Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well, the witness Shultz bore was painful. His blunt description of "guerrilla warfare" within the Administration, his public denunciation of the way things were run and his refusal to tone down his criticism would have been extraordinary coming from a junior bureaucrat. Coming from the nation's top Cabinet officer, they were unprecedented...
...White House meeting on Dec. 7, 1985, Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger argued strenuously against a plan to sell arms to Iran as a gesture of "good faith" in getting hostages released and initiating a broader dialogue. Shultz thought he and Weinberger had squelched the idea. Neither Cabinet officer was told by the President that just two days previously he had signed a finding giving retroactive approval to U.S. participation in three earlier arms sales involving Israel, deals of which Shultz was unaware...
...scrutiny tend to be better, even wiser, than those designed to avoid it. Operating the shadowy network that handled arms deals with Iran and funneled funds to the contras required a prolonged series of lies to Congress and the American people, the deception of U.S. allies, and keeping top Cabinet officials and perhaps even the President in the dark. Any policy that depends on such a suffocating cloak of deceit and deniability is likely to have something fundamentally wrong with...
Ever since he approved the enactment of democratic reforms last month, President Chun Doo Hwan has been pressured to fill key posts in his Cabinet with appointees who are not members of the ruling Democratic Justice Party Last week Chun complied -- sort of. He replaced eight D.J.P.-affiliated Cabinet officials with men who do not belong to the party, though most of them, like Chun himself, are associated with the South Korean military. He also appointed a new Prime Minister, Kim Chung Yul, 69, a former air force general who served as Seoul's Ambassador to Washington from...
...decision seemed simple enough when the Israeli Cabinet approved the Lavi in 1980. Jerusalem had long wanted an advanced fighter that could dodge antiaircraft missiles while skimming battlefields to blast enemy targets. As then Defense Minister Ezer Weizman envisioned it, the plane was to be "small and cheap -- but a bastard" in combat. Over the years, though, Weizman has become a leading opponent of the plane. Says he: "It is too costly, comes too late and at the expense of more important objectives." Today the aircraft represents the perils that a small, defense-minded country can confront when it sets...