Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger on December 7, 1985 indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostages transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to " moderates elements " within that country.

According to Eliot Weinberger, an American writer, essayist, editor and translator, Kosiński was not the author of The Painted Bird.

Weinberger alleged in his 2000 book Karmic Traces that Kosiński was not fluent in English at the time of its writing.

" Kosinski was, in many respects, a fake – possibly near as genuine a one as Weinberger could want.

From January to August 1941, story material was developed based on additional pieces, including Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner, The Swan of Tuonela by Jean Sibelius, Invitation to the Dance by Carl Maria von Weber, Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was later adapted into the Bumble Boogie segment in Melody Time ( 1948 ), and there was even consideration for a segment inspired by the Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper by Jaromír Weinberger.

In the autumn of 1988, Carlucci was called to the Defense Department to succeed Caspar Weinberger, and for the third time among his six appointments to the position of National Security Adviser during his presidency, Reagan promoted the Deputy.

Within the Reagan administration, the doctrine was quickly embraced by nearly all of Reagan's top national security and foreign policy officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, U. N.

Caspar Willard " Cap " Weinberger ( August 18, 1917March 28, 2006 ), was an American politician and businessman.

Weinberger was born in San Francisco, California, the younger of two sons of Herman Weinberger, a Colorado-born lawyer.

Weinberger was named " Caspar " for a friend of his mother's ; his father began calling him " Cap ", a nickname that stuck into adulthood.

Weinberger was a first cousin of the nationally-broadcast radio personality Don McNeill of Don McNeill's Breakfast Club ; their mothers were sisters-in-law.

Caspar Weinberger's father Herman was the younger brother of Luella Weinberger McNeill, mother of Don McNeill.

Weinberger was a sickly child and required close nurturing from his mother ; in time, he overcame his poor health and shyness.

As the Chairman of the Assembly Government Organization Committee, Weinberger was responsible for the creation of the California Department of Water Resources and was instrumental in the creation of the California State Water Project.

Although unsuccessful in his 1958 campaign for California Attorney General, Weinberger continued to be active in politics and was chosen by Nixon in 1962 to become chairman of the California Republican Party.

For the next five years, Weinberger was vice president and general counsel of the Bechtel Corporation in California.

In his early years at the Pentagon, Cap Weinberger was known as " Cap the Ladle " for advocating large increases in defense spending.

Weinberger pushed for dramatic increases in the United States ' nuclear weapons arsenal and was a strong advocate of the controversial Strategic Defense Initiative, an initiative which proposed a space and ground-based missile defense shield.

In 1942 Weinberger married Rebecca Jane Dalton, who was born on March 29, 1918 in Milford, Maine.

While residing on Mount Desert Island, Maine, Weinberger was treated for and died from complications of pneumonia at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine, aged 88.

: Caspar Weinberger was an American statesman and a dedicated public servant.

Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger presented DIA with the Agency's first Joint Meritorious Unit Award in 1986 for outstanding intelligence support over the previous year during a series of crises — the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the cruise ship Achille Lauro, unrest in the Philippines, and counter-terrorist operations against Libya.

The Joint Meritorious Unit Award ( JMUA ) is a military award that was established on June 4, 1981 by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and was implemented by Department of Defense Directive 1348. 27 dated July 22, 1982.

In 1988, he received the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award from the then Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.

It is based in large part on the Weinberger Doctrine, devised by Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense and Powell's former boss.

Following his resignation as Secretary of Defense, legal proceedings against Weinberger were brought by Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh.

manuscript, this is the copy, used as a basis for the first score published by Weinberger in February 1899.

His 1986 plea bargain did not get him out of a life sentence, after a ' victim impact statement ' including a statement by Caspar Weinberger.

Carlucci was deputy defense secretary from 1981 until 1983, national security advisor from 1986 until 1987, and defense secretary in 1987, following the resignation of Weinberger, his nomination by President Ronald Reagan and his confirmation in the Senate by a vote of 91 to 1.

* Eyam: A Musical, music by Andrew Peggie, book and lyrics by Stephen Clark ; pioneered as a group production in 1990, CD Joseph Weinberger, 1995 ; London production at the Bridewell Theatre, 1998

The design was approved by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger on 20 January 1987.

* The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro, edited with an introduction by David M. Guss, Eliot Weinberger, W. S.

The Daily Me can thus be a critical component of the " echo chamber " effect, defined in an article in Salon by David Weinberger as " those Internet spaces where like-minded people listen only to those people who already agree with them.

In January 2006, 50 Cent was sued for copyright infringement by former 2 Live Crew manager Joseph Weinberger, who owns the rights to the rap group's catalog.

Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web is a book by David Weinberger published by Perseus Publishing in 2002 ( ISBN 0-7382-0543-5 ).

Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, his assistant for International Security Matters Francis West, Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, Deputy Director of the CIA Bobby Inman, and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency James Williams met with Savimbi between November 1981 and January 1982.

Bennett is also famous for representing Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation case, Caspar Weinberger, the U. S. Secretary of Defense, during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) scandal, and Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank Scandal.

* Unsupervised learning of image manifolds by semidefinite programming K. Q. Weinberger and L. K. Saul ( 2005 ), International Journal of Computer Vision-In Special Issue: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition-CVPR 2005 Guest Editor ( s ): Aaron Bobick, Rama Chellappa, Larry Davis, pages 77 – 90, Volume 70, Number 1, Springer Netherlands

* The Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Cooperation was signed by U. S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon.

Episode # 635, included among several topics “ Network Message Technology ”, was taped in studio in Washington DC and hosted by Caspar Weinberger and Co-hosted by Harris Miller President of the Information Technology Association of America ( ITAA ).

" At the time, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Israeli Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon signed a memorandum of understanding in 1981 " establishing a framework for continued consultation and cooperation to enhance " national security.

** A federal grand jury indicts Caspar Weinberger for his role in covering up the Iran – Contra affair.

Aho is also widely known for his co-authorship of the AWK programming language with Peter J. Weinberger and Brian Kernighan ( the ' A ' stands for " Aho ").

When he enrolled at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mrs. Weinberger rented an apartment nearby for the first semester that Weinberger and his older brother, Peter, attended Harvard.

From 1945-1947, Weinberger worked as a law clerk for a federal judge before joining a San Francisco law firm.

Weinberger entered the race for California assemblyman in the San Francisco Bay area in 1952 at the persuasion of his wife, Jane Weinberger, who also served as his campaign manager.

While serving the Office of Management and Budget, Weinberger earned the nickname " Cap the Knife " for his cost-cutting ability.

Weinberger had been Secretary of Defense for six years and ten months, longer than any man except for Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld.

* Booknotes interview with Weinberger on Fighting for Peace, July 15, 1990.

The late former U. S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was general counsel for Bechtel in the late 1970s.