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...Brent C. Ridenour `95, an Army ROTC cadet in Wigglesworth Hall, says he enrolled in ROTC primarily for the scholarship but acknowledges that his father's experiences as a Marine in Vietnam affected his decision...
...House rarely had six hours to respond and sometimes felt it did not have six minutes. In the face of this urgent need to know, whenever CIA Director William Webster received word via intelligence satellite that an Iraqi Scud missile had been launched, he would tell National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, "Turn on CNN to see where it lands...
...carry out his intentions with the devastating efficiency his commanders claimed. "I've got to confess that I wondered, when ((Air Force Chief of Staff)) Tony McPeak came up to Camp David and briefed me on what we could do with air power. I turned to ((National Security Adviser)) Brent Scowcroft or somebody; I said, 'Does this general know what he's talking about? I mean, this is awesome.' " Later, after McPeak had visited the U.S. staging ground in Saudi Arabia, Bush summoned him to a private lunch at the White House. "I said, 'Tony, I just want...
...charge, the President suddenly begins pointing around the empty room at imaginary members of his war staff and giving orders as he did in the thick of the gulf crisis: " 'Colin, you do this. Dick, you're responsible for this. Have Colin, the Chairman, and General Schwarzkopf do this. Brent, here is what I want to do' -- something happens. And in dealing with the domestic economy, you're dealing with every subcommittee chairman and somebody that has got a different outlook . . . It is very, very different than when you're dealing with a Congress ((dominated by)) another party...
...before his retirement at the end of this year. The U.N. team decided to work on two levels. Perez de Cuellar mounted a high-profile diplomatic campaign, repeatedly visiting Iran, Syria and Israel to obtain official backing for Picco's veiled bargaining. The U.N. chief also sought advice from Brent Scowcroft, George Bush's National Security Adviser, who traveled to New York City to meet secretly with Perez de Cuellar, sometimes without the knowledge of Thomas Pickering, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Scowcroft assured Perez de Cuellar that Israel was prepared to help free the hostages...