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...verbal onslaught was the most dramatic sign yet that the days of free wheeling and free spending by the military are over. In Reagan's first term, Congress heeded the President's call to rearm America by giving the Pentagon $1.1 trillion to spend, a 36% increase after inflation. But irked by scandals over $436 hammers and $600 toilet seats and squeezed by the burgeoning budget deficits, Congress has increasingly begun to question whether the U.S. is getting its money's worth in defense spending...
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...
...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...