Word: edward
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Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that if the Senate too blocks MX production funds, the U.S. would be "telling the world we are disarming unilaterally." Edward Rowny, the chief U.S. negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, predicted that without the MX, the U.S. will find it "extremely difficult" to achieve a START agreement. Secretary of State George Shultz, attending NATO and trade meetings in Brussels, struggled to convince the allies that resistance to the MX in the U.S. is not quite the same as resistance in some Western...
...Army general, later clearly implied that only he and Air Force Chief of Staff Charles A. Gabriel had favored going ahead with Dense Pack. Opposed to Dense Pack until there is greater technical evidence of its ability to survive a Soviet first strike were Army Chief of Staff Edward C. Meyer, Chief of Naval Operations James D. Watkins and Marine Commandant Robert H. Barrow...
Helms paid a price, even for his imagined glory. A third nomination, that of Richard McCormack as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, was also withdrawn from Senate consideration last week. McCormack was a Helms protégé. He was passed over when Democratic Liberals Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden, angry over what Helms had done to Grey, threatened their own filibuster retaliation-precisely as presidential aides had foreseen...
...have nearly identical laws, as does Idaho; in Washington, the condemned have a choice: lethal injection or hanging. A dozen other states have rejected similar changes, but Massachusetts is now close to adopting such a provision. "Technology has come a long way since the electric chair," says State Senator Edward Kirby. "Because an injection is less painful and less offensive it would be foolish...
...percentage of consumer after-tax earnings that goes for paying off installment debt has declined from 19% in 1979-80, to 15% now, about where it was in the recession year of 1975. Says Edward Brennan, Sears merchandise-group chairman: "People who are working are in an excellent position to extend themselves on charge accounts...