Word: caspar
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...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...
...Committee, that the first Kuwaiti tankers to fly the U.S. flag would take to sea this Wednesday. Aspin replied sharply that this detail had not been classified and that Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole had also mentioned it. Moreover, both Aspin and Dole had been briefed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who made no claim that the date of the first sailing was classified...
Alarms went off all over Washington last March when former Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow were charged with espionage. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger proclaimed the case "quite comparable to Iran's actions in seizing our embassy in Tehran." The Reagan Administration, believing that the Marines had allowed KGB agents to plant miniaturized listening devices in the embassy, cut off electronic communications with it and undertook a $100 million program to replace security and communications equipment in Moscow and elsewhere. It seemed that the two key defendants, Sergeant Clayton Lonetree and Corporal Arnold Bracy, who were said...
After the vote, a State Department spokesman said that Senate penalties "could be counterproductive because they run contrary to the spirit and practice" of export controls. The scandal was calmly discussed at a meeting in Tokyo last week between Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in which Japan promised to help the U.S. strengthen its anti-submarine warfare capability...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger tried to mollify Congress with a 26- page report explaining the Navy's new rules of engagement in the gulf. Warships are now operating under "hair-trigger" alert, prepared to fire on any plane or vessel that approaches in a hostile manner. Under these rules, the Iraqi jet that zeroed in on the Stark would have been blown out of the sky before it could launch its missiles. He assured worried Congressmen that the threat to U.S. vessels was, as the report put it, "low to moderate...