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...into internal turmoil. However able Shultz may prove to be, he will at best need time to brief himself on the specifics of foreign problems and straighten out the tangled lines of authority in policymaking. It may take until mid-July before his nomination is confirmed by the Senate. Haig has said that he will stay on until then, but he will obviously have no clout. And events may not wait for the transition, as the Israeli bombs and shells falling on West Beirut all too starkly demonstrated last week...
...fact, the feeling that some foreign troubles were spinning out of control-at least, out of his control-that seems to have triggered Haig's sudden departure. Those difficulties were not exactly the reasons for his resignation; there was no single predominant reason. Many Administration officials view Haig's departure as due to a clash of personalities more than to policy quarrels. But bitter disagreements between Haig and other officials over policy toward Israel and the celebrated pipeline that will carry Soviet natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe did bring to a head a long series...
...Haig's quarrels with the White House staff started a few hours after the Inauguration, when he handed Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese a memo, for Reagan's approval, demanding total control over foreign policy (he never quite got it). Haig was often at public odds with Cabinet colleagues and even some of his subordinates...
...Eugene] Rostow, [Secretary of Defense Caspar] Weinberger, [U.N. Ambassador Jeane] Kirkpatrick, [White House Chief of Staff James] Baker, [National Security Adviser William] Clark, [Secretary of the Treasury Donald] Regan. There is no way you can have everybody divorced from foreign policy questions except for the Secretary of State, as Haig tried...
Policy differences aggravated, and were aggravated by, the personal hassles. Haig, who was chief assistant to Henry Kissinger on Nixon's National Security Council staff, is a devoted believer in the "Atlanticist" school of diplomacy, which insists that the U.S. must always try to act in concert with its European allies and favor a carefully calibrated mixture of carrots and sticks in dealing with the Soviet Union. In contrast, most of the Californians around Reagan-and to some extent the President himself-instinctively tend to follow a hard, unyielding line toward Moscow, backed up by military muscle, whether...