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...agreement with Congress on Nicaragua in 1989 and by helping stitch together last year's coalition against Saddam Hussein. Baker may not fashion foreign policy single-handedly -- certainly not in an Administration where the President is a seasoned internationalist who also consults closely with National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. But Baker is the man who, more than any other, gets White House policy to work...
...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...
...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 to be sure...
...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...
...Scowcroft was careful to act only as a consultant, refusing to involve the U.S. in the bargaining with either the abductors or their Iranian backers. "Our basic message to the Iranians was that we don't see any reason for abiding hostilities and we were prepared to work toward a new relationship, provided the hostage thing was resolved," says a senior Administration official...