Word: cabinets
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Created in 1947, the National Security Council (NSC)--composed of the President and Vice President together with the secretaries of state and defense--was designed to be the principal forum for deciding key foreign and defense policies. A small staff, headed by the sub-cabinet National Security Advisor--or, more formally, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs--was created to assist...
Requiring confirmation and testimony would be even worse. Raising the visibility of the NSC advisor would only institutionalize the inevitable friction between this individual and cabinet secretaries, thereby increasing the likelihood the United States would speak with several voices. The capacity of the NSC to act as an honest broker of the policy process would be undermined. And the president would have lost an invaluable source of private advice in this critical policy area...
...involved in the bombing. At week's end Bonn had not decided what action it would take in the event of proof of Syrian complicity, though a source close to the government said a complete severing of ties with Syria would be unlikely. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Cabinet is divided over the question of what it might do, and Kohl is still considering his position...
...need a fresh start." With that, a beleaguered President Corazon Aquino moved decisively this week to counter a growing sense that her government was foundering badly. In a brief national television appearance Sunday, Aquino announced that she had asked for the resignations of her entire Cabinet. Among those forced out: Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who with increasing boldness has recently opposed Aquino's policy of seeking a negotiated end to the country's 17-year-old Communist insurgency. The President then announced that she had appointed Deputy Defense Minister Rafael Ileto, a West Point graduate and former Ambassador...
...announce that the Defense Minister had stepped down. She also declared, "We shall be acting on the other resignations in the next few days," and emphasized that Ramos "has taken preventive measures against the recklessness of some elements in the military." Ileto became the first member of the new Cabinet to be sworn in. Lest anyone miss the point, Ramos issued a statement through a palace spokesman declaring that the "New Armed Forces of the Philippines stands behind the present government of President Aquino...