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Both sides' preparations for the summit meeting seem to be focused more on making political mileage than on meeting the other guy halfway. The recent disclosure of a letter from Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 to President Reagan opposing arms control agreements at the summit should have come as no surprise; the Reagan administration has never been firmly behind arms control. Like the Soviets, this White House has myopically viewed the summit as a prime propaganda opportunity. Don't expect statesmanlike achievements from such cynics...
...Government to be able to debrief John Walker and that Walker could not be forced to talk against his will. "We need to know what is broken and what must be fixed," Schatzow said. Although the bargain had been approved by Attorney General Edwin Meese and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Navy Secretary John Lehman attacked the deal. John and Michael Walker had committed "the gravest of all possible crimes," charged Lehman. Not giving them the maximum possible sentence, he added, sends "the wrong message to the nation and to the fleet." Weinberger then scolded Lehman for making "injudicious and incorrect...
...other experts attending the meeting included both those with background in government and academics. Also present at the briefing were Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Vice President George Bush, and several national security advisors and other members of the administration, Pipes said in a telephone interview from Washington...
...last few years, that all-important element of my morning routine, the toasted slice bread, has met with more abuse that Caspar Weinberger at a Harvard Forum. Innocent slices of ordinary commercial bread are slowly baking drier than the University plans to make this campus. And all by a gleaming chrome technological fiasco with an industrial-size plug that looks like it was salvaged from one of the early electric chairs...