Word: caspar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger tried to mollify Congress with a 26- page report explaining the Navy's new rules of engagement in the gulf. Warships are now operating under "hair-trigger" alert, prepared to fire on any plane or vessel that approaches in a hostile manner. Under these rules, the Iraqi jet that zeroed in on the Stark would have been blown out of the sky before it could launch its missiles. He assured worried Congressmen that the threat to U.S. vessels was, as the report put it, "low to moderate...
...Reagan Administration swiftly tried to defuse the crisis, minimizing its significance. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger characterized the attack ; as a "single, horrible error on the part of the Iraqi pilot" who mistook the frigate for an Iranian tanker. Iraq's President Saddam Hussein promptly sent an apology to the U.S. "I hope this unintentional incident," he wrote, "will not affect our relations and the common desire to establish peace and stability in the region." The Iraqis also agreed to pay compensation to the families of the victims and reparations for damages to the $180 million ship...
...linchpin of the Navy's surface fleet is the high-priced ($1 billion apiece) Aegis cruiser, which Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has called the "most advanced air-defense system in the world today." Named after the mythical shield of Zeus, Aegis cruisers like the Ticonderoga and Yorktown bristle with radars and weaponry capable of tracking and attacking 18 incoming missiles at a time. The Aegis radar is linked to a computerized fire-control system for the ship's antiaircraft guns, depth charges and rocket-launched torpedoes. Just seven of these advanced vessels are in service, but another...
Reagan, in a speech to graduating high school seniors from the Chattanooga, Tenn., area said "this tragedy must never happen again," and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger acknowledged that "we don't know why" the USS Stark did not return fire on the Iraqi warplane that attacked it in the Persian Gulf...
...battle to build aircraft carriers, the Navy seems to live by the credo "You win some, you try to win some more." In 1983 Congress provided funds to lay the hulls for two new carriers; three years later Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger remained so grateful that he promised not to seek money for more flattops until 1992. But at the urging of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, Weinberger is already fighting for funds to begin construction of two more carriers. The Secretary's turnabout has legislators fuming, and Congress seems in a mood to repulse the new offensive...