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...typically sent to foreign countries to instruct infantry units in such subjects as weaponry and reconnaissance tactics. Team members are not combat advisers, and congressional approval is not required to send them to El Salvador. Nevertheless, the proposal is generating controversy in both Washington and San Salvador. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told the State Department last week that he could not go along with the plan. Salvadoran government officials fear that if they accept the teams they will be admitting they need outside help to defeat the guerrillas. Still, leftist guerrillas are beginning to skirmish again with Salvadoran soldiers, scarcely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning Hearts and Minds | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Meeting at the Secretary State Department last week. Secretary Alexander Haig and defense secretary Caspar weinberger agreed to get together regulary to discuss foreign affairs. Conspicuously not invited to the planned sessions: Richard Allen, the President's National Security Adviser. Indeed, Allen has been maintaining such a low profile - as he promised before taking the job - and has been so slow in filling top-level posts in his of fice that other agencies concerned with overseas affairs are apprehensive. Says an adviser: "They are afraid that Allen will let Al Haig run away with the whole show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haig's Commanding Start | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...otherwise would be, not lower than it is now; total spending will continue to grow because of inflation, however much the White House and Congress may hack and trim. Moreover, there is one gigantic exception to the Administration's cut-and-slash plans: military spending. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger is likely to propose, and Reagan may well recommend, a fiscal 1982 defense budget of $220 billion, almost $24 billion above the figure Jimmy Carter had suggested and $55 billion more than the Pentagon's current budget. That would gobble up more than half the cuts that Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 36C Buck Stops Here | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...sign that this transition might not be a smooth one came when Caspar W. Weinberger '38, soon after getting the job, fired the defense transition team and had a run-in with its head, William R. Van cleave, Reagan's hawkish chief defense adviser, who during the campaign had hoped for a high Pentagon post. By January 20 disgruntled aides were calling the defense transition a joke, a mess and "at the very least, quite a bit behind." For a period of time, aides said, literally no one was running the place: Weinberger was working with Reagan on the budget...

Author: By James G. Herzhberg, | Title: The Endless Transition | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

...Unease within the defense community over Caspar Weinberger has blossomed into panic," their column began. Weinberger "has booted out 'Reaganaut' military advisers, trashed their recommendations and at least opened the door for soft-liners." Carlucci's appointment is "the visible tip of concealed events . . . The most charitable explanation is that this is no conspiracy but the product of Weinberger's nearly total ignorance on defense questions . . . But assuming Weinberger finally learns the names and issues involved, he has lost valuable time in revising defense spending . . . That may well prevent any Reagan hurry-up plans for accelerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Offense, Defense and Cheap Shots | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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