Alexander M Jr Haig

Alexander M. Haig Jr., declaring his intention to run for President, said he offers leadership to carry the nation into the 1990s with prosperity and in peace. The former secretary of state and NATO commander said in a speech prepared for Committee for America, the political action committee he heads, that he would declare his candidacy today for the Republican presidential nomination.

Alexander M. Haig Jr., declaring his intention to run for President, said he offers leadership to carry the nation into the 1990s with prosperity and in peace. The former secretary of state and NATO commander said in a speech prepared for Committee for America, the political action committee he heads, that he would declare his candidacy today for the Republican presidential nomination.

Rebuking a newspaper editor and sloughing off barbs from his opponents during a highly anticipated televised debate Friday night, Vice President George Bush said he long ago came clean on the Iran-Contra affair--and nobody is going to ride to the White House by contending otherwise. The two-hour Republican debate sponsored by the influential Des Moines Register marked the start of the last lap of the marathon primary campaign for President here, where nominating caucuses are a month away.