Word: caspar
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Several prominent physicists yesterday charged Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger "38 with delaying for political reasons the release of their report that reaches negative conclusions about some key components in the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...Administration has launched what State Department Spokesman Charles Redman called a "full-scale counterintelligence investigation." All 28 Marines assigned to Moscow are being replaced. State Department security officials will accompany the new guards on their rounds. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and the House and Senate intelligence committees ordered broad investigations into the entire 1,400-man Marine Security Guard battalion to which Bracy and Lonetree belonged...
...November of 1983, a speech by Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 was interrupted repeatedly by shouts and chants from the audience. Members of the audience threw two balloons full of red dye at Weinberger, but the liquid missed the Secretary. Twelve students dressed in grim-reaper robes stood silently throughout the speech and pointed at Weinberger...
Perle's departure from the Pentagon will free him to complete a novel that will show "how Government policy battles are fought out." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger has persuaded Perle to stay in touch as a consultant, but concedes that "this place won't be the same without Richard." Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger agrees, noting sardonically, "I'm glad he's leaving, but his departure lowers discernibly the average IQ of this Administration...
Every year hundreds of foreign firms offer to buy stakes in U.S. companies, and the Government barely notices. But the proposal by Fujitsu, the Japanese conglomerate, to acquire an 80% interest in Fairchild Semiconductor has begun ringing alarm bells in Washington. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger have asked the White House to consider blocking the purchase. Since Fairchild supplies computer chips to the U.S. military, the Cabinet officials fear that the deal could threaten national security. Baldrige is also concerned that through Fairchild, Fujitsu would gain a distribution system for its supercomputers, powerful machines that...