Word: caspar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day Gemayel flew to Washington for a round of meetings with Administration officials. He had breakfast with Reagan at the White House, lunch with Secretary of State George Shultz at the State Department and tea with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at the Pentagon. The purpose of the talks, from the Administration's point of view, was to give the young President a sense of confidence in the U.S. commitment to bring about the withdrawal of foreign troops from his country and to help with the rebuilding of Lebanon. Gemayel later described his meeting with Reagan as "excellent...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger '38 has ordered the Air Force to develop space lasers by 1985 that can destroy Soviet satellites, and the 1983 military budget will target $140 million for this goal. A military center for space technology will begin operations in 1983 at New Mexico's Kirkland Air Force base; three research labs there will concentrate on developing new weapons. And nearly half of the 234 space shuttle flights scheduled from now until 1994 will have a hidden military nature...
...Beirut was informed on Wednesday that the last chartered ship, the Mediterranean Sun, had received clearance from the Israeli navy to sail for the Syrian port of Tartus with 700 Palestinians, the Marine operator replied, "O.K., well done. Now let's go home." That afternoon U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced in Beirut that the Marines would be leaving the Lebanese capital within a few days. Mission accomplished...
Sonnenfeldt chaired the session, which included Administration officials and about a dozen outside experts. Among those invited: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and two of his predecessors, Harold Brown and Donald Rumsfeld; Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President Ford; and Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative writer and Administration critic. "It's an effort to break out and listen, to avoid being caught in my cocoon," says Shultz...
...forced to operate under makeshift "continuing resolutions" that will simply extend funding at current levels. These are roughly $500 million less per month than Reagan wants. Hatfield also pledged to work against reauthorizing spending for the C.B.I, if the bill is vetoed. These bleak prospects prompted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz to urge the President to sign the appropriations bill...