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...long been rumored to be on his way out, to do it now, when the Administration is operating on a skeleton holiday crew, was unexpected. "It was a surprise even to people in the White House," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney.A top contender for CIA director: John Deutch, deputy defense secretary and the second-in-command at the Pentagon. Deutch "would probably be confirmed easily and has expressed interest in the job," says TIME Washington correspondent Doug Waller. The biggest challenge for the successor remains adapting the agency to a post-Cold War world, Waller adds...
...Capitol Hill hearings on the President's Haiti policy, Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch told House members that establishing a deadline for an American withdrawal from Haiti would set an "extremely bad precedent" for U.S. military policy. But he didn't persuade the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which decided to return tomorrow and draw up legislation to send troops home as soon as March...
...Defense Department scrambled all week to position the military for action. In Puerto Rico, troops began warm-up maneuvers. Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch ordered seven huge cargo ships out of mothballs; a day later, he activated five more supply vessels. They are expected to set sail this week to transport weapons and materiel for the Army's 10th Mountain Division, which will play a key part in the postinvasion peacekeeping force. On Friday, Pentagon officials said that the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower will pull into its berth in Norfolk, Virginia, this week and begin replacing its planes with...
...meeting with Caribbean nations in Jamaica, American officials persuaded Barbados, Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to contribute 266 troops to an invasion force. Tiny as that number is, it accomplishes one step needed before D-day: throwing a "multinational" cloak over the operation. Deputy Secretary of Defense John Deutch declared that a "multinational" force would go into Haiti, peacefully or otherwise. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott added that if the Cedras clique was still in power when the troops arrived, its members would be arrested and turned over to a restored Aristide government...
Senior U.S. officials said some 10,000 U.S. troops will lead a coalition that will enter Haiti one way or another -- either by force or to clean up the country after Haiti's military junta leaves. "The multinational force is going to Haiti," Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch vowed. At the same news conference, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said the use of force would be "a last resort." Confused? The renewed U.S. saber rattling prompted some bluff calling from unofficial intermediary Randall Robinson, executive director of the TransAfrica, who demanded the Administration give the junta 48 hours...