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...Capitol Hill and all across the U.S. last week, there were fierce outpourings of pride at a military job well done. Indeed, not since the 1983 U.S. landing on the shores of Grenada had there been any expression of patriotic sentiment quite like it. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger harked back much further than that: he invoked "the time of the Barbary pirates" in praising the Administration's action. No one put it better than Ronald Reagan. The U.S., said the President, had "sent a message to terrorists everywhere. The message: 'You can run, but you can't hide...
Certainly history bears out the decision. Caspar Weinberger '38 was the last major Administration official to visit campus. His raucous reception a couple of years ago must have been much on the minds of the Corporation Fellows as they deliberated on the subject of honoraries. And leaders of left-of-center student groups have made no bones about their opposition, perhaps a vocal and even violent one, to Reagan's invitation...
Star Wars, arms control, the military budget. Name the subject and the Pentagon's response is to stress its responsibility to counter actual and potential Soviet threats. Over coffee with editors of TIME last week, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger expounded on that view in detail. Excerpts...
Arms-control naysayers within the Administration scrambled to portray the Soviet offer as a non-starter. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said that "when you start out with an asymmetrical situation and you propose equal reductions, it still leaves the gap" (see interview...
...major speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and an interview with TIME, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stressed that Moscow is "very far along" in missile-defense R. and D. President Reagan, in impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists...