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DIED. James E. Casey, 95, a founder and former chief executive officer of United Parcel Service, which he and a friend started in 1907 in Seattle with $100, six messengers and two bicycles, and which he built into a nationwide network whose 117,000 employees last year delivered 1.6 billion packages to more than 35,000 communities, earning the company more than $300 million; in Seattle. Casey was a believer in giving executives at every level a say, and a stake, in running the company. As a result of his profit-sharing plan, among the first in American business, U.P.S...
Such barbs do not seem to bother Reagan or his CIA director, William Casey. When Casey took over the agency, he promised his staff "good new days ahead." The CIA is expanding its program to supply arms to rebels fighting the Soviet Union puppet regime in Afghanistan (see box). According to intelligence analysts, the U.S. is believed to be helping Libyan dissidents forge an opposition to Dictator Muamar Gaddafi and is suspected of circumventing the ban on covert operations in Angola in order to keep alive the anti-Communist insurgency there...
Reagan decided three weeks ago to make a major speech on Central America, initially at the urging of CIA Director William Casey and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Both argued for a hard-line anti-Soviet address that would cast the region's problems in a stark East-West context. Kirkpatrick wrote an article last month arguing that denying aid to the Salvadoran government and the Nicaraguan insurgents "would be to make the U.S. the enforcer of [the late Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev's doctrine of irreversible Communist revolution." In another article, Casey wrote that the problems in Central America reflected...
...State Department was also eager for Reagan personally to take responsibility for selling the Administration's policies, but officials there argued that the hardline approach favored by Casey and Kirkpatrick would backfire. "The idea is to calm the opposition down," said one State Department official, "so that we can go ahead with what we're already doing." Reagan agreed. He made clear that he wanted to avoid the bellicose tone he had used in his "evil empire" speech in March. "I do not want a heavily anti-Soviet speech, because people will turn off their TV sets and say, 'There...
...Casey choked when his time came, but Ryan kept his nerve...