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...capabilities in a speech he gave at Fort McNair, in Washington, D.C. Charged Weinberger: "It is neither reasonable nor prudent to view the Soviet military buildup as defensive in nature." Both addresses got Soviet attention. TASS dismissed Haig's pledge of arms talks and assailed Weinberger's saber rattling. The Soviet news agency called the former an attempt to "whitewash the present aggressive course of the Washington Administration" and said the latter "can be qualified only as a call...
...morning had several touching moments. After the speech, Cadet Mark Hogan, president of the 1981 class, presented Reagan with a saber mounted on a wooden plaque. Then, while handing out diplomas to the top 50 graduates, Reagan found himself facing Michael Meese, 20, ranked 28th in his class and the son of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. With the cadet's proud father standing at his side, Reagan beamed and congratulated the youth. After the ceremonies, the President and Mrs. Reagan stopped to greet an invited guest and old Hollywood friend: Actor James Cagney, 81, who made Boy Meets Girl...
...meetings that followed during the next two days, Schmidt was his usual bristly, outspoken self. One of his primary concerns was what he perceives as the Administration's strident saber-rattling against the Soviet Union. The Chancellor has become increasingly critical of Soviet expansionism in the past year. At the same time he fears that the U.S. is not trying hard enough to open a dialogue with the Soviets and thus defuse East-West tensions. "Schmidt wants to be assured that our policy toward the Soviet Union is more than one of simple hostility," said a senior U.S. diplomat...
Privately, some American diplomats charged that Begin's saber rattling could have been a bold attempt to create a crisis that would ensure his re-election in June. Begin's aides angrily denied the charge. There were some signs that a debate was waging within Begin's Likud coalition over the possible political advantages of a Middle East crisis. The sensationalist leftist weekly Ha 'olam Ha 'zeh reported that proponents of war now argued that strife would 1) shatter the peace treaty with Egypt and thus permit Israel to hold on to the northern...
...seat amphitheater he had built for the occasion, Sheik Zayed inaugurated seven nights of revelry by joining in a saber dance. Then 50 Arab and African song-and-dance troupes paraded before the princes, emirs, sheiks and ambassadors who had been flown in on 34 private jets. The show-stopper was an Arabian singer's rendition of a specially composed wedding song, Mohammed and Salama. The sheik was moved to give the performer a bright red 1981 Mercedes, which promptly inspired an encore number, The Man with the Red Mercedes...