Word: caspar
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...already spent $2 billion on the MX. "The missile is vital," insists Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. "The question is, where do we put it?" Last week's proclamation will make it much harder for President Reagan to adopt a plan that would implant missiles in the Mormon heartland...
...gulf. Points out a Pentagon official: "You have to consider the possibility of irrational acts by Iran, and that means anything is possible." The availability of AWACS would extend the warning time to 15 minutes, enough to enable Saudi interceptors to swing into action. U.S. planners, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, hope, too, that Saudi use of American weaponry will establish a continuing U.S. military presence in the Middle East...
...most serious dispute centers around the Pentagon's inflation estimate. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, backed by OMB Chief David Stockman, insists that inflation will fall much faster than most economic forecasters predict. Weinberger has jiggered his budget accordingly by adding billions of dollars worth of armaments. Yet many Pentagon backers in Congress are afraid that support for increased defense spending will quickly erode if Weinberger's economic forecasts prove too rosy and defense estimates start spiraling upward while Congress is simultaneously slashing domestic programs. Says Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, long an advocate of rejuvenating the military...
...longtime nickname "Cap the Knife" testifies to his reputation as a ruthless budget cutter. His anti-Soviet rhetoric is at least as bellicose as that of his Cabinet colleague Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Reflecting on the recent European visit of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, the West German newspaper Die Welt complained that he came across like "a Roman proconsul," and a top British defense official said, "He has a way of dropping grenades around the china shop." Another British diplomat softened that blow a bit by saying, "I'd call his performance one of stubbornness with charm...
That stern admonition-and the linkage between intervention and disarmament talks-had been engineered largely by U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who was making his first trip abroad since taking office. Weinberger had begun to sound invasion alarms the previous week after receiving intelligence reports of heightened Soviet military activity in and near Poland. During a stop-over in Britain last week, Weinberger told reporters at Cottesmore Royal Air Force Base that Poland was already a victim of "invasion by osmosis," a process he described as the "gradual filtering in of additions to the two [Soviet] divisions that have been...