Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he would never presume to make the comparison directly, it is hard to believe that Weinberger, 67, does not see links between his mission at the Pentagon and Churchill's lonely crusade in the 1930s, when he strove to rearm an unwilling Britain against the onslaught of Nazism. Weinberger was never viewed as a hawk in earlier phases of his public career, notably as Budget Director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Yet when Weinberger returned to Washington in 1981, almost overnight he began sounding Cassandra-like warnings about the Soviet Union...
...women in uniform. But critics complain that the B-1 is already obsolete, that the 600-ship Navy is a relic of World War II thinking and that military readiness has not improved noticeably in the Weinberger era. They also charge that in his haste to "rearm America," Weinberger has often let hardware dictate strategy, with a resulting surfeit of gold-plated weapons systems. Indeed, instead of getting a firm grip on the procurement process, Weinberger has, if anything, given more leeway to the Joint Chiefs. Says one longtime acquaintance of Weinberger's: "The service chiefs simply run circles around...
...count can be accurate), so the prospects for No. 179 were not exactly sunny. Will the country's bitter porridge of sects and fiefs all honor the cease-fire and negotiate a fairer division of national power, or will the pause simply be used to rest up and rearm before the bloodletting commences again? For many Lebanese, the answer is too depressing to contemplate. Says a Beirut professor: "It is only a respite, and we must take advantage of it to see our friends and enjoy life a little while it lasts...
...them. Yet the Kremlin will hardly be in a negotiating mood if the U.S. sets as a precondition for agreement the requirement that the Soviets engage in what to them looks like unilateral disarmament. The middle ground is for the U.S. to show that it is willing to rearm when and where necessary, but to engage in bilateral arms control when and where possible...
...from the United Nations last week agreed to oversee the cease-fire and repair work on the wells. But at the Kuwait meeting, efforts to negotiate the details of an accord stalled amid endless bickering. Iraq insisted that any cease-fire agreement prevent Iran from using the delay to rearm. In turn, the Iranians charged that the Iraqis secretly hope to turn any temporary cease-fire into a formal end to the war. Iran also demanded that Iraq admit culpability for the March attack on the oil wells. Iraq refused, arguing that the bombing had been an accident. Said...