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...magnitude of the problem becomes more apparent, high Pentagon officials are quietly deciding that perhaps the time has come for West Point to modify the code. When he heard what was going on, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld impatiently asked aides who was administering the system at the Point and whether there was any room for discretion in the system...
...With $6.3 billion already requested to build new ships for the Navy, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asked the Senate Armed Services Committee to add another $1.2 billion. The total would build 21 ships for the U.S. fleet...
...Rumsfeld insisted that it was "plainly outrageous" to suggest that the request for new funds was linked to the President's loss to Reagan in Texas. To be sure, the Administration did decide to request the new funds on the morning of the day that Texans were balloting, but the decision was only a tentative one. The final go-ahead was given later...
Taking into account all of the many factors glossed over by Reagan, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld characterizes the U.S.-Soviet military relationship as one of "rough equivalence," a view snared by many European officials. But Rumsfeld argues, like Reagan, that the Soviet Union is expanding and perfecting its arsenal of weaponry at such a rate that the U.S. does stand in real danger of falling dangerously behind in future years...
...Ford to head a new ten-man panel to probe the damaging issue of foreign bribery by U.S. companies (TIME cover, Feb. 23). The Task Force on Questionable Corporate Payments Abroad-the Administration never mentioned the word bribery in announcing it-includes Cabinet Members Henry Kissinger, William Simon, Donald Rumsfeld and Edward Levi along with Richardson and five other top-flight Presidential Counsellors. It is supposed to study how extensive corporate bribery has been and what can be done to stop it; its final recommendations are due by year...