letter of June 1979 to NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, which included a discussion of nuclear first-strike strategy and urged that an "action of a sensitive nature" be undertaken to "jolt the fainthearted in Europe." The letter contained a telltale error: it addressed Luns as "Dear Joseph," while Haig, a former NATO commander, would have written "Dear...