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Details also emerged of the planning of the U.S. interception, some courtesy of a ham radio operator in Chicago who eavesdropped on one of the six conversations between President Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. At the time, the two were aloft in separate aircraft, but Weinberger's Gulfstream C-20 transport had not yet been fitted with a scrambler fully compatible with that on Air Force One. "Weinberger made the comment that it may take shots across the bow," the brother of the ham operator told reporters. "The President said, in essence, I don't care what it takes...
Reagan convened a White House meeting of Shultz, McFarlane, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Kenneth Adelman that was described by Administration sources as "acrimonious." The President signed a National Security Decision Directive embodying a compromise of sorts: the Administration would not repudiate the new interpretation of the treaty but would not act on it either. In his San Francisco speech and in subsequent remarks to NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels, Shultz proclaimed the issue to be "moot." A broad interpretation "is fully justified," said the Secretary in San Francisco. But SDI testing would...
Although Kashani may reject the activist label, his actions speak as loud as his words. His club has sponsored a speakers series and has hosted such guests as Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinburger '38 and two Central American contras...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, visiting Ottawa, stayed in close touch with Washington through secure communications aboard his Grumman executive jet. Meanwhile the Saratoga, accompanied by the Aegis-class guided-missile cruiser Yorktown, was steaming in the Adriatic close to the Greek-Albanian border. All told, about 25 U.S. warships were stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, many of them with the sophisticated radar capability needed to pick the EgyptAir plane out of the heavy stream of regular Mediterranean air traffic...
...Pentagon dismissed Aspin's charges as "uninformed and inaccurate," and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger continued to assert that there was nothing basically wrong with the military establishment. "If a thing ain't broke," he has repeatedly argued, "don't fix it." But the Pentagon chief appears on the defensive. In a speech billed as a major exposition of U.S. defense strategy, Weinberger last week offered little more than vague generalities that failed to quiet his critics...