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Reagan came into office challenging both halves of that proposition. He and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger repeatedly asserted that the U.S. had fallen behind the U.S.S.R. across the board. That contention was dubious on its merits, since Reagan and Weinberger chronically undervalued the components of the American arsenal in which the U.S. enjoys significant advantages: offensive and defensive submarine warfare, bombers, cruise missiles and precision-guided conventional weapons. Superiority in those areas compensates for others where the Soviets have a numerical lead over the U.S., particularly land-based ballistic missiles. There are trends on both sides that augur badly...
...Sparts have been seen and hated on campus, most recently when Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 spoke (or rather, had trouble speaking) at Sanders Theater. Two members of the Spartacus Youth League subsequently came before the Administrative Board for violating freedom of speech rights. If found heckling again, the two may be suspended from Harvard College...
...order to help win four nuclear-power-plant contracts worth more than $400 million. If that is true, the payments violate the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits U.S. businessmen from making payments to foreign officials in order to win contracts. Moreover, the articles say that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Bechtel's general counsel at the time, and Secretary of State George Shultz, then Bechtel's vice chairman, were in a position to know about the bribes...
...report was a response to questions raised about the University's policy after a speech by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 was disrupted by a largely hostile audience of 1200 in November...
...what have I gotten for this?' " Sometimes little more than a handshake. One arms dealer paid Gray $65,000 to help him make his case to the Pentagon on a foreign spare-parts deal. Gray set up a meeting for the client with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, but the arms dealer did not get the contract. Nor can Gray always deliver the handshake. The National Food Processors paid him a major fee largely in the hope that he could persuade President Reagan to speak at their annual convention in early February. The President declined...