Word: rumsfeld
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...this week's conference, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will argue strongly for Increased standardization of the alliance's weapons. All present are certain to applaud him enthusiastically. But it is just as certain that any significant progress toward compatible weapons will be slow. The reason: each country prefers to keep its own scientists and production workers employed on technologically advanced programs. Even so, there have been some encouraging steps. Among them: a new rocket mine-laying system that will use a U.S. mine and a West German rocket, the U.S. purchase of the Belgian...
While Rosalynn looked over the nearby public school that nine-year-old Amy may attend,* Carter held court in the red, book-lined library on the second floor of Blair House. He was briefed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Treasury Secretary William Simon, HEW Secretary David Mathews, Director of the Office of Management and Budget James Lynn and, lastly, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, the crusty monetary conservative with whom Carter will have to learn to live in the months ahead. The visitors gave Carter good marks for asking "the right questions," but they felt that the one-hour sessions...
...wing of the party or another. They include outgoing Washington Governor Daniel Evans and Wisconsin G.O.P. Committeeman Ody Fish, who both supported Ford, and Utah Republican State Chairman Dick Richards, an early Reagan backer. Among the more remote possibilities for the job is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. "Rummy" is one of the very few Ford Cabinet members who openly talks of a future in elective politics (see box page 24). But at 44, with scant savings and three children in school, he is more interested in taking a lucrative job in private industry and making some big money...
...members of Gerald Ford's Cabinet will stay on temporarily in Washington after Inauguration Day, but most of them will eventually join Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in leaving for new careers elsewhere. Among their plans...
...Medicine (David Baltimore). Another received one of the fatter pay raises in history (TV Anchor Woman Barbara Walters). One rose from U.S. Ambassador to NATO to Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld). Two were in the running for the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination until the final cut (Governors Christopher Bond of Missouri and Robert Ray of Iowa); another (Federal Trade Commissioner Elizabeth Hanford) last December married the man who finally got the nod, Robert Dole...