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Among the members of the American delegation, in addition to the three former Presidents and Rosalynn Carter, were Haig, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Henry Kissinger. They paid courtesy calls on Mubarak and on the widowed Jehan Sadat. She also, of course, met with Begin, to whom she said: "It is very sad, but I am glad my husband died on his feet and not on his knees...
...bomber. Those much disputed weapons systems would be part of a $180 billion modernization of America's nuclear forces, a program that would upgrade all three legs of the nation's strategic triad of air, sea- and land-based nuclear weapons. With Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at his side, Reagan said he plans to deploy at least 100 MX missiles, which are capable of traveling 8,000 miles and dropping their warheads within 100 yards of a target. The first ones will be ready by 1986. But the President scuttled the much criticized "shell game" plan, first proposed...
...There is a very real and growing threat. It is not scare talk or any kind of propaganda." With that dire warning, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger last week released a glossy, 99-page report titled Soviet Military Power. The study, illustrated with maps and photographs, describes in impressive detail the Soviet military machine and its ever growing arsenal of new weapons systems, tanks, missiles, ships, artillery and aircraft. Put together by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the report is the largest and most comprehensive release of declassified intelligence data in the Pentagon's history. Its purpose: to send...
Yesterday, Haig led an American delegation to Cairo for today's funeral. Included in the entourage were former presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon, as well as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38, former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger, and top congressional officials. Reagan decided not to attend for security reasons...
...Caspar Weinberger against Budget Director David Stockman, the President eventually announced that there would be only a $13 billion trim in the increase in military spending over the next three years, and a mere $2 billion cut for fiscal 1982. He also ruled out deferring the tax reductions enacted in July. In rejecting these courses, Reagan could plead consistency. He has been adamant in calling for a military buildup to counter the Soviet threat. In his speech he described national security as "Government's first responsibility." He had also campaigned on a pledge to lower taxes and could hardly...