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...fact, the U.S. maneuvers were far from routine. The Navy did indeed seem intent on challenging Gaddafi's claim that the 300-mile-wide gulf belongs to Libya. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who devised the strategy and won White House support, had another purpose as well: to show Libya what it might confront if it promotes more terrorism. The U.S. contends that Gaddafi was at least partly responsible for the Christmas-week massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. Beyond that, senior U.S. officials seemed eager to provoke Gaddafi into a military response. Said one Pentagon official: "If they...
That leaves Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, another intimate of Reagan's from California days. Weinberger's energy has been drained by a rearguard action against deep cuts in the military budget, and to his considerable displeasure, he was not invited to the Geneva summit. But he is still a formidable adversary whose professional disagreements with Shultz have been sharpened by personal strains. Perhaps 90% of the foreign policy disputes that appear in the newspapers are arguments between Shultz and Weinberger. A colleague of both has lost count of the number of meetings with Reagan at which Shultz has declared...
Some Administration officials sniped at the usually circumspect Shultz for taking his defiance public and noted that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has agreed to take a polygraph test. But the White House hastened to head off a confrontation, explaining that the President's directive allows department heads to decide which of their employees must undergo lie-detector tests, and insisting that the plan was aimed at curbing espionage, not--as some critics suspect--unauthorized leaks to the press. Reagan told reporters at week's end that Shultz had been mollified and that the Secretary would not be asked to take...
...When Caspar Weinberger came to Harvard in November 1983, he received the welcome he so richly deserved: hundreds of student protesters, including members of the SYL, shouted him down. Joe didn't show, although at the time he claimed to be a militant socialist and had even told some of his friends that he had joined the SYL! In the spring of 1984, trade union militants in Boston formed mass picket lines to defend Greyhound workers. It was one of the most critical labor battles following Reagan's crushing of PATCO, and the SYL brought students down to stand...
McFarlane soon found the task frustrating. After getting along well at first with Secretary of State George Shultz, a rift developed over McFarlane's growing assertiveness in pub- lic appearances. McFarlane confided to intimates that he thought CIA Director William Casey had outstayed his usefulness and that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was not adroit at anything other than advocating defense spending. He is known to have told friends that he was getting tired of "trying to move all these elephants around...