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THERE'S ONLY ONE THING WORSE than intense ideological conservatism mindless ideological conservatism. A case in point is Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38's Pentagon, which is rapidly gaining a name for itself not only as an advocate of unrelenting military build up, but also as an institution with no compunction about fuding the numbers to keep its already over swollen budget swelling...
...only bargaining chip he had left was the May 17 Lebanese-Israeli accord. Shultz remains wedded to the pact, partly because he considers it his major diplomatic achievement; but most U.S. officials, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, have concluded that the agreement must be sacrificed. In their view, the choice is a Gemayel regime without the accord, or a less friendly successor without the accord. Gemayel remains unsure of how to jettison the agreement; according to U.S. diplomats, the Lebanese President is still telling Muslims he never ratified the pact, while reminding the Israelis and Christians that he never abandoned...
...Thursday, after Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, accompanied by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Vessey, told a House committee that only 500 Marines would be moved offshore from Beirut by the end of February, the sense of congressional bewilderment and hostility rose even higher. When Secretary of State George Shultz appeared before the same committee to testify on the Lebanese political situation, Republican Congressman William S. Broomfield of Michigan warned, "We are wondering whether or not our policy [in Lebanon] is dramatically changing." Emerging from private briefings by Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth...
...February 4 issue, four individuals (Ms. Satz, et. al.) write a letter protesting the threat of disciplinary action against two students, members of the Spartacist Youth League, for their actions in disrupting the Caspar Weinberger talk at the Harvard Law School Forum. A number of different issues are confused in their letter and it is important to disentangle these...
With the press looking on, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger held up a photograph showing a stack of documents 6 ft. 3 in. high: it was the 1984 defense budget, with supporting documents. This year's stack promises to be taller still. Even allowing for inflation, the 1985 budget is the largest submitted by the Pentagon since World War II, including the years of the Korean and Viet Nam wars. It had something for everyone, as the Senate and House Armed Services committees found out last week in sometimes fractious briefings. Said one Senate staffer: "In a $305 billion budget...