Word: caspar
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...final decision was made at the highest level, with Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger actively involved. The plan: to station a limited number of American "trainers" in provincial garrisons with the Salvadoran military. They would be prevented from straying far from protected enclaves by what one top official called "the most strict operational guidelines that could be devised." An interagency group formulated the proposal in a decision memorandum; it was approved two weeks ago by the President at a meeting with...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was accorded a warm reception from the Senate Armed Services Committee as he outlined what he called "the second half of the Administration's program to revitalize America." The man who earned a reputation as "Cap the Knife" for his stingy ways as Richard Nixon's Budget Director seemed now to relish his role as a generous dispenser of military goodies...
...vicars of Washington and the viceroys of Vermont, you are the churner of words to fill the spaces between ads, and you also buy the ads. You are Pat Sorrento, the shop man who tells us stories of "the good old days." You are David Rockefeller '36 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40 and David L. Halberstam '55 and Bill Lee (Red Sox pitcher, honorary) and David Riesman '31 and F.A.O. Schwartz...
...typically sent to foreign countries to instruct infantry units in such subjects as weaponry and reconnaissance tactics. Team members are not combat advisers, and congressional approval is not required to send them to El Salvador. Nevertheless, the proposal is generating controversy in both Washington and San Salvador. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told the State Department last week that he could not go along with the plan. Salvadoran government officials fear that if they accept the teams they will be admitting they need outside help to defeat the guerrillas. Still, leftist guerrillas are beginning to skirmish again with Salvadoran soldiers, scarcely...
...marked taste for indirect and elliptical art, has also included an interesting painter from New Orleans, Jim Richard, 37. Richard's deadpan views of Southern suburbia do not justify Frank's claim that they possess "the most astoundingly lambent light this side of a Caspar David Friedrich sunset." That must be the most astoundingly nutty thing written by a talented critic about a talented artist so far this winter. But they do have a weird, banal intensity, especially in Viewing the Sculpture, 1980, where a number of chairs in a tract-home parlor survey a pressed-steel hardware...