Word: caspar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...M48A5 tank chassis. DIVAD has had trouble detecting decoys and hitting helicopters that do not have radar reflectors attached. Nonetheless, the Pentagon has invested $1.5 billion in 276 DlVADs, and last week Richard DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, was preparing a report for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on whether to buy 117 more. While DeLauer was at work, a study by the Defense Department's inspector general surfaced: it revealed that the Pentagon had paid $84 million more than necessary for the expensive and useless weapon. The study was released by Oregon's Republican...
...Stanford in 1981, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 had to battle with protestors screaming and banging on the windows of Kresge Auditorium as he spoke. With difficulty, Weinberger managed to get the speech...
Last year, at the Law School, members of the Black Law Students Association refused to allow Jews in the audience at a speech by a Palestine Liberation Organization representative to ask questions. But what seems to have tipped the scale was the Caspar Weinberger disaster...
...retaliation, because an undeterred criminal will strike again. We have yet to deter or punish anyone, despite our brave words that we would avenge our dead. After last year's Marine bombing, the U.S.A promised to "respond to this criminal act." Nothing ever happened, even though Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 later said the bombing was executed with the "sponsorship, knowledge, and authority of the Syrian government...
During the past year or two, we have had several incidents on campus that provoked concern about freedom of speech. Last October, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was heckled and interrupted in Sanders Theater and could finish his speech only with difficulty. In 1983, members of the audience interfered with another speech by alternately booing and cheering a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization who had been invited to speak by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA). Last April, the moderator at a panel arranged by the BLSA did not recognize Jewish law students who wished to question a speaker...