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...Chinese Foreign Ministry's traditional reply to reports of such sales is that they are "utterly groundless." One reason for U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft's controversial visit to Beijing in December 1989 was his effort to head off the M-9 sale to Syria. He got a general promise that China would not sell medium-range missiles to Middle East countries and a specific statement that China had no plans to sell the M-9 to Syria...
Harvard's Brent LaTanzi and Chang dispensed with David Gabel and Burke Banda...
...year-old daughter Betsy had memorized an awful lot of TV commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, "I found myself wondering, How wealthy do we need to be? I don't care if I have a great...
When he was Vice President, Ford had got to know Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, deputy head of the National Security Council. In those days Henry Kissinger was not only Secretary of State but also National Security Adviser. Ford did not like the double duty for Kissinger. He did like Scowcroft. As President, Ford in 1975 gave Scowcroft the NSC title and turned the self- effacing general into a recognized player in vital deliberations. And when Bush moved into the Oval Office, he put Scowcroft back in the job Ford had given him 13 years earlier...
Some military and intelligence officers believe the U.S. should send a strong signal to discourage Soviet backsliding and ready plans in case it occurs. At a minimum, says National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, "given . . . the turmoil in the Soviet Union, this is not the time to decide that there's a completely new era and a U.S. presence can be removed" from Europe. Pentagon and CIA officials also have begun a careful evaluation of plans to redeploy units from the gulf. Some warships previously bound for home ports may be delayed. Officials hint that ground troops normally based in Europe...