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Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger had ketchup thrown at him when he spoke several years ago. Two years ago, in a move admittedly designed to provoke liberals more than enhance campus debate, the Conservative Club brought a South African official to Cambridge. The strategy worked, as a raucous mob of students assembled outside Lowell House and prevented the consul from leaving the campus. It took a phalanx of policemen and a decoy to maneuver the consul from the house...
...they also have the potential of smacking into and perhaps even destroying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. It is the alleged "stunning success" of smart-rock experiments, rather than any progress on the laser and particle- beam zappers usually associated with Star Wars, that has prompted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to argue that "we are closer to being able to recommend deployment decisions...
...surrounded by inexperienced and unimaginative assistants; one of the brightest members of the current crew, Mitch Daniels, resigned over the weekend. As always, the President is detached from the details of policy and reluctant to crack heads. As a result, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger continue to battle inconclusively about early deployment of SDI while some Cabinet members whisper, unavailingly but unrestrainedly, about a palace revolt against Chief of Staff Donald Regan. One White House official compares the President's role in this bickering to a "king in his declining years when...
Although now at the helm of the world's most powerful wartime machinery, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 took an early interest in the bureaucracy of a more peaceful department. His thesis was "The Farm Credit Administration: A Study of Administrative Activities and Techniques...
Although Navy investigators are still assessing the damage Lonetree may have caused, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said the case represents a "potentially serious set of intelligence losses." Among the duties assigned to the Marine guard, who served in Moscow from September 1984 until last March and then in Vienna until December, were checking empty offices for unsecured documents and disposing of "burn bags" containing classified material to be destroyed. Pentagon sources indicate that Lonetree not only provided the Soviets with secret papers but also told them the names of CIA personnel in the two embassies, detailed the work habits...