Word: caspar
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...businessmen to meet U.S. policymakers in Washington. Last week, in a similar exercise, TIME invited the chief executives of some of Canada's largest corporations and financial institutions to the U.S. capital for three days of discussions with such officials as Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole...
...Geneva to the MX missile. Attacked by critics for its high cost and questionable basing mode, the missile is scheduled for a series of crucial funding votes in Congress in the weeks after the arms talks resume in Geneva. Without congressional approval of the MX, argued Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, "the Soviets have little incentive to negotiate seriously." Complains Georgi Arbatov, director of Moscow's Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada: "It looks more and more as if the new negotiations are being used by the Reagan Administration merely to get more money from Congress...
...scheme through the orthodox interagency review process, immediate objections would have either slowed its progress or stopped the plan altogether. Instead, the ideas discussed Feb. 11 were translated into firm policy on a "close-hold" basis inside the White House. It was only in mid-March that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz were fully informed about what was coming next. There was no real policy debate...
...leaving the U.N., but Jeane Kirkpatrick, 58, is not the sort to cool off on the sidelines. At a Washington party celebrating her imminent return to academe as a government professor at Georgetown University, Administration luminaries like Caspar Weinberger, William Casey and Edwin Meese toasted her grit in championing U.S. foreign policy and applauded her plans to carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there...
Keyser, the ex-president of the Harvard Debate Council, spoke at the Oxford Union last year with U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 when the two opposed the motion. "The foreign policies of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are morally indistinguishable...