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Shultz's senior arms-control adviser, Paul Nitze, had been pushing a similar plan. He was vigorously opposed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, an ardent SDI supporter who believes the U.S. should adopt an almost universally disputed "broad interpretation" of the 1972 antiballistic missile pact that permits all forms of Star Wars testing. Aware of Reagan's passionate attachment to SDI, Shultz and National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci were not eager to support Nitze too forcefully...
...Isle City two weeks ago. The Sungari is U.S.-owned, and the Sea Isle City is one of eleven Kuwaiti tankers now flying the American flag. President Reagan called the 85-minute blitz of the oil platforms a "prudent yet restrained response" to Iranian aggression. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told a press briefing after the Navy action, "We consider the matter closed...
...when he designed the nation's capital in 1791, but not until last week, on the Navy's 212th anniversary, was a memorial to the service finally dedicated. The 100- ft.-diameter circular plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue "enshrines, in stone and metal, the gratitude of a nation," Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told a crowd of 6,000 Navy veterans and other spectators...
...next day by Iranian President Ali Khamenei that the landing craft was a "merchant ship" and that the mine-laying charge was a "pack of lies." After the Iranian press agency claimed that the Iran Ajr was carrying food supplies to the port of Bushire, U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger scoffed, "These things certainly weren't vegetables and fruits...
Even as the Reagan Administration, represented by Secretary of State George Shultz, was concluding a successful series of talks with the Soviets, the Reagan Administration, represented by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, was preparing to accelerate a program that the Soviets consider a major obstacle to arms control. Weinberger has decided that the Strategic Defense Initiative will graduate to the Milestone I stage, a Pentagon term meaning that the system is ready to pass from "exploration" to "demonstration." Star Wars, so far tested mostly in theory, will move beyond the blackboard and toward the battlefield...