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Death on the Border Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's outrage at the killing of an American soldier in Honduras [Jan. 23] is disingenuous. If we send soldiers into a combat area, some are going to be killed. Thomas C. Reber Austin The loss of our helicopter pilot near the Honduran-Nicaraguan border should serve as a lesson for us: if you don't want the fruits of sin, stay out of the orchard...
...successfully, as National Security Adviser in Washington. In the Cabinet, George Shultz may bow out as Secretary of State at the end of the first term, presenting Reagan with another fateful prag-matist-conservative choice. Leading candidates: Middle East Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, a non-ideologue, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, yet another pal from California days and a reflexive hardliner...
...writing to protest the threat of administrative disciplinary action against two undergraduate students who were two among six hundred students who vocally protested during Caspar Weinberger's November speech (two weeks after the U.S. invasion of Grenada) at the Harvard Law School Forum. We ask: why has the administration chosen to single out two students who are members of the Spartacist Youth League (SYL), a small campus group? Do they seriously believe that these two students orchestrated and led this mass protest? We doubt it; in fact, it may be the very smallness and unpopularity of the SYL, as well...
...become fashionable these days to charge "McCarthyism of the left," an allegation Kirkpatrick likes to throw out. While we cannot deny that historically there have been examples of severe repression carried out in the name of the "left," in this case, such a charge is preposterous. After all, Caspar Weinberger is not a private citizen hounded by the custodians of a repressive state apparatus. To the contrary, as Secretary of Defense he is an official voice of government policy. His position gives him immediate access to newspapers and television. His views are well known. It is not the right...
...campus this fall actually had one serious political disruption, when hecklers shouted down Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 in a November 17 speech at banders Theater. And questionable behavior by the Harvard Band and initiation practices by the P Eita speakers club precipitated College crackdowns which dress some student complaints...