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...point, the Administration did at last get its policy straight. Though Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger initially said the Marines' withdrawal might take four months, Reagan in a report to Congress at midweek set "a tentative goal of completion within 30 days." The Marines, he explained candidly, "have become a target in an area that is no longer under [Lebanese] government control." At week's end Weinberger presented to the White House a specific timetable, which Reagan approved, and the pullout was set to be completed by March...
Shultz's disregard for the Pentagon may have stemmed partly from his personal animus toward Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The men have been warily circling each other for years. In the Nixon Administration, Weinberger worked as deputy to Budget Director Shultz, then succeeded him. In 1975, Shultz was named president of the Bechtel Group Inc. (1982 sales: $13.6 billion), a construction and engineering firm; Weinberger followed Shultz there as a vice president. But Weinberger's service to Governor Reagan in California put him ahead of Shultz when the President picked his original Cabinet. After Shultz replaced Haig...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger contended that warranties would increase the price of military hardware. But once the law was passed, he reassured lawmakers, "We are putting it into effect." What Weinberger did not say was that the Pentagon was preparing a sneak attack. Buried in the appendix of the four-volume fiscal 1985 budget is a provision that would kill the requirement. Warranties may be good in theory, one Pentagon spokesman said last week, but they should be left to the discretion of the Pentagon. Senator Andrews indicated that he would wage a defensive action: "The only...
Recently Archie Epps, the Dean of Students, threatened two protesters at last fall's Caspar W. Weinberger's '38 speech with severe disciplinary action. The Committee on Central America condemns the Harvard administration's singling out of these two individuals. They were part of a protest in fundamental opposition to the policies and actions of Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and the Reagan administration--policies that have resulted in the death of 40,000 civilians in El Salvador since 1980, and in the invasion of the sovereign nation of Grenada a short time before Weinberger spoke...
THERE'S ONLY ONE THING WORSE than intense ideological conservatism mindless ideological conservatism. A case in point is Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38's Pentagon, which is rapidly gaining a name for itself not only as an advocate of unrelenting military build up, but also as an institution with no compunction about fuding the numbers to keep its already over swollen budget swelling...