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...remember, of course, Casper W. Weinberger '38 and George Shultz. They first made it big in the halcyon days of the Nixon White House Cap was "Cap the Knife," Nixon's "chief executor of sacred cows," in Newsweek's words. A fiscal conservative, but a Rockefeller liberal, they said, a man who took the surgeon's knife to the vast bureaucracy at the Federal Trade Commission, then the Office of Management and Budget, and finally the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "He's no ideologue," said one liberal congressman when Weinberger was named Defense Secretary three years...
...Shultz was also questioned on Capitol Hill about news accounts of widespread waste and fraud in U.S. military and economic aid programs in Central America. He contended that the reports were based on audits made in the past three years by the State Department and that most of the abuses had been corrected...
...Congress balks at the extra aid request, Shultz told the Senators, the Administration might use its emergency authority to transfer military funds and equipment from U.S. forces to a friendly nation like El Salvador. The President can draw from a fund totaling $75 million. But that would jeopardize congressional support for future military assistance to El Salvador and for the fiveyear, $8 billion Central American aid program proposed by the Kissinger commission in January...
...Shultz was skeptical about elections in Nicaragua, which the Sandinista government last week announced would be held on Nov. 4. The balloting will not be fair, he said, unless the Sandinistas permit rival political groups to organize and to express their views publicly. Shultz implied that even an honest election would not lead the Administration to end support for the contra rebels. He said that the Sandinistas' "efforts to upset regimes in neighboring countries by force of arms are simply not compatible with the kind of world we would like...
After the tough quizzing by Congress, Shultz could take comfort in the fact that one elected official remained solidly on his side. At his press conference Wednesday night, the President was asked whether Shultz had failed in Lebanon and should resign. Said Reagan: "I have seen that talk, and I think it's disgraceful. He has done a splendid...