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...Middle East oil fields. The CIA report on the Soviets' running out of oil gave the Reagan Administration the ammunition to secure more money from Congress to arm Afghan insurgents and establish a permanent military presence in the Persian Gulf. Soon after Reagan took office, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that it was essential for the U.S. to establish bases in the Persian Gulf region "to act as a deterrent to any Soviet hopes of seizing the oil fields." The Reagan Administration began building those bases, sold sophisticated AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia, and conducted joint military exercises with Egypt...
...news about DNA broke, she had moved on to a lab at the University of London, where she studied the structure of viruses. There she finally met the Crick to her Watson, the crystallographer Aaron Klug, with whom she did the best work of her career. In 1955 Don Caspar, a young researcher from the California Institute of Technology, visited the lab, and they became close. At 35, Franklin had still never had a fulfilling romantic relationship with a man, and Caspar might well have become her first--but fate intervened. In the summer of 1956, Franklin felt a stabbing...
...White House: Lindsey served as a consultant on Middle East affairs to the Pentagon and the Israeli government. Interior Secretary James Watt, a Pentecostalist, in discussing environmental concerns, observed, "I don't know how many future generations we can count on until the Lord returns." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger affirmed, "I have read the Book of Revelation, and, yes, I believe the world is going to end--by an act of God, I hope--but every day I think time is running out." It was no accident that Reagan made his "evil empire" speech at a meeting...
Summers’ support of ROTC has been featured prominently in the national press, including the Wall Street Journal, and the Advocates’ membership has risen sharply as a result. The group now numbers about 1,200 alumni, including such prominent figures as former secretary of defense Caspar W. Weinberger ’38, also a Crimson editor, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger...
...support for ROTC cost her the endorsement of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance. Summers has been quoted widely saying that academia needs to be more patriotic. With a groundswell of support for the war on terrorism—and alums like Caspar W. Weinberger ’38 taking up the cause—there’s a strong chance Harvard could end up increasing its support for ROTC in some...