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Weinberger's role in the end-game maneuvering seems to have been peripheral. The Secretary of Defense visited Dole's office at midweek to make a final, unavailing plea for a 3% military budget increase in excess of inflation. His final call or calls to Lisbon got no different result, and he left Washington for his summer home in Northeast Harbor, Me., before the Senate vote. White ) House aides say he did not speak directly with the President as the decision was being made. Weinberger took strong exception to those suggestions. "I had no problem reaching him," he said...
...RECENT INTERVIEW on 60 Minutes, John Wideman talked about his reason for writing Brothers & Keepers: 'The same system that allowed me to achieve, to squeeze through as a validation of the system, is the one that caused many of my brother's problems. This book is a plea to give my brother another chance...
...issue, the pro-contra groups have been stepping up their efforts to seize some of the spotlight from their left-wing rivals. At a press conference in New York City last week, Arturo Cruz, Adolfo Calero and Alfonso Robelo, leading members of the opposition to the Sandinistas, made a plea for renewed U.S. support for their movement. Nicaragua has become "a sanctuary for terrorism, a center for subversion," Robelo said. He warned of an ominous domino chain of Communist expansion: "When Mexico finally explodes, it's going to affect California, Texas and beyond...
...officers said they are frustrated sometimes that manpower is short and some suspects get away on plea bargains or technicalities. Sometimes the cops wonder what they're doing out there...
...whom he will bestow the Congressional medal of honor this week. Of his teenage years spent in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Weisel wrote in his autobiographical account, Night, "Never shall I forget these things even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself." While Reagan's plea to "look to the future" is an apt one, it should not be accompanied by an obliteration of the past...