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...assess sophisticated modern weaponry, Correspondent Jerry Hannifin not only talked with Army generals, civilian experts, scientists and military aviators but also went up for a test ride in an F18, the latest U.S. combat plane. Correspondent Roberto Suro spent the past five months tracking Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, this week's cover subject, and interviewed academic experts and defense industry executives. He found that the language of war has also become more sophisticated. Says he: "One learns that the future is the 'outyears' and that battles no longer have front lines but instead have FEBAs-for Forward...
...nuclear warheads? That political dilemma has most of official Washington ducking into fallout shelters. Congress last week voted to withhold any additional funding for MX deployment systems until the President decides how and where he wants to install the fearsome rockets. The President will not decide until Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger decides. And Weinberger will not decide until he gets some recommendations from a 15-member expert panel chaired by Charles Townes, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist. When will that be? "Nobody knows," says Pentagon Spokesman Henry Catto. "These are enormously weighty things...
Putting the documentary together cost roughly $1 million and took nine months; Executive Producer Howard Stringer at one point or another brought in some 80 CBS News people. Camera crews roamed from the Egyptian desert to Moscow; correspondents interviewed everyone from Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to a raw recruit getting his flowing locks shorn into a G.I. cut (asked why he had joined the Army, he replied laconically, "Can't find no jobs"). Walter Cronkite, in his first reportorial appearance since retiring as anchorman of the CBS Evening News, journeyed to Moscow and brought back some Soviet...
...depth late on Tuesday afternoon, after López Portillo's farewell meeting with Reagan at the White House. A group of Reagan's top advisers assembled in the Oval Office for an hour and 15 minutes. Present were Haig, Allen, Vice President George Bush, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and the President's troika of Aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Mike Deaver. They reached a consensus with little argument: Israel should be penalized...
...Begin's knowledge of reactors proved to be foggy, so did his understanding of the Reagan Administration's response to the raid. Begin was outraged by a report, carried in the press, that U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had suggested cutting off all forms of U.S. military aid to Israel as punishment...