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Arguing for holding to the original military spending goals were all the defense and security leaders-Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Deputy Secretary Frank Carlucci, CIA Deputy Director Bobby Inman, National Security Adviser Richard Allen and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General David Jones. They wanted to stick to a planned 7% annual increase, beyond inflation, in military spending. The economic wing suggested 4.5% was all that could be afforded. Commented one key member of that group later: "We all want to see more defense spending. Our point was that if interest rates...
Nancy Reagan, in jeans and cowboy hat, was uncommonly at ease with reporters. The President touched on all the major national and world worries about the air controllers' strike, the neutron bomb, Poland, the F-16s for Israel. This week Secretaries Caspar Weinberger of Defense and Alexander Haig of State will fly out for discussions on the future of the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. On Tuesday Reagan will meet with Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman to discuss future cuts in federal spending. At the Biltmore, the executive offices of the President appear...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig, however, ruled out any such move. He said that the U.S. would continue to honor its commitment to Israel to have no formal contact with the P.L.O., until the P.L.O. recognized the legitimate existence of the Jewish state...
...stupid people, did you ever look at bodies, shot, knifed, burned, ripped--that is violence. Maybe General Haig and the like get social and sexual excitement out of the seepages of a ruined human body, i.e. violence...
When the Carter Administration committed the U.S. to the TNF, it also pledged a "two-track" approach -good-faith negotiations with the Soviets on TNF limitations while we were preparing to deploy the weapons. Secretary Haig has now promised the beginning of such negotiations no later than Dec. 15. An important debate within the Reagan Administration, pitting very hardliners against the medium hardliners, has turned on whether the U.S. should try to get its allies to agree to the "threat assessment"-what NATO is up against, weapon by weapon, front by front-before working out the NATO negotiating position...