Word: caspar
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Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and his anti-arms control alter ego Richard Perle fought hard against the modest concessions on offensive weapons ^ and even harder against any concession on SDI. "Anything that gives up strategic defense would be undesirable in every way," Weinberger insisted last week. Even if the Soviets were to reduce their offensive arsenal in return, he added, curtailing SDI would be "a bad bargain for the world." Secretary of State George Shultz and his aides, especially Paul Nitze, have fought just as hard to move pieces rather than merely touch them...
Officials announced earlier that Secretary ofDefense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Sep. Edward M.Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and several former Cabinetofficials were among the list of distinguishedspeakers attending the Kennedy School celebration...
...hood and turned into grunts. So Sigourney Weaver -- actor, playwright, bonne vivante, gun-control activist and, at a sensational 5 ft. 10 1/2 in., just possibly the world's most beautiful tall smart woman -- is striding toward stardom in her Marks & Spencer underwear and shouldering enough artillery to keep Caspar Weinberger happy till next Thursday. Aliens, indeed; has anyone thought of starring her in a movie called Humans...
...Army is the first military branch to act on a Defense Department goal to reduce smoking to 25% throughout the military by 1990. The example starts at the top: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Army Secretary John Marsh and Army Chief of Staff John Wickham are all nonsmokers...
...week's end it became obvious that the Administration was virtually declaring SALT dead--killed, it claimed, by repeated Soviet violations. Reagan's rhetoric, and follow-up comments by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, indicated that last week's announcement amounted to a major shift in U.S. policy. It was a change that incurred the wrath of many of America's NATO allies as well as the Soviet Union, and may have hurt chances of a second Reagan-Gorbachev summit this year...