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...roughly the same time on Wednesday, U.S. forces rushed into a now deserted Fort Frederick and found only abandoned inmates at Richmond Hill prison. The invading forces carefully avoided endangering the Soviet embassy in St. George's, where 49 diplomats, scornfully described by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger as "embassy people, spies, KGB people and others," were in seclusion. Ten East Germans, three Bulgarians and 24 North Koreans were also at the Soviet embassy...
...White House lawn, the President did not use notes, because, as he said privately, he wanted "to do it from the heart." Reagan spent !? much of Sunday morning in the White House Situation Room with Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, McFarlane and General John W. Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At a morning meeting, the National Security Council decided against any drastic shift in U.S. policy. Weinberger said that efforts would be made to reduce the vulnerability of the Marines in Lebanon, perhaps by moving them to more...
...with clout enough to pull together American policy around the globe. Secretary of State George Shultz, she felt, was too absorbed in international economic policy, East-West issues and crisis management in the Middle East to develop strategy elsewhere. Until now, she and her hard-line allies, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey, had been able to fill the gap, but only because Clark listened to them-and Reagan listened...
...Government Reagan heads, his endorsement had a galvanizing effect. Two separate groups of experts went to work to examine the feasibility of such futuristic antimissile systems. Last week their recommendations to proceed were put together by an interagency task force bearing the endorsement of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and out going National Security Adviser William Clark. The proposals then went to the Oval Office and became public, apparently even before the President had read them...
Asked to comment on Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger '38's explanation that journalists were excluded from the invasion force to protect their lives, Albert R. Hunt, Wall Street Journal Capitol Hill correspondent, said, "That's not his responsibility It's our responsibility to watch out for ourselves...