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Bush's Secretary of State COLIN POWELL, a moderate in an Administration full of hard-liners, has maintained near perfect decorum with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in public. But the three men fought pitched battles behind the scenes over most of the Administration's foreign policies. For the first time this year, Powell started winning a few. Powell, 65, has long taken exception to the conservatives' muscular brand of unilateralism, arguing instead that the U.S. should act in concert with allies. He scored a crucial victory in August when he persuaded President Bush to engage the U.N. before attacking...
...many Americans, DONALD RUMSFELD's brawny bellicosity is the personification of American strength and confidence. Overseas, many allies and most foes see the Pentagon boss as the picture of American arrogance. Still, the Defense Secretary, 70, gets along well with George W., and why not? Whenever Rumsfeld plays verbal volleyball with Pentagon reporters, he steadfastly quotes the President. He has Bush's backing in the Secretary's uphill efforts to remake the Army, Navy and Air Force into lighter, faster, stealthier versions of themselves. The White House has been reluctant to curb his consolidation of power at the Pentagon, particularly...
...Franks, who would direct any operation against Iraq. Last week 1,000 U.S. and British troops stationed at the top-secret Camp As Sayliyah--just 700 miles south of Baghdad--took part in a virtual war game called Internal Look. They also received a visit from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who hobnobbed with soldiers and signed an agreement with local officials for the upgrading of Qatari bases used by the Pentagon. Asked by a servicewoman if Iraq will cooperate sufficiently with U.N. weapons inspectors to avert war, Rumsfeld was characteristically cagey: "It would be kind of out of line...
...months after he broke with George W. Bush on Iraq, urging him to stay focused on the war against terrorism before going after Saddam Hussein, Scowcroft is speaking out again. This time he's tangling with an old colleague from the Nixon and Ford years, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...eavesdropping ships as well as old-fashioned spies and spooks--in the hands of the CIA director rather than spread it over 14 competing federal agencies. Scowcroft chaired a yearlong study on the subject and sent his report to the President in March. There it collects dust, largely because Rumsfeld, the hyperpopular Pentagon chief, refuses to give up military control of intelligence budgets or assets. At a black-tie Washington dinner last week, when he presented an award to CIA director George Tenet, Scowcroft broke cover again. "For years, we had a poorly organized intelligence system," he said...