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Certainly history bears out the decision. Caspar Weinberger '38 was the last major Administration official to visit campus. His raucous reception a couple of years ago must have been much on the minds of the Corporation Fellows as they deliberated on the subject of honoraries. And leaders of left-of-center student groups have made no bones about their opposition, perhaps a vocal and even violent one, to Reagan's invitation...
Star Wars, arms control, the military budget. Name the subject and the Pentagon's response is to stress its responsibility to counter actual and potential Soviet threats. Over coffee with editors of TIME last week, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger expounded on that view in detail. Excerpts...
Arms-control naysayers within the Administration scrambled to portray the Soviet offer as a non-starter. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said that "when you start out with an asymmetrical situation and you propose equal reductions, it still leaves the gap" (see interview...
...major speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and an interview with TIME, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stressed that Moscow is "very far along" in missile-defense R. and D. President Reagan, in impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in an interview with TIME, said of the congressional study, "Wrong, just plain wrong." Now one of SDI's most fervent supporters in the Administration, Weinberger said the findings assume that SDI systems would be vulnerable to saturation attacks by an aggressor, like the 1970-vintage antiballistic missile. "But," Weinberger insisted, "we're talking about a totally different strategic defense, which cannot be overwhelmed simply by the addition of more numbers...