European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1981 defense Boss will seek ways to retain personnel Washington is Caspar Weinberger said tuesday that one of his highest priorities1 As the new Secretary of defense will be to find ways to solve the military increasingly severe problems in attracting and retaining competent Weinberger told the Senate armed serv ices committee during his confirmation hearing that he Hopes to come up with a package of incentives ranging from better military pay to More fuel and ammunition for training to improve the readiness and combat strength of the As Long As the military is perceived As being weak and Unready and As Long As the government is unable to do any thing except be patient in the face of at tacks on citizens and installations around the Weinberger its vulnerability in that area will continue to grow More Weinberger said the thrust of his efforts in the personnel area will be to try to re gain the respect and Honor that i think we should All feel for the uniformed under questioning by senior committee All of whom echoed Weinberger sentiment that personnel problems must now be Given a High Weinberger said he was willing to consider the reintroduction of the go Bill As part of the incentive he added he would like to avoid the introduction of a peacetime draft As Long As possible in order to see whether incentives can cure the shortcomings of the Al Volunteer armed Weinberger also said he will devote a Large amount of his efforts to improve the nations strategic weapons Howe he sidestepped several questions regard ing his positions on continuing the Salt talks and deployment of the new my mis saying he needed More time to study the former chairman of the armed serv ices John d urged Weinberger to begin a nation wide Talent Hunt to bring into the Mili tary larger numbers of Young people with intelligence and one of the committees ranking Republic Barry said Weinberger should explore ways to end the up or out system of forced resignations in the military to encourage skilled techno sergeants and to remain in the military rather than taking Early retire Reagan chooses Brady As his press Secretary Washington up president elect Ronald Back in Washington for meetings with his Cabinet choices and tuesday picked transition spokes Man James Brady As his White House press Secretary and said Brady will have Access to the Oval Reagan made a Brief appearance outside his Blair House residence to announce the selection of Brady As his chief spokesman and of Kama a former Washington television news As Deputy White House press issues coordinator during the Rea Gan Campaign and a 12year Veteran of said he is confident he has Access to Reagan and when asked if he Felt any press Secretary would have to lie to who will also carry the title assist ant to the will earn about 000 who most recently moderated a Public affairs program for the chamber of will earn be tween and a is a University of Illinois graduate who came to Washington in 1968 and has done press work for the office of management and budget Donald defense Secretary during the Ford administration and William Republican from Dela the Washington Post tuesday quoted sources As saying two men who have been criticized by conservative republicans Are in line for top administration it re ported that Bill Republican National is slated to be reagans special Trade representative and Deputy Cia director Frank Carlucci will become Deputy Secretary of travelling without his who French government pays 90 of concorde losses the French government will cover 90 percent of the losses incurred by air France on its operations of the supersonic concorde under an agreement with the state run air under a previous agreement which expired at the end of last the govern ments share of the loss was 70 the new agreement expires at the end of stayed in California to wind up household arrived in freezing Washington monday night after a Friendly visit with mexican president Lopez Portillo in Ciudad id rather have a 60yearold fooling around with my Jet engine than a 20year old said who said he was More bothered about manpower problems than anything you dont win wars with you win wars with people and i Welcome you to this disastrous Goldwater told Wein several senators raised questions concerning the possibility of financial conflicts affecting who is vice director and general counsel of the Bechtel a worldwide engineering firm with substantial involvement in Middle East Oil Weinberger assured the committee that a Complete statement of his financial Condi Tion has been submitted to top Reagan administration several committee members said they Felt confident that Weinberger will some How improve the nations military capability and at the same time live up to his for Mer reputation As a severe budget Cutter when he was head of the office of manage ment and budget and later Secretary of education and welfare during the Nixon Weinberger said that he will be looking through future military budgets for items which do not contribute to increased fire for the while he has a wide variety of experience in both on a Federal and a state Weinberger Only direct experience with the military was during world War after graduating from Harvard Law he enlisted As a private in the infantry in 1941 and was discharged As a Captain in 1945 after serving for several months on Douglas Macarthur intelligence demos say Haig will be confirmed Washington democratic Lead ers predict the Senate will confirm Alex Ander Haig As Secretary of state and some democrats say watergate should not be a major democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia and his Alan Cranston of made the predictions As the 97th Congress if there Are not any particular prob lems that Pur role will be to expedite the confirmation Byrd told reporters but Cranston said again that he and some other democrats will question Haig at length at confirmation hearings on his conduct As former president Richard Nixon chief of some democratic senators said watergate should not be made a major Issue at the Senate foreign relations committee which Start Delaware Democrat Joseph a member of the told reporters the Only Issue that Doest concern me is the Issue is Salt the soviet strategic arms limitation at the White press Secretary Jody Powell said he has no Way of knowing whether information requested by the democrats can be turned Over in time for Haigs confirmation before Ron Ald Reagan is sworn in Rhode islands Claiborne the committees ranking asked presi Dent Carter for the Powell said the White House has asked agencies to search forthe target Friendship Mexico president Jose Lopez Portillo shot Rifle just presented urn by presi in to discuss up holds the Sao Pasquel Remington single Dent elect Ronald the two met mexican a photo