Word: caspar
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...Haig was due to travel to Rome for a NATO foreign ministers' meeting. Anticipating European pressure, he wanted to promise to begin negotiations by the end of the year. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger argued, however, that the U.S. should make no such move until the huge rearmament program that Reagan was in the process of launching was well under way and until the Soviets showed a willingness to consider deep reductions in their arsenal. "What the alliance wants, or at least what it needs," Weinberger told Haig over breakfast at the Pentagon in early
Attwood said that the Porum also invited Reagan to speak, but was not optimistic in light of the negative reception accord Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinherger '38 on his visit three weeks...
...large political forum, the respect shown a political figure need not be the same as that shown to a private individual in a one-to-one encounter. Basically, the respect we should show a government official should be commensurate with the respect we feel for him. Caspar Weinberger, who many--including myself--feel is an accomplice of murder in Central America among other things, deserves only enough respect from the left so that the left does not alienate the middle. The isolated incident of protestors throwing water balloons with red ink hurts the popularity views; in this sense, it goes...
WOULD THE ADMINISTRATION permit a left-leaning Grenadian government to replace the leftist one U.S. forces dislodged? The ambivalent role of American troops and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger '38's refusal to set a specific withdrawal deadline portend a disheartening, but hardly surprising, answer. We have toppled democratically elected governments (Mossadegh of Iran in 1953). We also support repressive dictatorships around the globe (Ferdinand Macros of the Philippines, Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea, etc.) to suit our own geopolitical and strategic interests. By ferreting out known Bishop supporters, the U.S. government is preventing the leaders of a major...
...GOOD THING somebody yelled at Caspar Weinberger, what the protestors did was praiseworthy...