Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August, National Security Adviser Clark convened a special meeting of top officials: the new Secretary of State, George Shultz, Arms Control and Disarmament Director Rostow, Defense Secretary Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and General John W Vessey Jr., the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Each of these men brought one aide. Absent, however, were the two officials who had been most influential in formulating arms-control policy: Perle and Burt. Perle was combining a vacation with a stay at the Aspen Institute arms-control workshop in Colorado. Burt, who had been nominated to replace Eagleburger as Assistant Secretary of State...
McFarlane prompted the President to ask the Joint Chiefs if they could live without the Pershing II. The chiefs were at first taken aback. They knew that the principal purpose of both the cruise missiles and the Pershing Us was political, as symbols of the U.S. commitment to defend Western Europe with American nuclear weapons. They also knew that the strictly military rationale of the weapons was questionable, since there was no target they could reach in the Soviet Union that could not be covered by existing American weapons...
Nevertheless, the chiefs went into "the Tank," their inner sanctum in the Pentagon, to decide on a joint position. They split: Vessey and Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Gabriel leaned in favor of the plan, while Army Chief of Staff Edward C. Meyer, whose service had responsibility for the Pershing II and who therefore had a proprietary interest in seeing it continued, leaned against it, along with Chief of Naval Operations James Watkins. The chiefs' equivocal report never reached the President, who had asked...
...Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Michael Pillsbury, a protege of right-wing Senators. Pillsbury vowed that he would "keep Eagleburger from giving away the store." In practice, that meant preventing him from committing the Administration to negotiations any time soon. When Eagleburger tried to give his assent to a joint statement that contained just such an American pledge, Pillsbury warned him, "Your ass is grass back home...
...Vorster trip also resulted in the creation of a Joint Ministerial Committee to promote closer economic ties between the two nations. South Africa made an exception to its ordinarily strict investment regulations by allowing South African Jews to invest up to $60 million in Israel. More official economic ties were strengthened in 1980 when the apartheid government extended a $200 million loan to Israel and sold $25 million in Israeli bonds in South Africa...