Word: caspar
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Although Reagan entered office hoping to govern largely through his Cabinet, the idea never flew very high. A few Cabinet members who are longtime Reagan intimates, notably Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Attorney General Smith, can slip in to see Reagan one-on-one and sometimes sway major decisions. But the Cabinet as a body is little more than a discussion group. It has met 35 times; issues are "round-tabled" (a White House buzz word) to give everyone a chance to sound off, and the President delivers what amounts to pep talks. But Reagan almost never announces...
Once known as Cap the Knife for his budget-cutting zeal in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Caspar Weinberger, 64, has pressed with equal relish for whopping increases in the military budget. This has led to a dichotomy in his performance as Secretary of Defense: detractors say he has fallen prey to the Pentagon's shopping-list mentality and has been uncreative in setting strategic priorities; supporters say he is faithfully carrying out Reagan's policy of rearming America. Both sides are right...
...brief 700-word document was signed without fanfare by Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger at an informal dinner at the National Geographic Society in Washington. The occasion was so low-key that neither the press nor television was invited. And, in what seemed an extraordinarily calculated effort to play down the whole affair, the Pentagon failed even to give its customary briefing afterward. Sharon pronounced himself pleased nonetheless. "The agreement is a very wide one," he declared. "It covers everything." But by the time he arrived back in Jerusalem, the quiet agreement...
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 said in a Crimson interview last March that "if the Soviets went into Poland, either directly or indirectly, it would be a perfectly clear statement...that they didn't want any further peace or disarmament or arms limitation talks. These would be completely futile...
...assassinate Washington's Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb. And now U.S. intelligence authorities are investigating a report that agents of Muammar Gaddafi may be on the prowl for even bigger targets: President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger...