Trouble on the Team

A foreign policy power play leads to talk of Haig's resignation

The last thing he wanted, said President Reagan, was an unseemly squabble among his top foreign policy advisers. Yet that is what he got last week in the most explosive and embarrassing clash of his young Administration. Annoyed by what he saw as a challenge to his authority as the nation's chief foreign policy manager, Secretary of State Alexander Haig publicly questioned a decision by his boss and even hinted that he might resign after a scant two months in office. What riled...

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