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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While much of his attention at a Kennedy School of Government symposium on September 5 focused on an airline hijaking in Pakistan, Secretary of Defense Casper W. Weinberger '38 took time to praise the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense initiative (SDI) as the best, realistic deterrent to nuclear...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Star Wars | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Weinberger joined Randall Forsberg, executive director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, as principal speaker at the symposium entitled "Beyond Deterrence: Avoiding Nuclear War in the Longer...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Star Wars | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...events unfolding in Pakistan occupied Weinberger's attention throughout the symposium, and several times he was handed notes updating the situation. Towards the end, he interrupted the discussion to state the hostage drama had ended...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Star Wars | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Judges must use the original intent of the founding fathers as their guiding principle when they interpret the Constitution, the U.S. Solicitor General said on September 5 at a symposium in Langdell Hall entitled, "Constrasting Approaches to the interpretation of the United States Constitution...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: What Did They Say? | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...last year he decided that humor was a great presidential virtue that needed more study. So he scheduled a serious (sort of) symposium at his museum titled "Humor and the Presidency," then began badgering comics, cartoonists, gag writers and anybody else who had laughed with him--or at him. Ford's pitch: You guys made your living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Wit and Wisdom | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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