Word: bechtel
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...much trouble in bringing "consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose" to American foreign policy. Though Shultz has no formal diplomatic background, his negotiations with foreign leaders on trade and monetary matters during the Nixon Administration and his experience during the past eight years as a key executive of Bechtel, an engineering and construction firm with operations in more than 20 countries, have made him thoroughly familiar with the world outside the U.S. With the very notable exception of Israeli leaders and their more fervent American supporters, who are worried that Bechtel's extensive operations in Saudi Arabia have given...
...about who's right and who's wrong." He told his aides that he would call Haig into the Oval Office after the National Security Council lunch to accept his resignation. At 10:10 a.m., Clark and Reagan began placing calls to Shultz, who was attending a Bechtel meeting in London, formally asking him to take Haig...
Even older engineers who become disillusioned with their profession in mid-career look back upon their school days with pride. Says Thomas Morris-White, 44, an engineering manager with Bechtel: "If I had it to do all over again, I'd be an engineer or a doctor. I wouldn't consider anything else...
...Reagan Administration's Arabist posture, most vigorously advocated by former Bechtel president and current Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, denies both the history and the cultural context of the Middle East. In his effort to prop up unstable regimes through the use of arms sales. Weinberger hopes to forge an anti-Soviet consensus among Moslems, Christians and Jews. What be naively fails to recognize is that these regimes seek to use American arms to gird themselves against reform at home and employ them to advance the nationalist, as opposed to American, interests...
...Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38. The interview was conducted on Thursday, March 26, in Weinberger's Pentagon office by Crimson reporter James G. Hershberg. Weinberger, 63, is a former secretary of Health. Education and Welfare who joined the Reagan administration after working as an attorney and executive for the Bechtel Corporation...