Word: caspar
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...NATO allies had, meanwhile, held intensive consultations on possible countermeasures; indeed, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet reiterated that the Western allies had already agreed on a precise plan. Political and economic sanctions would almost certainly be imposed. In the view of U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Soviet intervention would "effectively end any possibility of talks" with Moscow, including the negotiations on arms limitations that the Soviets seem to want...
...following is an edited transcript of an interview with Secretary of 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...
...Kabul and Communist countries sending arms to Salvadoran rebels. The Afghans, he said, were not "rebels," they were "freedom fighters ... people fighting for their own country and not wanting to become a satellite of the Soviet Union." Aid to the Afghan rebels has also been suggested by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
Indeed, protests from the New Right had begun as soon as Reagan gave top Cabinet jobs to such mainstream Republicans as Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. Then these men brought pragmatic moderates into the sub-Cabinet: Lawrence Eagleburger at the State Department and Frank Carlucci at Defense. Conservative Senators like Jesse Helms turned cantankerous, and the Conservative Digest publicly warned Reagan, "Your mandate for change is in danger of being subverted...
...Reagan during the campaign. As head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Ford, Ikle, 56, fought hard to torpedo the SALT I agreement. While Kissinger was in Moscow putting the final touches on the agreement, Ikle was at the White House arguing against the treaty. Caspar Weinberger wanted to appoint another SALT opponent, Paul Nitze, to the job, but Senator Helms and other conservatives argued that he had not been an active Reagan supporter. In a FORTUNE article published two years ago, Ikle had warned: "If the U.S. is not already militarily inferior [to the Soviet Union...