Word: cheney
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...Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, cautious in his estimates, says he is "reasonably confident" that the weapons are under tight control now, but he worries about the future. "We want to help them shrink their stockpiles," he says...
...according to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who described the incident in November testimony before Congress, after several fruitless days Bailey came up empty-handed. Then, Cheney testified, Bailey had second thoughts. Perhaps, he suggested, the picture had been taken in Burma. Bailey now claims he was set up by Cheney. The Pentagon, he insists, drove a wedge between him and his mysterious source by getting to the man first and convincing him that Bailey was attempting to cheat him out of a sizable reward for his information...
...that easy to decide on the Man of the Year for 1991. Two major international stories -- the gulf war and the Second Russian Revolution -- dominated the news, and both of them produced a fairly obvious list of candidates: George Bush, Norman Schwarzkopf, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Boris Yeltsin, among others. On the domestic scene, too, individuals like Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas came to mind. But the more we thought about it, the more compelling it seemed to focus on a theme that emerged time and again as major events unfolded this year: the amazing power...
...minute political intelligence for the U.S. government. President Bush is known to have said to other world leaders, "I learn more from CNN than I do from the CIA." That is apparently not a joke. Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney turned to CNN to find out what was happening in diplomacy or combat because its speed and accuracy in newsgathering outstripped the work of the National Military Intelligence Center and the CIA. Those agencies remain geared to cycling paperwork up through chains of command at a pace often too slow during a fast-breaking...
Even then, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney judges "remote" the likelihood of intercontinental ballistic missiles coming under the thumb of anyone who would fire them at the U.S. The real menace, most experts believe, is a breakdown of the command structure that would put the easily mobile tactical weapons into dangerous hands. These nukes -- artillery shells, warheads on short-range missiles, nuclear mines -- are much easier to seize than ICBMs stored in underground silos. Already the southern republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan have "nationalized" all military property on their soil, prompting Moscow to announce that the army would shoot...