Word: brent
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Chinese students have criticized Bush for not taking a harder line with the Beijing government after its bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy movement last year. They point to recent visits to China by National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and the cancellation of sanctions as evidence that the administration is willing to forget China's human rights violations...
...Harvard men's basketball team may need to solicit help from Brent Musberger or Dick Vitale to find its elusive path...
...standing relationship between the U.S. and the now so obviously misnamed People's Republic. The Administration was so eager to repair relations that it seemed willing to do so on the terms laid down by the decrepit tyrants in the Forbidden City. Bush first sent his National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, and the Deputy Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, to Beijing secretly in July. Another visit earlier this month was not announced until after the emissaries had arrived at their destination. The whole thing looked sneaky, as though the Administration were trying to pull a fast one (which...
...security screens on the ground floor and headed for the elevator to the family living quarters. But their timing was slightly off. They ran into the last departing guest, a woman who recognized them: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. "Oh, oh," the woman remarked. "Business as usual...