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Tributes are paid to former US general

Tributes are paid to former US general

Former US general Alexander Haig, who served under two Presidents, has died. He was 85.

Al Haig was a four-star general who after his army career, in which he saw service in the Korean war, went on to serve in the White House under Presidents Nixon and Reagan.

He became White House chief of staff for Richard Nixon during a period when the President was effectively clinging to power amid the Watergate scandal. 

Haig then became Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State. In the build-up to the Falklands War he carried out a series of talks aimed at heading-off the conflict.

Mr. Haig was regarded as a ruthless man who never relinquished his military demeanour and who was seen as one of the most powerful ‘cold war warriors’ of the 1970s and 1980s.

He passed away at a hospital in Baltimore.

 

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