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Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's three-day tour of inspection to Panama, El Salvador and Honduras last week was intended to make the Defense Secretary a "better advocate," as he put it, for Reagan Administration policy in troubled Central America. It was no accident that the area circumscribed by Weinberger's journey was the scene of the most important new buildup of American military force in the Western Hemisphere...
...White House Spokesman Speakes noted "that Reagan and Mitterrand had exchanged letters twice before the U.S. dispatched its AWACS and F-15 aircraft, though consultation about specific details took place between French and American military officials. Speakes denied that the U.S. had applied "pressure" to France, and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger insisted that the U.S. had sent the AWACS planes only because "the French indicated that they wanted them...
...says a Shultz intimate. "These damn disputes are distorting the whole policy." Through it all, Shultz has remained relatively serene. He supported, for example, both the Kissinger and McFarlane appointments. Aides say Shultz reserves most of his resentment for the policymakers at the Pentagon. His relationship with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who once worked under him at Bechtel Group Inc., has been cool...
...Adelman to be Eugene Rostow's successor as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, despite Adelman's unfamiliarity with arms control issues. Last spring Clark encouraged Reagan to go ahead with his curious star wars missile-defense speech despite the cautions of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Shultz. "It's the first time in my life," says one colleague and ally about Clark's style, "where intelligence and the power of your logic are not what it's about in arguing policy. Trust does...
...anesthetize or restrain the animals, shoot them in the hind legs, and then let 150 military doctors treat the wounds. Once treated, the animals would have been killed. But news of the lab's plans triggered a weeklong public relations nightmare for the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and effectively shut down the lab before it opened...