Haig explains it to Congress
The lodestar of the Reagan Administration's foreign policy thus far has been a black-and-white-and-red-all-over principle: Soviet expansionism is all-pervasive, a force pitting good guys against bad guys in every region. Testifying before Congress last week on his $6.17 billion budget request for foreign aid, Secretary of State Alexander Haig conducted a tour of the horizon in which he reiterated that principle more sharply than ever. He defined virtually all of the world's problems, from the Middle East to Central America, in an East-West context, and with an anti-Soviet...