Word: caspar
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...committee, appointed by Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, strongly criticized the Marine Corps commanders for failing to provide adequate security and for stationing all the forces in one building...
...also came under criticism from the five-man commission, headed red retired Admiral Robert L.J. Long, that investigated the Beirut bombing for the Defense Department. The commission's report "blames a number of people for not exercising what in hindsight would have been better judgment," said Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Release of the report was delayed as the White House debated an awkward question: How can the military be held accountable without blaming the Administration for stationing the Marines in Beirut? Courts-martial are unlikely...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, for barring reporters from the Grenada invasion...
...true, the story was a shocker. Last July the leftist but respected Beirut newspaper As Safir printed what it claimed was a transcript of a conversation between U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Saudi Defense Minister Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz in Paris on May 12, 1983. Weinberger was quoted as saying that he had not informed President Reagan about a Saudi request for 20 F-15 fighters because "it would be leaked to Congress and the press," thus jeopardizing the deal. According to the transcript, Weinberger generously offered his Saudi counterpart a shipment of sophisticated M-l tanks, which...
...government ministers in Latin America, you'll see some 25 of these red desk diaries in a row. It's a statement of success." President Kennedy used to have two: one for the White House and one in his briefcase. Two weeks ago Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's office called the Economist to ask about getting its 1984 book. The magazine sells about 250,000 diaries annually, and this year began printing them in the U.S. in addition to London...