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...Indeed, the maneuvers appear to have been prompted primarily by simple impatience to do something dramatic. It is indicative of the problem that what turned out to be the spectacularly maladroit timing of the start of the maneuvers was dictated by a trivial consideration: Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger thought that diverting the aircraft carrier Ranger to the Nicaraguan coast from a scheduled cruise to the Far East would save fuel...
Ramirez filed suit on July 13 in federal district court in Washington against Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of State George Shultz and the chief of engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers, charging all three with illegally seizing much of his sprawling ranch. Ramirez wants all military activity restricted to the agreed-upon 2,000 acres. Says the beleaguered landowner: "The takeover of my land has already put my future business projects in jeopardy. I cannot go forward without some binding assurance that my entire property will not be taken over by the United States military...
that in any way defrauded the Government or caused waste . . . I don't have the slightest hesitancy in asking the Department of Justice to take whatever remedies are appropriate to deal with the situation." With that warning, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week announced a long-overdue crackdown on military purchasing agents and on contractors who may have charged inflated prices for spare parts...
Four days after chastising the military for buying expensive spare parts, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was scheduled to fly to California in a well-appointed VC-9C. Purpose: a two-hour visit to the Oakland Naval Supply Center. But there was another reason to head west: a two-day stop at the annual gathering of the exclusive Bohemian Club near San Francisco...
...Council of Trade Unions for ten years, and the President, onetime chief of the U.S. Screen Actors Guild, agreed that one of their biggest union problems had been opposition from obstreperous left-wing members. More substantively, Hawke assured Reagan, along with Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, that he did not consider himself bound by the rigid foreign policy planks favored by the left wing of his Labor Party. Those planks call for, among other policies, an end to Australia's military aid to Indonesia and resumption of aid to Viet Nam. Indeed, Hawke...