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...military spending under Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger would rise by more than $31 billion, to a projected $277.5 billion in fiscal 1986. That would be an increase of more than 12%, or about 6% even after allowing for inflation. Moreover, defense outlays would go on increasing rapidly in later fiscal years, partly offsetting the continuing effect of economies in civilian spending. One result: Reagan would fail to achieve his stated deficit-cutting goals. Red ink would indeed dwindle, from an expected record $222.2 billion in the current financial year to $180 billion in fiscal 1986 and $144.4 billion...
...average rate of 8.3% over the past four years, the proposed $313 billion defense budget will come under especially close scrutiny. One senior Pentagon official acknowledges, "Defense is the largest discretionary element of the budget. Clearly here if anywhere some cuts must logically be made." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has reduced the Pentagon's proposed budget by $8.7 billion, but most of his cuts, which include no weapons systems, are illusory. For instance, $1 billion in cuts to civilian officials at the Pentagon had already been counted in Stockman's freeze on federal salaries. Weinberger, a cagey operator, warns that...
Washington insiders have mixed feelings about a truly tight White House ship, depending upon their own interests there. Right now, says a presidential aide, "nobody knows who's in charge of what, and people like (Defense Secretary Caspar) Weinberger slip in the back door and get policy changed at odd hours without anybody realizing what's happened." A lobbyist agrees, but prefers things that way. Says he: "If Baker blocked you, you could go to Meese or Clark. No more. Regan will nail up the back door." A Washington-based business leader sees another key difference in the Baker...
...options for his decision. But just before the New Year holiday, McFarlane flew to Palm Springs, Calif., to present the vacationing President with a twelve- page paper detailing an Administration "consensus." When Reagan met for an hour on New Year's Day with Shultz, McFarlane and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, he approved the paper as a set of instructions. Shultz's concurrence appeared to indicate that his own views on arms control are considerably more conservative than those of some of his State Department subordinates. Several of them had strenuously argued that the U.S. should indeed...
Frustrated by Washington's paralysis in the face of terrorism, Secretary of State George Shultz advocated retaliatory strikes against bomb throwers and gunmen, lest the U.S. become the "Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger preached caution, likening a counterattack to shooting a gun into a crowded theater in the hope of hitting the guilty. That debate is likely to intensify in 1985. Meanwhile, the continuing threat forces leaders into ever tighter cocoons and inflicts on ordinary citizens the alarming realization that all are potential targets for a crazed...