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Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that if the Senate too blocks MX production funds, the U.S. would be "telling the world we are disarming unilaterally." Edward Rowny, the chief U.S. negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, predicted that without the MX, the U.S. will find it "extremely difficult" to achieve a START agreement. Secretary of State George Shultz, attending NATO and trade meetings in Brussels, struggled to convince the allies that resistance to the MX in the U.S. is not quite the same as resistance in some Western...
...defense cannot be looked at as a part of a budgetary solution. Defense must be looked at as to what needs to be done to ensure our national security. This doesn't mean that if you can find places-and we are trying constantly, and Cap [Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger] has been successful at it-where without reducing the rebuilding that we think has to be done, if we can find savings, fine. We will find them. We don't want to waste money, and we wouldn't do that. We shouldn't do that, even...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who favored the "big bird" scheme of putting the MX on continuously flying aircraft, last year urged that the MX be placed temporarily in specially hardened silos that now contain the Minuteman, the nation's dominant ICBM. The 1,000 Minutemen currently deployed carry a total of more than 2,100 warheads. Congress rejected that option on the ground that the MX would remain as vulnerable as the Minuteman is claimed to be, because new Soviet rockets are so accurate that a first strike could conceivably wipe the MX out. The lawmakers threatened...
...stands for Missile Experimental, which hardly inspires confidence. So President Reagan let it be known he wanted to rename it. The National Security Council suggested Themis, for the Greek goddess of order and justice. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's choice was Guardian Missile. National Security Adviser William Clark proposed Peacemaker, after the Colt .45 that belonged to his grandfather and now hangs on a wall in his office. This caught the President's fancy, but White House aides pointed out that the name Peacemaker might violate a copyright or, even worse, be twisted into a pejorative: Pacemaker. Reagan...
THOUGH ACCEPTANCE by their fellow citizens has to be the vets' first goal, help from the government must follow. It was a nice gesture to have Caspar W. Weinberger '38 at the dedication ceremonies, questioning the intensity of the U.S commitment to win the Vietnam War, but actively helping those veterans who suffered from that half-speed effort is another matter. President Reagan in the ceremony praised Vietnam veterans for fighting in "a just cause," but he and his administration have showed little willingness to investigate the possible health hazards to veterans...