Word: caspar
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Take El Salvador, for example. On the same day the President announced his holy war against Soviet evil, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 made public the Admistration's plan to send $110 million in military aid to El Salvador, twice the amount the White House had previously requested. But Weinberger and Reagan are wasting their time training Salvadoran government troops to crush the rebelling peasants: the regime's strongman, Roberto d' Aubuisson, has already made his wishes explicitly clear. "All I want from the USA is napalm," he has said. "We must destroy completely to achieve pacification...
...shocked," said Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa. "Not only do we have a budget problem, but a major problem of national defense." Grassley had led the fight to hold hearings on Spinney's analysis. After learning of the study, the conservative Republican called Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and asked to meet with its author. To Grassley's surprise, Weinberger refused. So the Senator got into his car and drove out to the Pentagon to find Spinney. He was met there by Chu, director of the Program Analysis and Evaluation office, who told him that Spinney would...
There is no indication yet that Secretary of State George Shultz is willing to take up this cause, which undoubtedly would lead to a clash with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, a strong proponent of the zero option. The belief at the White House that Bush put the Soviets on the diplomatic defensive may be overly optimistic, but it reinforces Pentagon pressure on Reagan to hold fast and wait for concessions from Moscow. One White House defense strategist says that U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze has been instructed to do "some very determined, energetic, inquisitive negotiating" at Geneva to seek...
...Pentagon added more fuel to the fire last week when Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger flatly rejected Israel's terms for sharing military intelligence gleaned by Israel in its Lebanese victory. Weinberger's decision to speak out just as the Israeli Cabinet was meeting to discuss the massacre-investigation report presumably was no coincidence. It was his way of saying that the Pentagon prefers not to deal with Ariel Sharon...
...Congress votes every penny President Reagan requests. Costs of major weapons systems, the generals found, are continuing to rise far more rapidly than can be accounted for by simple price inflation. For example, they estimate that B-1 bombers will cost $285 million each, vs. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's current figure of $200 million. Also, they said, "the current development time for major Air Force [weapons] systems is averaging 11½ years...