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...Defense Richard Perle intrigued a congressional committee by showing how a modified Apple II computer could be used to direct missile firing and communications. The Reagan Administration has been trying to crack down on the export of powerful computers to the Soviet Union, and last December Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed off just such a machine, a VAX by Digital Equipment, that had been halted as it was about to be shipped. Now the U.S. is trying to stop the export of some microcomputers...
...Soviet accusation last September was very similar; the only new element is the claim that the space shuttle was involved. But NASA officials stress that Challenger was never close enough to the Korean airliner to monitor radio or radar activity. Moreover, said Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, "had we wanted to test Soviet radar, there are a lot better ways to do it than with a 747 jumbojet full of civilians." Moscow certainly remains eager to promote its version of events. It has taken the unusual step of allowing a well-known U.S. investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, to interview Soviet Chief...
...visit to Washington last week of Chinese Defense Minister Zhang Aiping was attended by a minimum of fanfare. His mission: to work out a deal with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to buy U.S. weapons. But the talks went little beyond the agreements made during Weinberger's trip to China last fall and Reagan's visit in April. The Chinese reaffirmed their interest in TOW antitank and Hawk antiaircraft missiles, but there were no specific commitments accompanying the "agreement in principle" reached last week...
...fact, it was the President's senior advisers, not just middle-level bureaucrats, who were divided. At a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) in mid-May 1981, Reagan asked, "What are we doing about SALT anyway?" Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and National Security Adviser Richard Allen made a number of claims about how SALT was obstructing weapons programs that the U.S. needed in the near future...
...most places would be a simple process--"A gin and tonics, please"--in Harvard Square requires a verbal pas de deux with the bartender and waiter. Ordering drinks or even entering a drinking establishment in the Square if you're under 20 makes one about as popular as Caspar Weinberger at Harvard. Though it varies from bar to bar, a teenager acquiring a drink without two birth certificates and his dad's passport needs a top-notch bullshitting ability to reach his desired goal. Bars have been especially tough recently after the alcohol commission checked up on several Square vendors...