Word: brent
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Sonnenfeldt chaired the session, which included Administration officials and about a dozen outside experts. Among those invited: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and two of his predecessors, Harold Brown and Donald Rumsfeld; Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President Ford; and Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative writer and Administration critic. "It's an effort to break out and listen, to avoid being caught in my cocoon," says Shultz...
Ultimately, though, these isolated moments are not enough to make The Confidence Man into a coherent operatic whole. By focusing on China Aster, composer and librettist have made the character of the Confidence Man (Baritone Brent Ellis) into a supporting player. Whenever they include other episodes from the novel-principally a scene in which the Confidence Man bilks a barber out of a shave by appealing to his trust-they needlessly distract attention from the main drama. The story of China Aster is not enough; the full story of the Confidence Man would be too much...
While I was engaged with the Agnew resignation, Dinitz informed Major General Brent Scowcroft, who had replaced Haig as my deputy, that Israel's promised replacement equipment exceeded the capacity of the seven jets of the El Al air fleet. It was decided that Israel should be permitted to employ private air charter companies. That turned out to be a fiasco. No charter company was eager to court an Arab boycott or to risk its planes. The Defense Department could have brought pressure on the charter companies, but felt no urgency because it estimated that Israel still had stocks...
...Brent Musberger hosted one of the silliest parts of the CBS pre-game, a simulation that pitted the play-calling abilities of Roger Staubach against those of Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw and Staubach were presented with various situations that could occur during the game and were asked to call defensive and offensive plays...
...past year. Haig was reluctant to appoint a special envoy in part because he feared that if the talks failed, the Administration risked losing credibility in the Arab world. Now that Haig seems to have changed his mind, the almost certain choice for the job is General Brent Scowcroft, 56, a former adviser to the National Security Council...